The Ordway new era., 1917-08-17


sept, 2O-22-phllips County Fair. HOl-
| yoke.
The remains OF Mrs. Susan Bren'
nan. 100. were laid 10 rest in the
Walden cemetery.
About 500 visiting autoists regis
tered at the city clerks office Of Colo
rado Springs during july.
A terrific hail storm. accompanied
by heavy rain fell at Fort Morgan,
doing damage TO beeJs and alfalfa
One shift OF men in the Cressou
mine filled Ihirty-one sacks. and the
value OF the rock was estimated az
$4,000,
/ Not one OF the nine draft districts
n Denver will obtain its quota from
/ he first call. and seccnd will be
made
Rex b Neage- Of Denver was elected
president OF the Colorado State Board
3f Embaluing Examiners q; the annu-
I a election in the capitol
Prospectors and neargeclosists are
making examination OF the country
south OF Campo, Baca county, with .
sieS TO possibilities in oil
In the Breckenridge district work
has been started on a large scale on
he Royal Tiger Mines Company
property, Just above Swan City.
Nicolas Christopher Naiz, 70,
-wenry-eight years bishop OF the Catho-
&c diocese OF Denver. died at s. An
.hony's hospital, after & four years Ill
ness.
DR.. ? s Bates. former resident OF
Colorado Springs, was killed by bolt
of lightning during storm at Fort
Riley. Kan the officers training
camp.
Reports OF the hay crop harvested
IN Nontezuma valley are 10 the effect
that the first cutting yielded nearly as
much as the whole three crops OF last
season.
The total labor shortage that Colo
rado farmers will face in harvesting
their bumper crops this year IS esti-
mated at 10000 men by II. ". Cornell,
director OF the State War Council.
The Akron Mining Company at
White Pine in Gunnison county is get
ting out SO much ore that the three
large motor trucks now used in haul
ing are unable TO handle the output
The fourth quadrennial session OF
the Supreme Camp Of American Wood
men, negro organization founded on
the same lines as the Woodmen Of the
World. will be held in Denver Aug. I2
to is.
Secretary OF State James r holland,
State Auditor Charles Il. Leckenby
and State Treasurer Robert II. Higgins
went to Steamboat Springs. where
| they were gues's at a strawberry and
trout dinner.
Maj. James A. Force, stationed al
Camp Baldwin. claims the Third squad
ron, Rocky Mountain rangers, i2C
/ members, is the best physically fit
band of men" Uncle Sam will send
| against the kaiser.
| Four special trains, two from ST
Louis, one from New York and one
| from Chicago, will carry the delegates
to the International Typographical
Union convention, which convenes a,
| Colorado Springs Aug. 10.
| Inability to procure machinery and
! other appliances is delaying the com
| pletion of a number of ore treatment
plants in the Boulder, Gilpin and
| Clear Creek county districts, where
! capital is interested in the revival OF
old mines.
Seven Pueblo men and one alternate
will be sent to the second officers
training camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill
Maj. Alyardo NJ. Fuller, at Fort Lo
gan, announced the official list, stat
ing that 1874 men had been selected
in Colorado's full quota.
The finding of gold recently in the
shale beds that interlace the lower
quartzite workings of the Caliope
mine on Dexter creek, three miles
north of Ouray, has caused a general
prospecting of all the shale beds in
that district end Of their assaying for
gold values.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The comparative idleness OF
the Leadville mines recently added
to the skilled forces in Cripple Creek,
Telluride, Georgetown, Silver Plume
Ouray. Silverton and other busy
camps where labor was short and de
velopment active.
The first Pueblo men to enter the
selectfve draft army viii be called fol
service Sept. i. according to a tele
gram received by members OF the ex
empti0n board for district No. 2. The
MESSAGE stated that OneIthird az fhs
city's quota must be ready to report
for duty It that time.
Twenty.sevcn miles Of new 'tele
| phone line has beer Constructed BY III
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