The Ordway new era., 1918-03-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| ton water for war gardens have been
issued by the Denver Union Water
Company -l4l-
Mrs. r. r. Wright, wife of former
Mayor Wright of Denver, was robbed
OF jewelry valued at $500 in hotel at
Los Angeles.
Stuart l.. Sweet received an appoint
ment as field agent in marketing for
the state of Colorado for the bureau
of markets of Washington.
The campaign Cor recruits to the
United States Boys Working, Reserve
is slated to start March 1G, but already
enlistments are being received.
The funeral of Judge Thomas A.
Rucker. who died at Aspen following
an operation, took place under the di-
rection of the Masons and Elks.
The Colorado Council of Defense
urged upon members of the county
councils the necessity for extraordi-
nary precautions against incendiarism
during 1915
A jury in the Denver District Court
acquitted Deputy Sheriff Allison on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Mar
garet Manning in the office of James
NJ. Gingrich in a creamery.
| A jury at Brighton found Frank H.
Mulligan guilty of completely in the
holdup and robbery of Mrs Harry T.
Nolan and the Rev. rs6ub Garret j.
Burke in the Model road house, Jan. 2.
Investigator of the conduct of ia
cob Schneider, assistant postmaster
at Mount Morrison, which revealed
that he is not in sympathy with the
| United States and its war moves, re-
suited in the removal OF Ira A. Van
Gordon as postmaster and the desig-
nation of Otis A. Pike, mayor ofrthe
town, as his successor.
Failing exhausted after wandering
for hours in the snow and cold in the
darkness of a wild winter night, and
sinking exhausted in snow-drift to
die from exposure to the wintry blasts
which swept the prairies. is the fate
which befell Berry G. Gadlin. an aged
colored ranchman, at place within
one mile of the Pueblo city limits.
Women of America will be wearing
a regulation uniform of navy blue If
the war lasts another year, Miss Grace
Parker of New York told 200 women
of the Colorado Woman's Council of
Defense and their supporters al tne
capitol Miss Parker is commandant
| at the national headquarters of the
National League for Women's Serv-
| ice.
James Tynon. 50. a Colorado pio-
neer, one of the Oldest Masons in the
state, died at his home in Denver from
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age One OF II early-day freighters.
the first man to establish stockyard
| in Denver. and one of the early-day
grocerymen, he had made his home
in Colorado since 1859 and helped to
| write the history of state and city.
The United States Supreme Court
in passing on the Denver Union Wa
ter case, passed only on the rate-re-
ducing ordinance and did not go into
the other questions raised by the city.
AS a result of this the decision up;
holds in all points the findings of Spe-
cial Master Chinn, hence $14,000,000
will be approximately the price at
which the city must buy in the plant,
If bought.
The license OF John d. Key. also
known as NJ B. Keys. wholesale
dealer in poultry, eggs. fruit and but
ter in Denver, was revoked by Her.
bert Hoover, United States food com.
F, missioner, on the specific charge that
he had paid $S27.20 for two carloads
of apples to M B. Schafranka of Ron
conada, N NJ. when the agreed price
was $1,175. Suspension of the license
was announced several days ago by
the State Food Administrator of Colo
RADIO.
Mrs. Katherine T. Hosmer was
elected president of the Colorado
Equal Suffrage League at the annual
meeting held in Denver. She sue
ceeds Mrs. Lucy l. Harrington. Mrs.
Anna NJ. Scott was elected first vice
president; Mrs. Mary Howard, second
vice president; Miss Bessie Walker,
recording secretary; Mrs Harrington,
corresponding secretary; MES. S. Z,
Land, assistant corresponding secre-
tary: Mrs. E. S. Ferguson. treasurer.
and Mrs. Hattie Howard, auditor. Mrs.
Mabel Sostigan was elected a member
of the national executive board
Strenuously claiming that he is in,
nocent of the charge for which he was
on trial at Brighton-the robbery OF
Mrs. Srene ;Solan of diamonds valued
at $3,4OJ while she was at the Model
road house the morning of Jan. 2, ex-
onerated by the testimony of the
states principal witness. Mrs. June "
(Fanchon) Rose. who has been held in
jail since her return to Brighton after
fleeing to Chicago, and absolved also
by the testimony of Jacob Fineberg,
proprietor of the Model road house,
| Frank H. Mulligan took the stand In
his own behalf and gave his version OF
i..l.i 1. l,xa firiit 6aIaf the