The Ordway new era., 1918-09-27

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Sept 2s.2s.-Grand County fair and
| race meeting.
| Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Snow fell in Denver Sunday night.
Water rates at Boulder have been
advanced rs per cent by the City Coun-
ell.
Chris Bracken has taken a lease on
the Good Friday mine in Boulder
county.
A school house will be erected in
western Moffat county. near Iron
Springs.
A call has been issued for S0S Colo
RADIO men to entrain for Camp Kearny.
Oct. I'll.
A beet dump is under construction
at Croft Spur. between Ordway and
Sugar City.
A rich strike was encountered in the
Congo Chief mine in Caribou at the
125-foot level
Grand Junction streets from Sixth
to Seventh avenues have been sur
faced with cinders.
Mayor w. +. r. Mills must sign his
name 1870 times to the Denver bonds
issued for the payment of the water
company.
A large concrete flume at the sugar
factory at Fort Collins will greatly IA
cilitate the work of carrying beets into
the factory.
Frederick d. Anderson was ap-
pointed by Governor Gunter as his pri-
vate secretary TO succeed Wendell
Stephens. resigned,
The SarvIs Timber Company closed
down it's Crosho lake sawmill for three
weeks in order that its employees
might assist ranchmen in the district
TO harvest their crops.
County Supervisor A. L. Stra~n has
small force clearing the brush on
the survey of the La Manga state high
way from the mouth of Elk creek to
the Los Pinos below Cumbres pass.
1t is planned that all courts in Den
yer shall be closed during the month
and half during which the legal ad.
visory boards are aiding draft men in
the making out of their question
naires.
Five men were arrested at Cripple
Creek charged with high grading
from the Portland mine. The men are
Jack Haley, George Haynes. Fred
Holzdurn, Henry Hoffman and Car
Proctor. N.rr.
Samuel Todroff, 45. Bulgarian
helper at the Colorado Power Plant at
Sterling, was instantly killed when
he picked up guide wire to remove
it. The wire was crossed with an
other wire carrying 1900 volts of elec
tricity.
total of $576,157 has been col
lected by the state inheritance tax de
partment for the present year, accord
ing to a report made public by the at
torney general. From the period be
ginning Aug. 81 to Sept. 15 a total OF
$2,9S406 was collected
The Missouri Society of Colorado
dined in Denver in honor of the birth
day of Gen. John ]. Pershing. and sem
him a 130-word telegram of congratu
lation, closing with the words, "Oul
hearts are beating strong for Ameri
cas- great general"
w. G. Gunter and o. F. Victor of FL
dora are doing extensive development
work on their claims on TENNESSEE
mountain. Location work is completed
and prosecuting is now In progres,
for lead-silver vein forty feet east o
the main tunnel
Denver telephone workers have or
ganized a union.
Ralph Hopkins, who was arrested
by the Denver police on bigam,
charge, was turned over to the fedora
authorities and given preliminar!
hearing before United States Commits
sioner Stone. He was held in defaul
of bond pending investigation Of hi
/ case by the grand jury.
Colorado's chances to secure at leas
large share of the government
$50 ,00O, 900 shell contract now opel
for bids were made brighter by
Washington telegram telling the cen
trail committee of the Colorado Manu-
facturers' Association and the Cole
rado Development Federation that tn
freight handicap will be removed.
Jesse Bingmon, IS years old. VIII
lives at 2516 Sixteenth street. in Der
yer, was shot in the leg while mem
ber of joy-riding party. by Sergean
Fred Reed of the South Denver polio
station. The shooting came abou
through the diligence of the police dc
partment in its prosecution of tn
search for the remaining three men
bers OF the outlaw gang who terrorize
Colorado for three days.
Manual Moreno, 80, Mexican an
former convict, was murdered in