The Ordway new era., 1918-02-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES


death OF two women. His wife. who
was formerly Miss Evelyn Adams, a
telephone operator of Oakland. Cal.
committed suicide by swallowing poi
son, and when the news of her death
was telegraphed to her sister. Miss
Gladys Adams at Santa Cruz. the lat
ter dropped dead from the shock Mrs.
Conley swallowed the poison after she
had seen her husband and another
woman enter and leave a restaurant
and then go to q rooming house.
]. Lotion Davidson, Denver under
taker, was freed from charges of con-
spiracy arising out of the insurance
scandal wherein another man played
dead" when the Colorado Supreme
Court reversed the trial court finding
and ordered the case dismissed. Vival-
ly Turley, who faxed the death in
order to obtain $4,000 insurance, 1t
is alleged is serving a term in the
penitentiary
Harry Hartman, sentenced to the
penitentiary from Denver as a degen-
crate, and having fifteen years yet to
serve, has confessed to the murder of
boy at Sioux City. Iowa, in 1912.
Word from Sioux City gives the name
Of the boy as Lovenger. son of Mrs.
Esther Lovenger. The decomposed
body was found in barn and was
recognized about three weeks later by
the clothes
The drainage of 100000 acres of wa
ter logged land in the San Luis valley
! ~.
Arthur p Davis of the reclamation
service has In mind in the prepared
ness for peace campaign. Mr.. Davis
means to utilize the engineers and re-
sources of his organization in mapping
out works which will not only give EN-
ployment to the soldiers but also make
homes for them, II Congress sees fit
to authorize such work.
Mrs. Henry b. Teller, who has in
charge the Denver registration of
women for war service, reported that
81 900 registration cards have been is
sued, and that more than one-half
have been returned to headquarters,
filled out for indexing.
Arthur Edgar Gerald Collins. son of
recommended for the award of the
military cross, one OF the highest
awards conferred in the British army.
with which he has been serving since
the beginning of the war.
The annual winter outing of the
Colorado Mountain Club will be held
at Fern Lake, Rocky Mountain Nation
al II oh
day. Feb. 25. Skating, tobogganing
and snow shoeing are on the program
Mrs. j. v. (Fanchon) Rose. princi-
pal with So in the prosecution against
Frank II. Mulligan and Philip Cohen,
the two men indicted by the Adams
county grand jury. disappeared, it was
reported in Denver
American Beet Sugar Company do
clared dividend of 8 per cent on COM
mon stock for the year, payable in
quarterly installments of per cent,
the first payable April 80 to stock of
record April IA.
Announcement is made by the food
administration Of the appointment of
Judge John C. Bell of Montrose to be
member of the commission that will
investigate the cost of producing
sugar beets.
w. l.. Cunningham of Colorado
Springs. who enlisted in the coast ar
an accident and is confined in the base
hospital at the Presidio, San Fran
cisco.
The date of holding Johnstown's an
nual dairy day has not yet been de-
cided upon. though committee has
taken up the matter of raising funds
and considering a program.
Pueblo has probably furnished the
youngest soldier with the American
expeditionary forces in France. name
ly Bybee Baird, IA years old
Alvah L. Carper, Il years old. must
pay his 19-yearold bride, Ruth Jones
Carper temporary alimony to the
amount of SIS month, in addition to
attorneys fees and court costs, by
order of Judge Butler in the Denver
District Court.
Elmer Richardson, who few days
ago at La Junta killed his wife and
then shot himself near the. heart, is
dead, after lingering In hospital and
apparently improving.
Adjutant General Frank d. Baldwin
received a telegram from the War De-
partment saying there were no Colo
RADIO troops aboard the transport Tus-
cania
Vim. e. Sweet and Lieut. Paul C.
Hurlburt of Denver have arrived
somewhere in France" according to
messages received by Denver rela-
tives.
The operation of two passenger
trains on the Rock Island were discon.