The Ordway new era., 1918-06-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Jill
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 72-Dsmocratic State Assembly II
Denver.
Aug. aa-34-Coiorado State Firsmen's
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. 2s-2s-Colorado State Fair AZ
ssRsi RRSso. as-a'-I'ne'in County ' -
Eight-year-old Eugene Rogers was
drowned at Washington Park In Dem
vsr.
A new auditorium with . seating ca
pacity of $50 IL being erected at LIZ
mon.
Work has been started on the addf
tion to the canning factory at Mama
nola.
Fire destroyed the barns and horses
on the Leonard ranch, south of Ne
pssta.
Moritz Barth. pioneer and capitalist,
died at his home in Denver Of pneu-
monia.
About 10000 pounds Of milk are be-
ing delivered to the La Junta conden-
sary daily.
One hundred and twenty-one farm
labor exchanges have been estab-
lished in Colorado.
Pueblo citizens of Greek origin have
formed Greek chapter Of the Amer.
lea First" Society.
Administrators OF six estates paid
the state 35.749 in inheritance tax
during the first two weeks In June.
R. d. Thompson has been appointed
postmaster of Cripple Creek, to sue
ceed ]. q. Hanley. who died several
weeks ago.
Loveland, with four oil companies
Incorporated and one now drilling
north of that city. is to have another
new company.
Preliminary work has been done for
the erection OF q mess hall to seat 500
men at the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
Directors of the Golden Cycle Min
ing and Reduction Company have de-
CthTtu inc TeRulbT
OF cents share for June.
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly is preparing for one of the
greatest Labor day parades that has
ever been held in the West.
With a requiem high mass, the fu.
neral of John B. Cosgriff. Denver
banker, was held from the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception at Den.
YER.
One hundred and ten pints Of whis-
ky were seized by the Colorado con.
stabulary in the arrest of four men
charged with violating the prohibition
laws.
James e. Mock. who died suddenly
few days ago at King Center, was
an Indian fighter of 1854, and was one
of the first residents Of olney and
Ordway.
A school for teaching telegraphy, gas
engine work. radio operation, auto me-
chanics and concrete work will be
opened by tho government in Boulder
at the State University July 15.
Out of the conference of Colorado
and Utah Gamers held in Denver re
Gently has come the saving Of $4,000
pounds of sugar in the state of Colo
rado in putting up catsup alone.
Compulsory military training will be
enforced in the Colorado School Of
Mines at Golden. beginning with the
school year Sept. /. Every student
who is physically fit must take the
course.
Prof. Melville F. Coolbaugh, head Of
the department of chemistry at the
Colorado School of Mines. departed for
Washington, where he will enter the
services of the government as
chemist.
A. G. Childers planted 200 acres OF
pinto beans on the farm which he re-
Gently purchased near Wolf creek.
A girl of years was killed at sa-
Ida by a youth, seven years older,
who sought to frighten her. Sallie B.
Lamb was the victim. and Harold Kel-
logg held the rifle from which the shot
was fired.
Chief among the points brought be.
fore two members of the Tariff Com
mission. who met in the federal build
ing with tungsten operators in Den.
yer, was the matter of the cost of min
ing a unit Of the metal and price re-
ceived.
All business ceased for two hours
at Montrose for double military fu-
neral for Frank Atlee Graves Of Mont
rose, printer and soldier, who died
at Camp Cody. and Arthur Lytle, who
died at the aviation camp in North
Bend, Ore.
William Searles. son of G. w.
Searles of Cripple Creek. has written
his parents that he has arrived safely