The Ordway new era., 1918-04-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The Red Cross Society at Salida has
shipped its thirty.ninth box of sup
plies
Madame Schumann-Heink will sing
In the Denver Auditorium May %
and "a
Thirty-five students have graduated
from the Fort Collins Agricultural
College.
Cresson's April payment Of $122.-
900 dividend made total from the
mine of S6.173.162
The body of man was found
swinging from q tree on the ranch Of
w. S. Shelton, near watkins.
Thru action by the Boulder Com
mercial Association the re-opening Of
the oil field to the east and northeast
Of Boulder is assured.
Nearly one-third Of the Colorado
men OF draft age who responded to
the first call are farmers, They num-
Der about 1900 out Of 1900.
Many committees have been ap-
pointed at Trinidad to make prepara-
ton for evangelical series to be con-
Quoted by Rev. Charles Reign SEQ
vile.
William t. Michel. Jr.. Joined base
hospital No. 2s at Camp Cody. Dem
ing, N. NJ. He is the third son of Mrs.
L. Michel. of Denver. 10 go into the
service.
State Board of Nurse Examiners
will hold an examination for nurses
TO secure their licenses according to
law, at the State house, Denver, on
April 16. IL. Is.
The annual report of F. D. Stack
house. city auditor. shows that for
1917 the receipts for the Denver Civic
center were $223,764.74 and the total
expenditures for the year $53.6Ss.
After living twenty-seven years in
English clergyman. applied to the Den
yer United States Naturalization Bu-
reau for his first citizenship papers.
When John Gruber enlisted from
Las Animas for the navy he left a
country whose annual rain fall is IA
inches. Now he is at the Samoan ISL
ands where the rainfall is 300 inches.
1T is unnecessary TO walt longer to
plant the early vegetables. OF course
the soil should be in the right condi-
tion-neither too wet nor too dry. but
in such condition that it will fall apart
when a handful of it is pressed to-
gether."
Emmett Knight. well known Colo
RADIO Springs mechanic, who enlisted
In the aero branch of the signal corps.
is in military hospital at San Antonio.
suffering from a broken ankle. caused
by the fall of an observation balloon.
knights escape is declared to be mir
aculous as the big gas bag fell 3,25c
feet,
Thrift figures compiled at the office
Of John Evans, state director of stamp
sales. show Colorado to have pur-
chased $2,07l,S of which Denver has
bought $s27.467 worth. The Boy
Scouts have distributed their first al
lotment of red promise to buy" cards
and will Immediately be issued $5,000.-
900 worth of additional cards.
Construction by the Denver Tram.
way Company of loop at the Denver
union station is expected to begin
within q very short time. The loop
directly benefits the travelling public,
since 1t will afford a substantial inn
provement in street car service for
persons arriving in the states capital
city.
An information charging murder in
the second degree was filed against
Mrs. wilhelmina O'Connor. in the
Denver West Side Criminal Court by
District Attorney William E. Foley,
following an exhaustive Investigation
Of circumstances surrounding the
death of Mrs. Joseph T. Russell, fif-
teen-hour bride of the physical direct
or Of the Denver Athletic Club. who
died in St Joseph's hospital on the
morning of March rs.
j. E. Mcdaniel. city manager for
the town of Montrose, has resigned
and will devote himself to farming
The largest shipment of molybden-
lite ore ever made in the United
States left Breckenridge when the Cli-
max Company consigned two carlots
to an eastern point for use by the
United States government. The lot is
valued at $400. 900 and is accompanied
by four armed guards. The shipment
comprises fitty-five tons. estimated at
90 per cent, and was taken from mines
of the company operated in and about
Fremont pass. 1t is to be made into
high-grade steel
Three hundred and eighty cars OF
pinto beans have been shipped from
Colorado TO Eastern markets since the
United States Food Administration be-
gan its national campaign to advertise
the value OF this Western food prod
uct, according to a statement made
public by the pinto bean division of