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


District Court, which has cost the
state more than $1,000 for jury, court
and expert witnesses in addition TO
several months of preliminary expert
work, a verdict of $50 against the es-
safe of the late Michael J. Leddy was
rendered
The band which was formerly
known as the First Colorado Cavalry
band, and was later consolidated with
the First Colorado Infantry band. fol
lowing the forming of the One Hun
dred and Fifty-seventh infantry. which
included both units, received orders to
depart for Camp Lewis, American
Lake, Wash.
A sacrifice week" in Denver. with
the money so saved to be applied to
helping war sufferers, is the plan
adopted by the Denver committee,
headed by John l.. Malm, in charge o!
the fund for the relief of starving Ar
menian and Syrian war victims. The
week beginning March 25 has been Sc
lected.
Lessees at the P. O.'s shaft. south
u 'ht thiooNs oh Val ioohat' '''''
nave completed the work OF reopening
he shaft and are now engaged in
recaiming the old drifts leading into
he big iron slopes that were devel-
1ped in the early stages of activity in
he Down Town area.
For the three months ended March
l, the corporation flat tax receipts
.otaled 57,439,G0, against s1l,075-09
for the same time year ago. The
.otal capitalization of companies is
about S2.500, 900 900, according to Dud-
ley b. Humphrey, chief clerk in Secre-
tary of State Noland's office.
Demanding $4,000 damages for the
nervous shock sustained when Sheriff
George h. Rucker of Brighton and his
brother, Harry Rucker, deputy sheriff
fired upon an automobile in which she
was riding. Mrs. Elizabeth Gumbert
filed suit against the two men in the
District Court at Denver.
Don A. Mudd. ~, an electrician and
secondhand dealer, committed suicide
at Boulder by shooting himself
through the heart with sawed-off
shotgun. Dependency over finances
is said TO be the reason for the deed.
Mudd is survived by n widow and four
children
Two cars of manganese ore from a
discovery on Lake Fork of the Gunni-
son made by Ashly of Montrose and
partners. Shaft fifty-five feet deep;
two-foot vein opened in five places.
Ore runs 55 to 20 per cent and is
worth $55 to SOS per ton.
Revised prices on coal at the mines
in Colorado, graduated down, which
will reach the lowest point in April,
were announced in Washington by the
fuel administrator, DR.. Harry A. Gar
field.
Mrs. William H. Adams, wife of Sen
ator Adams, who has represented Con.
ejos county in the State Senate since
the state was organized. died at her
home in Alamosa following an opera
ton
The United States government will
be asked to approve bond election
in Denver for the purchase of the Den
yer Union Water Companys plant, if
present plans of the city are followed.
State land commissioners were
granted supersedeas by the Supreme
Court in the land sales involving min
.eral rights claimed by N. S. Walpole
of Pueblo and Frank Kirchhof
Through the governments proposed
plan of purchasing Colorado's pinto
bean crop, Weld county farmers ex-
pect to dispose of over 10000, 900
pounds of that product.
j, II. Southern, farmer in the
northeastern part of Morgan county,
found his wife dead in bed on arriving
home from Fort Morgan. She was sub
ject to epilepsy.
Henry Schniader and Henry Dahl
niger paid fines and costs amounting
to $30765 in the Weld County Court
for bringing booze into the county
from Cheyenne.
Word was received in Denver of the
death in San Diego. Cal. of Henry A
jackson, 70, a member of Lincoln post,
G. A. r., and resident of Denver
since 1886.
. AAShhoC's VI thc oCCOuu company Ol
constabulary began intensive training
at Golden. They will be instructed by
Lieut.. Randolph NJ. Hagerman.
Farmers or bean growers of Weld
county have contracted the sale of
over 100000 pounds of pinto beans
on the government order.
Work on the new bridge over the
Fountain creek at Wigwam is pro-
crossing rapidly, as also the grading
of the approach.
Romeo in San Luis valley during
one week sent out train of thirteen
cars loaded with potatoes. hogs. hay
and wheat.
Poker winnings need not be in
cluded in the income tax returns,
Mark Skinner coJlartor of ;,t ,r... i,