The Ordway new era., 1905-07-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

be held In Denver July 9th and 2Sth.
Investigations are being made at
Amity In regard to the reported out
break OF anthrax among the cattle.
Tho canning factory of the Barlow
Consolidated Canning Company at
Loveland has begun operations on
raspberries.
During the week ending July 18TH
$500 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most OF them were Ep-
worth League tourists.
/, James F. Maloney, prominent To-
cal politician and alderman Of the
Third ward In Denver. died OF heart
disease on the 10th inst.
Miss Rosa NJ. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer. and assigned to duty in the
Denver Office Of the reclamation SER
vice.
Attorney General N C. Miller has
gone to Chicago and will be away two
or three weeks. He will spend his va
cation visiting with his brothers and
sisters In Illinois.
Michael Dowd and Peter Miller. sem
fenced to the penitentiary from Denver
convicted Of election irregularities. ar
rived at the penitentiary at Canon City
on the 18th inst.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay July
18th says: William G. Lewis of Colo
RADIO to-day was appointed to be sur
veyor general Of Colorado under the
General Land ONCE.
In the Western Baseball League Des
Moines and Denver are close competi.
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and st. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the BOBBY prize.
/ The ourteen.months-old baby son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Baird Of Goldheld
managed to get hold OF some strych-
nine tablets on the 10th inst, and ato
enough to cause Its death.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning of the 18th
inst 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at n reported cost Of 100000
and was insured for a considerable
sum.
The Morgan County National Bank
of Fort Morgan has been authorized to
begin business with capital OF $780,
900. NJ. L. More Is president. II. NJ.
Mandy. vice president. and ]. IL. Roed-
3ger. cashier.
The grading of the Farmington line
OF the Denver & Rio Grande has been
completed as far as Aztec and track
laid for fifteen miles below Durango.
Several OF the grading contractors arc
preparing to move to other fields.
The next convention to swoop down
on Colorado will be that OF the Fra.
ternal Order OF Eagles. which will
meet at Denver August 14th. An I'M
mense gathering is anticipated and
they propose to soar all over the state.
The Pueblo steel works are receiv-
ing more than 500 tons OF iron ore per
day from the iron deposits in Mime
sofa. This. II Is said. will continue
until the new deposits in Wyoming are
opened up to the satisfaction OF the
company.
The state convention OF the Amcri-
can Order Of Protection will be held ut
Florence July 27th. when delegates to
| the supreme convention to be held In
Lincoln In September. will be elected.
| Twenty-Five delegates are expected
from outside lodges.
The state memorial statue to be
| erected In honor OF the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War. for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature. will be placed In front Of
| the capitol building in Denver, where
the nagpole now stands.
| Melvin Acorn. the eager employed In
the Jo Dandy mine on Raven hill at
| Cripple Creek. was killed on the 10th
inst. by falling of the cage and going
| down the shaft 100 feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
An old man was robbed and brutally
beaten over the. head at La Sale on
| the 14th inst. by two tramps. On his
being taken 10 the Weld county hospi-
| tai II was found that his skull was frac-
tured In thirteen different places. He
has been identified as Frank Geron.
A public drinking fountain was un-
yelled at Trinidad on the 18th Inst.
II was erected by the w. C. T. U. as
n memorial to the late Mrs. p. ID.
Learnard, former president of the un-
ion, who was well known throughout
| the state as g prominent temperance
worker.
Ata recent meeting OF the state land
board an order was entered selling
1900 acres of land In the San Luis val
lev to the Colorado Valley Land Com
pany. This is the tract that the board
recently inspected, and 1t Is taken over
by an irrigation company which pro-
poses to water 1t.
Pueblo people have purchased the
Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs. and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. The Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom. where 1t left
of at Colorado Springs.
Miss Maude Fealy opens her second
week at Elitch's gardens. Denver.
sunday night, August 22nd. In the title
role OF the stirring drama OF Queen
| Elizabeth's time, Dorothy Vernon OF
Haddon Hail." Miss Fealy's popu-
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