The Ordway new era., 1905-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Great crowds of excursionists arc
visiting Cripple Creek.
September 18th will be Denver Day
at the State Fair at Pueblo.
The new Christian Science church
ut Florence has been completed.
| Irrigation Of land by artesian wells
promises to prove successful in Ere.
mont county.
A special train will carry Denver
business men to the State Fair at
Pueblo. September 18th.
Twenty men enlisted In the United
States army at the recruiting station
In Pueblo during the month of August.
Governor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state house offices may
be closed at noon every Saturday dur
Ing the year.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at tho
Portland exposition.
Judge Lindsey OF the Denver County
| Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits OF Denver Is unconstitutional.
Prizes have been awarded to chill.
dren, schools and organizations for
successful competition in raising fow-
ers and vegetables the past summer.
John Walker OF Columbus. Nebraska.
who Is seventy-nine years OF age. re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to the summit Of Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Falcon In El Paso county
on the night of August 29th and Sc
cuerd about $500 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized In Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held In the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Riley, who
has been temporarily placed In charge
OF the Holy Cross forest reserve in Col
orado. has established headquarters ut
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the office Of county superintend
ent OF schools In Denver. Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
Major F. F. Foote. a G. A. r. veteran
and pioneer resident OF FL Paso county.
fell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered a
fracture OF the left thigh.
The harvest festival parade at Gree.
ley on the Both ult. was twenty-four
blocks long and consisted OF decorated
automobiles. carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
A party OF hunters from Iowa a few
days ago paid the game warden at
Denver $125 for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
Buford. Routt county, for a thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby l.. Carstens OF Longmont.
graduate Of the University OF Colo
rado last June, has received an up.
pointment OF a fellowship In the de.
partment OF mathematics in the State
University.
The Denver G. Rio Grande railroad
will build a new machine shop, 63x291
feet in size. at Its shops In Denver. to-
gether with a large addition to the
blacksmith shop. The whole Is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee OF the Boul.
der Commercial Association has de-
cided to make a safer passageway to
Boulder falls, one OF the scenic at
fractions in the foothills above the city
up Boulder canon.
| Attorney General Miller has an
nounced an opinion to the effect that
the exemption OF 5000 Of personal prop
erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non.residents.
At Pueblo, on the 3lst ult., Mrs.
Maud Finch Haver, wife OF E. b.
Haver, a real estate dealer. drowned
herself and five-year-old son in the Bes-
semer ditch. The act Is attributed to
i'll health and dependency.
Owing to the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville, the State
Board of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor
oughly cleaned. Otherwise the State
Board will take the matter in hand.
The comptroller Of the currency has
authorized the Commercial National
Bank of Salida, Colorado. to begin bus.
iness with capital Of $4,000. J. W.
Calhoun Is president, 8. w. Sandusky.
vice president, and c. w. Erdlen, cash
Ter.
There will be an examination for
stenographers and typewriters In the
federal building at Denver October
10th, For departmental stenographers
the salaries range from $500 to $1,000
a year, but for the Philippine service
they run from $1,000 to $1,000.
The seventh annual reunion Of the
| survivors Of the fight at Beecher Is.
land. near Wray, will be held Septem-
| ber 10th to 18th. 1t will be the occa-
sion Of the erection Of $4,000 monu.
| ment, paid for by money appropriated
by the Legislatures Of Colorado and
Kansas.