The Ordway new era., 1905-07-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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and grains.
The DeForest American Wireless
Telegraph Company will establish a
station at Trinidad.
| The mountains surrounding Breck-
enridge were covered with snow on
the morning of the Sd of July.
Miss Josie Il. Gibson of Missouri has
been appointed a nurse at the Grand
junction Indian School at q salary OF
5000 year.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company has deposited 10000 trout
Try in the river ut Bailey, all about six
inches In length.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
Is arranging to offer cash prizes for ag-
ricultural products for both irrigated
and non-irrigated lands.
Alexander Gordon. foreman of Ten
Mile Mining Company at Robinson.
was instantly killed on the Sth inst. by
falling down n shaft.
Hereafter the State Capitol building
at Denver Is TO be kept open on Sat
urday afternoons and holidays, at least
during the summer months.
Mrs. Cllda NJ. Adams. wife OF Alva
B. Adams and daughter.in-law of for
mer Governor Adams. died at Pueblo
July 4th. after a short illness.
The Woman's Civic Society or Trini.
dad proposes TO enforce the Sunday
closing ordinances and to prosecute tho
gambling houses and wine rooms.
The floral parade at the Boulder Fes.
tival on the Ith inst. was one of the
finest ever seen In the state. Both car.
riages and automobiles took part In 1t.
At Denver. July Sth. Mrs. w. ID.
Schmidlap shot and killed her husband
Mt the Place where he was rooming.
They had been separated for about a
year.
Twenty-Five counties OF Colorado are
represented in agricultural exhibits at
the Chamber of Commerce building in
Denver. and specimens are wanted
from other counties.
There were fourteen fires In Denver
on the Fourth OF July. but the loss in
each case was small, except at Hurl.
butts store. where the damage may
reach nearly $4,000.
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.
Colorado postoGicc appointments
have been made as follows: jefferson.
Park county. Charles +. Peake. vice
Schattingcr. resigned: Muriel. Huer'
fano county. Wilmer B. Kenny. vice +.
l.. Reubendale. resigned.
The Boulder Farmers mill at Boul.
der has been burned to the ground. in.
volying loss OF about $4,000. with
S29. 900 Insurance. Previous TO the fire
the safe ut the mill was broken open,
but II contained no money.
Pueblo has raised subscription OF
5000. pledged for the maintenance OF
the Arkansas Valley Immigration Blu
reau. The object of the bureau is to
run homestead excursions from east.
crn farming districts and to advertise
the advantages OF the valley exten.
siyely.
John NJ. G. wadlIn has sold TO
Thomas l. Valentine OF Peoria, Illinois.
2,1OO acres OF land and the Wadlin
reservoir fifteen miles east OF Greeley
for $4,000. The capacity OF the reser-
yoir is I5.O0O.OO0 cubic feet and this
will be nearly doubled by the pur-
chaser.
The following patents have been Is.
sued to Colorado inventors: Aaron NJ.
Beam, Denver. ore treating furnace:
John Crone. Greeley. valve cap: Bar.
nett Dodd, Boulder. combined door
closer and fly chaser; G. A. Seaman.
Independence. pipe coupling: A. A.
Smith, Paonia, brake shoe.
Tho Colorado Supreme Court has de-
-. n.s Las
the Thirteenth General Assembly is
valid. The law places tax OF two
| cents on each $1,000 OF capital stock
in domestic corporations capitalized In
excess OF s25.OOO. and four cents per
81 900 on foreign corporations.
Roscoe Harris. aged sixteen years.
and the only child OF former Mayor
Ira Harris OF Colorado Springs. was
shot through the heart and almost In
stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 5th inst. by the accidental dis
charge of rife in the hands OF Mat
thew DAILY, young friend with whom
he was arranging to go out hunting.
Three hundred and sixty acres OF
land near the Union Printers Home on
Mob hill, and $1,000 In cash for the
construction OF the building has been
pledged respectively by two citizens OF
Colorado Springs for the National Let.
ter Carriers Home, should the national
convention at Portland. Oregon. next
September, choose the Springs as the
site.
At Golden July 10th Judge Garri-
rues of Greeley. who was sitting In
the District Court for Judge De
France. sentenced Aubury Church TO
the penitentiary for not less than hve
nor more than twenty years for Grim
inal assault. Church pleaded guilty.
He was a former inmate OF the state
Industrial School for Boys. His term
expired about the first Of the year.