The Ordway new era., 1905-09-29
oRDwAY CoLO FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1905
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


ber 9th to 14th.
The Methodist ministers of Denver
are said to be planning extensive re-
vival meetings for next winter.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has commenced the work OF placing all
its wires in Pueblo underground.
Ebert Hubbard. founder of the Roy
croft art-industry colony. will lecture
at Colorado Springs October 18th.
1t is estimated that the sugar beet
crop on the old English ranch OF 27O
acres near Fort Collins will average
eighteen tons TO the acre and bring
$4,000.
At Monument. September cath. Rob
ert Bovard, Jr. the little son of Rob
ert Bovard. was thrown from a wagon
and had his right arm broken above
the elbow.
The broad-gauge railroad from Du-
range to Pennington. New Mexico. was
finished September 10Th. All fruit
shipments from Pennington now come
TO Durango by rail.
Harvey w. Hawley. editor and pro-
prietor of the Denver Times from 1883
TO 1894. died at Berkeley. California.
September 21st after an illness OF
several years from paralysis.
President David Starr Jordan OF the
Stanford University will be one of the
lecturers at the meeting of the Colo
RADIO State Teachers Association in
Denver December 26th to 29th.
1t has been found that John Duncan,
who was run over and killed by n
freight train at La Sale on the night
of September 18th. was an employe
at the Albany stables in Denver.
DIR. Aston Ellis. president OF the
Ohio university at Athens. Ohio. who
was president OF the Agricultural Col
lege of Colorado from 1892 to 1899. Is
spending short vacation in Colorado.
II. w. Campbell OF Lincoln. Ne
braska, whose experiments in dry
farming in the aemi-arid regions have
made him world.famous. will speak at
the Chamber OF Commerce luncheon in
Denver October 10Th.
+. c. Smith. retiring general super
intendent OF the Cripple Greek Short
Line. was presented with $3.50 gold
watch and chain by several OF the
Short Line employees. previous TO his
departure for New York.
Rufus Petit. a full.blooded Cherokee
Indian and graduate of Carlisle
school. enlisted ut Trinidad n few days
ago In the regular army as an infantry
private. Petit graduated from Car
Isle with the highest honors.
On September 2ist more than LOO
Pueblans went to Canon City TO at.
tend the Fremont county fair. Each
wore badge ON which appeared n
large cluster of grapes and the words.
Pueblo Greets Canon City Sept. 81.
1905
Gov. Joseph w. Folk, the celebrated
reform executive OF Missouri, was n
guest OF the Denver Chamber OF Com
mcrcc luncheon September 21st and
made n ringing speech In behalf o:
clean government and the enforcement
Of the laws.
II. l.. Hall. post trader for the Ute
Indians at Ignacio. Colorado. is author.
ity for the statement that the name
! given 10 Pixies Peak by the Utes was
"Acowacadee." meaning Red Top
mountain" The accent is on the sec
ond syllable. cow
a meeting has been called In Salida
by Marshal Herzinger for October 23d
and cath for the organization OF the
Colorado State Association of Chiefs
of Police. Mayors. city marshals and
nestuS vi CITY ueteCtlNe departments
are eligible to membership.
A meeting will be held in Denver oc-
tober Goth 10 organize an association
for the purpose of promoting dry farm.
| ing In the semi.arid regions on the plan
known as the Campbell system. II is
proposed to.call the organization THE
Campbell System Farming Associa-
tion."
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board of trustees and faculty of the
J Colorado School of Mines. Golden, an
nouncing Monday. Octobes I'd. as the
| date on which the cornerstone of the
Simon Guggenheim hall will be laid.
The exercises will be held in the after
noon.
The operators of the Ignite coal
mines near Colorado Springs. who
have heretofore sold coal at $3.50 a
ton, are said to have formed combi-
| nation and agreed to raise the price to
SO, with the understanding that II will
/ be further Increased to $3.50 after oc-
| tober 1st.
| The county commissioners Of Pitkin
\ county have awarded the contract for
building the state road up Lincoln
| gulch to the Florence Construction
Company. Their bid was $4,000. 1t is
to be built from point called the
| Junction up the Roaring Fork to the
mine located at Difhcult, . distance OF
twelve miles.
Over 100000 trout are to be placed
In the streams Of the St0newall valley.
Las Animas county. in the near future.
Fifty thousand go to the Stonewall
Country Club of Trinidad for the Las
-.
brothers OF the Stonewall, and about
$4,000 more are to be distributed In
other places In the valley.
The Northern Telephone Company
has, fled articles of Incorporation In
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