The Ordway new era., 1905-06-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Adjt. Gen. Bulkley Wells left Denver
June 9th for short visit to California.
He Will be away week or ten days.
Gov. Joseph Folk OF Missouri is ex-
pected to visit Colorado this summer
On his way home from the Portland
Exposition.
The five Grand Army posts OF Den
yer Will unite In holding a great June
Fair and Festival" at Denver June 2lst
to July 1st.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction of the new
railroad from Durango to Pennington.
New Mexico.
Many thousands acres of peat
lands have been discovered near Toll
land on the Moffat road. and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
OF fuel from It,
The Tivoli- Union brewery in Denver
was set on fire by stroke of lightning
June I'd and burned to the ground. The
loss OF building and contents is esti.
mated at about 100000.
In the Western Baseball League the
Denevr team manages to hold pretty
steadily to third place. while Colorado
Springs seems to be safely anchored
At iHt Dptloil Ol tue liSt.
Miss Nellie Donahue. ex-city treas
urer OF Victor, was acquitted by jury
Of the charge OF misappropriating the
sum OF sl.4i6, city funds. during the
time she was in office from 1900 to
1902.
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan OF Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her dress on fire while
working at the kitchen stove on the
10Th ult.. and was SO badly burned that
she died next day.
Stephen and Charles Imprey. con-
victed of statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller at Leadville, have
been pardoned. The girl last winter
made an affidavit that she swore
falsely against the men.
j. NJ. Hollands big ranch, twenty.
nine miles northeast of Pueblo has
been sold to j. j. Rose OF Colorado
Springs for sG5.000. The ranch COM
prises many acres and several thou
sand head of cattle.
May receipts with the State Land
Board show that the business OF the
Office is growing gradually. The re-
ccipts last month were s25.5O2.25. In
May. 1908. the receipts were S2O.123.ll.
and in 1904 they were s23.l52.3i.
Colorado is entitled to twenty dele
gates to the eleventh International
Sunday School convention, which VIII
be held In Toronto, Canada. June 23d-
eth. and 1t is expected that many be-
sides the delegates will take the trip.
Sla Tieng Ang. Chinese graduate
OF the University of Denver. and q
young man of much ability. died OF con-
sumption at the Oakes Home in Den
yer. JunA I'd. Mr.. Sia had many ac-
uuaintances in Denver and was very
popular.
The United brotherhood of Railway
| Trainmen. the Eagles. the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building OF homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit OF their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure OF Si5,'
| 600 for the improvement OF the road
bed between Boulder and Fort COL
| Inns on the Colorado & Southern mas
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull. The track will be slagged for the
entire distance.
The congressional irrigation party
which left Kansas City June list. has
changed its schedule to arrive IN
| CHEYENNE June 3Oth. arrive In Denver
| July 1st. Salida and Grand Junction
July Cd. Colorado Springs July 5th. and
dlsband in Denver July 5th and 9th.
Attorney Lyman l. Henry. law part
ner of Congressman II. NJ. Hogg. was
purged of contempt by answers he hied
| in the District Court at Pueblo 10 lot
ty.nine ipterrogatories submitted Dy
District Attorney F. II. White. AS soon
| as his answers had been read by the
court Mr.. Henry was discharged.
Mike Hanak, the four-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hanak OF Marsnall'
in Boulder county, while picking now.
ers for the commencement exercises
on a hill near Marshall. was fataiiy oit,
ten by a rattlesnake. He was Ditteh
about 12 O'Clock Saturday morning
June Sd, and died at 9 o'clock tho same
evening.
In 1903 the collection for liquor IL.
censes by the state treasurer amounted
10 s47.S75. and in 1904 they reached the
sum Of $53,575. 1t looks now as IL Ny
tbe end of the fiscal present year, IN IN
december next. the collections VIII
reach the sum of $65.OOO. rms result
is due to putting out the coiiectors
over the state.
G. B. Cooper of the American Dc
Forest wireless Telegraph Company
has selected a site for the main receiv'
Ing station for the Cripple Creek dis'
trict II is at q point west Of the Amer
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill, at wnicn h
point a receiving station VIII DO es.an, m, !,
iished. The altitude OF Bull NIL 's
above 10000 feet.
Chief Game Warden F. A. Gordon. To-
catad at Glenwood Springs, has writ.
ton IN Commissioner Woodland that ne
has @ caused the arrest of A. F. Koehler
on on a charge Of polluting the Frying
pan river by dumping lime into IL az