The Ordway new era., 1905-05-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ing prizes Tor the DeautiiylnR OF
homes and gardens.
A corporation has been formed to
build large block In Longmont. In
which there will be plenty OF room for
an enlarged postofiice.
a movement Is on foot In Denver
to build a gymnasium, bath house and
free reading room for boys. adjoining
Rev. Thos. II. Uzzels Peoples Taber-
nackle.
Governor Jesse +. Mcdonald has
bought handsome fourteen.room
house at 1851 Logan avenue, Denver.
for $4,000 and will occupy 1t as the
| executive mansion.
II Is stated that as result OF a
favorable showing of the probable re.
ceipts OF the Leadville land Office Com
missioner Richards has decided not to
| have II discontinued as was proposed.
Ex..Gov' John l.. Routt celebrated
his sevcnty.ninth birthday at his
rooms in the Metropole hotel. Denver.
April 25th. Owing to his feeble health
callers were restricted TO members OF
his family.
For the third time since the first
of the year Donado Faia. a prominent
Italian storekeeper at Trinidad. has
been taken TO the State Insane Asylum.
lie became violent and attempted TO
hurt his family.
The following postoiIce appoint
ments have been made: Box Elder.
Larimer county. Andrew G. Webster.
vice W. Webster. dead: Dunton, Do
lores county. Jennie A. Matthews, vice
s.. A. Rogers. resigned.
One hundred thousand young fish
were placed In the Platte river April
| 9th by the state fish commissioner.
| The fish are from one TO two and
| half inches long and were distributed
| between the stations OF Gin and Cas-
sells.
The great religious revival at Canon
| City closed on the night OF April 2ith.
| There were 93i conversions reported
and si.iO0 in money was contributed.
| The Rev. Mr.. Sunday was given free
will Offering of 81 100 before leaving
for Chicago.
w. X. Armstrong. secretary OF the
| Durango Board of Trade. has had
| rubber expert investigating the coun-
| try around Durango. and finds that
the rubber plant grows extensively
there. In one place there is more than
| 10000 acres OF II.
| President Roosevelt. who has ac.
\ cepted an invitation to attend ban
! quet given by the Denver Chamber
of Commerce on the night of May 18th.
will spend only six and one-half hours
in Denver. arriving at $3.50 pm. ana
\ leaving at midnight
The Peoples Mission Poor Relief
Depot. at lis South Cascade avenue.
| Colorado Springs. gathered and re-
paired 5000 garments during the last
81. ~, gct., hnE
garments We're given away or sold TO
the worthy poor at nominal prices.
| Leicester Williams. Foote. six-year-
old son of Captain Williams-Foote. and
grandson of General Baldwin. died ut
the University hospital in Boulder,
May 1st. after an unsuccessful opera
tion for appendicitis. Captain Viii
liams-Foote is now on duty in the Phil
ippines.
p. G. Anderson. superintendent and
one OF the lessees on the Wheeler
mine at the head of the Platte above
| Alma, was carried down the mountain
side n distance of 400 feet and landed
on the ice of Wheeler lake, unhurt.
His escape from death is considered
marvellous.
The commencement address at
| Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
will be delivered by Frederick ]. V.
Skin on June 7th. Mr.. Skiff is a direc-
tor OF the Field Columbian Museum of
| Chicago and formerly was manager OF
the Denver Tribune in the days of
Rothaker and Eugene Field.
Forest Supervisor James II. Clark
| has received notice that an eNamina
ton for forest rangers and other for.
est officers will be held in Denver in
May. the exact date to be announced
later. Examinations also will be held
in other parts of Colorado. the whole
service now being under civil service
rules.
Mrs. Hattie Humphreys, tried In the
| District Court at Cortez on the charge
of being an accessory to the murder
OF Frank Ingles and his mother last
| May, has been acquitted. The trial of
the woman's husband. who was &C.
cused of being the principal. took
! place in November. and he was found
guilty.
Francisco and Rafaela Espor. Mex
leans. observed their sixtieth wedding
anniversary at Pueblo April 2Sth.
| They live near Mineral Palace park.
| in a small adobe house. Both are so
years old and in good health. They
had but one child, a daughter. who
died two years ago. when she was 40
years old.
The Rev. E. G. Lane, having com.
pleted the tenth year OF his pastorate
with the Baptist church at Boulder on
the 1st inst, his congregation In honor
of the event voted him vacation of
eight weeks and all expenses on trip
to the wof1d's Baptist congress to he
held in London, July 11th to 18th in
elusive. Mr.. Lane will start for Eu-
rope on the Celtic. June 30th.
The officers of the State Land Board
collected $32, $50 last month. which
was within 5000 Of the collection made