The Ordway new era., 1906-01-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Leadville is having something like
an epidemic OF pneumonia.

Leadville Is having something like
an epidemic OF pneumonia.
Twcnty-eight persons had small
pox In Denver last year. every one OF
whom recovered, and eighty.one cases
OF erysipelas resulted In no deaths.
The Second Infantry. now stationed
at Fort Logan. has been ordered to the
Philippines. The troops must be at
San Francisco. ready to embark. be-
fore January 27th.
The Colorado Springs Humane So.
ciety has afiiliated with the State
Bureau OF Child and Animal Protec.
tion. DIR. w. F. Slocum is president
and w. F. Richards. secretary.
DIR. U. ID. Mcdowell. well known
physician of Longmont, died January
Sd OF consumption. He was brother
OF Bishop w. +. Mcdowell. formerly
chancellor Of the University Of Den
yer.
The First National Bank of Ber-
thoud has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000. Thomas II.
Robertson. president: John A. Cross.
vice president: Guy L. Loomis.
cashier.
Benz. F. Harrington. formerly county
Judge OF Arapahoe county. died at Den
yer. January 5th. He came to Colorado
In 1871 and was well known and popu-
lar. holding at various times many i'm
portant Offices.
The weather bureau at Denver re-
ports that during the siNty-eight days
intervening between October 30th anc
January 9Th. there was no precipita-
ton. and only four days during that
period when bright Colorado sunshine
did not prevail.
Charles W. Martin. a former we'll
known Colorado hotel man, having
been manager OF the Denver Club. as
sistant manager OF the Antlers at Colo
rado Springs. and manager OF Hotel
Colorado at Glenwood, died at Canton,
Ohio, January 9Th.
The farmers in the Arkansas valley.
north and west of Lamar, and north OF
Las Animas, are rejoicing in the pros
pect OF a new railroad. which will be
commenced this spring and pass
through the northern part of Prowers.
Bent and Otero counties.
Judge Moses Hallett. executor OF
the Clayton estate in Denver, has ati'
thorized the announcement that early
in the spring he will begin the erec'
tion of the Clayton Memorial college
on the eighty-acre tract belonging to
the estate near the City Park.
While skating on Hayden's lake near
Boulder on the night of the 5th inst,
Irvine Finney. aged seventeen, broke
through the ice and was drowned
| Young Finney's father was killed by
an explosion of giant powder at Neder
land only about two weeks before.
The application of w. E. Combe
Lewis Linebarger. NJ. !. Linebarger
II. n. Linbarger, Mark Burke and
C. f. Parker, to organize the
First National Bank of Julesburg,
with $25,OOO capital. has been ap.
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Henry T. Rogers. of the firm OF
Rogers, Cuthbert & Ellis OF Denver.
has been appointed general solicitor
for the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company for Colorado to sue
ceed Charles E. Cast of Pueblo. Mr..
Rogers entered upon his duties Janu'
ary LIST.
An active effort to collect the inheri'
RADIO Is about to be made by State Au'
ditor Bent. The amount Of unpaid
taxes Is close to half n million dollars.
as shown by an investigation of five
counties, which is said to justify this
estimate.
Alderman ]. j. Coughlin of Chicago,
Illinois, will spend approximately
$50, 900 in Transforming his Cheyenne
Il nf
Colorado Springs, into a zoo and
recreation grounds Work has been
started and the improvements will be
completed about July 1st.
The new Burlington five-stall brick
roundhouse at Sterling will soon be
commenced, the stone and concrete
for the foundation being now on the
ground The Union Pacific will begin
construction on seven-stall similar
structure in the spring. The Burling-
ton also is to erect repair machine
shops at Sterling.
The Cambrian Society of Pueblo,
composed of Welsh singers, is arrang'
ing to bring together all of the leading
church choirs of the state In grand
chorus at Pueblo some time next
autumn. This idea was evolved by the
members of the society in connection
with the arrangements for the Eistedd-
fod, for which arrangements are being
made.
Following is statement of the bust
ness done in the United States Land
Office at Gunnison during the year
1905: Number of entries made, 274;
number of acres entered, 3,S40;
amount received for fees and commits
s.ons, $1,3OO.94; amount received from
sales Of land, $9,663.2O; number ~
acres in the district to he disposed OF
2.29S,495
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