The Ordway new era., 1906-03-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Senate confirmed the nomina.
uon OF Alexander ]. Strachan To be
postmaster at Colorado Springs.
The police department OF Victor has
inaugurated street chain gang service
for the purpose Of trying to reduce the
number Of vagrants.
After sending the drill as far as the
machinery would carry 1t. the United
OIL Company at Florence abandoned
well No. 349 at a depth Of $500 feet.
The will of the late Gen. Fred Wal
sen leaves q number OF vacant lots In
Walsenburg to the city to be used for
the site OF n municipal waterworks
plant.
John Davis shot and killed himself
In Denver few days ago because he
could not obtain work and was bur
den on his mother. He was thirty.four
years old and weighed 200 pounds.
Gen. William J. Palmer's Monument
Valley park near Colorado Springs is
to be beautihed by the planting OF be-
tween 5000 and 1000 spruce trees,
brought from the mountain district
south OF Florence.
The Colorado railroads will grant O
rate OF one fare for the round trip to
the meeting OF the Elks' grand lodge
next summer and TO the laying OF the
corner stone OF the Shriners' temple
In Denver May I'd.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
F. J. Chamberlin OF Denver on the
board OF capitol managers to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Joseph A. Thatcher. Mr.. Chamberlin
is managing director OF the Investment
Securities Company
An outbreak OF mango among the
cattle in Weld and Morgan counties
has led the State Board OF Stock In
spection Commissioners to issue an or
der forbidding cattle within certain
boundaries to be turned on the open
range until dipped.
Judge r. E. Lewis of the District
Court at Colorado Springs has issued
an Injunction to restrain cowboys from
holding dances In the school house OF
District No. Sc. El Paso county. Com.
plant was made that their gatherings
were reckless and immoral.
A Salt Lake dispatch says: A. J.
Gregory, who was live stock agent for
the Denver & Rio Grande here at one
time, Is dead Mt Provo insane asylum.
| Gregory YVES. clubbed by holdups two
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cred from the effects.
One day recently G. c. Howard, who
is eighty-three years old. walked from
his home in Springdale all the way to
Boulder, n distance OF ten miles, and
after taking dinner with friends
walked back In time for supper. The
way is up and downsthe mountains.
| The Agricultural college has been
| -.
| son, Jr., has been detailed by the War
Department as professor of tactics and
military science at the college. Cap
tain Anderson is an officer OF excellent
record and comes to Fort Collins direct
| from Fort Harrison in Montana.
The organization of the Western
| Slope Horticultural Society has been
perfected at Grand Junction with fifty
seven members and the following off,
| GERS: President, Robert A. Orr; sec.
retary.treasurer, Clinton Oliver OF Pa.
| onia. Eight directors were elected,
| representing different towns OF the
western slope.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker is in St.
| Paul, Minnesota, completing arrange
ments for the biennial convention OF
the General Federation of Woman's
Clubs. Mrs. Decker win be candi-
date for reelection as president Of the
federation, and large delegation OF
Colorado women is expected to attend
and support her.
The owner is being sought for q
ring worth $3.50 found near Valmont
| in Boulder county beside the railroad
track last fall. The finder, Al Teeck,
says there are six diamonds in the
| ring and initials which the owner can
describe. He will not give 1t up until
full description Is given, but 10 anx-
ious to nnd the owner.
Patents have been issued to the fol.
| lowing Coloradans: Aaron b. Allen.
| Pueblo, nut lock; Charles F. Fifer,
| Boulder, claw hammer and spike
| puller: Daniel Hug, Denver, water
wheel; George B. Price, Colorado
| Springs. Ore escape apparatus; Jesse
H. Sutherland. Dawkins. hayrake at
| tachment; James H. Wilson, Denver.
trace carrier.
The press is engaged in widely dis
1 seminating the report that A. X. Cut
ting, O Colorado City shoemaker, has
| demonstrated that thought can be pho
| tographed. He tied Photographic
Aim over his head and throught about
his father untfl the old gentleman'a q
features were imprinted on the film.
| Hereafter when young man tells his
best girl that he carries her image In
his heart she may call on him to show
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The State Land Board has granted
rights Of way to the Holly & Swink
and the Arkansas Valley railroads
through state land In the Arkansas
valley. This will save any possible dis
pute between the roads for location.
The board also granted right OF way
to the Fort Collins Development Com
nany for a road near Fort Collins.
This IL q sugar beet line, said to be
controlled by the Colorado 4 South
ern. III.
Assessors Howe, strachsh and Link,