The Ordway new era., 1906-11-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Rucker. died at Denver November LIST,
after several months suffering from
cancer.
stephen Frazier was killed by fall.
Ing rock In stone quarry near VIII
liamsburg. In Fremont county, on the
Both ult.
On the night OF November lst rob.
bers dynamited the safe OF the Ber-
mems Grocery Company ut Pueblo and
escaped with 1900 In money.
The new First Methodist church at
Rocky Ford. costing $4,000, was for
u.ally dedicated on Sunday, the 2Sth
ult. The seating capacity Is 500.
L. L. Dorsey, first secretary OF the
election commission and formerly re.
gister OF the United States land office
at Del Norte, died at his home in
Denver October 2Sth after a short III.
ness from peritonitis. &.
Suffering from locomotor ataxia.
which he believed to be incurable, Pc
ter Cuaz. miner at Aspen. deliber-
ately blew of his head with stick Of
giant powder, which also blew of both
his hands and mansled his body.
The state convention OF the Retail
Butchers' and Grocers' Association
will be held at Pueblo January 18th
and 10th. 1t Is expected that 200 dele
gates will be present and they will be
Hospitality entertained.
Charles Z. Ward. a prominent Den.
yer druggist, committed suicide In his
store on the morning Of October 2Sth.
He suffered from an abscess on the
brain and the pain had become un.
bearable; SO he took cyanide Of potas-
sium to end It.. -
The cornerstone Of the new Twenty.
! third Avenue Presbyterian church in
Denver, which is to replace the old.
historic, once removed building that
was burned six months ago. was laid
Sunday. October 29th. The new build.
Ing Is to cost $4,000.
More than $500 people who came to
Colorado last summer with return
tickets. and left them Mt the Union
| depot in Denver to be validated before
starting, back, failed to call for tho
tickets, having concluded to remain in
the state.
According to report which has
somehow gained circulation In the Jap
anese colony at Denver. NJ. Yakutomi.
the Japanese leper who escaped from
| SsAuJestiNp SoioAahO
and was spirited out OF the United
States by his countrymen, fell or
Jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned.
Because he thought his sweetheart
In Italy did not want to marry a
cripple, Tony Cancto, an Italian, COM
mi;ted suicide and was found dead al
his lodging house at Trinidad. He had
1 N HnfnrmnI InU ctnnad nv
cident two years ago.
While playing with revolver that
he didn't know was loaded" Bert
Sutton. SON of the mayor OF Engle-
wood. Just south Of Denver, shot and
killed fourteen-year-old Frank Ritz
man while out hunting near Engle-
wood Sunday, October 2Sth.
| While on their way home on bi-
cycles, Henry Roth and Philip Lauck.
car repairers for the Colorado &
Southern Railroad, living in Globe
vile, were run down by q Union Pa
sific switch engine at Twenty-flrst and
Wewatta streets in Denver and fatally
injured.
Az the result Of a dispute over a
pick and shovel at the farm OF E. H.
Day near Trinidad, Dominic Cesorio
is alleged to have shot Raphael Ce-
sorio. his brother-in,law, through the
necI. with a thirty-elght caliber revol-
yer and also shot Raphael's wife
through the arm.
While engaged in switching cars at
the Burlington terminal in Denver.
Martin Phillips, thirty-three years old.
a nephew of Thomas Phillips. super
intendent Of the city street cleaning
department, was knocked under the
wheels Of a car and instantly killed.
He leaves widow and two children.
The annual report OF the Pueblo ju-
yenile court, just issued, shows that
during the year fifty-four chiidren
were before the court. six being girls
Fifteen boys were excused from fur-
ther reporting to the court. they hav-
ing made good their promises. Six
teen boys were. sent to the industrial
school and three girls to the state in
,titution for girls.
While the family OF J. ]. Henry,
yice president Of the Northern Colo
radc Power Company, was at dinner
at his home in Denver Saturday night.
a clever thief scaled the front porch
and looted three rooms upstairs OF all
tho yaluables they contained, consist
ing of watches and 5ewelry and q de-
pos:t box, Jewels worth $1,000 and
bonds and stocks worth several hun
dred thousand were taken, most OF the
stocks and bonds being later found In
a vacant house by two boys, who re.
turned them.
Rev. James Stanton, one Of the old
eat settlers in the vicinity Of Platte
vile. died October 31st OF cohsunfp1
tion. aged fifty-nine. Mr.. Stanton
came to Platteville in the early seven
| tiee and was one Of the incorporatora
81 the town, where he lived for over
thirty years, with the exception o.
seV yesrS- spent in Eaton ~ pastor q
~ Congregational Church there. He
Is survived BY . widow. two sons ana
1.-TWO daughters /,