The Ordway new era., 1906-01-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Fort Morgan has decided by q vote
OF TWO to one to havs municipally
owned electric lights.
The place Of B. H. freeman, COM
missioner Of Phillips county. who re-
signed recently. has been fllIed by
Governor Mcdonald by the appoint
ment Of Henry Mitchell.
Mason Weems has been sentenced to
the Buena Vista ref0rmatory for eight
cen months by the County Court at
Golden, for stealing bicycles In Denver
and selling them In Golden.
William q. Sweet has donated S25,.
600 toward the erection of q 5000. 900
Y. M. G. A. building in Denver, pro-
vided the rest Of the amount can be
raised by February 13. 1906.
The Colorado Conference of Chari-
ties and Corrections will be in session
at Pueblo January 2lst to 23d. It will
be an important gathering with many
delegates and prominent speakers.
Louis r. Smith. the timber warden
charged with carelessness and inefil-
cheney In connection with the Gylles.
ten land deal. has been discharged
from ofiice by the State Land Board.
The secretary of agriculture has au-
the grazing Of 10000 cattle on the
forest reserve and 10000 In Wyoming.
A company of Cripple Creek men.
headed by +. ]. Burk, has closed q long
term lease for 1G0 acres OF state land
one mile south Of Rockvale. in Fre-
mont county. on which they will de-
velop the coal veins.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst. with
seventy-five charter members. John
G. Mccoy was elected president: Rob
ert S. Fedder. secretary; and Mrs. w.
w. Taylor. historian.
The bell boys In the different Den
YER hotels propose TO form club and
endeavor to build hotel. to be known
as "The Bells" for the use OF bell
boys and other male hotel employees
exclusively.
John Meany. an employe at the
Workman mine, twelve miles from
Leadville. on the South Park line, fell
from n scaffolding sixty feet into the
shaft as he was going to work and only
received slight injuries.
The cases against forty.one saloon
keepers of Cripple Creek and Victor
were dismissed on agreement OF the
defendants not to be open Sunday. to
ply all costs and to aid in the enforce
ment of saloon and gambling laws.
The physicians of La Junta organized
n hospital association recently and
have rented a ten-room cottage to fit
up for hospital purposes. Trained
nurses have been engaged and every
convenience possible will be supplied.
A verdict Of suicide was rendered at
Colorado Springs by the jury in the
case of L. Crane Wilson, the wealthy
Chicago shirt manufacturer who was
found dead with bullet in his brain
on the Franceville road, eight miles
east of the city.
The law library of the late Senator
f. o. Wolcott, consisting OF 10000 vol
umes. has been purchased for the new
Symes block, now in course OF con-
struction In Denver. 1t Is considered
the best collection of law books in
Colorado.
The Longmon: Electric Light and
Power Company has made arrange
ments with Lafayette coal fields to sup
ply its power, and the plant at Long
mont will be put out OF commission as
soon as arrangements can be made
and the line built.
Postmasters appointed: Edward B.
Wise, Cuatro, Las Animas county,
vice C. C. McWilliams, resigned;
Charles E. Higgins, Pallas. Routt
county, vice B. c. Myers, resigned;
Ollie j. Willford, Pearl, Larlmer
county, vice NJ. Crawford, resigned.
January Goth has been set as the
date for the farewell reception to the
officers of the Second Infantry to be
given by the Denver Chamber OF Com
merce. The affair Is to be rendered as
a testimonial to the officers prior to
their departure for the Philippines.
Among the commissioners selected
to test and examine the weight and
fineness Of the coins reserved to the
several mints during the calendar year
1905, pursuant to the provisions of sec
tion 3547 Of the revised statutes, is
John L. McNeill, Durango. Colorado.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection will endeavor to have
a bill passed by Congress, through the
offices OF one or more OF the Colorado
members Of that body, compelling the
railroads to give live stock shipments
the right OF. way over dead freight and
empty cars.
The Eastern Colorado Medical AS.
sociation, composed of physicians OF
Morgan, Washington and Yuma coun-
ties, held its quarterly meeting at
Wray, and elected DR.. Earl D. McGill
of Wray, president and Or. g. B. Bills
borrow Of Yuma, secretary for the en-
suing year.
Students Of Colorado College are
planning to send delegation to the
nth International convention of the
student Volunteer movement. to be
heId Al Nashville, Tennessee, February