The Ordway new era., 1906-04-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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The water bond election at Rocky
ford April I'd resulted In the defeat oi
the proposition to issue bonds by a
majority OF u.
George b. Walker well known min.
erai surveyor. died suddenly OF heart
disease at his home In Breckenridge
on the night OF April I'd.
Il. l.. Phillips OF Longmont. has been
awarded the contract for grading the
new Colorado a. Southern branch from
Plnmmer's beet dump to Black Hollow,
nine miles.
Attorney James ID. Merwin. who was
n candidate for governor OF Colorado
on the Populist ticket In 1904. died ut
his residence in Denver April 5th. OF
acute pneumonia.
The Las Animas County Bar Asso.
citation gave a banquet March 3ist to
Judge Jesse G.. Northcutt. who has re.
signed to his successor. Henry Hunter
OF Walsenburg.
At recent meeting at Colorado
Springs the executive committee of the
| Pixies Peak Centennial celebration
elected Thomas f. Walsh director gen.
| tIii Oh tHe ccleDfatiOn.
ID. Clrolus Duran has finished paint
Ing his portrait of the Pope. which ex-
Empress Eugenia will present as n
wedding gift to Princess E.na, iiance OF
King Alfonso OF Spain.
On the night of April list the safe In
the Union Pacific depot at Fort Lup.
ton was blown open by dynamite and
robbed OF $50. Railway tickets and
other valuable papers We're unmo.
Tested.
Lieutenant General Miles. formerly
commander.in.chief OF the United
States army. Will make the commence
ment address at the University Of Col
orado June 9Th OF commencement
/ week.
Bills raised from the denomination
| OF 81 TO SO have been circulated at
Trinidad and officers of the secret ser
vice In Denver were notified. Many Of
these bills have also been circulated
In Las Vegas and Ration.
Five extraordinary candidate were
Initiated by the Florence aerie OF
Eagles one night recently. Each was
six feet or more in height. their aggre.
gate length being thirty-one feet one
inch. and their aggregate weight l.lO0
pounds.
Prince William of Schaumburg.
Lippe died of heart failure April 4th,
at his castle ut Nachod. Bohemia. His
daughter.in.law. Princess Louise, n
daughter of the King of Denmark.
died f.e hours later of meningitis at
the same castle.
| A record automobile run from Pu'
eblo and Colorado Springs to Denver Is
one of the features planned BY the an'
tomobile enthusiasts of these cities.
who will visit Denver for the annual
automobile show to be held at Coll
scum hall April 18th to 21st.
Vienna dispatches state that peace
between the crown and the Hungar'
ians has been concluded and the par
liamentary crisis is over. Premier
Feieryary has resigned and Alexander
wekerle has been appointed premier
with a mandate to form conciliatory
Cabinet for Hungary.
Denver has legally incorporated So
ciety for psychical research. 1t Is
called the Psychical Research Society
of Denver, and Is organized to promote
religion and morality in the state. IL
will work in connection with the ma.
tional association of spiritualistic So
cieties. and will also carry on psy'
chicsl research.
Miss Maude Heinze of Creede com.
m,tted suicide by shooting herseit
through the heart in a room at tho
windsor hotel in Del Norte, April I'd.
Miss Heinze, who was twenty-three
wears of age, was somewhat hoteu
yiolinist A broken marriage engage
ment and accompanying despondehc!
is believed to have been the cause OF
her suicide.
That n hen can live twenty-five days
without food was proven by the liDer-
atinp of two Plymouth Rock chickens
entombed in a big snowdrift In the
storm of March 1st, to which success.
siye storms had added. When released
they Immediately began eating ana
seemed none the worse for their I'M
nrisonment, save that they were re-
duced almost to skeletons.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey has
s,pned the bill passed by the Legisla'
ture to substitute electrocution 1or
hanging. The measure takes erect
March il. 1907. At the instance OF
Prison Keeper Osborne, who declared
he would resign rather than take hu-
man life. the bill was SO amended to
enable the principal keeper to employ
deputy.
n Jones died at Colorado Springs
April Sd of paralysis. Mr.. Jones was
one of the locators of the famous Phar-
ma ciat mine in Cripple Creek and was
nrorn;nent in its management until MS
death. He was one of the best known
nemocratic Te% politicians of Colorado
Springs and was well known amons ,..,as
he Masons and Knights Templar' Win