The Ordway new era., 1906-09-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Douglas County Fair at Castle Rock
september goth to 22d.
The Adams County Fair will be held
ae brighton September 2Gth to 2sth.
The Arapahoe County Fair will be
held at Littleton October 4th to 9th.
The fair at Hotchkiss, In Delta
county, takes place September 2Gth to
2Sth.
u. Z. Bachelor, n pioneer OF Boul-
der, died at his home In Boulder on the
sth inst. at the great age OF ninety.
three years.
Jacob Rush, father OF State Senator
John a. Rush, died at his home In Den.
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
Ii. w. Ward. prominent Canon
CITY contractor and builder, has been
auJhdged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
While walking on the tracks OF the
Colorado & Southern at Trinidad on
the 18th inst, Robert wilson. aged If
ty-two years. was run over and killed.
He leaves widow.
During the last twelve months In
Weld county l56 marriage licenses
were Issued, eleven divorces granted
and thirty-siX persons convicted. sew
enteen of whom We're juvenile delin-
quents under sixteen years OF age.
At Durango on the 9th inst. Sam
Nichols, aged fifty years, a ranchman.
suffering from cancer of the throat.
blew the top of his head of in liv-
cry stable with 4 revolver. He leaves
widow. son and two grown daugh.
ters.
General Agent J. p. Hall OF the
Santa Fe. on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water
melon Day at Rocky Ford. stated that
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended OF the nineteen
that he has visited.
a report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were 305 marriages
and los divorces. The number of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one.half this year over last.
Ten miles OF panorama including all
OF the valley around Tolland on the
Moffat road, is the remarkable piecs
of work that has just been completed
by photographers for that line. The
picture shows four grades OF track and
five passenger trains are shown on dis.
ferent elevations.
Robert Nelson. possessed OF n mania
for witnessing fires. set firt to st. Jo-
scph's Catholic church In Denver on
the 9Th inst. starting flames in fou
different places. Fortunately the
smoke was seen by Miss May Creedon.
who gave the alarm In time to save
the building.
While temporarily insane from men.
tai and stomach trouble, James II
Arkush, n Denver insurance man, be.
longing to the firm OF Lehman, Stew
art &: Arkush. committed suicide on
the lith inst. by shooting himself
through the head. He is said to have
attempted suicide several times be-
fore.
The Greeley sugar factory began op-
crations on the 18th inst. Eight thou
sand acres of beets were planted for
the Greeley factory and will give an
average yield OF twelve tons to the
acre. Eighty thousand tons of this
yield will be handled by the Greeley
factory and the remainder sent else.
where.
In a quarrel over his refusal to pay
for n l5-cent drink of whisky, Roy Has
kin, twcn:y.one-year-old vagrant. shot
and killed Andy Carlson. cripple.
who was porter In the saloon. at NO.
lnn's saloon In Denver. on the 18th
inst. Haskin was arrested by Police
man Green and Will be tried Tor the
crime.
Agent II. B. Kerr of the State Blu.
reau of Child and Animal Protection
has filed complaint against Contractors
Orman G. Crook. charging cruelty to
animals. At camp No. 10, near Topo-
mas. Colorado. Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from sore should.
ers. The animals were In charge OF
Foreman Il. Davis.
The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce at
Colorado Springs. $500 for stereopti-
con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
trict. to be delivered In the East. Grip
nile Creek and Victor. by their respect
i've City Councils, have each appropri.
ated $3.50 for the same purpose.
Helen Thomas, daughter of Calvin
Thomas Of Greeley. has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
catalor,iing department OF the library
of the state University Of Michigan.
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas Is
n graduate of the Greeley High school.
State Normal School. Wellesley. and
Albany, New York. Library School.
Bert Mellen, sentenced to five years
In the penitentiary for embezzlemept
from the International Trust Company
at Denver. died of typhoid fever In the
prison hospital at Canon City on tho
i4th inst. A plea for his liberation was
made before the State Board OF Par.
dons at It's last meeting, but not acted
upon, reports seeming to Indicate tnae
his illness was not dangerous.
Following are the newly-elected ofi-
cers Of the Denver Live Stock Ex'
change: President, A.. A. Blakely;