The Ordway new era., 1906-12-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

FueDi0 switchmen have been notiflel
mat an increase OF cents an hour has
been granted them on all Colorado
roads.
a large bald eagle has been roostina'
ior several weeks among the column
at the base OF the dome of the stat
capitol building in Denver.
A Denver policeman on an electrit
motor cycle will hereafter run down
and arrest people who run automobile
faster than the city ordinance permits
Five hundred and fifty thousap.
pounds OF potatoes were shipped froi
Greeley recently to Forts Brainard.
Huachuca and Riley, for the use of tn
army.
The movement to secure a lars
sugar factory at Boulder Is beir.
pushed, and 1t is believed that tn.
requisite acreage contracts can be s
cured.
Russell Sage. convicted of forgery
has been pardoned by Governor NJ
Donald. Sage was sentenced to from
two and one-half to five years in the
penitentiary.
leaking gas Jet occasioned FIR
In the warehouse OF the Colorado Gas
ket Company at Denver on the morn
Ing OF November Goth, which resulted
In the loss OF 5000 collins, valued al
$4,000.
Diilard F. Parker, yard brakeman o
the Colorado & Southern, was run owe.
at Fort Collins November cath. Will
switching cars and. and was instantly
killed. He leaves widow and an in.
fant girl.
The people OF Salida are urging the
residents OF other towns along the Ar.
kansas river to join with them in =
movement to prevent the pollution o.
the river by the placer mining, opera.
tions near Granite.
The Boulder Riding and Drivin
Club has been organized as an offshoo'
of the Boulder Commercial Associa.
tlcn. Its president is F. II. Park: VII
liam Firstbrook. vice president. and
w. S. Bellman. secretary.
w. II. Bradfleld. pressman at the
S,ar.Journal office In Pueblo. had his
hand caught between the plate ant
roller OF Hoe press on Thanksgivinr
day. the veins and nerves on the bacl.
OF the hand being torn of.
Va
Denver, fourteen and seventeen years
old. respectively. blind inmates OF the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind, were drowned while skating on
Prospect lake at Colorado Springs OIL
the Both ult.
The State Board OF Charities and
Corrections viii ask the Legislature
to make liberal appropriation for the
State Hcme for Dependent Children ir
Denver. They want $4,000 for main
tenance and an additional sum for Il
new building.
. At Colorado Springs on Thanksgiv-
Ing day crowd OF young hoodlums
wantonly attacked F. T. Koupa, mall
carrier. throwing all sorts OF missiles
at him. A brickbat hit him on the
forehead and knocked him senseless,
inficting serious injury.
The new board of directors of the
Colorado State Fair Association met
at Pueblo on the Both ult. and elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: President. Paul Wilson; vice
president. ]. II. Voorhees,; treasurer,
c. w. Crews: secretary. C. X. McHarg.
Former United States Senator
Thomas NJ. Bowen Of Pueblo has just
sold his ranch of several hundred
acres. nine miles frCm Del Norte, and
between that place and Creede. to John
Cleghorn, warden of the state peniten-
tiary. The purchase price Is 100000.
Secretary d. w. McNutt of the com
mittee in charge of the show Of the
Northern Colorado Poultry Association.
which will be held at Boulder. Decem-
her 18th to 18th, says that the entries
indicates the largest exhibition of this
kind ever held in the state. Twenty
prizes have been donated by Boulder
business men.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Brooks. Bonynge and
Hogg and Congressman-elect Cook
and Haggott, as delegates from Colo
RADIO to attend the Convention for the
Extension of Foreign Commerce In
d. c., January 14th. The
will all be in Washing
ton at that time.
So desperate have farmers, commits
sion men and merchants at Greeley be-
come over the shortage of cars for
shipping purposes that there has net
ually been talk of using force to stop
the empty freight cars passing through
the Greeley district on their way to
California and use them in carrying
potatoes to market.
Jerry Kelly aged fifty-three, who
was secretary of the Victor Miners
Union at the time Of the strike. died
at Victor Thanksgiving day from val
yular disease OF the heart. leaving
widow, daughter and son. He con-
tracted tuberculosis at Goldfeld, Ne
vada, from which place he returned
about six months ago.
The dry farming congress to be
,alled in the name Of the state OF Colo
ado will be held the third week OF
January. Governor Mcdonald will call
he convention, which will bring to-
rethcr the best known experts on dry
arming from the agricultural schools
md from the ranks Of practical farm
RS.
At Grand Junction on the morning
il Thanksgiving day Joseph M. King,
I'm ~ 4 n King Of Red Oak. Iowa.