The Ordway new era., 1906-09-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


tembcr 18th TO 21st.
Douglas County Fair at Castle Rock
September Goth 10 22d.
The Adams County Fair will be held
at Brighton September 2Gth to 2Sth.
The Arapahoe County Fair will be
held at Littleton October 18th to 9th.
The Fremont county fair will be held
at Canon City September 18th to 2lst.
The fair at HotchkIss. in Delta
county. takes place September 2Gth to
2Sth.
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 2Gth TO
2Sth.
Sixty thousand young trout have Just
been placed in the streams OF Boulder
county.
The Labor day parade at Pueblo had
to be abandoned on account OF soak
ing rain.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Bar Association viii be held at Colo.
rado Springs September eth and 2sth.
A man eighty-three years old got
drunk In Denver the other day and
was arrested for creating rough
house,
G.. c. Bachelor. a pioneer of Boul-
der. died at his home in Boulder on the
9th inst. at the great age OF ninety
three years.
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce
has invited Vice President Fairbanks
to be the guest OF honor ut banquet
September goth.
Jacob Rush, father OF State Senator
John A. Rush. died ut 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
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
The Flint Automobile Company. or
ganized by eastern capitalists. contem
plates building large factory iu Den
yer at cost of 100000.
The finest of weather and an unus.
ually large and fine parade combined to
make the Labor day celebration in
Denver one of the most successful ever
held.
q. Fred Tritch of Denver. son Of the
late George Tritch and secretary OF the
Tritch Hardware Company. died at his
home In Denver. September 9Th. OF ty-
phoid fever.
ously hurt at Pine River by falling
from haystack and striking n spike
on hay wagon. The spike pierced
his bladder. necessitating an opera.
tion.
The little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Buchanan. two and half
years old. was drowned September 1st
in an irrigating ditch at the Buchanan
home in the Animas valley above Du-
range.
Mrs. Minnie Brown OF Fort Collins
was burned 20 death on the 5th inst.
by the explosion of gasoline which she
was using to start fire. She was
twenty-eight years of age and leaves
two children.
+. w. Hermann. for two years in
charge of the dry farming experiments
| conducted by the government at Chey-
enne, Is soon TO be transferred to begin
drainage investigations along the Rio
| Grande in Colorado.
The Victor Fuel Company has sold
the Mexican Central railroad 10000
| tons of coal, to be delivered at Juarez,
| Mexico. Most of this coal will be TAX
en- from Las Animas county mines and
| 10000 tons has been delivered.
In the district court at Trinidad the
| Murder charge against James T. Davis.
marshal of Aguilar, indicted for killing
| Mexican while trying 10 stop street
| fight, was nolle pressed on the 1th
inst. and the defendant discharged.
At Durango on the eth inst, Sam
| Nichols. aged fifty years, ranchman,
| suffering from cancer of the throat,
| blew the Top of his head off in liv-
cry stable with revolver. He leaves
i a widow, son and two grown daugh-
| ters.
Clark {. Sawdy's large livery barn
at Boulder, the oldest in the city. was
burned on the nigh. of the 7th inst.
| Six horses were burned to death and
no vehicles were saved, the loss. in
| cluding the $500 hearse belonging to
| F. J. Bucheit
A report Just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
| shows that there were 305 marriages
and les divorces. The number of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one.half this year over last.
Robert Nelson, possessed Of mania
for witnessing fires, set firt to st. 10.
sephs 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.
A Republican judicial convention will
be held at Pueblo September 10th for
the Tenth district, embracing the coun-
ties of Pueblo Otero and Kiowa. Two
candidates for district judge will be
nominated to succeed Judges Dixon
and Voorhees,.
General Agent J. P. Fall 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.