The Ordway new era., 1906-06-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


dens. In Denver. was postponed until
the next Saturday on account OF the
storm.
The Colorado State Normal summer
school at Greeley began its sessions
June 18th with an attendance OF 300
and Will continue for six weeks. clos
ing July 3lst.
Thomas CUNNINGHAM. miner EN-.
ployed on the School Section l.ensins
Company's property at Victor. fell
down shaft l25 feet on the 18th inst.
and was Instantly killed.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will establish seml-monthly
pay day at the Pueblo Steel Works,
which VIII do away to a large extent
with the use OF scrip or orders.
About 500 colored citizens from Pu-
eblo. Colorado Springs. Victor and
Cripple Creek attended the picnic
given by the Nonpareil band of Pu-
eblo at Clyde. on the Cripple Creek
Short Line.
The school census OF I.arImer county
taken in April shows the total number
OF persons OF school age is 1860. This
is nearly double the number reported
in the school census of 1900. showing
n rapid growth.
The commissioner OF the General
Land Office has withdrawn from pub
lie settlement, to be included in the
Fruita forest reserve. $4,000 acres of
public lands in Mesa county, near
Grand Junction and Fruita.
Twenty-Five miles of the gigantic
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's ca
nal TO supply the steel works with wa.
ter from the Arkansas river have been
completed. and the workmen are now
within eight miles OF Pueblo.
Clarence Tracey and Frederick
Hanna, linemcn OF the Denver Gas and
Electric Company, were dangerously
injured on the 18th instant by the
breaking OF an electric light pole on
which they were at work.
Farmers In the eastern part of FL
Paso county are planning to erect u
$4,000 -four mill at Pcyton. as n result
of the success OF the durum, or maca
roni wheat planting. Twenty thousand
acres have been planted, and the crop
Is expected to be over twenty bushels
to the acre.
DR.. S. L. Solly, the prominent Colo
rado Springs physician who was re-
Gently taken to Chicago In n special
car for the benefit of his health. Is said
to be much improved. DR.. Solly will
probably never be able to reside in
Colorado. and will make his future
home in California.
The new city directory will give 10
Colorado Springs an estimated popu-
lation of approximately $500. with
6.240 for Colorado City and 1850 for
Manitou. The total OF the Pixies
Peak region aggregates 1880. Colo
RADIO Springs gains nearly 1000. with
good gains in the smaller towns.
At Victor, June 23d. Michael J. Gil
more. aged forty-eight years, n timber
man at the Portland mine. was caught
between the cage and the shaft and
killed. being dragged upward to the
200-foot level, where the body was re-
covered. He leaves a widow and six
children, the Oldest a boy of fourteen.
Convicts working on the new county
road at Brewster. near Florence, dug
up part of n skeleton of monster
prehistoric animal. 1t is a leg bone
eight feet long. ten inches across and
six inches thick in the narrowest
place. 1t is partially petrified. An eff
fort will be made to locate other por-
tions of the skeleton.
Mitchell Benedict, OF the law firm Of
Benedict and Phelps, one of the pio-
neer lawyers of Denver and a man Of
prominence in his profession. died at
Asbury Park. New Jersey. June 23d
from heart disease. Judge Benedict
was a Civil War veteran. having been
a captain In the Twelfth Pennsylvania
and acting as provost judge.
Plans for the $4,000 building of the
Y. NJ. C. A. to be located in West Den
yer near the Denver & Rio Grande
shops, are being completed by the rail-
way department of the association.
Helen Miller Gould has promised a do
nation and with the $4,000 in the
treasury of the organization. the struc-
ture will be erected. The Denver &c
Rio Grande will pay for the site.
Daniel Witter. a widely-known Col
orado pioneer and prominent land at
torney in Denver, died June 22d. He
had held the position of miners judge,
member OF the Legislature, collector
of internal revenue for Colorado, vice
president of the first street railway in
Denver, of the Denver Safe Deposit
and Savings Bank. and of the Denver
Water Company. He was the first Re-
publican nominee for governor OF
Colorado.
The reunion of the old settlers of
Lincoln Park, suburb of Canon City,
was held June 21st. at the home of Dai
DeWeese OF the half-score guests
present, only one. w. II. Slower. has
resided at Lincoln Park twenty years.
In fact. all the territory included
within its borders was a dry. treeless
plain at that time. Lincoln Park now
contains about 1000 people and is one
of the most delightful rural communi-
ties in the West.
Arrangements are being made by
number of the citizens of Pueblo to
dig up from South Union avenue the
stl1mp of the famous old tree that