The Ordway new era., 1906-11-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

mutual benefit.
The last train for the season on the
cog road to the summit OF Pixies Peak
| was run Sunday. the 4th inst.
The Denver branch OF the Needle
work Guild OF America will distribute
G.600 garments among unfortunate and
needy families in Denver this year.
Thanksgiving day concerted effort
will be made at Colorado Springs to
raise fund for the proposed 100000
deaconess hospital A general collec-
tlon will be taken In all the churches.
The Jewish Free Loan Society at
Denver. organized to lend money with
out interest to needy and worthy per-
sons. has loaned over $4,000 during
the past three years without losing n
cent.
A movement is on foot to secure
the erection of a $4,000 Y. VI. G. A.
building In Canon City next summer.
A bequest of s25.0O0 by the late F. A.
Reynolds will serve as a nucleus for
the fund.
The Northern Colorado Poultry AS.
scciation. which will give show at
Boulder December 18th to 18th. in.
elusive. has already secured the prom
Use OF twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will erect n handsome new depot at
Canon City next spring at n cost OF
about $4,000. The present building
will be removed to another site and
. used as n freight depot.
Harrison Parks. town marshal of La.
fayette committed suicide on the 7th
inst. by shooting himself through the
head. Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause OF his action.
He was fifty-two years old and leaves
q wife and five children.
The comptroller OF the currency has
approved the application of Ewing
Mum. Fred Z. Cotton. Charles b.
Simpson. Eugene Mum. Ole Nelson
and Riley S. Joslin to organize the
Stockman's National Bank OF Brush.
Colorado, with $4,000 capital.
On the Sth inst. Andrien Adamson. a
driver in the mine ut Tertio. near Trim
idad, was killed while going out with
train of cars. He fell on the driveway
and broke his neck. Andriccon Jar
milo, n Mexican working in Tertio.
was killed the same day by fall OF
rock.
| Work has been begun by the Denver
& Rio Grande on its double tracking OF
Eagle canon between Rex and Red
Cliff. a large force of men having been
at work on 1t since the middle OF DC.
tober. Owing to the narrowness OF
the canon the tracks for most OF tho
distance will be on opposite sides of
Eagle river.
According to report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver. NJ. Yakutomi,
the japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado.
and was spirited out of the United
States by his countrymen. fell or
Jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned.
Frank job. night boss at the Hast.
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad. was killed on the 3d
inst. by n lump of coal crushing his
breast. He was standing fifty feet
from the explosion OF a shot, which
has always been regarded safe dis.
tarce. He was thirty-eight years old
and leaves a widow and two children.
An albuquerque. New Mexico. dis
patch of the 7th inst. says: A sheep
man named Charles w. Darnell, from
Windsor, Colorado, was run over ana
killed in the Santa Fe yards at Belen,
New Mexico, this morning. He was
walking along the track with COM
panion when he was knocked down by
a train and ground to death under the
wheels.
Every Coloradan away from home
in the state will be offered an oppor'
tunity to go home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action OF the
| Colorado Passenger Association,
which has arranged for holiday rates
VARYING from one fare for the round
trip on the mountain roads to fare
and third for the round trip on the
prairie roads.
Thomas Freel of Eaton died at the
Greeley hospital on the 4th inst. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided in
Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one OF the
! most daring cowboy riders OF the
( range. During the last ten years or
his life he has been in the stock
business and owned string OF Valu-
able running horses.
A report was made to Governor Nc.
Dcnald on the sth inst by the special
examining committee appointed to
make a regular examination of the
state treasurer's books, The examina
ton extended over period from May
1st to October 18th. the present bal
ance on hand being $2.751,76S.3S. The
committee is composed of II. B. Mrl-
nix, A. s. Wilson and Richard r. Kirk
The state fish and game department
has received notice of one of the big
gest payments of fine ever sent into
tbe oHico The ease was tried twice
In Meeker, the first jury disagreeing,
and the defendant, ]. d. Clark, was
forced to pay $50 and costs, the latter
amounting to $176.90. He was con
victed by a jury of having Illegally In
his possession the parts of Ave deer.
E. X. Smith and a number OF other
frt- ~r,f1 h,tf1I .,