The Ordway new era., 1907-02-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

holding chhutauqu"
c,,,,.,s of Montrose have signed an
| .aar,ant with the Redpath LS.oun
p,,,e,u for a Cnautauqua couIse W
had In July. it,. .,a,.
seyenty.nye-thousand dollar aus
,ion will be commenced Nl'nn a.
xssls AT the Glockner sanitA'iu"' ."
| Colorado Springs
New paving new sheds anu n
hotc, arc among the ihp,onu,r' ''',n- ~
which will be put In at the pon''' '@
ion stock yards this year
The contract has been let iot NV
new San Juan county courthouse AZ
| S1yerfon. when completed the ''iu0'
| r,r, will COS, about 100000
E,pcrt oil well drillers from flo'
enfe will drlll number ~ Nrus G.a'
| uonfrose for n company ~ NhlIh
| mont county men are interested
The United States senate has pASsSa
| senator Pattcrson's bill graniihE ll
| CITY OF Durango authority 10 pu''"'''
lands for water supply purposes
burglars blew open the safe OF car
Ictor 4 Son. Eruccrs, al Pueblo on lhs
might Of the 18th inst and secured S--'
| In cash and negotiable paper anu BE-
| cuTities.
John Gonas NJ Colorado Springs ON
,hg 18th inst, shot near Fountain
monster gray eagle wrlEh.hS i"''''
| mounds and measuring seven ana one
nalf feet from tlg 20 TIP
The granite blocks arc arriving ana
work has been cumsmnc"d on lh' cree
! 'lon Of the Colorado soldiers lh""u
ment fu front uf the capitol DuilInH J."
! Denver
AZ a Join, meeting Of the directors
OF all the banks of Boulder the sugar
| factory proposition was heartily IN
| dOrsed and the people Nrr" urged L"
| subscribe TO the stock.
While striking at wounded rabbit
/ with tho but NJ his shotgun James
! Elmer Bethel OF Pueblo. aged eighteen
| ,rars was killed 10y the accl4'h hlA'
| discharge OF the weapon.
Dr. John G. Keith. for the past eight
! c,r wears one Of the leading physicians
! Of Iradville. died at ST Louis On the
10th inst Of paralysis. pT keith WAS
| a Civil War veteran and ihirty.s,e-
! ond degree Mason.
The First congregational Church So
cloty Of Denver. formerly MyTon
! Reeds church. after selling It's old
! building on Glenarm street, is about
! to erect a new church at the corner OF
Tenth avenue and CIarkson street.
DR.. 4. Mckay Of Colorado Springs,
will start East shortly to adyrrtiS"
! Colorado and Colorado Springs The
railroads and local public orEaniza-
| tlous together with the hotels and
roomlng houses. are financing the pro
| feet.
The locomotive Of q Colorado Mid
! land passenger train on the night of tn"
| 18th inst. struck and killed large
| buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass %
the deer carried TO Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
More than $4,000 has already been
| subscribed in Colorado Springs toward
| the construction OF a DcaConcsS hos.
| pital. which Is 10 cost 100000. The
institution will be run by the Dea.
| coness' board ii the Wumans' Home
! Missionary Society.
So warm has the weather been at
| Boulder that the buds on the trees
have swollen and leaves on tho cot.
| tonwOOd trees are about ready IN come
out. DandeliOns are in bloom and
| trees are bleeding where they have
been cut or bruised.
A dispatch from Bailey in the Platte
| canon February 18th says The river
Is nearly free from ice. robins are
singing. green grass is showing and
| easterners are applying for summer
cottages, But eight inches OF snow fell
here this winter.
The Longmont Library and Lecture
! Association has just closed its third
year with tlatteTinG results. The asso.
citation con lucts u lecture course and
maintains a public library, using tho
proceeds Of the lectures to purchase
books. The City Council has lust
added $500 to the book fund.
Weld county's coroner for eighteen
ruccessive years, with the exception
OF one term, and undertaken at Gree.
icy for twenty years, Capt. Thomas
Macy, has just celebrated his seventy
second birthday, and on that dav his
records show that he had arranged for
1ooO funerals in Greeley and vicinity.
Fruit buds in the Canon City dis.
trlct have not been injured by frost
] during the winter. Never have the or.
chards been in better condition than
at present and indications are favor.
able for big fruit crop this year. The
only danger now menacing the fruit
crop Is continuance of the warm
weather. which might cause the buds
70 develop too rapidly, resulting in
their being killed by frost in March or
April VII Vi
me Wellington Association has DUR
CHASED what is known as the Park res.
erVoir, tract covering 100 acres soutb
OF the Arapahoe Peak watershed and
at the foot of the range in porraa.