The Ordway new era., 1907-07-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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team ran away with pr; sol
Kahn ut Leadville. injurihs MN
verely. u.
IT'S n hard matter for one VINO nNes
in Colorado to find place away ,o'
home where he can enjoy MS 'ac"','"'
Now that "the glorious Fourth mas
,eer rounded up and hog'tied LOT an
ether year. all Colorado is back 10 p"S'
lress.
Gold has been discovered In Del'a
Iorcbard but the fruit yield is so rich
the owner doesn't need the new us
covery.
Ben B. Lindsay has finally been Sc,
aside us county Judge In Denver' aa,a u
will now have his own little 1uNehii"
Pet court all by himself
After an illness of many months,
Mrs. L. P..Mawzey. wife OF Justice o'
the Peace Mawzey. at Boulder Is ue"u'
She was over 10 years old.
The married men Of Greeley went out
on the diamond and proved to the bach
elor team that they still know now 10
handle the bat.
Colorados crop OF tourists this year
shows a marked increase over former
| seasons, utsHllt Aht i"N' 's
slow trains from the East.
A new town, which has not yet been
named, is being started six miles east
of Colorado Springs. IL VIII be sup
ported by sugar beet culture.
Margaret Yont. the four-year-old
child OF Bert Yont. living near Grand
Junction, was nearly burned to death
one day recently while playing with
gasoline lamp, which exploded.
Timothy Babb, aged sixty-one, com
! mander Of ]. w. Anderson Post, G. y
r.. at Cripple Creek. has answered 10
the final roll call This is the third
comrade of this post to die In one
year.
A prominent social family" living
| near Platteville. gathered up their
ready cash and wrapping the cloaks 0f
night about them. departed for fields
more green. A large circle OF cred
itors mourn their departure. 1t was
SO sudden.
When his body was found 1t was in
n position showing that he had tried
TO fight the blaze. but had been over
come by smoke and fallen just inside
the door Hickey had supported him
self the last few years by doing work
for neighbors. AS he had no known
relatives, the body was buried at the
expense Of the county.
A committee of forty, appointed by
the Greeley Commercial Club TO solicit
funds for the building of the Empson
canning factory, is meeting with much
success, and after one days work re-
ports $4,000 subscribed. The acreage
committee is also busy solicitating l..
400 acres to be planted for the factory.
for which 800 have been pledged.
Charles Whatles. recently manager
of the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany electric light Office at Greeley,
was found guilty in the District Court
of grand larceny. Whatles and Ar
thur Robertson, foreman of the line
gang, were charged with larceny OF
a ton of copper wire, valued at 5000.
from the company. Robertson con.
fessed and implicated Whatles.
Charging that his father.in.law,
| George Chandler of Mum, will not
give him sufficient possession of his
two young children. although he has
been repeatedly begged to do so, j.
| Brown of Longmont, aged 22, has TAX
/. en- legal steps to secure the children.
The youngsters are 3 years and
months old, respectively, and their
mother died last November. The IA
ther says his father-in-law has eight
children Of his own.
Forty thousand acres in the Arkan.
sas valley east of Pueblo and this side
of the Kansas line, are covered with
fiourishing crops of sugar beets. These
figures are given out by competent Pu
eblo authorities and show an increase
of about forty per cent. over last year
Indications are that the average will
be at least twenty tons an acre and
that there will be enough beets tC
keep all the sugar factories in the val
ley busy until next April.
Footsore and weary after miles OF
globe-trotting across the deserts ol
Utah, an aged Greek whose name is un
known. fell exhausted In front of the
home of George Anderson in Crane
Junction. Policeman Paterson removed
him to jail. A physician found that the
Greek was deranged as the result o
! his experience. He speaks onl,
broken English, but from his discon
nected story 1t was believed that he
had walked several hundred miles witt
scarcely any food.
A special from Durango saws.
United States Deputy Marshals Clarl
and Frank arrived from Denver ant
placed c. E. Herr. George w. Franklin
w. N. Bagby, Joseph Coppenger, r. E
Sloan and William Morrison under ar
, rest under indictments returned by tn,
recent federal grand jury in session IL
Denver, charged with conspiracy in al
legged timber and coal land frauds. AL
appeared before United States Commits
sioner Pingrey and furnished bond. AL
are prominent residents Of the county
They claim they will be able to prov,
E their innocence