The Ordway new era., 1907-06-21
coLoRADo NEWS ITEMS

Ex-Governor Peabody and daugnue
.,, witnesses In the famous Ha!"ooo
murder trial AT Boise.
Denver and Greeley are to oe con
r.cted by an electric line. aruei'
Importance have been filed.
@. w. Yeaser died of Brishts dls-
cas-. aged ffty-one. He had been 40
houored citizen OF Longmont Tor years
q Bailey, 8 coal miner at fiot'
.-es fell dead the other night e
lad been complaining OF not iee"s
vel for several days.
The Sisters in charge OF st ftah'
els Seminar al Lougmont are super
iz,sntinE the furnishing OF the ouiid'
lns and expect to open the school sep
tsubeT lst-
The new hotel committee at Boulder
"a. decided to name the new structure
the aBoulderado," being made out OF
TIE words Boulder and CoIorauo'
Work Is beieng pushed rapidly.
Pusblo captured the 1905 convention
a he State Federation OF Colofed
Naz1gn.s Clubs. President lda'Joyce
Jackson o, Colorado Springs, and otheI
e.eers, hold over until next year
GOV. Bu-hte! has received the resis-
rAt,on o. Senator VI. Z. Lewis OF ffs-
mont county. He has just been ap-
uolrtet postmaster OF Florence and
resigned before the expiration ot MS
tern
John Come. probation ofieer of
Weld county for the last Eve years,
resigned and p. Tistel. known as
n;ser Tisdel. who deyotes his life
20 LOOKING after the unfortunate IN
Weld county. vas appointed TO the va
czlcy.
Costello and Stevenson. two Oak
Creek merchants before the County
Court charged with the Illegal sale OF
MGuo-. were discharged, the jury con
sdering the evidence against them In
suaclsnt 20 sustain the charge. The
esssnse offered no evidence
Lucile Murtis. one o, the most prom
inent graduates Of the Trinidad High
schoc! this year. vas thrown from
buSgy and fatally injured az BeTint-
Vile. "a. She was prominent In the
yourg society set and the sad news
"a received With great regret
While aiding the other farmers OF
Fountain valley 10 extsrmiuate the
-AEP!es o, that section, Gus Wilson,
living near Little Buttes. fell from a
tree. dislocAting three yeTtebrae. His
recovery is doubtful. The ranchmen
killed exactly 1000 mAgpies.
Tie Wellington association is con
sc-Zcting I dam for the purpose OF
storing water on the high ground north
~es: OF Boulder for irr!saiing pur.
poses The dam is 20 be about COO feet
louE, have a base OF 100 feet and be
ctIy feet high. The reservoir will
cover about thirty acres and will lrri-
gate several thousand acres.
woTkmea eIcAyAting for the lake to
be used in connection with the shoot
re ckuiss" al the Zoo. near Colorado
Springs. have uneATthsd the skeleton
o, a giant Indian and horse at a
depth o. about ten feet. With the
skeleton were found the remains Of d
I bow and aTrov and half decayed
fragment Of a blanket. The supposi'
t!oz Is that the Indian was Cheyenne
AID vas carried from the cliEs In a
landslide
What IS said 10 have been the frs,
/ frame building erected in Fort Col
I lirs, IS being moved TO make room for
a hardware store, 751i25 feet. which
Judge Jay BOughion Is building. The
I old building was erected in the win
ter OF lsI2-3 by Judge Boughton. he
I doing most Of the work on II. II was
built for the use Of the secretary o.
/ Il. colony, and later used as a printing
/ onCe- When Judge Boughton wa,
elected county Judge in 1876 he occu
pied II as court room and Office.
The AutiSaIoon League claims tc
have secured evidence of violations ut
the gambling and Sunday.closing law,
| against nearly every saloonkeeper IL
ArApahoe county, and District Attor
rey Smith fled twenty.nine complaint.
In the County Court. The men fol
whom warrants were issued are,
I Charles Lawlin, Fort Logan, fou;
cases. Harry Livingston. Fort Logan
four cases: II. Ulind. Fort Logan. tw,
cases. Patrick Slyney, Fort Logan
James Buck. Petersburg: c. A. Hort
man, Petersburg. five cases: Frank a
Beandle, Petersburg. seven cases: J. Z
Crawford. Littleton. two cases: Henr,
Heiney. Littleton, two cases: Lewi
Steckline. Sullivan.
! In appears from investigation tina
much Of the fruit thought TO hay,
been killed by the early May storm
is alive and iiourishing. and reports
from around Grand Junction indicat
that large amount of apples an,
pears will be harvested this year
though the crop will not be a full one
Peaches seem to have suffered tn,
most from the freeze. and berries
grapss plums and other small fr,,t,
will produce only a fair crop. lat
cherries are an exception to the latte
group, and 1t is anticipated that thi
crop will show up well at the end a
the season. The growers are not a
ALI GiScAiiraced Ia,.xar H..