The Ordway new era., 1907-09-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Another cloudburst caused havoc
With the railroad tracks in Clear Creek
canon last week.
Denver is again making an ehort 10
secure one or both OF ,he big natiohai
political conventions.
A COW on the track caused wreck
near Lafayette the other day. she
saw the cowcatcher first.
The Elks at Canon City have been
fined $500 on the charge Of selling
liquor at their club house.
The Short Line trainmen out OF
Colorado Springs have been given
per cent. raise in wages.
S. NJ. Hadden OF the State Normal
school. has Just received fine collec-
lion OF native woods from Porto Rlco-
Half a dozen loungers in Denver
saloon were held up recently and made
to turn their coin over to iohe
bandit"
Wife deserters who come before
county commissioners In Pueblo coun-
" must work on the county roads as
punishment
A Littleton man bought n nice gold
seated brick OF lead the other day. for
which he paid $500. He is now won
iering how he was lead TO do II.
May Cater. colored. Is suing Frank
z. Marsh OF Colorado Springs FOR
k5 600 because he smashed her buggy
and injured her with his automobile,
General William J. Palmer. who en-
tertained the survivors OF the FlSht-
Ing Fifteenth" at his home in COLORADO
Springs last week. is the hero OF the
hour.
On Thursday. September 18th. the
ritizens OF LonEmont will celebrate the
eighth annual Pumpkin Pie Day. Spe'
e!al trains and very low rates via Colo
rGdo 4 Southern railway.
+. c. CRADLES 2O0,acrc farm south,
west of Greeley. has given yield OF
1000 bushels OF wheat, thirty-fye
bushels to the acre. The entire crop
vas grown without irrigation.
Deserted by its mother. young kit.
ten on the d. Stroll place. in Weld
county, has been adopted by O Ply
mouth Rock hen. The hen walks
about with the kitten during the day,
wings. The kitten runs to the hen
NLfH Sl4t NAANhSF anu o'NaHS e@AN.o.aSN
With the foster mother.
On Labor day. September I'd. the
mayor OF Loyeland will extend TO the
visitors TO its thirteenth annual corn
roast a cordial welcome and a feast.
A program of sports and excellent
facing has been arranged. Very low
rates and special trains via the c. &
from Denver and Greeley. leaving
.oveland in the evening. will be pro-
'ided.
In n cleft in the rocks in Glen Haven.
Estes park, where II had probably
been for centuries. r. NJ. Scott, by n
breaking OF Of rock, discovered an
,ncient vessel Of curious workman
hip. 1t fell 10 pieces when handled.
,ut has been wired. Mr.. Scott will ex.
1lore farther. thinking he may have
uncovered a prehistoric abode of the
CliN Dwelling type.
Mrs. George Thatcher at Golden
caused the arrest of her husband on
The charge of cruelty. She claims 10
have discovered that she was wooed
and won for financial reasons only,
md alleges that now that her husband
has gained clear title to all of her
property and cash. he has of late been
beating her. In the hope OF driving her
iway. SO that he may have undisputed
tight to all he once possessed. The
rhatchers were married here twelve
Tears ago. The bride was the widow
81 William Couch. who left his wife
ranch three-quarters of 4 mile north
,f Golden. Thatcher is forty-tive years
Did and his wife is nearly eighty.
Several expeditions have been sent
but from the University of Colorado
his summer to collect geological,
botanical and geological specimens for
The museum. The State Geological
Survey, under Professor Russell ID.
George and Instructor Ralph d. Craw.
lord, will collect a number of minerals
from the Poudre valley region and in
Routt county: Professor 7. d. A.
Cockerell has been at Florissant. Colo
RADIO. collecting fossil plants and ami
mails. while Professor Francis Rama.
ley and a party spent a week in the
neighborhood of Ward collecting a
complete set Of the plants and animals
Of that region, paying especial atten.
lion to the lake region. Judge Junius
Henderson has also collected mum.
Der Of fossils.
Colorado VIII be represented by at
least 100 business men and by innu
nerable exhibits of its products at the
annual international live stock expo.
'iion to be held at Chicago the first
week in December, IL the plans OF
Colonel w. E. Skinner, president of the
Colorado State Commercial Associa
ton. are carried out. There will be
between 100000 and 100000 farmers
and stockmen of the middle West a,
The Chicago stock exhibition. and it is
The plan of Colonel Skinner to have
he Colorado contingent go to the
show city in special train. Business
men from all sections of the state will
make up the party and while the mini
mum limit has been set at 100, it is