The Ordway new era., 1907-03-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

dental postotiice at 81 300 year. and
Montclair, at 81 900 year
shipment of 10 cars of sheep
from the Fort Collins and Greeley dis
tricts started for the Chicago market
on the l4th.
II there isn't music in the air AT
Fort Collins it will be no fault OF the
band boys. who have just received
their new uniforms.
Ludwig. Nelson and Jess 4. Eddy.
miners employed on the Golden Cycle
mine at Victor were killed by an
explosion on the lith.
Winter tiptocd in so quietly. acted
so nicely, and departed so slyly that no
one knew II was on the place. Colo
rado weather is nothing II not Genicci.
Announcements OF the tenth annual
session OF the Colorado Chauiauqua
and summer school. to be held nt
Boulder. have just been made. Twelve
distinct schools are organized. thus
giving the students splendid opportun-
tiles
Alfred Iiopley and Bert Perry.
messengers for the Wclls-fargo EN-
press company between Aspen and
Basalt. have been arrested on the
charge of cmbc7zling a package con
taininG 50 800. said package having
disappeared while In transit.
Alfred Iiopl.y and Bert Perry. mes
sengers for the Wells Fargo Express
Company between Aspen and Basalt.
have been arrested on the charge or
embczZliES n package containing
$4,000. said package having disap'
peared willie In transit.
THE Scouts Revenge" blood and
In
been perpetrated upon an unsuspecttnS
public In various towns In the state
during the past week. Just what the
public has done to have revenge takcl
out on It. the complainants sayeth
not.
Tuesday night about $50 Miss Het-
tie Bever. a l6.years-old girl. was shot
through the window Mt her home In
North Delta. the ball passing through
her arm just above the elbow. Jimmy
Workman. twenty-five years old. is In
Jail charged with the crime. which he
deaies.
Clifford Pinchot, chief OF the forest
service. has recommended the release
from temporary withdrawal OF 55o.ioo
ac:es % land In western Montrosc ana
San Miguel counties. A large area
had been temporarily Withdrawn In
that region pending an examination to
determine It's suitability for forest pur-
poses.
The reclamation service wants 30
600 barrels of Portland cement for the
UncompahGre irrigation project and Is
asking cement mills TO submit pro-
posals which will be opened April 18th
at Montrose. This cement Will be
used In lining the Gunnison tunnel.
which Is now considerably over halt
completed.
After months of negotiations be-
tween the Denver 4 Rio Grande ana
the International Association OF Ma
chinists. the latter organization mas
secured the coccssions 1t was asking.
ond 500 nachinists and pipemen have
been granted an increase In wages OF
two and three cents an hour. nine
hour day. and time and n half for
overtime.
Mrs J. b. Smith was taken to Fort
Morgan from Snyder by Sheriff Bur
dettc and lodged In the county jail,
charged with the murder of her six
tecr Year.Old daughter. Shirley Smith.
Mrs. Smith was arraigncc before JUS
ticc of the Peace Edward Wilson mt
Snyder and was bound over TO the dis.
trict court in $4,000. which she failed
to furnish.
Manuel Rodrigues. n Mexican. was
about to be sentenced to ten years
by Fort Collins judge. on the charge
of assault with n deadly weapon,
when the county physician intercedcd.
stating that the man would lose his
mind IL such heavy penalty were i'm,
posed The judge relcnted and gave
the Mexican one day in jail. It's
great to be crazy.
! 1t is stated that the Santa Fe Rail-
road Company is wedding out all oper-
ators who belong to the photographers
union. 1t is said that fifteen union
telesraphers between. La Junta and
Las Vegas were discharged this morn
ing, that no reason was given, but
that It is on account of their union af-
citations. What the outcome will be
Is uncertain. Among those discharged
were two operators at Trinidad.
A fire started from an unknown
cause in the boys dormitory at the
Fort Lewis Indian school, fifteen miles
from Durango, at o'clock Tuesday
employees of the school and the assist
iance OF the scholars the building was
destroyed, together with the gymna.
SUM and schoolhouse adjoining. All
of the buildings In question were old
and had been used since the establish
ment of the government military at
Fort Lewis. The loss probably will
exceed $4,000. The entire contents OF
the bulldogs were saved. There are
about 200 students in the school.
The law permitting the importation |
into Colorado Of docked horses for
breeding and exhibition purposes, but