The Ordway new era., 1908-01-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The western SUM SAS
held at Denver January 10th and zolh'
The annual banquet OF the Pueblo
County Bar Association Will be heid
January 25th.
IF. Mayfield, F. B. Easterly and I.
3 Wade ar. the incorporators oil th-
new Bank of Amity. which Is capi'
,slized at $4,000.
The court house OF Arapahoe county
al Littleton will be formally opened
January 18th at which time there VIII
be a public gathering. speeches. 'nu'
sic and dancing.
A club for the study OF the inter
rational language, Esperanto. mas
been formed at Fort Collins. II mas .
ten members. DR.. Scofeld being presl-
dent and instructor.
According to the annual report oil
the sidewalk inspector. Bill miles OF
walk were laid in Denver during the
last year al total cost of ssO,b'V-VS'
This is exclusive OF the work done Dy
contractors for the sidewalk districts
Mrs. JOSEF ph Moss. an original Union
colon!st and resident Of Greeley for
over thirIy.seven years. died December
30th at the home OF her son-inlaw,
Mayor Thomas Daley OF Eaton. al the
age OF eighty years.
The report Of the Pueblo land office
for December. 1907, shows that en-
tries Of all kinds of land covered
27.779 acres. including: Hompteads.
l0s: desert, "a: final homesteads, IS;
state selections. 5 coal lands, !.
The Ban, of Del Norte. which has
heretofore raen private institution
lgF L
a capital Of 10000. Asa F. Middaugh
is president. Arthur NJ. Johnson. vice
president, and Charles NJ. France,
cashier.
The double tracking OF the main line
OF the Rio Grande between Florence
and Canon City will be completed in
six weeks. when the company hopes TO
facilitate the handling of bo.h freight
an dpassenger service on the Pueblo
division.
December 10Th the Lincoln State
bank Of Arriba, Lincoln county. filed
its incorpor don papers with the sec
reiary of stste at Denver. 1t has been
organized b.! Samuel + Boyden. John
Boyden and George W. Jarvis. with =
capital OF $4,000.
Fully 10000 sacks OF -four were man
ufactured by the two Fort Collins
Touring mills In 1907. requiring the
milling Of 225.O00 bushels OF wheat
Fort Collins -four finds a ready sale
at home and in the Southern states.
Hundreds of carloads are shipped
yearly 10 Texas, Virginia and Georgia.
Steve Adams. the self-coufessed as.
sassin II Arthur l.. Collins. former
general manager OF the Smuggler
Union Mining Company. at the Of
fees OF the company at Pandora
November 10. 1902. arrived at Tellu'
ride on the 3lst ult.. from Idaho in the
custody OF Sheriff Fitzpatrick and C.
c. Hicks. Adams is held In the county
Jail.
Mrs. Mollie Lissner. aged 100 years
died at the home of her son. Aaron
Lissner, in Pueblo December 29th. She
served as a nurse during the Franco
Prussian war and resided in the very
heart of the hostile country In the Ger
man rebellion of 1S4S. She was borr
In Posen. Germany, in 1907, and cam,
to this country twenty-five years ago
She resided in Denver many years.
An examination will be held at tht
state house in Denver. Friday. Janu
AIRY oath. for the Office of secretary ant
chief examiner OF the Civil Servic,
Commission OF the state of Colorado
The duties of the successful applicant
will be 70 look after the routine worl
OF the commission and conduct its ex
aminations. The salary will be s1.S0(
a year.
At the regular monthly sale of the
State Land Board at Denver. January
I'd. 1910 acres of land were sold &c
homesteaders. They were in -four
tracts, situated in Logan. kiowa and
Larimer counties. One tract calls for
s20'an acre and the others ranged from
$3.50 ~ SlO.15 an acre. On each tract
the state made the usual reservation
of mineral rights.
The following Colorado patents have
been granted: Detlef J. Joehnck.
Rocky Ford, apparatus for handling
beets; Henry V. Johnson. Denver.
liquid measuring device: Edward f.
Schacner. Denver. fireproof stair struc.
ture; Lewis b. Skinner, Denver. Durl-
flying hydrochloric acid: Edward A.
Smith, Loyeland beet puller: John
c. Vanslicke. Fort Collins. electric
time switch; George f. Williamson.
Durango, trace buckle.
Fifteen million pounds of sugar and
over half million dollars distributed
among the growers and employers. is
the 1907 record of the Grand Junction
plant Of the Western Sugar G. Land
Company. according to a statement
given out by the general manager
These figures show that for the 1907
crop the beet growers will receive
s336,0O0. This with $4,000 paid to
the $50 factory employees and s16s. 5000
to the 500 field laborers, makes to-
tai Of $4,000.
Executors Of the Stratton estate
have been notified that the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, sit.
ting in st. Louis, has decided the suit
Of c. w. Franklin VS.. the Matoa Gold
Mining CompanY owned hy tho aa.a.s