The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-30

and Eruption of Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
in Denver during the Colorado inter-
state fair and exposition. September
7th to 18th.
The executive board Of the Farmers
Educational and Co operative union has
named 8. z. Schnech of Pueblo as Pur
chasing agent. He will buy all sup
plies at wholesale rates and deliver
them to the members of the union.
Pardon Saylers of Ell Paso county was
named as organizer
While riding horse through a gate
on the ranch of his uncle between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs, April
10th, Roy Doud, aged twenty-five, was
killed. The horse SHE'D and Doud was
thrown of, his head striking a gate
post. The force of the blow was such
that his skull was crushed and he
lived but few minutes.
The cornerstone of the pavilion be-
| ing erected at the Jewish Consump-
tive Relief Society's sanatorium at
by the New York Ladies' Auxiliary at
a cost of $4,000 was laid April goth.
The pavilion will accommodate twenty
patients. Only those unable to pay for
treatment are admitted to the sana-
forum. and those in all stages Of tu-
berculosis are taken.
Following is the program at Fort
Logan, near Denver: Regimental pa
day of each week, instead of Wednes-
day. Guard-mounting at 1880 a. m.
daily excepting Sunday, when it will
be held at $50. The Twenty-first in
fantry band will play open air concerts
on Monday. Wednesday and Friday
aftelnoo at $3.50 and in the post
gymnasium at 1880 every Tuesday ev-
ening until further orders.
Henry Burd, who was charged with
shooting and killing George 8. Dubois
at Balarat some time ago, was re-
leased at Boulder on motion Of District
Attorney Van Horn. Later evidence
secured, it is said, showed that Dubois
fred two shots before Burd fired. Two
bullets supposed to have been fired in
Burd's direction were found and both
fitted Dubois revolver. One was in
the wall and the other in meal bag.
Doctors testified at the preliminary ex-
animation that Dubois could not have
fired after receiving his wound.
The jury in the Taylor case at Glen
wood Springs April 10Th returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree This verdict carries a
penalty of from ten years to life i'm
prisonment IN the penitentiary. The
crime with which Taylor is charged
was the killing of his wife at Coal
Bason, Pitkin county, July 10, 1907.
He was given a trial at Aspen. the
jury disagreed and a change OF venue
was taken to Garfield county. A hard
| fight was made to clear Taylor on the
ground that the woman had committed
suicide.
This dispatch was sent out from
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst:
Although their combined ages aggre-
gate 142 years and the prospective
groom is embarking on his fourth and
the bride-to-be on her third matri-
monial venture, C. A. Gordon and Mrs.
Eva McCoach today secured a license
and will be married tomorrow. Cor.
don is eight-six and Is employed by
the street car company. He has lost
three wives, been around the world
four times, is a veteran of the Civil
War and OF two East Indian wars, in
one of which he was an English army
officer He was married the first time
when only sixteen and has been res
ident of Ell Paso county forty-nine
years. Mrs. McCoach is ffty-six and
has two divorced husbands living.
Because the Colorado Humane So
ciety failed to use up all it's appropria-
ton from the Fifteenth general as.
sembly before the Sixteenth assembly
made an appropriation, State Auditor
George D. Statler refused to pay the
unused balance OF $1.750 and the HUI
name Society secured writ Of man
damus before Judge Bliss of the Dis
trict Court at Denver requiring him to
transfer the money. The Fifteenth AS
sembly appropriated $4,000 for the HUI
name Society for the years 1905.l906,
the last year ending in December 1906.
In his petition for a writ of mandamus
Secretary Whitehead alleged that he
has vouchers for the balance unspent
when the Sixteenth Assembly made its
appropriation of $4,000 for 1907-08 and
that this balance was all contracted for
before the Sixteenth Assembly's ap.
preparation became available.
Among the original Union colonists
who settled Greeley, there are over
twenty who have passed their eight
eth birthday and one of the most re-
markable among the number is Mrs.
Susan La Grange. She was eighty-six
years old few days since and on
her birthday did a large churning and
made her weekly amount of butter,
for the excellence of which she has
been famous for years and which has
netted a nice little income annually.
B. S. La Grange. the husband, who
! helped to found the State Agricultural
college and who was well known as an
irrigationist and farmer, died fifteen
years ago and the widow, her daughter
and son have continued to live on the
homestead. The property was filed
upon by Mr.. La Grange in the early
seventies and the house and yard
filled with trees, vines and flowers, re.
semhle an eastern country home