The Ordway new era., 1908-10-16
COLORADO news


Contracts are reported to have been
let for 100 new cottages to be built at
resorts along the Moffat road for use
next summer.
The new addition to the Denver
postoffice has finally been occupied
and opened to business. 1t cost about
$4,000 and is much smaller than was
really needed.
William Barth. a Denver capitalist,
has bought the Equitable building In
Denver of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society for $1.4Oo.O0O. 1t is the
finest business building In Denver.
The great amphitheater OF the West.
cTn Live Stock Show In Denver is rap.
idly approaching completion. 1t will
seat nearly G.000 people. with standing
room for many more. II Will be ready
for the exposition In January.
Large numbers OF cattle will be fed
in the Greeley district this fall and
winter for market. Because of high
prices for sheep on the range. many
who heretofore fed lambs will turn
their whole attention to fattcning
beevcs.
DR. Hugh l.. Taylor. state health
commissioner, thinks 1t Is not impos
sible that bnbonic plague may appear
in Colorado, the danger being in the
japanese laborers who work n part of
the year in California and then come
TO this state.
Harry c. Scott, owner Of bookstores
at 6l2 and 1870 Seventeenth street In
Denver, was assaulted while alone In
one of his stores Friday night by two
hold-ups. who struck him with clubs,
inflicting dangerous wounds. His cries
brought help and the men escaped.
DR.. II. Bowles, veterinary surgeon.
returned to Cripple Creek n few days
since from a hunting trip to the Black
mountain county. 60 miles west, bring
ing back one of the largest bald eagles
ever killed in COLORADO. The eagle
weighs little under forty-seven
pounds. and with wings spread out
measures eight feet and one and one
sixteenth inches from tip to tip.
F. w. Nitardy has been named an
inspector for the pure food and drug
commission OF this state and will work
under the direction OF Commissioner
Wilbur +. Cannon. Mr.. Nitardy. who
recently came to Denver from Chi.
cago. Is u pharmaceutical chemist and
will pay special attention to the viola
tions OF the pure food laws with re.
gard to drugs.
The Denver Symphony Orchestra
Association has been Incorporated
with the following directors: J. A.
Thatcher. T.. b. Field. John +. Cam
Thomas +. Daily. George d. Berger.
o. Il. lie Fcvre. Franklin Guiterman.
Philip Fcldhauser. Godfrey Schirmer.
william G. Evans. Lucius NJ. Cuthbert
and C.. J. Hughes. Jr.
Work has been commenced on the
steel frame OF the new livestock pavil-
ion and coliseum at the Union Stock
yards In Denver. The structure will
be 205 by 312 feet In dimensions and
seats will be provided for $500 persons.
beside which there Will be standing
room for as many more. The arena In
the center will be 95 by 100 feet. The
Western Stock Show is set for the
week of January 18th.
The new Mennonite sanitarium, four
miles west of La Junta has been COM
pleted. 1t has three stories and was
erected at n cost OF $4,000. 1t Is on
the summit OF n high hill In the center
of 100 acres OF land and Is equipped
with the latest appliances for the care
of tubcrcular cases. There is sufficient
land for tent colony. The santa
rum will be thrown open about Octo-
Der 25th.
The famous case OF the United States
versus the Ute Coal & Coke Company
of Durango. in which It was charged
that the company Illegally had taken
coal valued at about $630,0OO. which
the government sued to recover, was
compromised at Pueblo on the 9th inst,
the government accepting n Judgment
Tor $4,000. The case was tried before,
In 1906, when judgment was rendered
for the government for $5.125. but an
appeal was taken.
William G. Stover, member of the
first Legislature in Colorado. and
resident of the state since 1860, died
on the Sth inst ut the home of his son.
Dr. g. Fl. Slower. in Denver. Mr.. Stov.
er was born in Virginia In the year
1871. He came west with wagon
train and settled on the Big Thompson
river in Colorado. Later he became
Interested In placer mining and went
northwest for a time. For several
years he ran an ox-wagon train be-
tween Denver and st. Joseph. Missouri.
HIS next location was at Loveland,
which was then known as old st. Louis.
In 1869 he moved to Fort Collins and
engaged In the mercantile business.