The Ordway new era., 1908-09-11
COLORADO ITEMS

with u. =. Brooks president anu ID. NJ
Docamp cashier.
Ry the will of the lnte Andy Nc
Millen, the pioneer stockman OF
Evans, his estate. valued at $4,000.
is left to his widow and tive children.
Practically the entire crop OF onion
seed grown In northern Colorado has
been harvested. Robert BOYD. near
Greeley, harvested an eighty-five,acre
field
A COW belonging to J. w. Anderson
WIS xiii II at Greeley few days since
by veterinarians because they be-
licye the animal was suffering from
hydrophobia.
Thoma. Conway. aged hfty-hve. one
OF the oldest and most popular pas
scngor conductors on the Rio Grande
railroad. died ut his home In Grand
Junction on the 3rd Inst. after II long
illness.
The State Beard of Health has de-
clded that hereafter all persons who
deal In food stuffs liable to contamina-
ton By dust and tiies. must screen
whatever they display TO the public
and keep II screened.
Dolores county must pay Bird S.
Colcr, former comptroller OF New
York City. and his business partner.
Leonard II. Fowler. G5.l37.O5 as the
result of decree entered by Judge
Lewis OF the Federal Court. The
amount Is due on funding floating in
debtcdness bonds issued by the county
in 1855 and 1886. which the county has
left unsettled.
The State Railroad Commission has
sent an order to all of the railroads
] L.. .l.. in, tn
give more attention to the handling
of shipments by freight. Many COM
plants have come to the commission
from various parts OF the state OF late
| In regard to trouble about securing
cars for transportation OF fruit and
pcrishablc goods.
Harry G. Browne, superintendent oil
/ the Rocky Ford Electric Company. was
| Instantly killed on the night OF the "a
! Inst. by coming in contact with the
| large fly wheel. His skull was split
! open and death was instantaneous. lie
/ is survived by n widow. and his mother
resides in Cripple Creek, while a mar
/ brother. Frank Glenn. Is paymnster OF
| the Portland mine at Victor. Browne
was thr;y-cight years old.
Thomas Luxen. wealthy Rio Blanco
| cattleman living four miles north oil
Rife, Colorado. is defendant In dam
age suit filed In the Federal Court at
Denver, charging him with having al
lowed cattle and horses to Craze upon
the Battlement national forest reserve.
Mr.. l.uxen is said to have taken
chances In the hope that favorable
decision will be reached In the United
States Supreme Court.
The county commissioners OF Pitkin
| lac
treasurer to accept the certified check
for S3,l5l Ss and the personal check for
S227.oS given by exCounty Treasurer
William II. McNichols To cover the al.
legged shortage created during his term
of office and his half Of the expenses
for the recent accounting OF the coun'
ty books. and have also instructed that
the civil suit against McNichols be
dismissed
Coorado's peculiar advantages as
place of recuperation for persons SUI
fering from pulmonary tubercular
troubles are to be set before the medi'
cal fraternity of the world most forci'
bly, at the International Congress on
Tuberculosis, which will take place In
Washington. ID. c.. September 2lst ia
October 18th. The state will be rep
resented by large and able delesa'
tiou Vi hCdiSoi
crs.
The official call for n Colorado Min
ing convention. to be held In Denver
Sept. 10th and 1lth, has been taken
cognizanCe OF by the majority OF the
mining men throughout the state. Let
ters are being received at Denver by
Secretary James +. Callbreath, Jr.
stating that the miners are organizing
, in the numerous camps and mining cen
, ters of the state, for the purpose ol
!, naming members to attend the conven
, ton.
, The formal opening Of the Sanitary
. company's canning plant at Brighton
took place September 1st. This com
pany Is the successor of the Wilmort
, Canning Company late of Denver. The
! company has just completed plan
!. costing about $4,000 to can tomatoes
and other garden produce. Their
- were several hundred people presen
at the opening. Refreshments wer'
y served and music was furnished by tn
management.
., At Fort Collins on the End inst. S. II
q Atwater Of Canon City. for eleven sue
:, cessive years president of the Stat
!. Sunday School Association, was agail
. elected to that office. In addition 4
p the election of Mr.. Atwater, president
9 the convention chose the following Off
Il GERS: Vice president, II. c. Johnson O
N Fort Collins; vice president of tn
,s western slope. +. f. Frazier of Mon
10 rose; secretary, w. r. Hardy of Rock
= Ford; treasurer, G. s. Watson of Der
W yer.
10 At Leadville on the End inst, afte
70 deliberating for two hours the jury !
~ the case of Sherman w. Morris, ALA
70 Frank Sherliffe of Des Moines, Ia. re
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