The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-03-26
COLORADO NEWS

The town of Mead has filed articles
of incorporation and is providing for
the election of officers.
The La Junta hospital. costing $780,
900, has been completed and turned
over to the directors of the hospital
association.
reservoir dam near Greeley has been
resumed by $50 men and teams and
will be completed this spring.
Russia. Holland, Austria. Sweden.
Scotland. Denmark and Canada all con-
tributed to the citizenship Of Larimer
county In naturalization cases re-
Gently before the District Court.
Representative Bonynge has ap-
pointed Orlando Ward as cadet in the
West Point military academy. with
Young Baker Miller first and George
Carruthers second alternates. All re-
side in Denver.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate $S75 toward pipe organ for the
new United Presbyterian church at
Fort Morgan, now nearing completion,
II the congregation will give like
amount. which it has agreed to do.
DR.. Archibald l.. Camp, one of the
members of the Union colony and an
early settler at Greeley, who has been
for many years prominent Weld
county farmer, died at his home east
of Greeley on the 14th inst. at the age
OF eighty-five years.
Owing to the scarcity Of moisture
throughout the winter, a great deal of
the fall wheat in the vicinity of Fort
Morgan will be plowed up and spring
wheat sown in Its place. An unusual
amount of wheat was planted in the
Bijou district last fall.
]. F. Sanford. attorney for the Mod
ern Woodmen OF America, has paid
$4,000 to the executors of the Am
bier estate and secured deed to the
1.000-acre tract five miles north of
Colorado Springs. which is to be used
As the site for the NJ w. A. national
home and sanitarium.
The town authorities Of Coal Creek
in Fremont county have decided to
make the principal streets of the camp
wider than they were before the fire
last June. The town has been resur-
veyed and the streets will be at least
fifteen feet wider than formerly A
better class of business blocks Is also
being erected.
Rev. Orrin w. Auman, pastor Of the
First Methodist church at Pueblo an
nounced Sunday that the church has
opened an employment agency. in
charge of capable man, whose busi-
ness it will be to find work for such as
desire it, 1t is understood that other
churches will undertake similar work.
A press club has been organized at
Pueblo with w. j. Orange as temporary
chairman. The club expects to open
rooms and to take charge of room
at the Pueblo hospital which the d.
rectors have set aside for the use of
newspaper men. 1t was decided that
only news writer's and editors could
be eligible to the active membership
list.
At meeting of the Loveland Cham
Der of Commerce the date of the annual
Loveland corn roast was changed from
September to August 10Th, and the
dates of the annual races and live stock
show were changed from September
18th, Sth and 9th to August 18th, goth
and 21st. These changes were made
SO as not to conflict with the dates of
the Interstate fair to be held in Den
yer.
About fifty pioneers from Denver and
all along South Platte canon took part
in surprise banquet given on the 18th
inst. to Mrs. Given, the old-time cater
ess. the occasion being her sixty
fourth birthday. Mrs. Given came to
Denver from Leadville in 1879 and has
been in the restaurant business ever
since. Recently she has been manag-
ing the Kiowa Lodge, at Bailey's, in
South Platte canon.
II a., o,.o,tol 80 yU.I1a. .tu4
Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific will
put surveyors in the field again in a
few days if the weather permits. The
finances Of the company are said to be
ample and material is being delivered
as rapidly as it is needed Construc-
ton will be pushed this summer and
the company expects to carry out it's
plans for the year as announced when
work ceased last autumn.
For the recovery of Colorado lands,
valued at 100000, the United States
government has filed suit in the Fed
eral Court against the New Mexico
Lumber Company and thirty co-defend-
ants. 1t is alleged that the lands,
which are under the Jurisdiction of the
Durango district, were secured by
fraudulent entries on the part of the
co-defendants, who later transferred
them to the lumber company.
The railroads of Colorado have
agreed that on each Tuesday, commenc-
ing June list, to and including October
18th. rate Of one fare for the round
trip will be made from Denver to Colo
RADIO Springs, Manitou, Pueblo and any
other point within the state of Colo
RADIO. This is the same as the rate
fixed last summer On July Sth and
9th the same one-fare rate to Denver
for the Democratic convention from
all points in the state will prevail
Adolph Fehringer, brother of Otto
Fehringer the Colorado Springs drug
gist who was shot by holdup. has
been appointed administrator of the
estate, valued at about 100000. AS
Otto left no will and had no children.