The Ordway new era., 1908-12-18
COLORADO ITEMS

! The Crystal Thentre company, cap
itaiized at $4,000. has been incorpor-
ated TO conduct vaudeville theater
at Greeley.
Excavation has been commenced for
| the new county court house at Pueblo.
| The contractors expect to be ready TO
| lay the cornerstone January list.
1t IS stated that Mayor Speer is plan.
ming for n municipal news weekly in
Denver to contain reports of the va
rlous departments of the city govern
ment.
On January 2Sth Leadville will cele-
brate its thirticth anniversary by
home coming" OF Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times"-about
two miles high.
Manager a. b. Hulit OF the Kansas.
Colorado Power and Transmission
Company. expects the road to be com
pleted from Pueblo to the top of the
Royal Gorge by May 1st next.
Tho Grand Junction city council has
by unanimous vote instructed the chief
Of police TO wipe out every house OF
ill.farne within the city and see that
they remain closed.
The Denver school board has called
special election to be held on January
10th for the purpose OF voting on n
bond Issue of sl.000.000 to provide for
the erection of new schools.
On the night of the Sth inst. fire
destroyed the shaft house and build
ings OF the Mesa Mining & Milling
Company at Unaweep. entailing n loss
of $4,000. There was no insurance
Another 5 per cent. dividend has
been declared by Richard II. Malone.
receiver of the defunct Fidelity Saw
ings Association of Denver. This divi-
dend means the disbursing OF s41 900.
anu makes n total of 40 per cent paid
to depositors.
Stephen n. Bennett. pioneer
nearly eiGhty-threO years old. and
brother.in.law of ex.Lieut Gov.
Brush. died at Greeley on the 10th
inst. OF disease incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
Railway mail service to Walden
Colo. from Laramie. Wyo.. will soon be
turned over to Laramie, Hahn's Peak
Il Pacific railway. going by train to
within thirty-five miles OF Walden and
then by star route. At present seventy
miles is covered by stage.
The scientific students and members
OF the University Scientific Society
OF the State University are cooperat-
ing with the office OF state dairy COM
missioner for the purpose of purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced in Boulder county.
Calvin Phillips. who killed his faith.
W.in.law. George Banbridge, July 4th.
and who was found guilty of murder in
the second degree, was sentenced by
Judge Garrigues I'm the District Court
at Greeley on the 9th Inst. to not less
than 10 nor more than 10 years in the
penitentiary.
There is still talk at Fort Collins OF
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
becoming president Of Colorado Agri.
cultural college. While 1t has not been
definitely decided who will succeed DR..
b. o. Aylesworth. and probably will not
for several weeks. there are rumors
that Mr.. Wilson will be chosen.
At Cripple Creek on the 9th inst.
Charles Hathaway. head timberman
at the Vindicator main shaft, was
drawn into the shave wheel at the
head Of the gallows frame and seri.
ously injured. He Is secretary Of the
Cripple Creek District Pioneers Asso-
citation.
Weld county claims to lead the
state N the increase of votes cast at
the last election. In 1906 the county
q Nd Inn
Estimating from the vote Of two years
ago. Weld county people claim that
the population was then 10000 in that
county, and according to the vote
this year. $4,000.
Work on the Riverside reservoir in
Larimer county has been combIeted
and 525 cnbic feet of water . second
is now being run into this. the largest
reservoir in the county. The Riverside
Irrigation Company has completed I'll.
ings on the reservoir site of Wildcat
creek and will commence construction
as soon as possible.
At Cripple Creek Tuesday William
Campion. brother of Andy J. Cam
pion. commission man Of Denver, sat
down in a chair in the lobby of the Ma
tional hotel and went to sleep. A few
minutes later porter discovered that
Campion was dead. The coroner's au.
topsy disclosed the fact that death was
due to blod clot near the heart.
Campion was q butcher, thirty -four
years old. He leaves widow.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has Just let contract for the
completion Of the Stanley Lake dam,
one Of the chief works Of the project,
five miles north Of the city limits or
Denver. Kenefick & Quigley. Of Kan