The Ordway new era., 1908-04-24

Te,Ier county. Helen Rhodes. vice B.
Chadomy. resigned.
According TO Albert Ross. architect
for IN, Denver public library. Turkey
| Creek sandstone quarried thirty miles
west of Pueblo. is the best he has ever
found being superior to the product
Thai is imported to New York ut high
expense.
The dates for eight farmers insti.
,ut,s I'm the Pueblo district have been
Bx.d by the State Agricultural College.
Tbe first will be held at Rye. July 18th.
and the last one Of the eight July 21st.
plans are being made to give farmers
nlcnics at each of the points where
the professors will deliver lectures.
Tonight, says Greeley dispatch of
the 18th inst to a Denver paper. 1856
/ carloads OF sheep left the Northern
. Colorado district for market. There
are nearly SO, 600 head. or these seven
carloads are from the Greeley district.
and the remainder from points south
and west. Wednesday and Saturday
other sheep II, ms will follow from
this locality. IN -<ins over 300 carloads
or $4,000 head TO leave this district
for market. With these cars l50 men
will so TO look after the sheep.
State Auditor George ID. Statler has
announced that the $4,000 appropriated
bv the last Legislature to buy "A silver
service for the cruiser Colorado Is now
on hand for immediate use. Former
Governor Jesse r Mcdonald Is chair
man OF the committee which Is to pur-
chase the service The money has new
er been available before. 1t will be
turned over to Goernor Mcdonald as
soon a. he requests IL.
Herbert Delaney, who was convicted
q an assault to commit murder and
sentenced in the Huerfano county Dis
irlci Court to three to five years In the
peniIcutiary. dating from October Z.
1905. was given conditional pardon
IN celebration Of Arbor day and Good
FRIDAY Under the terms OF his dis.
charge. DELANEY must leave the state
al yncc go directly TO the home of his
parents in West Virginia and remain
there until the completion Of his full
maximum sentence. otherwise the par
don is revoked. II. at any time before
the expiration of the term for which
be vas imprisoned. he should return
70 Colorado. he will be liable to arrest
and Imprisonment.
RepoT-s made at a recent meeting of
The Colorado Prison Association show
that duTi1. the year 1904. eighty appli.
cants for relief were taken care Of In
1905. 100 We're cared for and during the
first quarter of 1905 the association
has received applications from lis. The
association secured employment for
eighty OF the lis applicants. there be.
ing many OF the others who did not
need to apply for work. Since the first
OF the present year the association has
furnished 517 meals. PSI lodgings and
forty-thrce lots of clothing and bedding.
transportation has been procured for
twenty applicants. money has been
loaned TO nine. two have been provided
with tools. medical attention has been
rendered three others and two families
have been supplied with coal.
AT n meeting in Denver details were
completed for the formation of n new
Colorado organization to be known as
the Merchants association. The Colo
rado Manufacturers association Is be-
hind the new organization. which
l. formed TO make war on
the mail order houses which
are constantly invading the ru-
raj districts to the detriment of small
merchants. Every merchant in Colo
rado will be eligible for membership
be TO cut out the catalogue houses Of
the East from Colorado. A committee
Was appointed to arrange for perma.
nent organization. consisting of C. d.
Griffith 4. ID. Lewis. l.. B. Bridaham.
Z. EaTdesty. Fritz Thies of Denver and
{. J. Haines of Pueblo.
Because the Colorado Humane So
cie;y failed TO use up all its appropria.
h.
seInbly before the Sixteenth assembly
made al appropriation. State Auditor
George D. Staler refused to pay the
unused balance OF sl,750 and the Hu.
name Society secured a writ of man
damus before Judge Bliss of the Dis.
tTlct Court at Denver requiring him to
transfer the money. The Fifteenth AS
sembly appropriated $4,000 for the HUI.
D name Society Tor the years l905-lS06,
the last ear 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 is07-0S and
that this balance was all contracted for
before the Sixteenth Assembly's ap.
preparation became available.
Contracts have been let by the An.
tero 4 Lost Park Company for the
building of the Antero reservoir and
dam in South park. d. A. Camfield
o. Greeley. and S. II. Shields of Fort
Morgan, will do the work at a cost
Of something over $4,000. Operations
will be started within ten days and the
contractors are under bonds to finish
the job by November list. The reser.
voir and dam will be. among the larges,
IN the state. The former will have a
capacity OF $4,000 acres. II will cover
5000 acres in South park seven miles
west Of HartZell and abou, 100 miles
southwest of Denver. The dam win
be forty-six feet high, sixteen feet