The Ordway new era., 1908-05-01
COLORADO news
A postofiice has been established at
clifford. Lincoln county, with w. Mike
Monahan as postmaster.

a poopoHCe mas Decn e8taDllSne0 az
Ciifford, Lincoln county. with w. Mike
Monahan as postmaster.
| Lewis II. Webber and Ben MCGEE.
TRUSTEES. who escaped from the peniten.
tiary April 23rd. were captured next
day at Skaguay and taken back to
Canon City.
Pains famous Carnival and Naples"
and Eruption OF Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
in Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition, September
7th to 18th.
The strike OF the $50 marble cut
ters employed by the Colorado Yule
Marble Company has been settled. the
men to work nine hours instead of
eight, and to receive an increase of so
cents day in wages.
Henry Van Kleeck has been ap.
pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
National Conference of Peace Arbitra-
tion which will meet. as 1t annually
does. at Mohonk Lake, New York,
May 21st.
The town of Craig. one of the prin.
cipal places along the line OF the Mof.
fat road In Routt county, has decided
TO incorporate by vote of eighty 10
forty-nine. This Is the elimination of
an agitation that has covered the past
two years.
Effective May 1st l.. ID. Knowles,
general agent in Milwaukee for several
years of the Missouri Pacific system,
has been appointed general western
agent of the same system. with head
quarters at Denver. Mr.. Knowles has
been in the railroad business twenty
five years.
Mayor Green of Greeley issued
proclamation April 23rd, ordering that
all dogs In the city must be either
muzzled or temporarily confined by
their owners, because many dogs
have recently been bitten by or en-
posed to biting by a dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muzzled
or confined was ordered to be killed
by the marshal.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re.
filming Company was granted a judS-
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company for 100000 for the
burning OF the Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction com
pany brought suit for $250.OO0. claim.
ing that the fire started from a spark
from passing Rio Grande engine.
A committee from the State Bar AS
sociation. headed by Halsted l.. Ritter.
held memorial services In the Federal
Court at Denver. April 23rd. passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
Of various members during the past
year. The members who passed away
were Charles w. Tankersley, Herman
II. Dunham. Albert G. Grier. John II.
Murphy. Charles l. Thomson and
Charles NJ. Brown.
At Glenwood Springs on the night of
April 22nd. John l.. Taylor. convicted
of second degree murder for killing
his wife, and sentenced to not less than
twenty years in the penitentiar!
cheated the court by hanging himself
In his cell at the city jail. He used n
rope male OF strips OF mis- bedding. He
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours. The crime OF which he was con
yicted was killing his wife at Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
to prove that his wife committed SUI.
eide.
Considerable attention was attracted
by half-grown mountain lion exhib-
tied in the window of the Moffat road
ticket office in Denver. The animal
was captured by II. |. Horne on Gore
range. up the Moffat road. and will be
sold to park in Washington. Some
time this spring J. A. Loring. superin.
tendent OF the Denver City Park zoo,
intends to go up to an elevation OF
5000 feet in the country near the Moi.
fat road and capture n number OF
young mountain sheep. These lambs
} will be brought down to the Pinney
I Q iUh W
be kept until they are old enough TO
be brought to Denver and placed In the
park.
Governor II. A. Buchtel has been
asked to give $4,000 from some state
fund for the construction of topo-
graphical map, 16x1l feet, from which
copies may he made for exhibition at
the International Congress of Tuber-
culosis to be held at Washington next
September A committee from the
Chamber of Commerce and the Den
yer Medical Society called upon the
governor with this request. Those on
the committee were +. l.. Scholtz, w.
F. II. Mills and Drs. w. N. Beggs. w.
w. Grant, G. w. Holden, II. b. Whit
ney. Charles Dennison and George II.
Stover. The governor may possibly
be able to appropriate the sum asked
for from the building rund.
At the annual meeting Of the State
Board of Charities and Corrections at
Denver April 23rd, Rabbi w. s. Fried
man was reelected president OF the
board All the members were present,
including DIR. ID. II. Dougan, Mrs. James
Williams, Father Malone. Mrs. Caspar
and Judge Thomas OF Breckenridge.
Mrs. Stanley NJ. Caspar was elected
vice president and Father Malone was
delegated to attend the national con
yention of charitable organizations in
Richmond this year. Reports from the
various institutions controlled by the
board were received and found to be
...,onra.ipy resOlution was adOptetl