The Ordway new era., 1909-01-01
COLORADO ITEMS

Cen. W. j. Palmer OF Colorado
Springs Is reported TO be improving In
health.
There was . $50 marriages In Den
yer during the past year and bsS di-
vorces.
At the starch factory In Greeley. B.
u. Fisher fell head first into big
vat of ice.coll potato juice and mar
rowly escaped drowning.
The football team Of the Longmont
high school defeated the Englewood
high school team of Chicago at Den.
yer on Christmas Day by score OF
10 to o
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
will move its Denver offices into the
rooms in the Ernest a. Cranmcr block,
formerly occupied by the United States
National bank.
In his county poor report to the sec
retary of state Clerk Konkel OF Baca
county fills out the blank as follows:
We have no paupers, How many
counties can say as much?"
The Rogers Canning Company of
Rogers. Ark. has offered to establish
"A canning factory at Fort Morgan. II
the farmers will plant 1000 acres OF
vegetables suitable for canning. the
city to donate n site OF two or three
acres and give bonus OF $4,000.
At a mass meeting at Pierce under
the auspices of the Commercial Club
the proposition of the officers of the
Burlington Interurban Railway Com
pany to build into Pierce on condition
that $4,000 worth of stock be sub
scribed for and terminal sites provided
was accepted.
The town OF Kersey held its first
municipal election December 22nd.
with only one ticket In the field.
named by the Boosters" club. Fred
James was elected mayor and Len
Flint. W. +. Spaulding. W. X. Morti'
mer. j. II. Howe. Is. p. Brooks and c.
S. Gardner, trustees.
The assessment OF Morgan county
shows that horses. mules. cattle and
hogs have made decided increase
during the last year, but that sheep
dropped far below the normal. That is
because there are only a few feeders
this year, owing TO the high prices of
hay and grain. There are ii.56I horses.
2ly mules. 1914 cattle. 3S.03i sheep
and 3.3sS swine In the county.
Arrangements are being made to use
the new Nationa, amphitheatre at the
Denver stock yards for the first time
on January 9th. when Denver school
children will give song concert. More
than 200 children are expected to
take art in the exercises. The new
amphitheatre is now practically com
plete, and is the largest Of its kind In
the country. 1t will seat 5000.
Herbert T. Herr. who. some time age
went from superintendency on the
Denver 4 Rio Grande railway to the
Westinghouse company in Pittsburg
has been promoted to general manager
OF the entire mechanical engineering
department OF the Westinghouse con
cern. Mr.. Herr and his wife, who was
| Irene Viancourt, are both graduates
of the East Denver high school.
A Christmas pardon was granted
| this wear to Mile Mandarich. convict
No. 6 1872. for three years in the Canon
hanging over him for the alleged mur
der of a saloon-keeper in Lake county
In 1905. Mandarich Is an Austrian
aged twenty-eight years. He has a few
acquaintances in this country and his
pardon was given on recommendation
of Warden Cleghorn.
The United States Sugar and Lane
Company of Colorado Springs. with ex
tensive properties at Garden City, Kan
sas, will issue Sl,5O0,0OO in bonds fo
the purpose of enlarging the scope o
its operations. Charles Hayden of tbs
Boston firm of Hayden. Stone & Co.
is director of the Sugar and Lane
corporation, together with C. NJ. Mac
Neil and Spencer Penrose of Colorado
Springs.
What is probably the highest quar-
ter section of land in the United States
ever located as homestead, ant
which has been the subject of much lie
gal controversy, may again come VI
in the courts as result of the as
signing by DIR. A. G. Lewis of Mani
tou to the Colorado City realty firm
Of Kinsman & Wolff of his claim t,
the 160 acres of land on the summit o
Pixies peak.
The following officers were chosel
by the Colorado Scientific Society a
its meeting in Denver on the 19tl
inst: Franklin Guiterman. president
d. w. Brunton, first vice president
Charles w. Comstock, second vic
president; William A. Johnston, sec
retary; John w. Richards. treasurer
w. F. Mills and George l.. Cannon
were chosen to serve on the executive
committee.
Senator Tully Scott of Crippl