The Ordway new era., 1909-05-21
COLORADO NEWS

the penitentiary.
A. Eddie uf Ia Sale, mall carrier
ON Route ]. thinks that he Is probably
the only rural carrier In the state VINO
makes his daily tHp by automobile.
The new 100000 Y NJ. c, \, build.
ing nj Grand Junction will be formally
dedicated June ith. Many prominent
people will be present from all parts
Of the state.
Rev. G. 4. Brandcllu, d. D. OF Den
yer. WAS recently elected for the tenth
time president OF the Kansas Lutheran
conference. embracing Kansas. Col
Orado and Texas.
Mrs Rebecca Eaton, widow OF the
late Ex-Governor Eaton. and Bruce u.
Eaton. and wilc have Incorporated the
Bruce &. Eaton Land \ Live Stock
Company. capitalized at 100000.
Postmaster Paul J. SuuTs Of Denver
has gone for a two months pleasure
tr.p 10 the Pacific coast He will stay
Il short time In san Francisco. where
he will Join his family and he Will
then attend the fair at Seattle.
\ four.color booklet. said to be the
first used in railroad advertising west
OF the Mississippi. has been Issued by
the Colorado Midland Railway Com
p4ny. descriptive OF Colorado and the
territory tributary TO the Midland.
\ movement is OF foot to consoli-
date all OF the commercial orEnniZa'
tioHs In Pueblo. The plan Is to have
one great organization, with about
900 members. and to erect 4 mag
nificcut building with club rooms.
The Sterling Municipal Civic League
observed cleaning up day May 10th.
and the town was thoroughly reno
waited Tho work was under the di.
rcct!on OF President Mrs. c. u. Tim
bcrlake and Vice President Mrs. II. d.
Davis
In the district court at COncjOs in
the case OF Tom Weaver. charged with
the murder OF Carl L. Brown. the
jury returned Il verdict OF murder in
the first degree and recommended life
Imprisonment. 4 motion for new
trial was made.
An Esperanto society has been or
OF the new universal language. II is
estimated that there are Two hundred
students OF Esperanto In the state. J.
Warner Edwards is president of the
Denver society.
The State University at Boulder will
graduate from all departments ap-
proXimately lG5 students June 9th.
Only lI7 were given diplomas last
year. One degree OF Doctor of Philos-
ophy. nine degrees Of MA. and three
Of C.E., while two persons will take a
Masters degree.
Unable 10 cXtricatc her foot from
between the bars Of the cattle guard
which she attempted to cross with
two other children. Eva Warner. aged
eight. met death at railroad cross.
ing at Windsor on the 18th inst. and
her two little companions almost lost
their lives in an heroic attempt to
aid her. The engineer did not see the
children in time to stop the train.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
ask $40 from each of the big ditch
and reservoir companies of Weld coun-
" to help create fund to push a bill
in the next Legislature to enlarge the
forest reserves at the head of the
streams in Colorado, for the benefit
OF irrigation. The action was taken
following an address by Directors
Davis and Weld of the Longmont Com.
mercial Club.
Denver parties have leased the Jack.
son Lake reservoir, east of Greeley, for
$500 year for the fishing privilege
seine 5000 feet long is drawn out
by four horses and the catch often be.
ing over three tons of fish. The les
sees get the carp and suckers weigh
ing more than two pounds. Trout
bass, etc, must be returned to the res
ervoir. The captured fish are shipped
alive in big tanks to Denver where
they are placed in artificial ponds and
sold.
Mrs. Sarah Morley, who settled In
| Greeley in 1872, celebrated her eighty
sixth birthday at Greeley on the 12tt
inst. She was the daughter of Judge
! Benjamin Raymond of Norfolk, N. Y.
and the youngest of nine children, five
of whom lived to be over eighty. Ir
1886 she went to Chicago to make hel
home with Hon. B. W. Raymond, hel
Oldest brother, who with Governor Ev
ans of Colorado founded the towns Of
Evanston and Elgin, III. The brother
was also mayor Of Chicago severa
| terms.
The Macarthur Brothers Construc
tion Company of New York has in
| stalled one of the biggest concratt
mixing plants in the country at the
site of the big dam which it is build
ing for the Central Colorado Powel
Company. near Nederland, in Boulder
county. When in full swing the plan
will be capable of supplying LOO
cubic feet of concrete every twenty
four hours. Aerial and surface tram
have been constructed and six lncomo