The Ordway new era., 1909-10-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS

| $50. 900 is being EXPENDED ny o'''"
com,anics placing cement headgates
in ditches in place OF wooden ones
The First Presbyterian church at
Colorado Springs has defin'tely ne
cided TO build Sunday school addi,
tiou to cost between $25,ooo ana
$50. 900.
John Condor. an oldtimc miner IN
southwestern Colorado, was killed ps
the EXPLOSION OF missed shot IN the
Camp Bird mine at Ouray on the l2'h
inst. His helper. Joe koenis. WIS
badly hurt.
The new Denver public library
which has cost, including the grounds
;i35, 900. toward which Andrew Car
negie made n donation OF S2oo,ooo'
Is expected to be ready for occupancy
by Christmas.
At the state meeting of the Retail
| Credit Mems Association at Boulder
! II, A. Galbraith OF Denver was elected
president and VI. II. Lowe OF Greeley
secretary. Denver was selected rs
the next meeting place.
William D. Rumble. an old time
telegrapher and for thirty years
prominent in telegraph. electric and
mining circles in Colorado. died at
| his home in Denver on the l3th INST.
OF aneurIsm OF the aorta.
Grcasewood Lake dam is completed
and its reservoir. the largest in Vel"
county. having capacity OF 5000
| 100000 cubic feet. will be ready FOR
use next season. The reservoir Is a.
| feet deep and has been dry but twice
| in 40 years and usually contains 20
! feet OF water.
| or the 200 census enumerators that
will be employed to take the federal
| census in the northern district OF Col.
rado the greater number will be wom'
en-. according to A. b. McGaffey. SUI
pervisor of the census for the district.
About 700 enumerators will be re.
quired in the state, and both men and
women are eligible.
Beet harvest has begun in the Ar.
/ kansas valley has begun and tn"
/ farmers expect the crop Will be
worth 100000. The factory OF the
Holly Sugar Company and the Amer.
lean Sugar Company's factories at
Swink. Holly. Rocky Ford. Las AMI.
mas and Lamar have been thoroughly
overhauled ready for work.
In the District Court at Grand
Junction the following sentences have
been pronounced: Homer Williams.
forgery. three to four years: Andres
Ramerez. grand larceny. three to four
years: Pete Romera, grand larceny.
three TO four years: Robert Cones.
forgery. two TO three years; S. Kane.
forgery. indefinite term in reforma.
tory.
Work has been begun by the Chris.
tian Church Association on the new
children's home in Denver. The site
has been purchased and the building
is being erected with money donated
TO the association by Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w. Warren Of Loveland. The build.
ing is a two and one-half.story brick
structure with a full basement. 1t is
to cost about $4,000. and will &c.
commodate about GO children.
The Grand Junction Gas & Electric
Company has contracted for 100000
worth OF new machinery. which, when
installed. will double the present ca.
pacity Of the plant. This is in antici.
patton Of the building Of the interur.
ban electric line. which will be sup
piled with power by this company
This will be the second time the ca
pacity OF the plant has been doubled
within twelve months.
Ovid Plum. first vice president OF
the Society of Union Colony Pioneers
celebrated his eighty.sixth birthday
on the llth inst. He is the only per
son now living in Greeley who attend
ed the meeting which Horace Greeley
and N. c. Meeker called in New Yorl
City at Cooper's Institute in 1868 70,
the purpose Of organizing Union Col
ony. which founded the city Of Gree
ley.
Booker T. Wash ngton. the famou.
colored educator. will lecture Monday
November /. at the Peoples Taber
nacle in Denver. All receipts from tn,
lecture will be applied to the funt
which is being raised by the mem
bers of the Young Mems Christian
Brotherhood to erect a new building II
Denver. The Y. NJ. c. B. is the Y. NJ
c. A. OF the colored people and II.
leaders are anxious to build a hom,
for the organization.
Columbus day was celebrated a
Trinidad on most elaborate scale
there being an immense crowd, anon
them people from northern New Me,
leo and the various surrounding town
and camps. Every coal mine in tn
county closed and business was pra,
tically suspended here. The featur
OF the celebration was a parade 1
which fully $500 people took part an
| In which wora f1oofo roorn,au.t.