The Ordway new era., 1909-04-30
COLORADO NEWS


The state fair directors at recent
meeting in Pueblo elected Robert iil6'
gins president and 5. f. Reno s"efe-
tary.
Company II, Colorado National guard
has organized baseball team at brush
and will play n series OF games with
other teams OF eastern Colorado.
A pie company In Denver mas ih'
stalled an expensive motordriHen de-
livery wagon. dispensing with the serN'
ices OF six horses.
NJ. Craffcy has begun the erection IN
Denver OF the largest broom factory
west OF the Missouri river, represent
ing an investment OF 100000.
k. IngIedow. employed in the E'o,
rietta shaft OF the Nindicator No.
mine at Victor. was caught In cavern
on April 23rd and sustained very Sc
rious injuries.
Vernon McKelycy. Tanchman, mas
begun the construction OF small
reservoir to cost $1,000 on his ranch
near Lucernc. The water will be used
to irrigate coo acres of land.
George X. Hart, a Ric Grande enSi'
neer. has brought suit at Pueblo ior
$4,000 damages against the road :or
Injuries he alleges he received In Au-
gust, 1907, on the Celtic branch.
Former Adjutant General Bulkeley
Wells has been given recognition oi
his services to the state by being
placed on the retired list, with the
rank Of brigadier general.
At special election april 10th Hugo
| voted for incorporation by majority
| OF 81. Hugo will be the first and only
incorporated town in Lincoln county
since Its organization, twenty years
| ago.
Fighting Bob" Evans. retired admi.
raj and one OF the most popular OF The
nations retired fighters, will reach
| Denver on May 10Th 10 deliver An ad-
/ dress In the Auditorium on From
| Hampton Roads to San Francisco in
| Command of the Atlantic Fleet"
Unless their demands are met ia.
vorably the Brewery Workers OF Den.
yer will walk out on May lst They
| expect the Bottlers. Wagon Drivers
and other brewery employees TO accom-.
| pany them, thus making complete
[ tie-up In that line OF business.
A memorial has been received from
the Democrats and citizens of La
Plata county by Governor Shafroth,
deploring and regretting the failure of
the last Legislative Assembly to pass
the Democratic platform measures and
! ,s,g- III.
| sion.
| A walkout on May LIST OF the Denver
! Amalgamated Carpenters. who are af.
filated with the Building Trades Coun.
Gil. IS threatened. This probably will
tie DIP all building in Denver, for II Is
expected that all crafts of the Trades
Council will refuse to work with Broth.
erhood carpenters.
State Printing Commissioner George
Hosmer announces that the bill for
! printing during the last legislative ses-
sion amounted to s29,133.27. 1t cost
1882 to print the report of the Bar
ela-Beshoar contest. The largest item
in the bill was S3.32O, for 1000 ready
reference files.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars will be
offered for prizes by the Chamber of
! Commerce OF Denver and other com
mercial bodies for the Colorado Ma
tional Apple Exhibition to be held in
the Auditorium from December 9th to
18th, according to Secretary Clinton
l.. oliver of the Colorado State Horti-
cultural Society.
| The executors of the Stratton es.
tate have turned over to the trustees
for the Myron Stratton home about
S6,OO0,00O worth of securities, all OF
the estate except 100000, which is re.
tained in view of the litigation still
pending. The acton thus taken in
court means that the Myron Stratton
home will soon be built. A site for the
home Is now being selected
Two appointments have been made
and five retirements ordered in high
places In the Colorado National Guard.
Adjutant General John Chase. with
the approval of Governor Shafroth.
named Charles B. Carlisle, son of
James Carlisle, former state treasurer,
to be inspector general, and DR.. r. L.
Carmody to be surgeon general The
appointments take effect at once.
Never in the history of northern
Colorado was there as much snow In
the foothills as now. Irrigationists
who have been Investigating the depth
say streams will run bank-full by carly
summer. and fill every reservoir in the
entire region. In Estes Park and at
the headwaters of the Poudre snow is
banked five to ten feet deep In the
foothills and farther back it is twenty
to thirty feet deep.
The State Land Board at its meet.
Ing April 21st declined to donate 900
acres Of state land to the Toltec Canal
Company, which had been appropri
ated by the company's predecessor
the old Taos Valley Irrigation Com
pany. The board informed Mr.. Clark