The Ordway new era., 1909-04-02
COLORADO NEWS


ington. ID. c., to Denver.
II is now announced that the new
Carnegie Library building in Denver
will be opened by October LIST.
A movement has been started at
Pueblo to secure large fund for the
erection of Young Mems Christian
Association building.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Associa.
tion has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit OF Pueblo made goods
In n centrally located stoTcroom. to be
kept up several weeks in "A campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries.
The following clerks have been ap.
pointed to the forestry service: War
rem NJ. Cox of Durango. to be located
NJ Sulphur Springs: Colonel Willis a.
Wood OF Durango. located at Fort Col.
Inns; Sue Trainor OF LeadvlIlc, located
ut Leadville
Colorado Springs delegates TO the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Musicians in Mime
npolIs May 10th to 10th. will endcavor
to secure the projected national home
OF that organization for Colorado
Springs.
At recent meeting in Denver the
Rocky Mountain Baseball league was
organized for the coming season. The
league comprises the following clubs:
Denver Gas & Electric Co. Colorado &
Southern, Continental OIL Co.. Colo
rado Telephone Co. First National
Bank, Sechrist Manufacturing Co.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Plateau City Water Works
Company of Grand Junction capital
lied at $4,000. II Is composed OF
prominent Grand Junction property
owners who will Immediately install
water system which may subsequently
be taken over by the municipality.
The Pueblo state fair directors have
decided to change the dates of the fair
from September l2-iS to September
2O-25, by request of fruit growers of
the Western slope. who believe they
can make better showing at the later
dates. They ask that one day OF the
fair be known as Peach day. and one
grower has agreed to donate three car
loads of peaches to be given away to
visitors that day.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe.
alias Morris, now in the penitentiary
at Canon City. has employed n lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffc was convicted on
charge of numbering n Leadville sn-
loonkeeper. fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Ieadville. and was
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota. where he was acquitted OF
n charge of train robbing.
Warden CleghOrn of the penitentiary
gave n complimentary dinner a few
days since to Chaplain Blake and TWEEN
ty-two teachers. who have been con
ductins the prison school successfully
for the last two years. All the teach
ers are convicts, some of them being
college graduates, and all the common
branches are taught. The enrolment
of the school number 1875, among them
being those who have attended col
lege. while there are others who can
not read nor write.
Z. J. Tuttle has been appointed gen.
eral freight and passenger agent OF
the Argentine Central Railway Com
pany, with headquarters at 314-15 Colo
rado building in Denver. vice C. A.
Johnson, resigned, effective April 1st
The Argentine Central will open its
line from Silver Plume to the Waldorf
mine. Mt. Mcclellan and intermediate
points earlier this year than formerly.
probably April 18th. and it is proposed
to keep the road open the year around
henceforth.
Farmers reservoir No. 1. the first
of several to be built by Theodore
Jones in southeastern Weld county,
east of Platteville. will provide irriSa-
tion for several thousand acres now
cultivated. The capacity of the Farm
ers' reservoir No. l will be 714,435.421
cubic feet of water and the cost will be
S41,577. Ranch Draw reservoir is also
one of the irrigation enterprises to be
built. 1t will be located about twenty
miles northeast of Fort Lupton, will
have a capacity of 00,000,00O cubic
feet of water, and cost $4,000.
When any person achieves notoriety,
good or bad his or her name is i'm
mediately associated with Denver. A
Denver paper prints the following
Sharon, Pa, special: James II. Boyle,
kidnapper of Willie Whitla, was mar
ried about a year ago to Hiss Helen
Faulkner of Denver. The pair came
to Sharon a year ago and were roy
nll hnmn
widowed mother. Miss Ella Boyle, the