The Ordway new era., 1909-11-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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J. E. Wood has been appointed as
sistant secretary OF the Colorado fFls'
on Association. He was formerly gen
eral secretary OF the organization Tor
New Mexico.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker OF Denver
delegate TO the National civic con
gress which is to be held in Carnegie
hall. New York City. December loth.
Former State Senator Plat WlcKs
died at his home in Pueblo on the lin
inst. after long Illness. having SUI
fercd for the past ten years from
paralysis.
4 large silk flag has been presented
10 the Montrosc High school by the
Grand Army and Woman's RELIEF
Corps. The flag will be flonted con
stantly over the school
More than 500 milk vcnders' licenses
have been issued by the Denver IRE
and police board since the passage "t
the new milk ordinance. on The aver
age 30 applications a day have been
made to the board.
Through freight service will be es-
tablished December lst between Den
yer and San Francisco via the Denver
a Rio Grande and Western Pacific. on
the same date through freight service
will be established from St. Louis and
the East to San Francisco via the Mis-
souri, Pacific through Pueblo, in con
nection with the above named roads.
The Denver 4 Rio Grandc Railroad
Company has acCedcd to the demands
OF its blaCksmiths, maChin.sts ana
bollermakers, and an increase in pay
Of three cents per hour. or twenty
seven cents per day, has been granted,
effective November lst. The men viii
be paid on their next pay day for No
yember. according to the new sched-
ule.
Another increase has been made in
| the price of milk at Cripple Creek
and now the consumers get only eight
quarts for dollar in the place OF ten.
| Hereafter no cream will be sold In
the city by dairymen. as a recent ordi'
I ldllft lbl bluH iN' othl' VI
milk and dairymCn say they will not
skim milk for cream and throw the
milk away.
F. a. Maxwell. mining engineer, has
been notified by the state engineer
| that he was the successful bidder for
construction Of the road around
/ Green lake. six miles above George
| town. and work has begun. When
| completed the road will be. six miles
| long and Nnylor lake. one Of the beau
/ ty spots OF Colorado. and full of .ish
can be reached by wagon.
Careful estimates compiled from re
ports on sales OF trees made by vari
Gus nursery companies are said to in
dicatc that at least $500 acres OF new
orchard will be planted in NOntrost
county next spring a large part ot
the acreage will be in the west END
4 the county. where the completion nj
a number of small irrigation projects
will bring several thousand acres o.
fruit land under cultivation.
Mrs. Ella Palmer. mother OF th'
wife of former Judge Charles D. Hayt
the only woman. with one exception
who went to the front with the Con
federate army. died on the eth inst. n
the Boulder sanitarium at Boulder
where she had been patient for fiv
months. With another woman. be
licved to have died several years age
Mrs. Palmer organized the hospita
corps OF the Army of the Tennessee,
Wednesday. the llth inst. was pa
day in the Cripple Creek district an,
1t Is estimated that over 1850, 900 wa
paid to men employed in the mines
mills and sampling plants. The book
of the Cripple Creek Mine Owners 4
Operators Association show betwce
5000 and $500 members at work, an
with the average daily wage scale, IL
cluding that paid machine drill me
and shift bosses. $40 per day. the e,
innate of the amount distributed,
conservative.
The reconstruction OF the Cit
House in Manitou sees the passin
VI 'he oiu nOuSt, which wa
erected in 1874. and came into posse
sion OF the late L. L. Nichols tw
years later. being under the manag
ment of his son, +. T.. Nichols, for til
last thirty-three years. The Cliff wi
be. when completed. the largest reso
hotel in the state, having in all &c
rooms and Sc private baths.
will have a frontage of 40 feet an
will be four stories high.
1t is stated that coal lands aggrega
ing in value 100000 are being sol
by the Palmer estate. Colorad
Spring men. backed by eastern car
talists, are said to have secured a 81
months option on about 5000 acr,
north and east of the city along Il
Rock Island right of way and compri
ing the ranch owned by the late w