The Ordway new era., 1909-04-23
COLORADO NEWS

The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will build twenty-five four-room
cottages at Coal Creek.
A large delegation from Colorado
VIII attend the convention of the Ma
tional Retail Grocers. to be held In
Portland. Ore. June End to 7th.
st Pauls NJ. f.. church lSouth) of
Denver has raised the $50, 1000 building
fund required for the erection OF new
institutional church.
Leadyille bakers held IA conference
and decided TO raise the price OF bread
from four loayes for n quarter to three
loaves for quarter. owing to the In.
creased price OF flour.
The National Safety Vault Company
has let II contract for the erection of
$4,000 building In Denver. inside OF
which Will lie constructed vaults cost
Ing $4,000
The ffth annual exhibition OF the
Colorado KC mel Club will be held at
the Auditorium in Denver April 29th
to May LIST. II is expected that as
many as 100 dogs will he exhibited.
twcnty-one years old. supervisor OF the
manual training department In the Las
Vegas Normal school. has been up.
pointed iiIsJ assistant in the govern.
mcnt archaeological museum and school
at Santa Fe. n. NJ.
The new city administration OF Trim.
idad has appointed J. l.. Boulden city
tn | AL
Nichols auditor to succeed II. +. Mul.
nix Of Denver. and John Nigro chief
of the fire department. vice Robert
Doughcrty. resigned.
The application of George L. Ber.
mont, J. o. Nandcherger. G. l.. Cow.
ger. J. IL. I.lpseick. l.. T.. Beckett and
Samuel Erlich to organize the First
National Bank OF Louisville, Colo,
with $4,000 capital. has been ap.
proved by teh comptrollcd OF the cur.
rency.
The national pure food convention
will be held In Denver August oath TO
9th. Many prominent national and
state officials will attend the meetings
of the convention and 1t Is certain
that DIR. Wiley. father OF the pure food
laws. will be present and deliver an
address.
A civil service examination for the
positions of food and drug inspectors
will be held at the federal building in
Denver on May 9Th and 9Th by the
Civil Service Commission. Questions
as to experience and practical points
will be asked. The salaries of the
inspectors range from $1,000 to $500.
J. +. Blalack was killed at the Cook
mine. Gilpin county. on the night of
the 18th inst. by fall of rock. He was
working alone and the accident was
not discovered for some time. He vas
thirty-oght years old. and leaves n
widow and two children at Dacona
Colo. He had worked in Cripple Creek
and Telluride.
JarGine, who holds the state record
for the half.mile run, won the 1Ok
mile trial heat at Colorado Springs
for the Marathon" to be run Memo
rial Day at Denver. He made the dis
tance in l:12:14. Jamison was sec
ond. and half n dozen others also quail
flied, since they came in within fif
teen minutes OF Jdrulne.
Group No. / of the Arkansas Valley
Bankers Association has been organ
lied at Rocky Ford, thirteen banks out
of twenty being represented. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: S G..
Scott of Las Animas, president; Chas.
w. Beerbohm of La Junta, secretary.
and Jno. r. Cunningham of Rocky Ford,
"a nSg a.
on the character of chattel mortgages
to be taken on growing beet crops.
Las Animas county prisoners have
been set to work repairing roads in
Trinidad and Garcia plaza. The COM
missioners were induced to try the eX-
pertinent by the success of the state
in using convicts in construction of the
state highway. If the experiment
proves success, a camp will prob
ably be established and extensive work
carried on under direction of the sher-
if and road supervisors.
After twenty years of almost con-
tinuous travelling in the South and
West as an evangelist of the Baptist
church, and while engaged in the es-
tablishment of mission at Grand
Junction, Rev. Theodore A. Lemen,
brother of DR.. l.. e. Lemen of Denver,
died in Grand Junction of pneumonia
on Monday. the 18th inst. The Rev.
Mr.. Lemen had recently been doing
home missionary work in Denver,
where he resided. He leaves widow
and five children.
The Colorado Prison Association has
authorized Secretary William q. Col
Inns to visit the state penitentiary OF
California to investigate employment
given the convicts there despite the
fact that a legislative committee will
do the same The association wants