The Ordway new era., 1910-06-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

The new sewer system at Brush will
cost $3S.74l.
The Bugle is a new newspaper Just
launched at Silt.
Sterling Elks are trying to organize
q lodge there
Uncle Joe" Roberts Of Telluride is
dead at the age OF 81.
Bonds will be issued for new
school building at Genoa.
Mrs. M. E. Garrish OF Williams Fork
lost fine team by lightning.
The San Luis Southern's bridge
across the Culebra is nearly complet-
ed.
Mrs. Ulrike Luehe. a pioneer Of HUI.
go. died last week at the age Of eighty
three.
Half mile OF box cars were burned
at Pueblo Friday with loss Of about
$25.OOO.
Holly reports the outlook good for
a record-breaking crop Of sugar beets
this year.
The Farmers and Stockmen's Fair
Association at Burlington has been In.
corporated.
C. A. Woodmansee is the new Sec
retary OF the Loveland Chamber OF
Commerce.
A baby was born at the Esquimau
village in one Of the Denver summer
gardens Friday.
An inter-locking switch Is being in
stalled at Sterling where the Burling-
ton and Union Pacific cross.
A Saloon license was refused for
Chemung because the citizens protest
ed to the county commissioners.
W. I. Hall Of Berthoud was fined
5000 for his second offense at boot
Logging. and the costs amounted to $50
more.
John Coloom, who built the Mala-
chite smelter in Golden In 1873, died
at National City. Calf. at the age Of
II.
The siege of measles at Lvermore
having been lifted. church services
and other gatherings have been re-
sumed.
The Montrose electric light system
will be so extended as to supply many
ranchers with light several miles out
from town.
Mrs. Martha A. B. Conine. we'll
known In the social and political life
Of the state. died at her home in Den.
yer Friday morning.
On June 10th the d. Z r. g. will be-
gin running its trains Nos. IL and 16
through between Denver and Grand
Junction. as last summer.
The contract has been let for . new
bridge across the South Platte be-
tween Merino and Atwood. The struc-
ture will be 1000 feet long.
Miss Othelia Austin Of Colorado
Springs was awarded $1,000 in
breach Of promise suit against Carl
Kristensen. a chauffeur. Friday.
Rev. w. F. Pitner. pastor Of the
Methodist church at Trinidad, has
hustled up $4,000 Of the S25.0o0 need
cd for his new church building.
A citizen Of Two Buttes captured .
young antelope on the plains the
other day and 1t Is being domesticated
by one Of the ladies Of the town.
Eleven carloads Of machinery have
arrived at Newcastle for the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company. which win
begin operations In that district.
Col. James Pope. assistant quarter
master general in charge at Denver
Of the Department Of the Colorado.
has been retired on account Of age.
Supervisor A. B. McGaffey has Sc.
cured permission from Washington to
open a supplemental book and keep the
Denver census open until July 1.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has bought a controlling interest in
the Independent local company at
Wray. and will assume management.
Sunday baseball will be eliminated
At Fruita by the merchants closing
their places Of business on Thursday
afternoon during the season and the
team furnishing a good game once a
week worth closing up for.
Mrs. Sarah Heathman Of Fort Lup-
ton. against whom complaint as to
her sanity had been filed, stood off Of
ficers and a score Of men until she had
to be handcuffed. before being taken.
to Greeley to the county hospital.
Supervisor A. L. Stroup Of the Rio
Grande national forest. with headquar-
ters at Monte Vista, has resigned from
the forestry service and will be sue
ceeded by Prof. w J. NORTH late OF
Colorado College.
General Manager Clark Of the Den
yer & Rio Grande has addressed q let.
ter to the Salida> Chamber of Com.
merce denying the recent report that
passenger service between Salida and
Alamosa would be abandoned and the
old mixed service restored.
The celebration at Greeley last
week of the fortieth anniversary of
the founding Of the Union colony
marked an epoch in the annals of
northern Colorado and the spud metro