The Ordway new era., 1910-07-01
LITTLE
COLORADO
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a general hospital has been opened
at Sterling.
4 helf.mile racetrack has been fin
!shed at Atwood.
Trinidad Modern Woodmen propose
to tu.ld a 100000 building.
A government weather observer has
reen installed In office at Canon City.
Latest estimates anent Greelsy's
population place the figures at about
$3.50.
The town of Hayden has granted an
electric light franchise. to run twenty
live years.
Martin Jacobson. a ranch hand work.
ing ten miles east OF Denver. fell from
l haystack Friday. breaking his neck.
Caonn City has been selected as the
meeting place OF the State Epworth
League next year.
The Hayden Building Company. with
capitalization Of 100000 has been In.
corporated at Hayden.
The town OF CoilbraI \is trying to-
'igure out plan for the acquisition
If a waterworks plant.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has issued orders that no fireworks
are to be sold prior to July I'd.
The water proposition which was
submitted to a vote OF the citizens OF
Alamosa Tuesday was defeated by
vote OF SO to 46.
The Boulder. City Council will sub
nit to the voters at the next election
the proposition OF calling II convention
to frame a charter.
Morrison Shafroth. son Of the gov
ernor. will be class orator upon his
graduation from the University OF
Michigan. June 30th.
Sterling Is in line for an $4,000 ho-
tel. and already a considerable amount
of the stock OF the building company
has been subscribed.
Advices from Montrose are that wa
ter will be turned on the lands OF the
Uncompahgre valley from the Gunni-
son tunnel July LIST.
The Pixies Peak Cog Railway Com
pany was reorganized at Kenosha.
Wis. Friday. c. W. Sells of Manitou
was elected president.
Idaho Springs celebration this year
will last three days-3d. 18th and 5th.
Twelve teams have entered the hose
contest. and double handed rock.drill.
ing contest will be feature.
Linley Sample. a ranchman living
near Calhan. received serious and
possibly fatal wound when a gun he
was carrying In his hip pocket
dropped and was discharged into his
thigh.
Professor Claude Hinman Of the
Kansas Agricultural College has mott.
fled DR.. Lory that he will accept his
offer to become director Of farmers
Institutes at Colorado Agricultural
Colorado.
While John 8. Cusack OF Wellington
was cranking his automobile the thing
started up and hiked right across the
street and poked Its nose through the
front window OF Patterson's drug
store. Cusack ought to put hopples
on the old fool.
1t is proposed to have body guard
comprising every sheriff in Colorado
to meet Col. Roosevelt at the state
throughout the state upon the occa.
sion OF the visit Of the ex.president
here this fall.
J. A. Bernard. Midland agent at
Granite. wrote to the chief dispatcher:
You will find my account at Granite
a little short. but I am gone.-J. A..
Bernard" And SO he was. Besides
the 500 reported to be missing. a cit.
izen Of the town also mourns the loss
OF wife.
Denver dairymen who were fined
for violating the ordinance prohibiting
the feeding OF brewers swill to dairy
COWS will appeal the case to the Coun.
ty Court as a test OF the constitution.
ality Of the ordinance.
The Colorado Springs Electric Com.
pany, the Colorado Springs Light and
Power Company and the Pixies Peak
Hydro Electric Company have been
merged as the Colorado Springs Light.
Heat and Power Company. with cap.
ttalization Of $2.O00.0OO.
Vouchers for amounts ranging be-
tween $3.50 and $4,000 are held at the
state treasurer's office for officials Of
several OF the fair associations OF Col
orado. The amount totals $12.441.O5.
This will be paid over when suitable
bond has been given by these o-gani-
cations.
A little child Of MIR. and Mrs. Ignatz
Schiller OF Rockvale while playing
with matches Friday was burned so
badly that death resulted.
A semi.official statement from
Washington gives the population Of
Colorado as s26.74l. an increase Of
fifty.three per cent. over the figures
Of 1900. which were $4,000.
F. Mark of Pueblo was fined 500
and costs at Pueblo Thursday for sell.
ing liquor on Sunday. This is the