The Ordway new era., 1910-04-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


lights.
Wiley Odd Fellows are building a
temple.
a commercial club has been organ.
lied at Keota.
Manitou has had no fire loss during
the past year.
Florence parties will drill for oil
just east OF Manitou.
The new bank at Deer Trail has
| opened for business.
Jeremiah J. Cogan has been appoint
| ed postmaster at Penrose.
f. l.. Moody. n pioneer. died at Cen.
tral City. aged seventy-nine.
The question OF waterworks sys.
TEN Is being agitated at Eagle.
A report from Clifton says there are
fifteen jobs there for every man.
The Kit Carson Memoria! Associa.
tion has been incorporated ut Trini.
dad.
Denver "drys" claim to have secured
$500 signers to their petition in a
week.
The new Portland mill at Victor has
been started up. 1t will treat low.
grade.
Bristol is going into cantaloupes.
and 200 acres will be planted this
year.
Pueblo boosters will explore the Ar
kansas and San Luis valleys. starting
the 26th.
Ore assaying $1,000 per ton is re.
ported from the new Bald Mountain
district.
There will be special rates to Grand
Junction for the State c. A. R. meet
ing May 1l-14.
The Silverton Northern railroad.
which has been blocked by snow. Is
open again.
Kersey women will have charge Of
the Independence Day celebration at
that place.
B. c. Catron. Jr.. was elected mayor
Of Georgetown, Monday on the Boost
er" ticket.
Laying OF steel on the U. p. line
from La Sale to Dent will begin i'm
mediately
The Macmillan mine at Sunshine
has developed l4-inch streak OF
tungsten ore.
A plant for the manufacture OF con.
centrating tables will be established
at Boulder.
The Scepter mine at Georgetown
has a new find OF ore assaying 1000
ounces silver.
The emergency station at Lizard
Head on the r. G. s. has been closed
for the winter.
G. B. McDermott. superintendent OF
the c. F. & |. at Tercio. died Monday
night. aged 81.
Men students at the U. OF c.. Boul-
der. are planning to erect a $4,000
club building on the campus.
The Florence Fair and Baseball AS
sociation has been organized and will
open its grounds July 4th.
Secretary DR.. Hugh l.. Taylor Of the
State Board of Health says there are
over 400 cases of smallpox in Colo.
RADIO.
The San Juan national forest has
been divided and the eastern division
will have headquarters at Pagosa
Springs.
The LOngmont board of education
will ask for a $4,000 bond issue to
make an addition to the high school
building
hundred men have been put to
work on the Schaefer dam and reser-
voir of the Beaver Land and Irriga-
ton Company.
For the twentieth time A. ]. Parks
has been elected secretary of the
board of trustee of the State Normal
school at Greeley.
William T. Shaw, 30. and Joseph ].
Smith, 23. soldier prisoners at Fort
Logan, escaped from the guard house
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Anna Welch, member of the
Union colony. died at Greeley, aged
81, Tuesday: also, the same day, John
Prendergast, aged S6.
An experiment in feeding cattle on
cooked potatoes will be tried at Long
mont, cooker with a capacity of TO-
900 pounds having been installed.
The national president of the boiler
makers has ordered the men out at
the c. & S. Trinidad shops. Reason
not known. twenty-five are affected.
Theodore Ehrhardt, convicted of
wife murder in the second degree, was
sentenced Saturday by Judge Allen Of
Denver to from twenty to thirty-five
years in the penitentiary.
The Short Line trestle. $40 feet
long. over Bear Creek canon. was to.
tally destroyed by fire Saturday morn
ing.
State and county officials conferred
in Denver Wednesday regarding the
new road between Denver and Colo
RADIO Springs. The appropriations of
the state and Ell Paso county, amount
ing to $4,000, are now available.