The Ordway new era., 1910-12-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth T.Ilino.

tOIofauO VIII nave Il surplus oi
SIOO.OOO AT the end of the year.
Greeley lodge OF Elks has under con.
s:deration plans for Il $4,000 club
house.
Captain A. C. Lee. well known Sal
Walton Army worker Of Colorado
Springs is dead.
There were ZOO irrigation enter.
rrises begun in Colorado In the last
seventeen months.
a concentrator for treating the ores
OF Gilpin county may possibly be
erected in Golden.
a six per cen, quarterly dividend
will be paid Jan. by the Denver Gas
& Electric Company.
A Cherokee Indian woman. "a years
cid. is the only pauper that Jackson
county has ever had
The state highway commission has
expended $4,000 in the construction
oi state roads since its creation last
summer.
Amos y. Parrish. Republican. will
represent the Twcnty-fifth Senatorial
district at the coming session Of the
Legislature.
News OF the conviction in Kansas
City of Mrs Nellie Neal OF Cripple
Creek on n charge of shopliftng has
been received.
The state land board has sold 271.-
900 acres of land in the last seven
teen months. at an average price OF
Sll.5l an acre.
Richard Morton. charged with rob.
blng the pos,office AT Pando. Colo.
has been arrested by the local author!-
ties at Red cliff.
The Colburn Automobile Company
has had plans prepared for an auto
l. obile factory in Denver. to cost. III
Guiding equipment. about s30o.o0o.
Manuel Rodericcz reported to the
lolice in Pueblo that he was held UP
IN thar city by two men who. robbed
him OF SIS. watch and a revolver.
Judge G. F. Patrick reported TO the
olice that a burglar entered his ranch
ZONE near Sugar City and made way
With a large quantity of priceless
gems and silverware.
u
angeles. Cal. and the youngest son of
the late Henry T. Sale. Colorado pion-
eer. died al his home in California OF
I,eritonitis.
Believing that northern Colorado af-
f"rded an excellent market. Senors
FalazLo and RaZo of Guanajuato.
Mexico. have consigned twenty car
loads or 100000 pounds of barlic TO
Greeley. ,
The following postmasters have
been appointed: Leal. Grand county.
Joseph NJ. Pruit. vice. G. o. Bailey,
resigned: Lehman. Grand county.
John A. Schoonover. vice. C. NJ. King.
resigned.
The Rio Grande is planning to intro
duce on their Denver-Salt Lake
through train quick lunch car which
will be equipped with everything
usually found in first class quick
lunch restaurant.
One man is dead and two others arc
in the county Jail in Grand Junction
as the result of battle between Il
posse of citizens and three men who
had robbed a general merchandise
store at Clifton.
The proposition to issue bonds for
construction of municipal water \
works system was voted down in De
Beque by lG to 10 and for anothc. two
years residents will be forced to hau!
water in barrels from the river.
The Montrose Beet Growers Asso-
citation has been organized with thirty
members. comprising the leading Sill
gar beet growers of the Uncompahgre
valley. John D. Bone was chosen pres
ident. Sol A. Sprague. secretary. and
P. w. Barnell. vice president.
Colonists from. Coyle, Okla, have
purchased 1000 acres of land near
Barnesville in the Crow Creek district.
and fifty families are expected there
early in January. If pleased with the
location others will follow them and at
least 500 from Oklahoma will settle
near.
The latest oil well belonging to Mar
tin Rathvon Of Boulder yielded 125
barrels the first day it was pumped
after being shot, and is now said to
be good for a hundred barrels dav
when pumped. 1t is one of the best
wells in that section OF the state.
Attorney r. w. Morris filed suit
iE the District Court in Pueblo for
$4,000 damages against the city for
injuries received while running after
I'm East Pueblo car. According to
Morris he stumbled over an obstruc-
ton in the street and fell, receiving
sprains and bruises. - .
That all is not harmony in the Har-
mony district, farming section ly-
ing southeast of Fort Collins, was
shown when practically every male
resident of the district appeared in
Judge Potter's court as witnesses or