The Ordway new era., 1910-12-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Mrs. Ellen Senton Beckwith died In
Longmont. at the age OF 92.
villa Haywood. shot recently In
Trinidad. by Daisy Wells. died.
Fire from an unknown origin con.
sumed the Bracewell school house.
The cost OF the Republican cam
paign In FL Paso county was $2.59s.49.
The $4,000 Electric building has
been formally opened in Grand juno
tion.
Rio Grande No. 4 struck an unknown
Austrian near Palisade and instantly
killed him.
With $4,000 worth of stock sub
scribed. the green alfalfa meal mill 10:
Gilcrest seems assured.
The automobile of Gus NietZke ran
away on the FL Moro near Trinidad.
and two persons were seriously In
jured.
Jack Markham. one OF. the first set
tiers of Windsor, who had lived In
that vinicity 10 years. died of paraly-
sis. aged so.
Walter Currie, a noted British min
ing expert. is In Colorado for the
purpose of inspecting methods OF ore
treatment.
Farmers organized in Greeley unde~
the name OF the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union. with H. n.
Bickling. president.
A Colorado Springs attorney has
received an ear of corn from friends
In Iowa which contains 1900 kernels
and weighs over two pounds.
The Rev. W. F. Highly has resigned
as pastor OF the st. Thomas chapel.
Palisade. and accepted call to st.
Marks parish in Durango.
That cattle on the Weld county
ranges are now absolutely free OF
scabies Ia the statement OF Govern
ment Cattle Inspector Merrill.
Peanuts twenty years old. carried to
Sweden nineteen years ago and
brought back to Colorado. were found
to have lost none OF their flavor.
H. L. Bishop. superintendent of the
free employment bureau in Colorado
Springs. reports that his bureau found
work for 2l7 men and ls9 women dur
ing November.
DR.. J. II. Franklin. pastor OF the
First Baptist Church. Colorado
Springs, who has been absent several
months inspecting missions In Africa.
has returned.
Just two weeks after the death OF
Ross Tisdel. his cousin and chum. Err
nest King. son OF Mrs. Mary King OF
Greeley. died from grief over the loss
OF his comrade.
Fire believed to have been Of in
cendiary origin destroyed a stack Of
over 60 tons OF fine alfalfa hay on the
farm of John Oster seven miles south.
east Of La Sale.
The Hotchkiss school district Is the
banner one Of the state. we believe.
There Is now attending school five
pair OF twins. four pair who do not
attend. making nine pair In the dis
trict.
The Western Slope Fruit Growers
Association. capitalized at 100000.
has been incorporated as the first
step toward combining all the fruit
growing associations In western Colo
rado.
That the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy railroad will begin work on its
Greeley-Hudson line early in January
possibly the second day Of the
months the general belief In rail-
road circles.
With 1900 head Of stock pasturing
in the sand hills" about twenty-five
miles east Of Greeley. Bruce Johnston.
u veteran cattleman. is the only man
in northern Colorado. SO far as known.
who still ranges more than 100 head
Of stock.
New beet contracts for the growers
of the Fort Collins district have been
issued. They provide the same slid
ing scale in force last season but with
an increase OF 12hc per ton for each
additional NJ Of sugar content over
159o. instead Of for each 10 increase
under the present contract.
Following the lines of the latest
discovery in medical science Greeley
physicians have made a cancer vac.
cine to be used in the case of q pa
tient operated on there in hope of pre-.
venting a recurrence Of the disease.
II successful. they will continue their
work OH a large scale.
Colorado railroads just now are pre-
pairing to issue the annual passes for
1911. and 1t is one Of the biggest jobs
Of the year. 1t Is stated that the Colo.
RADIO & Southern. the Denver & Rio
Grande and other Colorado roads. will
issue each In the neighborhood of
about 5000 or 1000 annual passes.
The highest honors which have
ever been accorded a live stock man