The Ordway new era., 1912-04-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
emall Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Idaho Springs is to have new $780,.
900 hotel.
ON Arbor Day over 10000 trees
were planted in Denver.
The President nominated Walter !.
Burke as postmaster at Sterling.
NJ. G. Mckenzie, a rancher of Yuma
county, died at a hospital in Denver.
The work of putting in the new sys-
TEN Of street lighting in Rocky Ford
is under way.
Forty suspects arrested in conec.
tion with the Globe Express robbery
at Grand Junction have been released.
Plans are being made for the install.
lation OF an automobile truck service
between Collbran and Grand Junction
John Hofmund, a pioneer Of Love.
land fwas found dead in bed. He was
sixty.fiHe and died from heart disease.
The Woodmen of the World held a
largely attended smoker in Rocky
Ford recently. Several OF the state OF.
ficers were present.
Subscriptions to date to the Com.
merce Investment Company for the re-
lief OF the destitute farmers OF East
ern Colorado total sS.2G1.50.
Fred Schaeffeldein. miner. was
killed In Il cave.in in the entry OF ths
Henrietta mine on Battle mountain
near Red cliff
Work on the excavation and founda'
tion Of the new opera house at Idaho
Springs is progressing rapidly with
big force OF men and teams.
The Senate public buildings commit.
tee reported favorably Senator Gug.
genheim's bill appropriating 10000
for public building site at Monte Vista.
Fruit prospects In the Canon City
district wcr never better at this sea
son OF the year. Every indication
points to a bumper crop OF practically
all kinds OF fruit.
DR.. Oliver Ebert. one OF the most
prominent physicians OF Mesa county.
was found dead on his homestead
twenty.sevcn miles southeast OF Grand
Junction by cowboys.
w. II. Edwards and Frank Rolf were
arrested and are being held In con.
ncction with the murder OF Jim War
ford, whose body was found recently
on Battle mountain. Cripple Creek.
e. l.. Brown. vice president and
general manager OF the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. has been elected to
the direc,o crate Of that company. sue.
ceeding Howard Gould. resigned.
With 5000 acres pledged for bcets
growing. m Independent sugar fac
tory probably will be established IN
the Greeley district. Tho proposed fac.
tory will cost $l.0O0.0Oo.
The opening OF 10000 acres Of rich
farming land on the Fort Lewis mes,
ncnr Durango. recently, caused nc
rush of homcscckcrs as the govern
ment had not advertised tho opening.
Because she refused to permit 4
tramp to rob the store OF which she
was in sole charge. Mrs. John l. Puck
cit was probably fatally beaten with
steve poker by n tramp at Nyburs'
fourteen miles east Of Pueblo.
Former County Commissioner r. W
DE- vinny OF Greeley. who recently
pleaded guilty to the charge Of mai
feasancc in office. was fined 5000 and
costs. the maximum. by District Judgr
Graham.
Solicitors for packing company
who have been canvasslng the Der
,houd district for acreage for the grow
Ing ot peas have contracted for 800
acres enough to insure the erection oi
hullinR plan; for that town.
That the National Guard Of Colora
do has been ordered to mobilize and
be in readiness to respond immediate
iy to orders expected from the War
Department at Washington Is the sub
stance Of reports current in Denver.
Th" City Council OF Colorado Springs
will Join with FL Paso and Otero ccun'
IT., 5 and the school districts In the two
counties in their fight to compel the
Santa Fe railroad to pay the tax as
srss,.d against It by the State Board OF
Equalization.
10, Gland feeders have received th.
highest price ever paid. It Is said. for
COW in the Denver market. Al Cox
of l.oveland got II. Cows fed In his
lots It the sugar factory sold at $G.3''
per hundred, averaging LIES pounds
each
Th" federal authorities have jus,
brought about the arrest Of N. +. and
l.. \ Hill-known rs g. /. Lee & Co.
In Salida. Colo. They are charged
with using the mails to sell marked
card loaded dice. "holdou,s" and
waved palms."
D"nvcr IL to be the gathering place
duri, the next few weeks Of member
Gl the Industrial Workers of tho
World who are bound for San Diego
10 AXE hand in the war being