The Ordway new era., 1922-12-15
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

vice president of the Western Onlot
Telegraph system, died at the GreeIe,
hospital of peritonitis. Mr.. Fashbaugl
had undergone an operation for the
disease.
Denver.-permanen appointment OF
Mai. l.. d. Blauvelt as state highway
engineer and of Roland q. Parvin as
state game and fish commissioner was
announced in an executive order is
sued by Governor Shoup.
Denver-SmallpoN is likely to con
tinue in Denver unless larger per-
centage of the city's population is vac
cinated, Mayor Bailey declared in
statement to the public. The mayor
has appealed TO all citizens who have
not been vaccinated to be vaccinated
ut once, so that the disease may be
prevented from spreading further.
Colorado Springs-Fire destroyed
the Lake George hotel, a twenty-room
frame structure ut Lake George, TWEEN
ty-five miles northwest of Colorado
Springs. few days ago. The blaze,
believed by some Lake George resi-
dents to be of incendiary origin, start
| ed in an oil-Soaked shed adjoining the
west part of the hotel, which was IN
| occupied except for two state rangers,
vino used the place for headquarters.
Boulder.-AIrs. Margaret Whiteley
! EIellems, - years old, wife of Fred Il.
| Il. Hellems, dean of the college of lib
eral arts of the University of Colorado,
was instantly killed near the GoOdriew
school on the Arapahoe road, six miles
east of Boulder. when the automobile
IN which she was riding with her hus-
band was struck broadside by a car
driven by Celeste Romano, proprietor
of u pool hall in Louisville.
Trinidad Ernest Hobbs, Il coal
miner Of Wulsenburg, one of four per
sons seriously injured when two auto
mobiles crashed on the North and
South highway near Trinidad, died at
the hospital. Hobbs sustained Il trac-
ture OF the skull and other injuries.
John Gonzales, one of the injured, is
in a critical condition with fractured
skull, also Ernest HiIl. The fourth
person in the crash was Miss Iva Sem
lar, less seriously Injured.
Canon City.-The southern Colorado
older boys conference, attended by
nearly 200 boys from various cities and
towns in southern Colorado closed ut
Canon City few days ago. Among
the places represented by groups of
Springs, Las Animas, Rocky Ford,
Manzanola, Ordway, Trinidad, Salida,
Walsenburg, Primero, Berwind, Flor
ence, Rockvale and Penrose. Colorado
Springs and Pueblo each have thirty
delegates, and Walsenburg twenty.
Boulder-Grower of corn about
Longmont are expected to have one of
the largest displays at the annual seed
show In Boulder to open Dec. s under
the auspices OF the Boulder county
farm bureau TT its annual conference.
The Longmonters have made special
ty of Minnesota No. 13, one of the va
rieties that Is considered leader in
the corn crops of the country. So well
have the Colorado men developed this
variety that seed from LOngmont is
sent to all parts of the United States.
Pueblo.-So poor that sne did not
leave enough money to provide her de-
cent burial, Mrs. Carrie Reidmiller, 75,
whose fortune once was rated at $780,
600, died at Pueblo in her little hut be-
meath the west end of the First street
bridge. Mrs. Reidmiller was born in
Austria, Oct. 2, 1S47. Her first hus-
band was a prominent surgeon of vi
emma. In 1886 he died and the widow
came to New York. Thence she went
| West to Pueblo, and from there to
| Creede, Colo, as the first white woman
TO set foot in the little pioneer mining
camp. Creedes first hotel was opened
| by Mrs. Reidmillero
La Junta.-Lying in the back seat OF
wrecked automobile, wrapped Sc
cureiy in robes and blankets, Il man
believed to be Z. l.. Bennett was found
a few days ago. Cuts and swellings on
the mans head indicated he had been
the victim of an assault and the theory
is that his assailants wrecked the car
by driving it into Il tree as a blind.
Boulder.-Work of installing a $780,
100 organ in Macky auditorium, Uni
versity of Colorado, began recently, in
charge of Frank j. Steele of Boston
Mass. Two carloads of the organ have
already been received and two more
are expected before the first of the
year. The organ is to be ready for the
oratorio, 1.-The Elijah," which is to be
Jung by the Boulder Choral Union tht
latter part of January.
Denver.-A charge of high explosive
believed to be dynamite, wrecked the
ront part of the home of q. I.alistrerl
1902 Navajo street, in what police be
/, lieve to be bombing plot. In addi
! tlon to tearing off the front porch o
BaliStreri'S home and hlnWinr out al