The silver star., 1900-12-14
COLORADO NOTES.

PagOsa Springs over the k1o drunuc'
Pagosa & Northern new line.
The dairy stables of ID. J. Horkan az
Leadville were burned on the 0tn INST.
and thlrty-seven cows burned 10 oeatn'
The receipts Of the Pueblo Demo
cratic county committee We're $6,1Ol'oO'
of which amount the candidates con-
tributed $3,69s.25.
The Lincoln county report to the SEC
retary Of state shows that only three
people received assistance from tue
county In the past twelve MONTHS cos'-
Ing the commissioners $240.39.
Judge Charles Wright, formerly at
torney general of Colorado, died at
1uscon, Arizona. of appendicitis, after
a short illness. Mr.. Wright was at
torney general of Colorado In 1879 ana
1880.
+. A. Falkenburg head consul OF the
western jurisdiction of the Woodmen
of the World, has taken $4,000 to Cal
weston, Texas. donated by jurisdiction
for distribution among the storm SUI
ferers.
In the District Court Mt Telluride
Angelo Silver. convicted of assault
with intent to kill, was sentenced by
Judge Stevens to the penitentiary for
term of not less than three nor more
than five years.
Engineer John II. McCune of Denver
was knocked off the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special, fast Union Pacific train,
near Atwood, December 4th, by mail
crane. His injuries are considered
likely to prove fatal.
The Democratic state central COM
mittee reports that Its receipts during
the last campaign were S16,265 and Its
expenditures SIG, 80. leaving ball
ance In the treasury of SI3.15. Cover
nor-Elect Orman contributed $1,000.
The Colorado Il Canadian Valley
railroad is proposed new Cripple
Creek road. The line may be built
from Cripple Greek to a point on the
Red river, near the mouth Of the Wa
shita river The headquarters Of the
company are In FL Reno, Oklahoma.
Governor G. S. Thomas is one Of the
owners of a coal mine in southern Col
orado. The property is near the sta
tion of Pryor, on the line of the Colo
RADIO & Southern. between Walsenburg
and Trinidad. Coal men predict n good
shipper when the mine is fully opened.
The corner stone of the new First
Presbyterian church at Canon City
was laid December 9Th. The building
will be Of white stone and will cost
about 100000. 1t will have Sunday
school rooms, n reception room, dining
room and kitchen of the most modern
and cOmmodlous style.
The contract for the new Carnegie
library at Grand Junction has been let
to j. Il. Stull for $i.69G. 1t will be
erected on n lot belonging to the Wo-
mans club, on Seventh street, and will
bc-o.' .~icJ'- and stone and fireproof. The
building VII. started ~ a,-ojifisccc once Iin.s is
to be completed Aprh 1st.
Calvin Mortimer Of walsenburg,
Colorado, was sentenced 10 the peniten-
tiary for two years by Judge Mills Mt
Las Vegas. for taking $3.50 from a
gambling table and sticking It In his
own pockets. He was also sentenced
to one year In the county jail for con-
tempt OF court. Mortimer had just
served term in the pen.
I. II. RObeson, manager OF the Peli-
can, Dives. 7:3O and Bismarck mines,
as has been his custom for several
years past, gave to each employe on
the mine turkey for Thanksgiving.
Two hundred and twenty turkeys
were distributed. amounting In the ag-
gregate to over 5000 pounds.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will send IA stockmen's special train to
the National Cattlemen's convention In
Salt Lake. The train will leave Den
yer at $50 the morning of January
18th, and will arrive in Salt Lake Mt
1:3O O'clock the next afternoon. The
fare will be S1S for the round trip.
The epidemic of typhoid fever In
Fort Collins as appreclnbly abnting.
But few new cases have btcn report
ed during the last week and many of
those attacked with the disease Mt the
outbreak have passed the critical stage
and are c0nvalescIng. Up to this time
there have been but four fatal cases,
two Of them being nonresident college
students. The other two were resident
school children.
DIR. COltman, pastor OF the First
Presbyterian church Of In Juntn, re-
ceived message from his son, Robert
COltinnn, Jr., at san Francisco. stat
Ing that he and his wife and six chill.
dren had just arrived from Pekln. Chi.
na, and that they would leave there
December 11th for In .Iunta. The doc
tor and his wife are ovcrjoycd at the
thought that their children nre safe In
Christian lnnd.
At Its meeting In Santa Fe. Decem-
ber 9th. the Court OF Private Land
Claims approved the corrected survey
Of the Arroyo HondO grant In Taos
county. II was claimed for 23.OOO
acres by Julinn Martinez ct nj. and In
confirmed for 20.G20.3S acres II is 10
Gated near AinIzett. An order Of the
court was entered amending the decree
OF the confirmation nf the Mcsiila col.
ony grant NO M TO define the bounda-
rien.
The Oldest mnn In the state died Mt
Denver. December 9th. at the age OF
1O8 years and 4 months. His nnme
was Adna Adams Treat nnd he resided
with his s0n.In-Iaw. DIR. n. q. Burn.
ham. Hind Mr.. Trent lived seventeen
days longer he would have extended
Into three centuries Al the time Of
the Teinplnr cOnclnvc In 1SO2 many
prominent MnnOnn Wcrc nrls4sute1i 10