The Dolores star., 1901-08-09
COLORADO NOTES.

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q year.
The Pueblo Y NJ. C. A. has added
| fifty members in three weeks since the
| accession of the new secretary, Mr.. e.
W. James.
Contracts are Il be let soon for the
| construction of n new steel bridge
across Clear creek on the Middle Park
road mt Idaho Springs.
The death penalty law went into eff
feet mt midnight August LIST. according
| to an opinion rendered by Assistant
Attorney General George Post.
The total precipitation Mt Denver
during the month of July was one
hundredth of an inch. Hardly cquiva-
lent to moderate fall of dew.
The comptroller of the currency has
extended the corporate existence of
the Western National Bank of Pueblo
Colorado. until the close of business
July 26. 1921.
Delays in the construction of equip
ment for the new telephone exchange
at Colorado City will postpone the
opening for three weeks. About $1,000
Will be expended.
Mrs. j. l.. Brush. aged sixty years,
wife of ex-Lieutenant Governor Brush,
! died July 31st, at the family home in
| had been i'll only a short time.
All the county prisoners have been
| removed from the Cripple Creek city
Jail to the county Jail. The new jail
has capacity TO hold 100 prisoners
and cost Teller county $4,000.
The agent of the state land office
who Went to look after the fire on Mt
Evans telephoned that 1t was eX-
tinguished. 1t is the opinion of state
officials that the rains will put stop
to the fires that have been reported so
frequently of late.
The Reed Investment Company of
Colorado Springs has decided to demol-
ish the old Brunswick hotel building
at Grand Junction and erect on the
site a first-class modern hotel 10 be
called 1.-The Reed" 1t will cost $4,000
and will contain fifty rooms.
On July 9th Mayor West of Pueblo
| ordered the closing of all gambling
houses and the dsuse of all the slot
| machines used for gambling. He said:
Il decided that if gambling could not
be controlled by the authorities, as the
authorities saw fit to control it, the
time had come to close all the gam
bling establishments. The order is
absolute and means not only the
gambling houses, but the policy shops
| as we'll"
The strike of the Denver hod car
riers is declared off. This ends one OF
the longest and most tiercely waged
building strikes that Denver has ever
seen. On June 1st over 500 hod car
riers went out for an increase in
wages. After a protracted discussion
on the night of August LIST, the hod
| carriers voted unanimously to declare
4 g. r.il off pnft Nx-a. tnly
| because the State Board of Arbitra-
ton decided against the strikers.
Leopold Batres, Mexico's greatest
archaeologist, may visit Mancos canon,
Colorado, it is reported. for the pur-
pose of making researches among the
| cli:f dwellerS' ruins, recently brought
into prominence by Mrs. Virginia Nc
Clurg of Colorado Springs. Mr.. Batres
hopes to prove by his investigations
that Mancos valley may have been the
ancient Huetlapalla of the Toltecs,
| from which they started on their
southern pilgrimage to populate the
l~nd of Anahuac
Mrs. Jane Fish, who figured in one
of tie most sensational murder trials
this state has ever experienced, was
locked up in Denver n few days ago on
! the charge of disturbance. Mrs. Fish
band, Gaylord Fish. at Georgetown,
December Z, 1897. Her present trouble
was brought about by n quarrel with
Raymond kircher, her granddaugh-
ter's husband, with whom she has
| been living, and whom she accuses of
shooting at her. 1t is n very unsavory
family quarrel.
| George Fravert of Rifle recently
brought down to Game Commissioner
Harris at Denver five mountain sheep
heads, taken from the store of Cross
Il Baker at Glenwood Springs. They
belonged to John MOrine of Capitol
creek, near Aspen, and We're placed
where Mr.. Fravert found them by AL
bert Morine. He was arrested and
fined $1O1.5O. The heads are now at
1416 Fifteenth St, Denver, and will be
sold to the highest bidder August 10Th,
Sealed bids will be received by Com
missioner Harris.
| Secretary Stonaker of ;a:e State
Board of Charities and Correction is
said to be opposed to Ralph Fields
methods at the Brightside School for
Boys, near Denver. Under the law the
state board has no power to act, but
Will do everything it can to see that
the matter is brought to the attention
OF the public. At the next meeting of
the board the home will be brought up
Tor discussion and some action be TAX
en-. AT one time the home housed sew
enty boys. but now there are said TO
be less than twenty-five there.
The Elks' street fair at Colorado
Springs was formally opened on july
10Th by parade of 500 preceded by
the Colorado Midland band, Just re-
turned from Milwaukee. The princjpal
streets We're traversed, after which the
procession wound its way toward the
brilliantly lighted booths and tents he.
ginning at the corner of Cucharras and
Cascade, and extending for many
blocks south. At least fifty of the 10.
cal merchants were represented at tbe
booths, many handsomely decorated
spaces being in evidence, and the Mid
way was another center of attraction.
What is feared to be an incipIent