The Dolores star., 1901-11-15
COLORADO NOTES.

| w llllam stevens is prcpiiihS w -
tablish n creamery ut Erie. having Sc
cured the promise of good quantity
of milk.
The Denver & Rio Grande freight de-
| pot at Denver viii be enlarged by the
addition of a new two-story bulldihS
4S1 feet long and forty-eight feet wide.
The police court at Loveland heard
complaints against about thirty boys
| for disordcrly conduct on Halloween.
twenty-five We're found guilty ana
each fined 81 and costs.
Sales of tickets during october at
the Union depot in PAcblo amounted
to So .95i. 40, against S21.215.So for the
corresponding period last year, an III
crease of nearly 5000.
The Portland Cement Company has
decided upon n location seven miles
east of Florence. 1t will take four
months to erect the plant, ana when
completed 1t will have a capacity OF
1000 barrels day.
Frederick ii. Morley, Junior member
of the Shields Morley Grocery Com
pany of Colorado Springs, died in fhil-
adclphia November 3rd, of lung dis-
eases His wife, mother and son were
with him at the time of his death
On the evening of October 1st, sixty
servant girls met in the Charles block
in Denver and organized "A union under
n charter from the American Fedcra-
tion of Labor. They will insist on
shorter hours and one day OFF each
| week
| A movement is on foot to build
] strong retaining walls on both sides
of Cherry creek in Denver, the walls
| to extend from ColfaN avenue 10
Arlington Park and to be paid for by
the owners of adjacent real estate that
would be benefited by them
By the ovcrturning of an automobile
near Overland park in Denver on the
7th instant. three ladies received pain
| full injuries. The victims of the acci-
dent were Mrs. n. X. Morris, Miss
Anna Lewis and Miss Julia Campbell.
Fortunately no bones were broken.
Judge w. S. McElroy of Cripple
| Creek, who broke two of his ribs by
| falling over an embankmcnt while
walking fast to catch an electric car ut
Anaconda a few days ago was at
| tackled by pneumonia rs result or
the accident and died on the 9th inst.
Bishop Spalding of the Colorado do
cese of the Episcopal Church has de-
cided that owing to failing health he
| IetuS lllp USSlSIlUce Ol IL toduJulNi
bishop. He has therefore called Il spe-
cial council to meet in Denver January
Sth for the purpose of clecting coad.
jutor bishop and making provision for
his support.
Charles Taylor. said to have been re
Gently released from the Canon City
pentcntiary. was caught n few days
since near Atkins. in Lariincr county,
in the act of criminally assaultins
Pansy Burford, eight years of age. and
| turned over TO the sheriff by Clarence
Smith and William Catlett, who over
powered him after Il hard struggle.
John Brisben Walker. publisher of
the Cosmopolitan magazine, has writ
ten to Mayor Wright of Denver offer
ing to sell to the city what is known
as River Front park. on the Platte riv-
er between that and the Union depot.
He values the property at S1.0O0,00O,
but will donate 100000 of the amount
If his offer is accepted.
President William S. Slocum of Col
orado College at Colorado Springs has
been granted leave of absence for
one year, and will leave Colorado De
cember 10th for n trip abroad that
will continue until next September
Professor Edwin S. Parsons, vice pres
ident of the college, will be in charge
during the absence of DIR. Slocum.
The railroads of the state have
granted special rate of one and one
fifth fare to the annual meeting of
the Colorado State Beekeepers' Asso-
citation and the annual horticultural
convention. Tickets will be sold to
enable the holders to reach Denver on
November 18th or Goth and will he
good three days after the close of each
convention, not counting Sunday.
Copies of the report of the commits
sioner of the general land office for
the year ending June 30 last have been
received at the Pueblo land office and
show that this office has maintained
its place as the office doing the largest
business in the United States During
the tirscal year ended June 30, 1900
the Pueblo land office did twenty-five
per cent. of all the land office business
of the government.
AT meeting held in the office of
Governor Orman n few days ago it
was determined to at once advertise
for forty-acre or smaller tract of
land on which to locate the State
Home for Dependent and Neglected
Children. With the surplus of the
legislative appropriation, estimated at
$1,000, first payment will be made
and the next legislature will be asked
to complete paying for the farm.
The verdict of the coroner's Jury at
Telluride that Investigated the murder
of Norbert Savignac, who was killed |
in his cabin on the night of the 1st |
inst, charged the nephew of the dead |
man. Arsene Latour, who was alone |
in the house with him, with being nc.
cessory to or principal in the murder.
Latour was n witness at the inquest
and Immediately after the return of
the verdict was arrested and placed in |
Jail
The Peoples Bank building at the
corner of Lawrence and Sixteenth |
streets, one of the finest office build |
ings In Denver. has been purchased
from George G. Schleier by Colonel w.
Il. Hughes Charles I Hughes Jr