The Dolores star., 1901-12-27
COLORADO NOTES.

ton.
BY a quit-claim deed from other heirs.
Admiral Dewey has become the owner
OF lot in Denver.
The November pay roll OF the Mime
qua steel plant at Pueblo amounted to
more than $4,000.
he Denver Mining Exchange will
occupy new quarters in the Equitable
building after January lst.
The nomination of h. G.. Fleming,
register of the Sterling land office. has
been confirmed by the Senate.
Congressman Shafroth has intro
duced a bill 80 increase the cost limit
of the Denver mint TO SS0o.OV.
Extensive improvements, to cost in
the neighborhood of 100000, will be
made in the ID. n X. q. shops at Den
Yer.
Senator Teller and Representatives
Bell and Shafroth have decided to re-
main in Washington during the holi-
days.
\ Washington dispatch says that
Mrs X. r GIbbon. wife of Justice Glib
bon, has been appointed postmistress
of Ward.
Colorado Springs capitalists talk of
building a summer concert hall at La
Nergne. a new suburb just south of
Colorado City.
The Brighton Vegetable Growers
Association has been organized by the
gardeners living in the Platte valley
near Brighton.
Michael Ambro. aged eiGhty-four,
was struck by freight train and in
stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 18th instant.
Holyoke people now hello" on a new
telephone line which they hope TO have
connected with the long distance line
before long.
Hosea Townsend of Colorado has
been reappointed judge of the United
States Court (Southern districp of In
dian Territory.
The City Council of Victor refused
to grant a license for a saloon in the
RichIlieu hotel on account of ii being
close to a church.
Attorney A. b. Mckinley. who was
terribly mangled by street car in
Denver some six weeks ago, is reported
TO be almost we'll again.
Tracklaying on the extension of tho
street car line at Boulder has been be
Tramway company of Denver.
The butchers of Florence have or
ganzed to combat an alleged traffic in
horse flesh, which. it is asserted, is be-
ing sold by peddlers as beef.
The Denver & Northwestern Rail
way Company proposes to light the
town of Arvada by electricity as soon
as the Platte street power house is put
in operation.
The President has appointed c. B.
Timberlake receiver of public moneys
at Sterling, and p Hobkirk receiver at
Del Nore. Both were confirmed by
the Senate.
Judge ]. L. Semmes, adjutant of the
department of Colorado, PatriarchS
Militant, l. o. o. F., died suddenly at
Colorado Springs on the 18th instant
Of heart failure.
1t is claimed that no better education
al program has ever been presented in
the state than that of the Colorado
State Teachers Association in Denver
December Goth, 9th and 2Sth.
The Railway Mems Cooperative
Supply Association will start Coop
erative store in Denver with n cash
capital of $4,000. c, NJ, Hubert is
president of the association.
The enrolment of students at the
State Agricultural College. Fort Col
lins, has reached 42S. This is the larg-
est number registered at single
term in the history of the institution.
Four annual poor reports filed with
the secretary of state are as follows:
Las Animas county, number of poor
helped, 81; cost of maintenance, S592.
Lake, 10; S15.767.47. Kit Carson, 8;
S1,o49.25. Otero, 113, S5,225.26.
Thomas Preston Brooke, a Chicago
man, is said to be planning telescope
that will, he predicts, bring the moon
to an apparent distance of only eight
miles from the earth. He proposes to
build an observatory for it on the top
Of Gray's peak, Colorado.
The purchase of Coliseum hall in
Denver by Patrick II. Gallagher, ath-
letic instructor of the Denver Athletic
Club, gives rise TO the report that 1t
will be maintained as n boxing arena.
but the purchaser says it is acquired
solely for investment purposes.
Lawrence Hex, negro. on trial at
Pueblo for the murder of Lizzie Alley
and william White, both colored, was
found guilty by the jury, who also
agreed upon the death penalty. His
was the first murder trial in the Pueblo
courts since the enactment of the capi-
tai punishment law.
The county clerk of Arapahoe coun-
ty has received the following letter of
inquiry: Mr.. clerk of denver colorado
has thare bin eny lisens ishued to Miss
lola wilson for mariedg If SO please let
me no no she married to have you got
countyes in colorado II so please give
me ther names be tweene denver and
Cheyenne, Wwoming, is tahre Phase
named merakey in your territory,
Please ancer, youres truly Pat viii.
son.
A competitive examination of candi.
dates for the West Point Military
Academy will be held at Colorado
Springs. Colorado. under the supervis.
ion of Professor John DIETRICH on the
10th and 11th of January, 1902. Any