North Park union., 1901-01-18
COLORADO NOTES.

1899.
A Denver man is said to be ut work
on q flying machine to be exhibited at
the next Mountain and Plain festival
1t Is designed to carry seven or eight
| persons.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared twelve and one-half per
| cent dividend in favor of the creditors
| of the insolvent Commercial National
bank of Denver.
On the 9Th inst, Josiah Lee. lead
ing citizen of Brush, acting rs volun-
tary nurse, dropped dead In the pest
house. where he had been nursing a
patient His death Is attributed to
heart disease.
Fleming S. Hover, owner of the Rio
Vista ranch, near Lamar, died at Dem
yer on the 4th inst. He was one OF
the most prominent residents of Prov
ers county, and is credited with having
originated the annual rabbit hunt ut
| Lamar.
At a meeting of the Denver Minis
ters' Alliance. Parson UZZell, of the
noted Peoples Tabernacle, is alleged
to have said: II have raised $4,000
since last April for my church, and
out of that not $500 has been given me
by Christians
John w. Springer, the stock man. has
been arrested in Denver for bringing
horse with docked tail into the
state, an act prohibited by the statute
enacted two years ago. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Springer will contest
the constitutionality of the law.
The coroner's jury in the case OF
Thomas Steward, who was shot and
killed by Charles Thompson at Dun
can: rendered a verdict Of justifiable
homicide Thompson was afterward
acquitted ut his preliminary trial be-
fore Justice Lawrence.
AT Colorado Springs, January 3rd. at
seven O'Clock in the evening. n robbcr
smashed the plate glass window Of II.
L. Kapelke's jewelry store, 100 East
Pixies PEAK avenue, and seized and
carried off two trays of diamond rings
worth about $3.50, escaping with his
plumber.
A movement is on foot to hold auto
mobile races at Overland park. in Den
yer. this year. The Cycling West will
conduct cycle show there next
spring, and it is expected that the in
terest aroused by the exhibition will
result in races arranged by the makers
of rival machines.
The town board of Loveland has de
cded to lay twelve-inch water main
to increase the supply of water made
necessary by the demands of a sugar
factory and increasing population. The
main will make the supply about five
times the capacity of the present wa
| ter works.
/ Hon. L. +. Hobart. receiver of the
land office, received bid from John
| w. Harrison of Glorieta for the dead
and matured timber on the Pecos for
est reserve. the bid averaging about 81
per 1000 feet. A check for S4OO ac-
companied the bid. Being the only
bidder the contract will be given him.
Mrs. Celia Osgood Peterson has
been appointed deputy superintendent
of public instruction, taking the place
made vacant by the resignation Of
Miss Skinner. Mrs. Peterson held the
position in 1899. She is Democrat
and has taught seventeen years in the
Denver public schools.
A compromise has been effected in
the Creole will contest at Los Angeles
by which little Edith Dorothy Creede,
the adopted daughter of the late mil
lionaire, will receive II large part Of
the Inheritance Immediately. without
waiting until she is twenty-five years
of age. as provided in the will.
Miss Julia Dohr is the latest victim
Of Denvcr's mysterious sandbagger,
making the sixth woman he has as
saulted. Miss Dohr. who is an elderly
woman was knocked down while walk
Ing to the house where she is employ
ed, on Ogden street, and thrown into Il
celler excavation. The assault occur
t,,St ft., II, al
the 9th inst. Her injuries are danger
Gus
In the District Court at Denver
Judge Butler has decided in n suit in
volving the assets of the Rocky Noun
| tain Savings bank that the dcpositors
| of savings bank are preferred cred
itors in the priority of distribution of
| any and all assets of such bank that
may be found. He held that others
are simply contract creditors, and OF
dered the assignee to distribute the as
sets in pro rata form among the dcpOs-
itors Of the bank. The assignee has
about $1,000 for distribution.
Senator Teller has reintroduced bills
providing for payment of Il life an
nuity of $500 per annum to Arivclla
ID. Meeker. and also pay to her S9,Ol2
as next of kin to Joseph Meeker, de
ceased, to whom this amount would
be due, If living. Also to pay Mrs.
Sarah II. Dresser S2.433 residue. which
would have been paid her late hus-
band, George Dresser, had he lived I'M
Ill June, 1901. These payments to be
made from the funds belonging to the
confederated bands of Utes
Postoffice Inspector Sullivan at Den
YER has received an official report of
the arrest and preliminary examination
Of Carl w. Downing. clerk in the
postottice Mt Lamar. Colorado. for the
embezZlement of S4G2 in money orders.
Deputy United States Marshal L. III.
Davis made the arrest and Downing
pleaded guilty before Commissioner A
j. Beaumont at Pueblo. His method
was to destroy the application for an
order and forge another for SO less.
His embellishments are said to have
extended back to last February He
furnished $500 bond for his appearance
before the United States District Court
In Denver next April.
Roy Kelly has returned to George
town after an unsuccessful search for
his lost family through Wyoming and
Oregon. Kelly has been assisted by
officers of the different towns along his
route, but no trace of his family, con