The Dolores star., 1902-10-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| the Colorado.
New Mexico fair in Durango were an
immense success.
J. II. Murphy OF Denver has been
elected general consul of the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Fircmen.
Sugar City is arranging for Beet
Sugar Day October 18th. Excursions
will be run from Denver and Pueblo.
The contract for the erection of the
Fort Collins sugar factory has been let
to the kilby Manufacturing Company
Of Cleveland. Ohio.
The great Broncho Busting Contest
Of the Festival OF Mountain and Plain
Committee will be held in Denver on
October 9Th. Sth and 9th.
The automobile of DR.. +. f. Gildea
of Colorado Springs blew up a few
days ago and set fire to the barn In
which it was kept. destroying the barn
and its contents.
The Fort Collins school board has dis.
posed of $4,000 bonds, bearing interest
| at AZ per cent to the First National
Bank of Fort Collins. The money viii
be used for school buildings.
The Loveland beet sugar factory
| opened this seasons work on Septcm-
Der 2Ith. and is expected 10 refine
about 900 tons n day for the next four
months or thereabouts.
/ In return for several street franchises
which il asks, the Denver Tramway
| Company has offered TO contribute
5000 for the Improvement of Congress
! park. in the Capitol Hill district.
The City Council of GoldfiSd has of
! fered n reward of 81 900 for the arrest
and conviction of the party or parties
who murdered City Marshal A. Z. Kate
on the morning of September 2lst.
| William +. Sweet has been chosen by
/ the Christian Endcavorers of Denver
| TO manage the local work in connection
| with the International Christian En-
deayor convention which meets in 1908.
Col. Thomas Holland. who is in
charge of all the Salvation Army colo
MES in the United States, has been es.
pecially delegated by Commander
Booth-Tucker to attend the National lr.
| rigation Congress at Colorado Springs,
October 9th to 9th.
| The latest organizations to he formed
by the students at the State University
| are Alpine clubs, for the purpose OF
making regular and systematic trips
| into the mountains near Boulder This
form of exercise is especially popular
| with the young ladies in the university.
Joseph Dalton, II hodcarried. fell
nearly eighty feet from the top Of the
new building of the Western Packing
Company in Elyria, n suburb of Den
yer, a few days ago, and escaped with
out any broken bones. He is expected
TO get well in short time.
Prof. John Dietrich. superintendent
Of the Colorado Springs schools. and
president of the Colorado State Teach
ers' Association. has succeeded in secur.
| ing the guarantee Of expenses OF the
annual meeting. which will be held in
| Colorado Springs December 22nd, 23rd
and oath.
w. s Coburn of Hotchkiss. president
of the State Board of Agriculture says
Colorado is one of the four states re-
corded this year by the United States
Deyartment of Statistics as having Il
full apple crop of 100 per cent The
other three states are Idaho, California
and Oregon.
''B. Harcourt. justice of the peace at
Fort Morgan, tried man for assault
and battery at Brush. twenty miles
| away. by telephone. received his plea
of guilty and fined him five dollars.
Harcourt may live to be called the man
who made Fort Morgan famous,'- says
a Denver paragrapher.
Gilbert McClurg, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce at Colorado
Springs. who is chairman of the local
committee on arrangements for the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress, to be held
October 9th to 9th has spared no pains
in advertising the gathering and Is as
snred of n large attendance.
Attorney John w. Sleeper Of Colo
RADIO Springs, formerly of Pueblo, has
announced his Intention of going to
| Manila -o laxy A
er is an uncle Of Captain Sleeper, who
went 10 Manila with the First Colo
radO, but for some time has been col
lector of internal revenue for the jnsu-
| lar department
III. A. Shipman, former manager OF
| Stratton's Independence. Limited. will
| go to western Australia to take charge
of the properties of the Cosmopolitan
Proprietary, Limited. The engagement
is for three years and carries salary
of $4,000 for the first year, rising later
to $4,000, together with all travelling
and other expenses.
There was very large attendance
at the Emancipation Day celebration in
Colorado Springs on September 22nd.
There was barbecue in the afternoon
and speeches in the evening by Profess
sor w. III. Jackson, Father Rice and
w. l.. Grant upon Emancipation Day
topics. Mayor Robinson welcomed the
visitors TO the city.
The trustees of the Union Printers
Home at Colorado Springs have decided
to expend approximately $4,000 in i'm
provements TO that institution 1t is
proposed to build an additional story
to the hospital annex, with additions
to the dining room and kitchen. 1t is
also announced that the institution will
hereafter be known as the Union Print.
ers' Home, the change being authorized
by the International Typographical
| Union.
A CHEYENNE correspondent says that
several North Park, Colorado ranch.
men have ordered 100 cars from the
Union Pacific for the shipment Of cat
tie to the eastern markets These ship