The Dolores star., 1902-08-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The first crate Of Rock Ford canta-
loupes this season appeared on the
Denver market August 5th.
A Rocky Ford couple have given up
the idea of n runaway marriage be-
cause this Ia the cantaloupe season.
The lawyers of Ouray beat the doc
tors and druggists in a baseball game
on the 7th inst. by score of 20 to 10.
The joint ticket agencies Mt Denver.
Colorado Springs and Pueblo estimate
there are 27.OOO tourists now in the
state.
About 100 members of the Tennessee
Press Association will arrive in Den
yer, August 14th and make n trip into
the mountains.
The Hotel Ryan. at Gilman. and the
office of the Gilman Water Company
were burned August 7th. There was
no insurance.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany's power house at the Crested
Butte mine was burned on the MORN
ing of August Bird.
j. Wallace Gum has resigned the pas
torate of St Pauls Episcopal church
at Florence. and on September 1st will
take up work in the city of Ouray.
On August 18th 1,5OO tickets were
stamped at the Colorado Springs offices
Of the Western Passenger Association.
The previous record for day was
1000.
Secretary of State Mills is already
preparing certificates of election and
also blanks for the submission of the
constitutional amendments at the COM
ing fall election.
Great preparations are being made
for Watermelon Day at Rocky Ford
September 4th. Arrangements have
already been made for eight npecial
trains on the Santa Fe.
The Normal institute of the Fifth
district began n two weeks session at
Colorado Springs, August 4th. The
district embraces Teller. Douglas, Ell
Paso and Elbert counties.
The forest fire at Aliens park has
been extinguished. Appraised II. A.
Wells and nine men. assisted by the
weather, put out the flames. The
method used was back-firing.
William Coyne. who died at Helena.
Montana. a few days ago. was one of
the first printers on the Rocky Noun
tain News in Denver when the paper
was founded by William \. Byers.
Willard l.. Ames, formerly assessor
of Arapahoe county, died at Denver
on the 9th inst. from appendicitis. AS
assessor Mr.. Ames made a state repu-
tation for fearlessness and efficiency.
While Colorado Fuel and Iron oili
cials We're debating the propriety of
down their c0king plant for
want of water. word was received that
the employees We're drowned out and
had to fly for their lives.
Grant Upton of Hygiene. aged about
thirty-five, who was declared insane
in Boulder county and taken to DIR.
Works private asylum at Pueblo, Sun
day, died there August 4th. He leaves
Il wife and two small children.
1t is estimated that the recent storms
in the southern part of the state have
damaged the railroads to the extent
of $150,00O: the Rio Grande loss ap-
100000; that of the San
ia Fe S3S,000, and that of the Midland
$12, 1000.
A village improvement society has
been organized at Glen Park and Pal
mer Lake. Special attention will r
given to preserving the natural beau
ties of the two resorts and prizes will
be awarded for the most attractive
premises.
Brooding over the death of her
adopted son, who was murdered by an
man on the plains south of
Durango last September. Mrs. Laura
E. Ehrenfeld of Colorado Springs has
become insane and was ordered to be
sent to the Woodcraft sanatorium at
Pueblo.
AS n dance was in progress at Bal
ley, Platte canon, on the night of Au-
gust End, Il meteor was discovered
about l o'clock in the eastern part of
the sky. 1t was like one grand illu-
minatiOn and the rare beauty of the
scene stopped the dancing until it had
passed.
In Difference to the difficulties that
tenderfeet have in pronouncing names
derived from the Spanish. the Santa
Fe railway has ordered that in all its
signs and advertising the word ''can-
on shall be spelled canyon" As for
instance, Canyon City, Cheyenne Can
yon, etc.
Appraisers Toombs and Jamison are
preparing u contour Inap OI tue san
Luis valley, showing the agricultural
sections of the valley and irrigation
and drainage conditions. They have
recently completed a full investigation
of the valley with respect to these
matters and the map will be valua.
BILE addition to such records.
Terseto Chaves, Mexican sheep
herder in the employ of Felix Chaves
large owner of sheep in Saguache
county, was shot and killed August
2nd by David Tucker, n cowboy en-
ployed as a range rider by Clark Bros
The shooting was done at the Sa
guache big park east of SaguacLe
Tucker surrendered himself to the au
thorities.
Jasper %. Ward, for many years
prominent in public affairs in illinois
and Colorado, died at Denver August
9th at the age of seventy-three years
Mr.. Ward was appointed district attor
ney for the northern district of Illinoi.
by President Grant, and also served
one term in Congress and several years
in the Illinois state Senate. He wa.