The Dolores star., 1902-02-28
COLORADO BRIEFS.

State Game Commissioner Harris has
ordered about fifty MongOlian pheas-
ants. which lie will distribute in sew
eral of the southern counties.
The railroads will make rate OF one
iare for the round trip for the encamp-
ment Of the G. A. r.. Department Of
colorado and Wyoming, to be held mt
Rocky Ford next June.
The school census for 1901 shows
l62.lIS children of school age in the
state. Or that number, 81 1856 are boys
ana SO,S42 are girls. There are 365
men and 1878 women teachers.
The Montcalm sapitarium of Mani
tou. Roman Catholic institution, has
just received n gift of 81 600 from Gen
eral w. ]. Palmer, the money to be
applied to the debt of the institution.
Farmers living on Beaver creek, be-
tween Florence and Pueblo, tell of
large mountain lion which has been
lurking In the hills of that neIghbor-
hood. Several unsuccessful attempts
to kill the beast have been made by
the farmers.
Congressman Bell has introduced a
Dill for the relief of o. l.. Noland of
Mancos. Colo. providing for payment
or $1,000 being the value of stock
Killed and stolen by the Navajo and
Ute Indians and belonging to Noland
between 1887 and 1892.
The home of the Misses Burns, SIS
tiers of James +. Burns. president of
the Portland Mining company, at Colo
RADIO Springs, was entered by burglars
on the night of the 10th inst, and
silverware, jewelry and other valuable
property taken to the amount of 81 ,2OG
worth.
X. 1nge and J. +. Anderson, who
have been prospecting for ccal about
thirty miles south of La Junta, have
found two veins, one five feet and the
other seven feet in thickness. This has
coused quite stir here and other par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
The following postmasters have been
commissioners: William II. Davis. Flor
ence; William V. Roberts, Fort Col
lins; Richard G. Dalton, La Junta;
Daniel l.. Cooper Lamar; Homer II.
Grafton, Manitou: james b. Johnson,
Montrose; James w. Long. Ouray: Lii.
bic Herman, Elizabeth; Carl FELTON,,
Swandyke.
The contract for the new passenger
and freight depot at Loveland has been
let and work will proceed at once.
The present depot building will be torn
down and new switches placed where
1t now stands. The new depot will he
placed on the east side of the track
next to the business blocks between
Fourth and Fifth streets.
Congressman Bell has filed with the
pOstoffice department an application
for rural delivery route from Paonia
to Hotchkiss. This route, as stated,
is about six miles long, and the petition
contained the signatures of about 1OC
people living along it. Judge Bell re
quested that an inspector be sent out
as soon as possible to locate the same.
Colorado Springs has just completed
thl. donation of 40.000,O0O gallons of
water to the town of Victor. but reports
state that that district has barely
enough water to last for another month.
Another gift of water will probably
be necessary. Colorado Springs is pre-
pared to give 35.O00O0O gallons more,
| when further steps would necessitate
additional action by the City Council
Harry u. Zimmerman of Colorado
! Springs. who ranked first in the re-
| cent examination for the West Point
cadetship. has received instructions
from Washington to report at Fort LO-
gan on May 1st for physical examina-
ton. Mr.. Zimmerman is n nephew of
Captain j. NJ. Johnson, an attorney of
the Springs. Captain Johnson is a West
Point man and served in the Civil
War.
Petitions have been reaching Wash
ington from the citizens of Florence,
asking the Postotfice Department to in
terfcre in the matter of the removal
Of the Florence postoffice. 1t is claimed
the postmaster has located it in an in
accessible part of the town. The de-
partment informed Senator Teller that
the protests came too late, that per-
mission had been given the postmas-
ter to establish his office where he has
and that the case would not be re-
opened.
The biennial reports of the state au-
litor, which is now being prepared,
will show that there are 14,2S6, All
acres of agricultural and grazing land
In the state valued at $:jO. .3S1 ,6SS. The
classifications are as follows: Agricul-
tural land, 3255. .1O7 acres, valued at
S3O,971 ,4OS; grazing land. 1O,S6S,290
acres. valued at $14,S47, 400; coal lands,
1853 800 acres, valued at 4,542,S79. The
returns made by the assessors in the
fifty-seven counties of the state show
that there are coal deposits in nineteen
counties.
At its meeting in Pueblo February
10Th, the Retail Grocers and Butchers
Association of Colorado elected the fol
lowing named officers: George N. Ord
way Of Denver, president; J. A. Gal
brnith of Fort Collins, first vice presi-
dent; ]. II. Gardner of Victor, second
vice president; w. F. HaZen Of Law
son, third vice president; A. p. Nelson
Of Canon City. fourth vice president;
G. v. Richards of Denver, secretary;
W. G. Wilson of Greeley. treasurer
The next meeting will be Mt Denver, in
January next.
The Denver News correspondent
says that Claude Hamilton Welton,
who has been styled the ''hobO" cor
respondent of the London Spectator
has been In Pueblo for six weeks past
collecting material for articles to his
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