The Dolores star., 1902-01-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.

n fre III tue FlTSt Methouis1 ShuiNh
at Canon City OH the morning of Jan.
uAry 4th, injured the new organ ana
occasioned some $1,000 damage.
james Smith, who had his leg cut
off In railway accident at Divide
January 9Th. died at the Sisters nos
pital in Cripple Creek the next day.
No one knew where the man belonged.
The Colorado Fuel & iron Company
paid S1,OO0.0OO in wages In 1901. ana
turned out n product. including 4,'fa,
$50 tons OF coal and 5i.14O tons OF
coke, of about thirteen million dollars.
]. S. Teaukenburg of Boulder has
begun final survey of the new rail
road from Lovcland TO Berthoud by
way of Hillsboro which Will be built
in time for marketing this years beet
crop.
Tie President has sent to the Senate
the nominations of the following Colo
RADIO postmasters: l.. c. Dana Mt Colo
RADIO Springs, Il. =. Quaintance at
Golden and Homer II. Grafton ut Man.
itou.
The State Fair Association at Pueb-
10 has selected its date for June race
meet. The first week in June has been
decided upon, inasmuch rs that date
will not conflict with any other organ
izatlon in the state.
The Denver Bricklaycrs' Union an
uounces that all its demands for the
coming year have been complied with.
They will work throughout the year
eight hours n day, the wage schedule
being 50.
J. NJ, Current of Denver committed
suicide at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
on the 9th inst. by taking morphine.
The act is attributed to business troll
bles and despondcncy. He leaves
wife and four children, from seven to
fifteen years of age, in Denver.
Civil service examinations for de-
partmental positions will be held mt
Denver, March. 31st and April I'D;
Pueblo. April 10Th and 22d: Trinidad.
April 2Jth; Glenwood Springs, April
I'd: Grand Junction, April 22d; Albu-
querque. April 22d and 23d; Cheyenne.
April 21st and 22d, and Laramie, April
10th.
At special meeting of the Victor
common council the contract for the
Bison Park water reservoir site was
ratified and completed. The total pur-
chase price for the property is 3d.
T09,2S. The property is now owned by
the city, and as soon as practicable
will be improved by the erection of a
tirst-class dam.
The county commissioners of III
Paso county have decided to change
and shorten the county road between
Monument and Palmer Lake. The
change will cost $500. and cuts one
mile off the present four miles, and
changes the thoroughfare to the west
instead of the east side of the tracks,
making more pleasant drive.
The board of education of F,cfence,
in conjunction with the teachers, is
arranging to give the school children
of the district an opportunity to see
the many wonderful experiments that
can be carried on by means of liquid
air. They have secured Professor ii.
n. Hanaford of the Boston School of
Science to work the experiments.
The Oakes home for consumptives in
Denver is to be enlarged by the ercc-
tion of detached cottage to cost S3O,-
600. The money has been donated by
Charles l.. Adams Of Chicago, with
the understanding that the addition be
called 1.-THE Mrs. Charles l.. Adams
Memorial House." 1t is to be built in
memory of his wife, on land adjoining
the home.
On the 9th inst w. L. Dowery was
appointed assignee of the Colorado
State bank of Grand Junction. j. Il.
Mcfarland, cashier of the bank, is
manager of the Colorado Sugar Man
ufacturing Company, whose obliga-
tions are held to considerable ex-
ton I,,,t
feel assured that the suspension will
be temporary.
Efforts are being made to establish
n day nursery In Denver. The plan is
to hire room near the Tramway loop
on Arapahoe street, where mothers can
leave their children while they go out
to work. The charity organization
will pay the rent of the room and de-
pends on the churches of the city to
contribute the only other expense, the
matron's salary.
Contracts have been signed by the
governing board of the Denver public
library for the purchase of site on
which ultimately large public library
building is to be erected. The ground
is the half block of ground located OH
Colfax avenue between South Fif-
teenth and South Fourteenth streets. a
part of which is occupied by La veta
place. The dimensions of the property
are 320 feet on Colfax and $50 on the
cross streets.
1t is estimated that the value of Ere.
mont county's fruit and garden pro,
duce reached the 100000 mark last
season. A conservative average yalu-
alton of the product Of the orchards
In the county per acre is: Apples. $500:
Strawberries, $3.50; raspberries, $3.50:
cherries, $4OO; grapes, $175; and gar.
den produce, 5000. Exceptional or.
chards yielded over $1,000 per acre.
The seasons output of fruit was large
and ready market was found.
Robert II. Beggs principal of Whit
tier school, has subscribed the first
$4,000 of the 100000 necessary to
pay the debt of Denver university. The
debt is $150,0O0, but Bishop and Mrs.
Warren have promised to contribute
gtl0 llD foxuar rl thic ~, ,..,.