The Dolores star., 1902-02-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Rev. Charles s. Olmstead has formal
iy accepted the election as bishop coad-
1utor of Colorado.
A handsome new church was dedicat-
ed by the Presbyterians at Canon City
on the 18th. 1t cost about $4,000.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Edwin Price to be
postmaster at Grand Junction, Colo
rado. and the nomination was con-
firmed.
Local parties are to erect n big pa
vilion at Idaho Springs near the hot
springs. They will provide attractions
In the way Of music and entertain
ments for tourists.
! William Brinkley of Fort Morgan
| was found dead in his barn the other
day, supposedly having committed sui
eide after quarreling with his wife.
The coroner is investigating.
The city of Florence has let the con-
tract to Bert Gardner for the construc-
tion of new city reservoir. The con-
tract price is $4,000 and the work must
be finished by the middle of May.
| Another man has been arrested. sus-
pected of the murder of Harold Frid-
born. He was captured thirty miles
northwest of Fort Collins. When ar
rested he tried to shoot the officers and
then wounded himself.
| IL. 1nge and ]. +. Anderson, who
/, have been prospecting for coal about
thirty miles south of La JInta, have
found two veins, one five feet and the
other seven feet in thickness. This has
coused quite n stir here and other par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
A board Of officers. consisting of Ma
Jors Il. b. Mosely. A. c. Sharpe, j. A.
Irons and Captains p G. Wales and +.
j. Herman, Second infantry, with Cap
tain ii. s. Whipple as recorder, has
been appointed to meet In Denver for
examination of officers ordered before
| 1t for promotion. Second Lieutenant
| Haywood Robbins, Fifteenth infantry,
has been ordered before the board.
| The local union at Erie of the United
Mine Workers of America has posted a
notice of special meeting for the pur-
pose of initiating all non-union miners
now at work in the mines of that camp.
This is to give the non-union men a
chance to join before February 1st, as
| after that date the union will demand
| of the operators that none but union
men be employed.
The Grand Junction postoffice was
robbed recently by Night Clerk Eu-
| gene Phillips. About $50 in stamps
and SO in cash was taken. Phillips,
| who has lived there for the last eight
| years and has been well thought of,
confessed that he committed the rob
berry, breaking the window and rifing
! the mail pouch to give the appearance
of a theft committed by an outsider.
Arthur F. Francis, secretary Of the
Cripple Creek Chamber of Commerce,
has received letter from President
| Trumbull of the Colorado & Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis
played in the building of the cutoff
from Denver to Cripple Creek. Mr..
| Trumbull assured the secretary that
| undoubtedly the road would be built
| in the near future.
The Denver police no longer suspect
that Tomasso Minci. who was captured
in the hills north of Fort Collins last
week by Detectives Sanders and Car
berry, is the murderer of Harold Frid-
born. They are satisfied that Minci
was In Central City, his home, on New
Years eve. the time of the murder, and
that he is demented. Minci, as soon as
! he RECEIVERS, probably will be turned
over to the authorities of Gilpin county.
For the second time within four
| months triplets have been born in Pu-
eblo county. On the 9th Mrs. Rosario
Mestas gave birth to three sons, whose
combined weight is twenty-one pounds.
She is the wife of an employe of the
Philadelphia smelter and lives at Salt
Creek, n Mexican settlement within
short distance of Pueblo. The little
fellows are all well formed and
healthy, and the mother is reported to
be doing well.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county will join the commissioners of
Arapahoe county in the investigation
of affairs at the State Industrial School
for Girls, and before the matter is final
ly disposed of other counties in the
state will take n hand in the investiga-
tion. it is said. The Pueblo county
commissioners visited the Arapahoe
county commissioners yesterday morn
ing and stated their belief that their
county had been charged for mainte-
nance not only of girls who had long
since left the home, but for some Of the
same girls for whom Arapahoe had
Deeu paying.
General passenger agents of the
Transmissouri lines, aided by the Rio
Grande system, are outlining plan
which they hope will draw added traf-
fic to Colorado. The plan is said to be
that originated by John Sebastian Of
the Rock Island. and in furtherance of
it. Mr.. Sebastian recently went to
Denver where conference took piece.
1t is proposed to establish a bureau to
disseminate information relating to the
attractions Colorado offers to campers,
show the cost of an outing Of this char
acter, the places in Colorado adapted
to it and similar Information. Last
year there were $4,000 tourists who
visited Colorado, and 1t is expected
that fully 75,OOO will go the coming
season. During 1898 there were only
1000 visitors.
An explosion of a water pipe in W.
D. Wilson's kitchen at Loveland COM
pletely demolished the kitchen range