The Dolores star., 1902-10-31
COLORADO BRIEFS.l

Aoi hiinhB Charies w. Seeley July 6th.
Colorado labor organizations are
sending large sums of money to Penn
syivania to aid the strikers.
Fanny Smith. dance hall girl at
Cripple Creek. attempted suicide Friday
night by taking carbolic acid.
The Colorado Baptist state conven-
uon opened the convention proper in
Denver at the Calvary Baptist church
last night.
William Mitchell was yesterday
knocked from the Rio Grande bridge
over TETON street in Colorado Springs
and will die.
Ground was broken in Denver Sum
day for the Catholic cathedral, which.
when completed. will be one of the
finest church edifices in the West.
l.. F. Woodruff has been chosen
marshal of the town of Loveland. The
ONCE was declared vacant about two
weeks ago. The former marshal was
r. d. J. Sivyer.
The controversy between the execu-
tors and administrators of the Stratton
estate was continued in the District
Court at Colorado Springs until 9
O'Clock Saturday morning.
s. l. Hallet. who was elected senator
from Pitkin county two years ago. and
who soon afterward removed to San
Juan county, has been prevailed upon
10 withdraw his resignation as senator.
The mystery surrounding the corpse.
OF the young man discovered on Mon
day near the Melvin-Kendrick ranch,
three miles from Morrison. remains un-
solved. and it is doubtful if the identity
OF the dead man will ever be discov-
cred.
A suit for $4,000 damages has
been filed against the Midland Termi-'
nal Railway by Paris E. Freshour OIL
Cripple Creek. He alleges that April.
23d last his wife Sally was struck
by a Midland Terminal passenger
train and killed at Gillett. and that
the company was criminally respon-'
sible for the death.
Sterling has granted franchise to-
o. P. Sells of Pueblo for the lighting
of all the city by electricity for peri
iod of twenty years. The city will
have ten arc lights placed upon the,
streets at present. and probably a,
number more in the near future, as
the city is growing at rate that will!
soon warrant additional lights.
A large sale of real estate has been
made at Greeley by Herman McKelvy,
secretary of the State Normal School,
who disposed of the Park addition to.
the town of Windsor to Davenport e.
Armstrong The purchasers will
build a large hotel and a number of
residences on this addition. The con-
sideration is not made public.
message from Pearl, North park,
to Coroner Barmer of Fort Collins says
that "Ad" Moore, well known charac-.
ter in North park. was found Friday
morning dead in bed. apparently from
the effects of alcoholism. Justice w.
D. Beckwith of Waldron, who was in
Pearl this morning, made the discov-.
cry. Several years ago Moore killed a.
man in North park, and since drank al:
most necessarily. +
The merchants organization of
Cripple Creek intends to push the;
fight against the exorbitant freight
rates. A meeting will be held in a.
few days and all freighters will bel
asked to join in the combination. Mer-i
chandise can be hauled from Colorado,
Springs to Cripple Creek by freighting
at forty per cent. less than is now be-,
ing charged by the railroads. The
freighters will do their work over the
The corner stone of the Carnegie
public library at Leadville was laid
Saturday under the auspices of the
Masonic lodges of that city. Dr.
Marshall II. Dean, grand master of
the Colorado Lodge, was present. The
Grafton was delivered by John A. Ew-i
ing, ex-grand master. All the letters
which passed between Mr.. Carnegie
and the library committee, together.
with other manuscript in connection
with the new library, and copy OF
the newspapers, were placed in box
and buried beneath the corner stone.,
Coal will be advanced in price in,
Denver on the first of next month by!
most of the retail dealers of that city. /,
Ignite coal, which is being sold at So,
ton by some firms, is almost certain.
to rise in price. The Northern CoaIi
Company has determined to restore,
its former price of $1.95 a ton on lig-t
mite and to add an extra cents toI
this amount, making total of 81 peri
ton. 1t is now selling this coal at;
$1.75, $1.S5 per ton and less. The!
raise will. therefore. be 80 cents or|
more ton at the beginning of No.;
vember. !;
"An amicable understanding has.
been reached between state and fed-i
eral authorities on the Gunnison tun-i
mel project" said photographer A. L.,
Fellows. Surveys have been made
in the Grand river valley and if the
government decides to begin its work,
there. an immense acreage will be af-,
forded for cultivation" Mr.. Fellows.
statement confirms news received from
Delta that committee has been APP
pointed from among the citizens Of
the Uncompahgre valley to cooper
ate with the federal officials. The
committee is non-partisan.
The San Luis valley is soon to have!
an immense group of reservoirs, to bel
constructed by private capital inter-
ested in the lands of the district In!
corporation papers are now being pre-.
pared for heavily stocked company,
which will build dams to store water
on the Mogote and Elk creek reser-
voir sites, west Of Antonito on the
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