The Dolores star., 1902-09-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.

prices.
A football game IL to be played on
October 4th on the Boulder grounds
between the State University I'D the
University OF Nebraska.
The Republicans have nominated w.
3. WINERY OF Lake City for float rep
resentaive from the district compris-
ing Mineral and Hinsdale counties.
The newspaper artists of Denver will
give an exhibition Of original drawings
during the week of October 18th. Near
ly one thousand drawings will be dis
played.
At Grand Junction on the 11th inst.
c. w. Hon died from the effects Of in
iuries received two days previous by
accidentally riding his bicycle over u
bigh embankment.
! The Prohibitionists of Weld county
have nominated Robert Steele and
Mrs. A Putnam for the state Legis-
ature. Only four towns in the county
have licensed saloons.
In the joint Republican senatorial
convention of Pueblo. Teller and Fire.
mont counties. held at Canon City.
Louis Campbell of Cripple Creek was
nominated for float senator.
1t is probable that the Colorado and
Wyoming delegation to the National
Encampment of the G. A. X. In WASH
ington will make another effort to bring
the encampment to Denver in 1903.
James II. Peabody. Republican can
didate for governor, with his wife and
daughter, has engaged rooms at the
New Adams hotel in Denver. He will
remain in Denver during the campaign.
1 ,,ty, af l,rr bnr
Of the late Mrs. Charles Fair, has pur-
chased the J. b. Teagarden home on
University hill, In Boulder, one of the
part of the city.
| A dynamite bomb made of piece OF
gas pipe was found few days ago In
the Presbyterian church Mt Boulder by
Edwin Baker, the janitor, who lost the
fore finger OF his left hand in investi
eating the strange apparatus.
W. II. Montgomery has resigned the
office of president of the Incorporated
trades assembly of Denver on account
of his having become a candidate for
the state Legislature from Arapahoe
county on the Republican ticket.
A homing pigeon liberated in Dem
yer by c. NJ. Day of the Adams Ex-
|
reached Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, on
the morning of September 3rd. having
made the trip in twenty-five days.
James A. semple. formerly promi-
nent railroad man, died in Denver
September 18th at the age of seventy
seven years. He was the father OF
Frank B. Semple, city passenger agent
of the Denver Il Rio Grande railroad
! in Denver.
The city officials of Denver have
again moved into the city hall, which
Las been repaired, remodeled and
greatly improved since the big fire of
several months ago. 1t Is no more
like the old building than parlor is
like pig sty.
The Socialists of Mesa county have
nominated the following ticket: Sem
ator, c. p. McCary; representative,
Matt Flynne; county commissioner, L.
NJ. Todd; surveyor, G. f. Daugherty;
justice of the peace. James IL. John
son; constable, Murray COrver.
The trustees of the State School of
Mines met at Golden and passed reso-
lutiOns deploring the death of w. S.
Stratton, formerly u member of the
board, whose beneficence fipds exhibi-
tiOn in various departments of the in
stitution and who gave 1t at one time
$4,000.
Dennis Nolan, aged twenty-seven,
was killed by blast in the G. +. II.
mine at Orient near Villa Grove, Sep
| tember nth. Nolan set Off three shots,
two of which exploded, and he went in
to the shaft and brushed up the fuse
on the third when it went off, killing
him instantly.
| A peach weighing only one ounce less
than pound, raised by II. S. Earling-
house of Canon City, was exhibited in
Denver few days ago by j. p. Far
| mer, president of the Fremont County
| Fruit Growers Association, and at
tracted much attention. 1t measured
twelve and one-half inches in circum-
ference.
The Masonic grand lodge at its meet
ing in Denver elected the following Off.
GERS: Marshall II. Deane of Glenwood
Springs, grand master; James II. Kill
lian, Denver, deputy grand master;
George L. Cooper, Amethyst, senior
| grand warden; Darius A. Barton, Den
yer. grand treasurer; William d. Todd,
Denver, grand secretary.
The surveyors of the Denver & Rio
Grande in the field between Palmer
Lake and Hustled, distance of twelve
miles, have not yet completed their
work but Manager Herbert is said to
be of the opinion that the grade of sew
enty-five feet to the mile between Che
two places will be reduced and if neces-
sary the entire twelve miles of track
will be built anew.
In the District Court at Denver on
the 18th inst, Edgar H. Neff, formerly
cashier Of the Union Pacific freight
depot, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary by Judge Carpenter for from
two to five years for embezzling $3.50
from the railroad company. Neff
claimed that he felt justified In taking
the money because he believed it to
be due him for extra work.
Joseph A. Holmes, chief of the de-.
partment of mines and metallurgy Of
the st. Louis worlds fair, while in
Denver recently, said: I'm all matters
pertaining to gold deposits and gold
mining, and in the treatment of gold
| OrpR COlOradO's QYhthit af tho o,,i,t