The Dolores star., 1902-01-03
COLORADO NOTES.

A route has been surveyed for new
county road between Monument anu
Palmer Lake.
The November pny roll OF the Mime
qua steel plant at Pueblo amounted 10
more than $4,000. ,,,
.he Denver Mining Exchange VIII
occupy new quarters in the Equhapie
building after January lst
The nomination of B. @. Fleming
register of the Sterling land office, mas
been confirmed by the Senate
Congressman ShafrOth has intro-
duced bill 90 increase the cost hmi'
Of the Denver mint to $SOO.OOo.
The striking plumbers of Denver ad-
here to their plan of establishing
cooperative plumbing establishment
Senator Teller and Representatives
Bell and Shafroth have decided to re-
main in Washington during the hoh-
days.
| Since the recent railroad tarin war
has got down to business coal nus
sold in Cripple Creek as low as s-'oo
ton.
Milton Hess of Frederickstown, MIS-.
souri,, has been appointed an lndustriai
teacher at the Grand junction lhdian
school.
Edwin b. Potter, aged scventy-four'
n lawyer. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head In Den
yer on Christmas day.
| A heavy wind storm in Buena vista
on the 22nd blew down the telephone
and electric light wires and LETT the
town temporarily In darkness.
Judging by the number of marriage
licenses issued just before Christmas.
Colorado is likely to break the record
for holiday weddings this year.
| The Denver d Northwestern Rail-
way Company proposes to light the
| town of Arvada by electricity as soon
| as the Platte street power house Is put
In operation.
The President has appointed G. b.
Timberlake receiver of public moneys
at Sterling, and =. Hobkirk receiver at
| Del Norte. Both were confirmed by
the Senate.
The carpenters union Of Denver
/ have voted to demand an increase OF
wages on May 1st. The present scale
is Al cents an hour and they will prob
ably make ii 30.
The county clerk Of Pueblo county
granted sixteen marriage licenses the
! day before Christmas. In the much
|
We're issued on the same day.
1t is claimed that no better education
nj program has ever been presented in
the state than that of the Colorado
State Teachers Association in Denver,
December 26th, 9th and 2Sth.
In Boulder county and along the
foothills south hay was uncommonly
active during the big gale of December
23rd. The contents of many haystacks
were scattered far and near.
There have been an unusual number
Of deaths from pneumonia in Denver
recently. People seem to have gone
out without overoats and wraps on
account of the bright weather, which
was much colder than 1t seemed.
Telephone poles are being received at
Alamosa for the new line to connect
A1amosa and Walsenburg. This line
will put Alamosa In telephone connec-
ton with Pueblo. Colorado Springs.
Denver and other eastern and northern
| points.
A large new furnace at the Philadel-
phia smelter, in Pueblo. is practically
completed, making the twelfth of the
new model. 1t is planned to replace all
the small furnaces, one of the new
ones having n capacity equal to two Of
the old.
Robert Haight, seventy-fve years
old, Colorado pioneer, dropped dead
at the headquarters Of the Pioneer So
ciety in the Charles block. Denver, on
the night of Christmas. He had been
playing whist with old friends during
the evening.
The custom house business of Dem
yer Is increasing materially. The re-
ceipts for the last six months of this
| year, December estimated, were $685.
22SS1, an increase Of $25, ,26S32 over
the same period for hst year. The
number of entries were 523, an in
crease of 146
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and the directors Of the Festival Of
Mountain and Plain are planning IN
excursion in January to Ell Paso, Tex
as. to attend the winter carnival which
is held there from the 14th to the 18th.
The Santa Fe road has made a special
rate of $25 for the round trip, and
enough persons will go, 1t is expected,
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide special train.
Flora e. Mcdonald, formerly OF
Georgetown, but who had been In Den
yer for some time, disappeared on
| .sAouuJ' A1SScHpcE @ou, anu was IOunO
dead in the lake at the City park on
Christmas day. Her father, brother
and sisters live in Georgetown and she
had been living with her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. George Dai-
gleish, in Denver. 1t is supposed to be
n case of suicide occasioned by de-
spondency.
A romantic ending to case pending
IN the County Court of Pueblo COMMIT I,
was announced December 28th by the
granting Of marriage license to Hen
ry w. Snider Of Burlington, Iowa, and
Miss lmogene Hopkins, aged nineteen.
Of Carmen, Illinois. Less than week
before Snider was fugitive from fus-
tee, all because Miss Hopkins had
sworn out a warrant charging him
with obtaining from her $1,000 under
| false Dretensps