The Dolores star., 1902-06-13
COLORADO BPIE FS.

confined to his bed
The National Bee Keepers Associn-
ton will meet nj Denver SEPTEMBER I'd
for a three-days' session.
The publishers of the new Denver
directory. just out estimate the popu-
lation of the city ut 49,, 152.
The strike in the La Plata coal fields
| was declared Off by the miners at q
mass meeting held at Durango June
End.
| Denver is proud of the fact that
there is no smallpox in the city and
very few cases of diphtheria or scarlet
feve.
| A moving picture of the Denver fire
| department making its best time on n
| run down Sixteenth street was taken
few days ago.
The large grand stand at Chutes
park in Denver was burned on the
| night of June 4th. 1t cost 5000 and
WAS not insured.
w. S. Stratton has about completed
| all his street ear extensions at Colo
! RADIO Springs and will now inaugurate
| n system of transfers.
On June 3rd the Agricultural college
| cadets from Fort Collins went into
camp at Poudre canon for weeks
drill. About 40 men We're in line for
| the march,
Postmaster Moorhead of Boulder re-
ports an increase of siNty-nine per
| cent. in the business of the postoiiice
for May over what it was last year
| for the same month.
The tillablc land that remains open
| for location in Rio Blanco county con-
sists principally of large tracts that
will require long bitches. There is
| good opening for companies or colonies.
l.. II. Dillon of Fort Worth, Texas,
recently. caught trout in the Platte
river at Bailcy's that measured sew
entccn and onc-half inches in length
and weighed six and onc-half pounds.
The session of the grand jury in the
| Gabrin poisoning case ut Denver still
drags its slow length along. Detective
Carberry has brought Mrs Van
Fossem. the nurse, back from Idaho to
testify.
| Ex-Governor John l.. Routt has re-
| turned 10 Denver with his daughter,
| after two-years' sojourn in Paris.
| H0 says that Denver looks dirty com
pared with the clean streets of the
| French metropolis.
Charles Hussey. Il. l.. Morgan and r.
Blake, charged with the murder of
Oscar Noegel mt Leadville a few
months since. We're tried and acquitted
May 29th. the prosecution failing to
make case against them.
C. A. Walker, who shot and killed
Jay Taylor at boarding house near
Leadville in April, was tried in the
District Court and found not guilty.
The quarrel was about n young lady
and Taylor was the attacking party.
The salary of the postmaster at La
Junta has been increased from $1,000
to $1,000; Montrose has been increased
from S1,7OO to S1,S00. James Young
has been appointed postmaster mt Alt
man. w. IL. Hcrsum has been appoint
! ed postmaster at Olathe.'
Three students were graduated from
the State School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs on the Sd
inst. The graduates are Frank Il. Sew
ern of Durango from the department
of the blind. and Frank G. Horton and
Edna Drumm of Denver from the deaf
department.
Diplomas were granted to 2S6 grad
yates from four high schools in the
city of Denver on Thursday. June 9th,
as follows: District No. l EAST Den
verJ, 10; District No. = West Den
ver), &c; District No. II (North Den
ver). 62; Manual Training high school,
District No. l, As.
Postofiice Inspectors Fredericks
and Small We're in Florence Il few days
ago and arranged for the establish
mcnt of free mail delivery service to
commence October LIST. The Blunt
block is being remodeled for the re
moval of the postotfice, which will oc-
cur about July 1st.
Charles Lundberg died at the Sisters
hospital in Cripple Creek May 10Th Of
pneumonia. He was one of the famous
rock drilling team of Lundberg and
Lindquist, who hold the championship
of the world. Lundberg had only re-
Gently returned from ii trip through
Arizona and New Mexico. where he
and his partner competed against all
comers.
President Slocum of Colorado Col
iege. who has been spending year
in Europe for travel and study, is now
at the University of oxford in Eng
land. After spending the fall and
winter in Italy and Greece. he went to
|
sity and will complete the summer
term at oxford before sailing for
America.
The graduating class in the regular
course at the Colorado Agricultural
College this year numbered fourteen.
They were given their diplomas on
commencement day. June Ind, as fol-
lows: Ladies' course, Misses Lorna
Annis, AdJie Bristol VIII! elmina
Douglas, Nelie Iillgore. Olive l..
Sheldon, Eleanor Tomlih; agricultural
course, H. j. Faulkner. i. c. Bishop,
Estes p. lay or; mechanical course,
Ernest Graves; civil and irrigation en-
g'necring. Orc McDermith, Oliver Pen
mock, Robert Richardson, Harry True.
Miss Helen McFadden was given n
. certificate for special work in the de-
partment of domestic science. being