The Dolores star., 1902-09-12
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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days.
Duck hunters from Denver and other
| large towns can now be found at about
| every lake In the state.
Seventy five cars of cantaloupes were
shipped from Rocky Ford on the first
/ two days OF September.
A good deal of damage was done in
| the vicinity Of Fowler by n severe hail
storm on the night Of August 3lst.
The Denver theater on Curtis street
has been renovated and remodeled and
will hereafter be known as the Curtis
| theater.
A party of Rio Granhe engineers are
making n new survey for the line OF
that road between Palmer Lake and
Monument
1t Is stated In Denver that ex-Presi-
dent Edward Boyce of the Miners fed
GRAFTON will make Denver his perma-
nent home.
Professors d. ]. Griffith of Ames Col
leHe, Iowa. will act as coach for the Ag-
ricultural College football team at Fort
Collins this year.
Boulder business men have inaugur-
ated crusade against street fakirs
who make a market-piace of the prin-
cipal streets of the city.
Large forest fires are constantly in
sight from Denver and it seems as il
the foothills of the Eastern range
must soon be entirely bare of timber.
A party of scientists have been max
ing Il survey of the large glacier on
Arapahoe peak in Boulder county and
will later publish a full description Of
it.
The football team of Colorado College
at Colorado Springs has begun practice.
1t is reported that the University of
Denver will also have u team in the
field.
The Otero oil well near Boulder was
shot on September 1st with sixty quarts
of ntroglycerine. Oil rose TO within $50
feet of the surface. Indicating valu-
able well.
Denver fans stoutly assert that the
, Denver baseball team Will again win
the Western League pennant, though
beginning its series of home games at
fourth place.
The Gates system of mercantile
houses, creameries and cheese factories.
has inaugurated 100 miles of barbed
wire fence telephone line on the Divide
east of Palmer Lake.
Several strings of cow-ponies have
been attracted by the large purses of
fered by the Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo September 10Th to Goth. and the
relay races promise to be the best ever
held in the state.
1t seems likely that the new Lead
vile electric power anu railroad scheme
will be carried through. The company
proposes to build railroad connecting
the mines and smelters of the district
and to furnish power to mining plants.
W. w Price of Colorado Springs and
Webb Jay of Denver drove fiftcen-
horsepower automobile from Colorado
Springs to Buena Vista in nine hours
on August 31st. but Were delayed be-
tween Buena Vista and Leadville by
the illness of Mr.. Jay.
The August report of the sales of the
United States land office Mt Denver Is
as follows: Total receipts from sales,
4S.0OO.55; the fees of the office, 81 ,G0O.-
O5, total of SOL 10000. This is an in
crease of S1,GO0OO compared with the
corresponding month last year.
At Ouray, August Goth, Judge Ste
vens in chambers heard a petition for
an injunction from citizens of Grand
Junction asking that the school board
be restrained from selling bonds issued
, for building new school houses. The
petition was denied. District Attorney
McMullin and Attorney Caswell repre-
sented the board.
John Drager, an old settler in the VI
cinty of Fort Collins, was instantly
killed September LIST by an explosion
of the boiler of a threshing machine en-
cine. His son, Arthur Diager, was at
the same time seriously injured. The
machine belonged to William Foy and
was at work on Parker's ranch four
miles south of Fort Collins.
Secretary Gilbert McClurg of the Col
oradO Springs Chamber of Commerce,
who has recently returned from n two
weeks trip through New Mexico, Iowa,
Kansas and Minnesota, reports great
interest in the coming meeting of the
National Irrigation Congress at Colo
RADIO Springs October 9th to 9th. Thom-
! as Il. Walsh, president Of the congress,
| has made generous subscription for
the entertainment of delegates.
| A mass meeting of fruit growers was
held at Grand Junction August Both to
protest against the high rates charged
| by the express companies. AS result
| express rates for fruit shipments from
/ all points in Mesa county have been
reduced by the Wells-Fargo and Rio
/ Grande companies. In carload lots the
price has been reduced from 90 cents
to rs cents, while in 2,5OO-pound ship
| ments it has been reduced to 81.
| The city council of Glenwood Springs
has granted the Denver & Rio Grande
concessions in the way of closing part
/ of the river from Front street in con-
sideration of the building of o. $4,000
depot. This is an improvement greatly
needed, but 1t has been delayed several
years for want of n suitable site. The
new building will be located at the foot
Of Copper avenue, opposite the bath
house and lawns Of the hot springs.
There will be two Peoples Party
conventions in the First congressional
/ district. The committee of which Ste
| phen Il. Pratt is chairman and Mrs. j.
| NJ Callahan sacratopv hoe y..,a1 IA.