The Dolores star., 1902-03-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.

wagonload of hay at Florence and ssis-
tained Il fractured arm and ankle.
j. i. Torrance, an oil man. had his
| right hand badly mashed while in
| stalling pump for the Florence Oil
| Company.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Wagon Wheel Gap hot springs
by GeneraI Palmer. who owns the
property. The old bath house will he
replaced by n modern structure and the
hotel greatly improved.
Herbert Randall. aged nineteen.
while duck shooting In boat near
Golden. picked up his gun with the
mu.zle toward him and slot his right
arm to pieces. The arm was amputat-
ed and he may recover.
Mrs. Mary Gillespie. aged eighty
three. AMI the mother of thirty-seven
children. is in the Denver county hos
pital. She Is said TO be cultured and
digniiied and will not say why none of
her children assists her.
The anna; distribution of trout in
the Platte river has begun. The Colo
RADIO n Southern railroad expects to
place from 100000 to S0O.0o0 eastern
brook, rainbow and native trout in the
Platte within the next six weeks.
In order to do away with the smoke
tourist resorts the Colorado Southern
railroad will use oil as fuel for its To-
comotiycs during the summer and aut-
uInn. 1t will cost more than coal.
Alamosa grew more last year than it
ever did in any one year before, but
1902 will be II record breaker in this
rpSpprt More new hniltiuus are
planned now than there We're last year
at the same scason.-Alamosa Courier.
James Il. Kearns. who was arrested
In Cripple Creek on the charge of the
murder of Martin Gleason. the sUperin-
tendent of the Wild Horse mine on
Bull hill had his bond reduced from
$4,000 10 $1,000 and was released
from jail.
John NJ. Francisco. one of COlorado's
earliest pioneers. died at his home at
La Neta mt the age of eighty-two
years. He was Virginian by birth.
but had lived in Colorado for the last
half century. He built the first house
of any Importance in Pueblo.
The San Miguel mine near Telluride
was visited by two snowslides Thurs
day morning. The damage was scarce
~ T-vV. H. poetiuSeT anu ls'iht Johh-
son We're carried over 1000 feet. One
escaped entirely uHharmed and the
other with bruises and his scalp gone.
In an answer filed in the Denver
District Court by the Supreme Tent
knights of the Maccabees. to the suit
for S5OOOO brought against them by
David Lieberman. who sustained per-
manent injuries while undergoing in
itiation into the order, general denial
| is made.
The union bricklayers OF Florence
have notified the building contractors
| that hereafter they will not work for
less than 50 for an eight-hour shift.
| The union has also passed Il resolution
| imposing fine of So upon any of its
members who patronize n Chinaman,
when there are Americans in the same
| business.
James Owen. who left Ouray Feb
ruary 9th. for the Bob Tail mine. five
miles south of the city. never reached
| the mine, and 1t is feared he was
caught in II storm and perished. He
| had been working on the FL Mahdi for
| two months. The last heard of him
| was near 1ronton. where he procured
Il pair of snow shoes at Rice's cabin.
He has a wife living ON Il ranch near
Durango.
| While attempting to capture Mex
lean fugitive. who, it is alleged. alb
Quoted sixteen-year-old girl. Under
Sheriff l.. NJ. Nreeger fell from San
| Ia Fe passenger train which was mov-
ing at a rate of forty miles an hour.
near Trinidad. He received injuries
about the head and back which will
make 1t impossible for him to leave
his home for many days. The Mex
lean escaped.
The Pueblo city council made appro-
priations for the ensuing fiscal year,
which commences April 1st The to-
| tai is 1887 .JOj. as against S2SS, ,165 for
the preceding year, an increase of $780,
$40. The increase was made necessary
by the growing demands of the city
The new appropriations provide,
among other things. for fire station
| in East Pueblo a city ambulance and
"a street roller and grader.
Plans for an eight-stOry building.
covering five lots at the west corner of
Seventeenth and Curtis streets, Dem
yer. have been prepared for Quincy A.
Shaw, the Boston capitalist who has
|
joining the Quincy building for ST.
900. The pair. together with the three
lots on the corner covered by the
Quincy, which Mr.. Shaw has owned
| for some time, will be the site for the
new structure.
Telluride reports the mysterious dis
! appearance of w. G. Smith. former
shift boss at the Liberty Bell mine.
After the disaster on February 2Sth,
at the mine where he was employed,
he came to town and made arrange
ments to visit his wife at La Junta,
but has not reached there. On the
night Of March 4th he settled his bills
and told the landlord of the Victoria
house to call him in time for the Den
YER train the next morning, and then
started down town. He has not been
heard of or seen since.
Joseph w. Parker. a Cripple Creek
mining man, who was arrested Feb
ruary 22nd by the management of