The Dolores star., 1902-05-30
COLORADO BRIEFS.

near Rangely in Rio Blanco county by
July
Bcllamy Storcr, United States min
lister TO Spain. has given $1,000 to the
Glockner sanitarium at Colorado
Springs.
President Frank Adams of the Den
YER Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously i'll for some time,
is reported to be slowly recovering.
The Pueblo Elks' Building Associa-
tlon has been organized for the pur-
pose of acquiring real estate and build
ing lodge room for the Elks of Pu-
eblo.
Postmaster L. G. Dana of Colorado
| Springs has received notice from Wash
| ington that his request for four extra
clerks during the summer season would
be allowed.
Civil service examinations will be
held in Aspen and Fort Collins on May
2Sth for the purpose of filling the posi-
tons of clerk and letter carrier in those
places.
A district convention of the Wood
men of the, World will be held at Flor
| cnce June 18th ut which delegates will
be elected to the state camp ut Cripple
Creek in August
Gen. w. J. Palmer has presented four
| fine deer to the geological collection of
the City park in Denver. They We're
taken from his grounds at Glen Eyrie
near Colorado Springs
The spring races of the Colorado
State Fair Association will be held at
Pueblo June Sd 10 9th. Many of the
| fastest horses in the West are entered
for the different events.
There will be civil service exam
! ination held mt Denver on June 18th
+, and 18th for the purpose of filling the
position of medical inspector and ply
sician n the Philippine service.
Twenty-three young men and one
| young woman We're graduated on the
| 10Th inst. by the Colorado College of
Dental Surgery. which is the dental
department of the University of Den
| Yer.
1t is stated that John Heating, super
intendent of the public schools of dis
trict No. 20, Pueblo. could have sue
ceeded Regis Chauvenet ms president
of the School of Mines nj Colleen had
he SO desired.
Harry Niemcyer, n young man who
carried n paper certifying that he was
Il member of the Society of the Army
of Santiago de Cuba, shot himself
through the brain in front of the cap
itol building in Denver OF the 18Th
inst.
The triennial international Sunday
school convention will be held Mt Den
YER June 26th to 30th. Besides dele
gates from all parts of this country,
representatives are expected to be
present from Canada. Mexico Porto
| i,n I'll, q la Inn
The real estate committee of the Pu-
eblo Business Mems Association have
inaugurated a series of weekly lunch
cons at which the business affairs of
the city will be discussed. The lurch-
cons will be given every Wednesday at
the Grand hotel.
The first Japanese to declare in Pu-
eblo county their intentions of becom-
ing citizens of the United States, pre-
sented themselves at the office of the
county clerk few days since and Sc
cured their first papers. They are de-
| scribed as two young and rather pretty
women.
The Santa Fe will put on a new
through Colorado train for daily run,
beginning June 1st. The new train
will be composed of one composite car,
| IL CIdlI tiI. an oDSeTNdllOu tiT, Two
sleepers and diner. The putting on of
! this train Will neceSSitate Il change in
| the time card.
The pay of fifty-four clerks in the
Denver postofticc has been increased
| 500 Il year each. Beginning July LIST
| Postmaster TwOmbly is authorized to
place on the pay rolls at a salary of
5000 each seven additional clerks. Oc-
tOber 1st he is authorized TO appoint
six additional clerks ut the same salary.
John Baumgardner, and old time
| Leadville proSpector, was found dead
| in his cabin. eight miles north of Lead
vile, Il few days ago. He had plenty
of provisions and it is thought that he
became suddenly i'll and was unable to
summon help. He had been dead for
some time, and his large dog was
found n short distance from the cabin
nearly starved.
A Grand Junction dispatch of MAY
10Th to the Denver News says: The
| wool clip of the Clark flock was load
| ed to-day for shipment to st. Louis
Forty-two hundred sheep yielded 5O,-
600 pounds of wool and the price paid
is said to be 13 cents per pound. Clark
~ Son will ship their sheep to the
range in Gunnson county for the sum
! mer III IL lew days.
A roundup OF wild horses has been
in progress on Wolf creek, Crooked
! Wash and Blue mountain by horsemen
| from Rio Blanco and Routt counties.
1t Is very exciting sport and many fine
animals have been captured. These
| wild horses have been troublesome to
stockmen, as they entice away tame
stock, hold down the springs and
water holes and run cattle off the
| ranges.
Dispatches received in Denver state
that the prospects are much better for
a large crop of grain. alfalfa and corn |
than ever before in the history of east. |
ern Colorado. The abundant rains have
made everything in vegetation grow