The Dolores star., 1903-07-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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The Pueblo Normal and Industrial
Institute met June 18th with an At
tendance Of over 100.
The health commissioner OF Denver
| Will have the weeds cut on vacant iots
in the city as a sanitary measure.
Forty-six births were reported In
| Pueblo during the month OF June
| twenty-five boys and twenty-one girls.
The second annual picnic OF the
Fremont County Horticultural Society
was held at Cottonwood Springs, near
Canon City. July 4th.
The Colorado Bar Association. at its
meeting in Colorado Springs. resolved
| in favor of non-partisan nominations
| for Supreme and District Court judges.
Mrs. E. w. Leonard OF Loveland.
who was injured in street car acci-
dent at Las Vegas. New Mexico. few
weeks since. died July I'd at Las Vegas.
Bible Students convention OF Be
levers in the Atonement Sacrifice OF
Christ will be held in the Gettysburg
building in Denver June 10th. 1lth ana
| 18th.
AT Delta July I'd ]. l.. Carlow.
charged with the murder OF NJ. u. Ia
sis at Paonia, was held for trial at
/ the September term of the District
| Court
| The National Building Trades Coun-
| Gil convention will meet in Denver
August 10th for a two-weeks' session.
They will be lavishly entertained by
| the Denver Council.
The Colorado Chautauqua opened at
| Boulder July ith with large attend
| ance. Hon. j. w. Springer of Den
yer was the orator of the day. A grand
+, patriotic concert was given at night.
Harvey w. Green, well known as
soldier printer and newspaper man,
died ut the Old Soldiers Home at Mon
| ,e Vista June 26th He was employed
on the Denver News for thirteen years.
Preston II. Hotchkiss died in Mont
rose June 29th, aged seventy years. Mr.
Hotchkiss was one of the Oldest resi-
dents and his son Berry was the first
white child born in the Uncompahgre
valley.
One hundred and sixty-nine building
! permits were taken out in Denver last
/ month for the erection of buildings that
| will cost in the aggregate $361. .549. The
average cost of eighty-nine dwellings Is
| S2,l0421
The officers and employees of the
| Denver City Tramway Company have
Incorporated beneficiary organization,
the object of which is to provide life
insurance fund for the members and to
pay benefits in case of sickness or acci-
dent.
Mrs. Belle Murray died at the Sis
ters' hospital in Cripple Creek July list
of peritonitis. Mrs. Murray had been
chief operator of the Cripple Creek tel
ephone system for the past five years.
having previously been a resident of
| Denver.
Colorado capitalists have launched
one of the largest immigration projects
of the Louisiana delta. They have ac-
| quired nearly 100000 acres of choice
| timber and cotton lands in Concordia
parish and have organized the Con-
cordia Land Company.
The Western Slope Veterans Asso-
citation closed highly successful three
days reunion at Grand Junction July
ith. resolution was passed making
| all soldiers, sailors and marines of the
| Spanish-American and Philippine wars
also eligible to membership.
At Denver June Both Price Tuttle.
who was learning to run an elevator in
the Ernest & Cranmer building in Den
| yer, lost control of 1t and was badly
crushed, falling three stories and re-
| ceiving injuries that resulted in his
death. He was only seventeen years
old.
At the Canon City penitentiary July
4th. in addition to the pardon of Glib
SON. pardon was given to c. A. Ver-
non. No. 4.697, sent up from FL Paso
county for fourteen years on the
| charge of assault. This pardon was
brought to the prison by Vernon's
sister.
The thirty days of rifle practive re-
quired of the state troops each year be-
gan June 29th. The troops at Denver
will practice at the rifle range near
Golden, which is owned by the state
and rented each year to the govern
ment for the use of the troops at Fort
Logan.
Albion w. Tourgee, author and lee
turer, who was editor of the Denver
Times for few months in 1880 under
Il. w. Woodbury., and who has been
for several years consul at Bordeaux,
in France. has been promoted to the
position of Consul general at Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
Judge j. H. Voorhees, of division A
of the District Court at Pueblo has
ruled that Eads shall still remain the
county seat of Kiowa county For
number of months the residents of
Sheridan Lake have been attempting
to have the county capital removed to
Sheridan Lake.
Mrs. Antoine Kenhan, an old woman
who has lived by peddling and begging
in Denver for the past fifteen years.
was found dead in her bed few days
ago. She had been robbed. bound and
gagged. and evidently died of suffoca-
tion. Her body was not found until two
days after her death.
W. w. Ferguson. curator of the war
relic room in the State house at Denver