The Dolores star., 1903-10-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

from the top OF the range oh 'he -
line to the company's offices In the Ma
jestic building at Denver. Inc ie"s'"
of the line is sixty miles
ID. II. Moffat emphatically denies the
rumor that his line is in some way 10
be connected with the Western Pacinc
railway project. He has no thought
of any extension beyond Salt Lake.
Allen b. Seaman, a prominent attor-
ney of Denver, died of heart diseasc
on the night of Sept. oath. He went
to bed apparently in his usual heai'h
and was found dead in the morning.
Edwin ]. Eaton of Colorado Springs
has been appointed by Governor Pea
BODY as trustee Of the State Home
for the Deaf and Blind. He takes the
place of w. G. Rice. recently deceased.
John Crump, a negro who claimed to
be 1O4 years old. died at the Denver
county poor farm ard was buried un-
der the auspices of the G. A. r.. Octo-
ber LIST. He was in the service at Mo-
bile.
Miss Alfreda Stebbins. late OF Lin
coin. Nebraska, has been elected IL
brarian at Fort Collins. She Is an ex-
perienced librarian, having taken
regular course in library work in Phii-
adelphia.
BY the caving in of the earthen rooL
of house eight miles east of Aguilar.
"a short time since, Elferino Agnllar.
aged 13, was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The boy
died from suffocation.
A commission appointed by Mayor
lv,-t,, B., ely in l.
eating titles to land along Cherry
creek. 1t is proposed to wall the banks
and construct boulevard along at
least one of the walls.
Mrs Samuel E. Ward of Boston, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. X. II.
Whitley, in Boulder, September 3oth
Mrs. Ward, formerly Miss Lillian Ty-
Ter, was the first woman graduate OF
the University of Colorado.
C. NJ. Bader, formerly an oil pro-
moter and real estate man. was de-
clared insane by a jury in the County
Court at Boulder, October I'd. AT times
Bader has been so irrational as TO
threaten to shoot people.
William F. Wallace and Lawrence
P. korr have been appointed
rural letter carriers at Rocky Ford.
Colorado, to begin service November
I'd. and Mabel Wallace and Jennie
Korr are named as substitutes.
During the month of August twenty
three men were enlisted for the reg,i-
lar army in Denver and seventy-six
rejected. At Pueblo eight were en-
listed and forty-two rejected, and at
Trinidad three were enlisted and
twenty-three rejected.
James Hugo. foreman of the Mar
tells & Mcdonald gang of graders on
the Moffat road, while Mt work about
six miles northwest of Marshall, Sep
tember Both, was killed by falling
rock from a blast, having failed to go
far enough away for safety.
The Live Stock Company, corpo-
ration, has sold its ranch lands, six
miles northwest of Fort Collins. to S.
H. Clammer and John Schwartz. The
total embraces 1900 acres of pasture.
meadow and cultivated land, carrying
water rights for all the meadow and
cultivated land.
Word was received few days ago
at the Denver Office oil the Santa Fe
line that four new 143-ton engines were
on their way to Denver for service be-
tween Denver and Palmer Lake. The
new engines will pull seven coaches
up the grade there at the rate Of fifty
miles an hour.
Loveland calls attention to the fact
that the foundations are being laid fol
two large business BLOCKS, new
church building and u $1,000 residence
within the radius of less than two
ha Nll ho1 10 hot
torn down and plans are being pre-
pared for new one.
The Democratic judicial district con
vention at Colorado Springs nominated
c. L. McKesson for district Judge b,
acclamation and unanimously adopted
the report of the committee on resolu
tions condemning Governor Peabod,
for his action in sending the troops tt
the Cripple Creek district.
Ray r. Jackson. employed in tn,
wire mill of the c. F. & l. compan,
at Pueblo. died September 29th on hi
I nineteenth birthday, of injuries re
ceived by contact with the machinery
He was graduate of the Colorad,
Springs high school, his father being J
M. Jackson, former treasurer of e
,Paso county.
Father ]. H. Malone left Denver Oc
tober I'd on trip of investigation II
the different penal and charitable insti
tutions of the state. Father Malone i
a member of the State Board of Char
tiles and Correction, and it is in con
! nection with this that he makes tn
trip. He arranged to visit the stat
penitentiary, the state reformatorIe
and the insane asylum before return
| ing.
The following well-known men O
Colorado Springs have been appointe,
appraisers by Judge J. A. Elstun I,
determine valuations in the Strattoy
estate. E. l.. Della Vergne and Ed
ward Samuel Johnson, for the mines
| for real estate, Charles T. Fritz and L
c. Perkins; street railway, w. A. Oti
Philip Benjamin Stewart; househol,
goods, ]. l. Franklin and c. W. Fair
ley.
Union Depot Agent Carroll at Greele
says that at least 5000 cars will be re