The Dolores star., 1903-01-02
COLORADO BRIEFS

Inc cOuIteeNtu OeueIdi hssSAnoAy "a
Colorado convenes January 7th.
The care Of the poor. eighteen In
number cost Montrose county $2,257.30
in 1902.
Great preparations are being made In
Denver for the inauguration OF Gov
ernor Peabody January 18th.
Secretary OF State Mills on Christ
mas Eve received gold headed cane
from the employees of his Office.
Gunnison county spent S4.762.9o IN
1902 in caring for forty-four poor per-
sons. twenty of whom were women.
John w. Quick. proprietor Of Pu-
eblo livery stable, committed suicide on
the morning of December 9th by
shooting himself through the head.
The Colorado Worlds Fair board
still adheres to its plan of erecting a
permanent Colorado building on the
grounds of the st. Louis exposition
On the preliminary hearing of Byron
and Joe Hun at Gunnison. December
oath. on the charge of cattle stealing.
they were bound over for trial in the
Circuit Court.
Work is being pushed on tie new
reservoir for Central City and 1t VIII
probably be completed within the next
ninety days. II will store about L.
100000 gallons.
In Denver. few days ago. Fred
Whitner put 81 900 in bank bins in his
watch pocket and started out to con-
clude the purchase of saloon. when
he arrived at the saloon the money
had disappeared.
Governor-elect Peabody has an
nounced that he will appoint John
Cleghorn to be warden of the state
Penitentiary upon the expiration OF
the term of Warden Martin next
March
Lottie Du Pell. described as beauti-
iul French girl. seventeen years of age.
committed suicide at Victor December
9th by taking carbolic acid. Her
mother committed suicide in the same
manner six months ago.
William Griffith. Christian Science
practitioner of Denver, has filed $40
claim against the Stratton estate for
eight weeks treatment given the late
millionaire in Colorado Springs last
January and February.
Dr. Henry H. Howland tifty-three
years of age. shot himself in the bar
afternoon of December 9th. The cause
of his suicide appears to have been de-
spondency occasioned by i'll health.
A regular meeting of the Lincoln
County Cattle Growers is called to meet
in Hugo January 7th and the sheep
growers association will meet the fol-
lowing day at the same place. Dele
gates to the national will be selected at
the same time.
Il. Il. Johnson, who froze his feet
and ears on the night of December
18th while walking from Montezuma
to Breckenridge, was found by jury
to be of unsound mind and ordered by
the court to be committed to the in
sane asylum at Pueblo.
After being lost in the mountains
for thirty-six hours during terrific
snowstorm Rev. E. o. Butler. pastor
of the Baptist Church of Saguache,
was found on December 10th by people
in search of him. He was on horse
back and spent one night in a deserted
sheepherder's cabin.
Lawrence c. Phipps during his brief
residence in Denver has made two
large and unsolicited gifts to the char
ity organization. A Christmas gift to
the poor of 81 900 was the second con-
tribution received by Mrs. Izetta
George. secretary OF the organization.
Mr.. Phipps gave to the organization
81 900 shortly after he came to Dem
yer.
John Singer, veteran of the Civil
War, poisoned himself and his aged
wife with strychnine at Denver on
Christmas day. After their death a
letter was found in which Singer states
that he committed the deed because he
and his wife were worn out and unable
to work hard. The two are said to
have left property valued at about $12,-
900.
There was light vote cast in Golden
at the special election December 9th
on the proposition of bonding tine city
for 100000 for a gravity system of
water works The bond issue carried
by ninety-five majority The total vote
cast was POS. At previous election
the proposition carried but a defect in
the ordinance necessitated reelection
to satisfy purchasers of the bonds.
The Continental Fuel Company has
been organized and filed its incorpora-
tion papers. The incorporators are
John w. Springer, president of the Ma
tioDal Live Stock Association; Wilson
B. Reid and Hugh Alexander, all OF
Denver. The capital of the company
is 100000. and it is to buy coal lands
and operate coal mines in Boulder,
'Arapahoe, Huerfano, Gunnison, Weld
and Las Animas counties.
Commissioner-in-C Chief Thatcher of
the worlds fair board has received a
telegram from the authorities at st.
Louis informing him that the grounds
and buildings committee of the exposi-
tion has received copy of the ordi-
nance drafted by the mayor of st.
Louis to cover the location of a per-
manent Colorado building in Forest
park, and that there is no objection on
the part of the commission to the erec-
tion of a permanent building.
The Lamar Beet Sugar COMPANY
has filed its incorporation papers with
the secretary of state. The canital