The Dolores star., 1903-12-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Boulder December 18th at the age oil
seventy-three years
The Boulder Chautauqua manage
rlent has fixed upon July ZSd as en-
perance Day" and viii engage Johh W.
| Woolley as orator for the OCCASION
The returns show that ex-Gov.
Charles s. Thomas received the great
est number OF votes OF any OF the can
didates at the recent Denver charter
I election.
William Miller, youth OF seventeen,
! sat on a keg of powder to smoke MS
/ pipe in the Tynon coal mine. near ERE.
| He was blown UP, but came down
| again, and 1t is thought that ne Will
/ recover.
Edward Dale. one OF the pioneers OF
Leadyille. died OF pneumonia on the
| 18th inst. Mr. Dale served two terms
as county clerk OF Lake county and was
widely known in business and political
| circles.
Brigadier General Merriam, retired.
who is well known in Colorado from
| having been stationed several years
at Denver. is again in the state on
visit to his daughter. who lives IN
Denver.
| left foot and leg torn of by the chain
of coal-cutting machine in the Simp-
son mine at Lafayette and was taken TO
the university hospital at Boulder on
| the 11th inst.
The walls of a large apartment
/ house in Denver are being constructed
of cement blocks. which. it is claimed
by the builders, are a cheaper build
! ing materia! than stone or brick and II
every way as good.
| The detention home in Denver LOT
| juvenile delinquents is now in oper-
alton. the first installment Of five boys
having been sent 10 the home by Judge
Lindsey on the 18th inst. 1t preserves
| the boys from Jail associations,
Tho caucuses of the Democratic and
| Republican delegates to the second
| Denver charter convention met on the
| 18th inst. and agreed upon the Rev.
| Charles II. Marshall. pastor OF st.
Barnabas Episcopal church, for presl-
dent OF the convention.
The two colored companies recruited
| for the National Guard at Denver were
not mustered in December l4th, as had
been arranged When they discovered
that it was the purpose of the govern
| or to appoint white officers the men
declined to proceed with Che muster.
The Board of Head Managers of the
Woodmen of the World have invested
$50 900 of their surplus funds in Sort
| Collins water works bonds and S32,
900 in Montrose county refunding
bonds, making a total bond investment
on account OF equalization funds of
100000.
/ rT-t. r-rrs
has finished paying for the November
| delivery OF beets. the total disburse
ment being S235,0 This sum, added
| to sl35.000 paid out for October de-
| livery, makes total of 100000 dis
| Dursed this year to beet-growers by the
| company.
At a meeting of the State Board of
Pharmacists December 11th and 18th.
the following passed as registered
| pharmacists: Abraham Bresler. Den
yer; ]. f. Burns, Denver F. B. Davies,
Pueblo; Frank Dunkle Denver; Walter
II. Kimlin. Denver; Loyal H. Nudge.
Denver; Folke w. Sefverin, Pueblo,
and Claude Watthall, Sterling.
General Manager J. A. Edison, of the
Rio Grande, has addressed letter to
| SECRETARY Palmer, of the Pueblo Busi-
ness Mems Association, in which he
states that it will be impossible to re-
establish the daily passenger service
in western and southwestern Colorado.
The cause is stated to be reduced rev.
| enue on account of the strikes.
1t is said to have been decided that
the cruiser Denver will be ordered to
Galveston as soon as practicable after
| being placed in commission late in the
month, and the date for the presenta-
tion of the silver service will be fixed
| for late in February or early in March,
| Efforts will be made to arrange large
excursion from Denver for the occa-
sion.
In the District Court at Leadville
Howard Fisher and John Knapp were
sentenced to nine and half years,
in the penitentiary for the burglary
of the Blackhawk stables, and to life
| Impeachment for the murder of Oscar
Boegel, the hot tamale man The life
Imprisonment will take effect imme-
diately after the burglary sentence is
completed.
Robert f. Bell of Denver, who is
raising funds for home for consump.
| tive actors, has received commupica-
tions from Colorado Springs and from
places in Arizona and New Mexico
asking that the institution be located
there. Colorado Springs has offered to
donate site for the building and in.
Inmates that it might add gift of
money. Letters from the other towns
mention many inducements.
c. Fl. Prince. Carbondale carpenter
who went to California about a wear
ago, committed suicide at Los Angeles
December 18th by turning on the gas
in his room. The act is supposed to
have been due to fit of despondency.
He left note for his wife, who, with
four small children. is living in Car
bondale, requesting her not to let the
children know how he died.
In the District Court at Glenwood
Springs December 14th William Ohler
recently convicted of criminal assault
was denied new trial and sentenced