The Dolores star., 1904-10-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

TWenty-Ave pero0ns nave suhocribo4
500 apiece TO aid IN the building Of .
eaAning factory ct Lovelaud-
SNOWFALL bash In bloom II an
n0unced ~ . remarkable freak ut
Greeley. 6nowballs will soon be in
bloom all over the state.
The members Of the Cripple Greek
Mine Owners association have issued
they intend to reduce wages.
A new banking institution. the
United States National bank. has
been opened In Denver. w. A. Ho-
yer. Wholesale druggist. Ia president.
The First National Bank Of Meeker
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. c. c. rarks. pres-
ident; r. Oldland. vice president, and
e. Il. Fordham, cashier.
F. NJ. Grogan of Pueblo is reported
to have found gold within or near the
city limits and has shown one pan
Of earth containing five colors, a mug
get and several rubies.
Minnie" Hudson, a Pueblo colored
man, known as a successful gambler
and a professional politician. died on
the 18th from the effects OF wounds re-
Seived in a fight in Kansas City several
years ago.
The directors Of the State Fair at
Pueblo will endeavor to have the Leg
'islature come to the aid OF the annual
exhibition. The organization is heavily
in debt because OF bad weather, which
cut down the attendance.
Roy E. Dixon. a school boy eleven
years old, saved the Durango -Silverton
passenger train from being wrecked by
tagging 1t in time to prevent 1t from
striking rock slide near Durango. The
passengers made up purse for him.
The sugar factory at Fort Collins
began operations October 10th. 1t
will keep at work until it has con-
verted the entire seasons crop of
beets tributary to the factory, esti-
mated at 100000 tons, into granuia-
ted sugar.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey has been re-
nominated county judge for the long
term by the Denver Democratic execu-
tive committee. His name will also be
work in the Juvenile court is held to
place the position outside of politics.
1t is stated that Mrs. Ella Perkins.
wife OF steel worker at Pueblo, Is
one Of nine heirs to an estate in Pitts
burg. Pennsylvania. valued at SIS, ,00O.-
600. left by an uncle. Colonel Jacob Ba-
ker. of whom she and the other heirs
had lost sight, who died fifteen years
ago.
The bonds of Frank NJ. Downey, Su-
perintendent Joseph +. Nilsson. melter
and refiner. and A. B. Hodgs0n, as
sayer Of the new mint at Denver. have
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment and approved. 1t Is expected that
the coinage OF gold will begin some
time next spring.
County seat contests are being car
ried on in Eagle county and Arapahoe
county. In the former the fight is be-
tween Eagle and Red Cliff. the present
county seat, and in the latter Littleton.
which become county seat when the
has numerous competitors.
Jackson Solomon, who broke out Of
the penitentiary at Canon City Sep
tember 23rd. was captured on the 18th
inst. at Thatcher. in Las Animas
county, by Dave Brighton. a Santa Fe
switchman. who was looking for car
, thieves. Before Solomon surrendered
he shot Brighton in the arm.
The roads of the Western Passenger
Association have decided to make the
Colorado common points a.i-the-year-
round points instead of summer tourist
points only. Tourist rates will apply
all the year hereafter to Denver. Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo. instead OF
only during the summer months as
heretofore.
Denver on the 18th inst. being the
partment to lose his life from the ef-
fects Of nitric acid fumes inhaled at
the fire in the office of the Denver Post
September goth. Lunt had been dis
charged from the hospital as cured. but
was attacked by pneumonia.
For the first time In the history Of
the Colorado Springs postofice, the
amount Of money order business for
the fiscal year ending September 30,
1904, exceeded the $1.O0O,0OO mark
The amount was $1.01O,786.27. last
years figures being $908.446.05, SO
that gain for the tweleve months
past was $102.340.22.
Fred w. Kohler. prominent Boul-
der county farmer, who had only two
years ago taken up his residence in the
city Of Boulder. committed suicide on
the 18th inst by cutting his throat. Mr..
Kohler was seventy-two years of age
and in prosperous circumstances. His
family relations were also pleasant, SO
that no reason is known why he should
kill himself.
George c. Bachelor. aged ninety,
two years. is believed to be the Oldest
truck gardener in Colorado. During
the summer he did all the work nec-
essary on his little patch in Boulder,
doing the digging, seeding, cultivating
and irrigating without any assistance.
Aside from the early vegetables he
has harvested liberal supply of to-
matoes and 700 head of cabbage.