The Dolores star., 1904-01-22
COLORADO BRIEFS.

besa discovered on the Arkansas rlyer
I close 10 Florence.
Justice Raby Of CoIorzdo Springs has
| sentenced George Mhltneld. coal
miner. to six months in pail Tor beating
his Eife
Alderman John ornera Of Black
HzSk vas injured ~ an explosion in
the Pet shaft up Silver creek Ca tie
sth inst. and died The next day.
ne officers Of the cadet company Of
the West Denye. High School have
resigned because the school board re-
fused 10 permit them to bold cadets
ball
The Longmont postofice receipts for
1893 reached the $4,000 mark and free
mail delivery VIII bs. iuaugurated after
July /. 1904. vhep the government It's
cal year commences
\ big veil al Gaiien. on the Burling-
ton road. Caged In On the 18th ins:. and
the entire pump house and engine dis
appeared. The well vas twelve feet
square and 300 feet deep.
John Peterson Was killed and Charles
Benson dangerously injured by an eX-
plosign of dynamite which they were
thawing out at the Grant smelter dump
in Denver on the 18th Inst.
J. {. Craig pas reelected president
Of the Denver Citizens Alliance at the
recent annual meeting. The Alliance
has now $500 working members be-
sides many associate members.
The pos;ofige at University Park, in
the suburbs OF Denver, near the Uni
ysrsity Of Denver. has been discontin-
ued and the Park people viii hereafter
rE.a#r .Hff
Dy carrier.
The second smallest baby born in
this state arTiyed'at the home Of Nj.
and Mrs. James W. Graham Of Coal
Creek feT days ago. II weighs just
,7So pounds, but apparently is strong
and healthy,
John F. Shafroth, Jr, son OF Con-
Cressman Shafroth. is about to enter
the preparatory school OF the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He has been student in the East Den
yer high school.
DR.. I, j. Mason the Denver physi-
clan who was found wandering about
the streets Of Julesburg IN an uncon-
scious condition last month. was still
unconscious in St Joseph's hospital at
Denver on the llth inst
Henry Frey, Denver tailor. likes to
be in Jail. Whenever he is discharged
he smashes a window somewhere, so
as 10 be sent back. His last feat was
TO break $3.50 plate glass window in
the Joslin dry goods store.
The Farmer Club of Longmont has
asked the City Council for a franchise
10 run the apparatus for an independ
cnt telephone company in the streets
OF the city. An exchange covering the
city and large farming territory is
proposed.
Arrangements are being made for a
big coyote roundup in the neighbor-
hood Of Evans January 9th. 1t is ex-
pected that upwards OF thousand peo-
pie will cover an area of some fifteen
square miles in a section where coy
otes abound.
Denver newsboys have several times
assaulted congregations of the Pente-
costal Union, called Jumpers" The
boys allege that these religionists
prayed for the death OF Policeman As
kew. who had arrested them. and who
died recently.
In quarrel over a question of rent.
George A. Morrison, owner of Ell Jebel
farm. shot and killed Harvey White at
the ranch owned by Morrison and
leased by White, near Basalt, on the
18th inst. 1t is reported that White had
threatened to kill Morrison.
Jake Zipperian, tried at Durango for
the murder of Matt Luxsinger at Pine
River last November, was found guilty
and sentenced to the penItentiary for
life. Motion for new trial was de-
MED. Fifty days time was allowed the
IL I.fI -
William A. Ellis. formerly night cap
tain at the Canon City penitentiary,
under Governor James Ii. Orman's ad-
ministration and recently member of
the fire department at Pueblo. commit
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid at
a Denver rooming house on the 18th
| inst
J. Rogers, who was arrested at Red
| Cliff under the belief that he was
George Seigrist, wanted in Clear Creek
county as one of the defendants in the
sun and Moon conspiracy case, estab-
| lished his identity and was discharged
| from custody with many apologies for
| the mistake.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
has ratified the action of its advertising
committee in merging the Colorado
| Press Bureau of Information with the
ewly-formed Colorado Bureau of Pub
liclty. which is raising fund Of $25,-
900 to advertise the state at the ST
Louis Exposition.
The supervising architect of the
Treasury Department expects that the
Denver Mint will be turned over to the
| department about July list, when the
| present government assay Office in
! Denver will be moved into it. The
coinage machinery will be exhibited at
the st. Louis Exposition before being
| installed in the mint.
Alexander Bracci. the Italian sculp-
tor who killed John Bogota, a bartend-
er, in front of a Market street saloon
in Denver last November, has been sen
fenced to life imprisonment The case
seems to be hard one, as the quarrel
] appears to have been the rpsuIt nf i.