The Dolores star., 1904-01-29
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Esueolo Jz1a=- I'd a. the age oA e'eh''
years
1t Is expected that the MoHat road
vii be completed To Boulder PARK
( .or1y-aye 1zues from Denver. some
time IL February.
Colorado railroads vii do an extra
( amount OF eastern Advertising this
year. The new No1a. road Will issue
several publications
The county commissioners OF Pueblo
county have voted sIVIo for the pur-
pose OF preparing a marble exhibit to
represent the county al the St Louis
Fair.
{ The Colorado College Of osteopathy
I al Denver has consolidated with the
American School OF osteopathy at
I KirEyiiie Missouri. and viii be moved
20 that place.
The Denver Choral Society, under the
I direction OF Professors Houseley and
] Thomas. is arranging two choruses OF
{ 80 voices TO sing at the Worlds Fair
at s. Louis.
Joseph Pearce. city street superyi-
] soE OF LeadgilIe died January 10th OF
pneumonia. Nj Pearce was one or the
earliest pioneers and built the first
hotel al Oro city
The fifth annual exhibition of the
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Association
was opened in Denver on The 18th inst.
with remarkably fine display OF al!
the leading varieties.
The STATE Board OF Health, ader
visiting Leadville. reported that an epi-
demic OF typhoid fever existed in the
city. There are several hundred cases.
but the mortality has been low.
Colorado's death-rate per 1000. for
month OF December. on the basis OF an
estimated population OF SOL. .l36, was
1888. excluding still-births. There
were $50 deaths during the month.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
has secured 100G0 trout. averaging
six inches in length. and will place
them in the streams tributary to the
Platte near the headwaters OF that
river.
a number OF Russians formerly EN-.
ployed at the Pueblo steel works have
formed q military organization and be-
gun to drill. They intend to go into
the Russian army in case Of war with
Japan.
d. ]. Pridham. who was Denver
agent for the Chicago. Milwaukee g.
St Paul railroad from 1878 to 1892.
died in Chicago January 22d at the age
of seyenty-;hFee. The cause OF his death
was pleurisy.
Il is suspected that cadium exists in
several of the large springs at Glen
wood Springs. and portions of the dried
sediment have been sent to prominent
ri G fE-E nd nh 70 h.,
purpose of having them .ested
H. 5. Vaughn. commander of the de-
partment OF Colorado and Wyoming.
g. A. r.. who has been Ill at St. Luke's
hospital in Denver as a result of an
attack OF appendicitis, is improving
rapidly. A successful operation was
performed
Ex-Lieut Gov. David c. Coates has
left Denver to take charge OF the Amer
lean Labor Union Journal. the official
paper of the American Labor union.
The paper is printed in Butte. Mont.
and Mr.. Coates viii make his head
quarters in that city.
a company has been incorporated at
Pueblo with a capital stock OF 100000
to establish railroad cooperative
store. The store will be under the
control Of the railroad brotherhood of
Pueblo and the ownership of stock is
limited to labor unions.
Homer II. Hayes, thirty-six years OF
age, swallowed pin while in Kansas
city, several months ago, and died from
the effect of 1t at his home in Colorado
Springs on the 18th inst The pin was
removed by an operation. but it had
torn the lining Of his stomach
George A. Toof. one of the oldest
settlers in Fremont county, died at his
home on lower Beaver creek January
I'D at the age Of siXty-seven years. Mr..
Toof settled on Beaver creek very early
and had one of the best-developed
farms and orchards in the county.
A few days ago b. c. Boyd. a wool
contractor at Bailey in the Platte
canon, took seventeen shots at a
mountain lion that has been stealing
his beef, which he hangs in a tree
Boyd saw it standing under the tree
ana opened ilre, but the lion got away.
Compared with November. 1903. ac-
cording to tie report of the State
Board of Health, December shows an
increase of twenty-one cases of diph-
iberia, forty-nine cases of scarlet fe-
yer and forty cases of smallpox. and
decrease OF PA cases of typhoid fever,
Bids have been called for for the
construction of the new court house at
Walsenburg 10 be opened February IL
me bonds were voted last fall Every
thing is to be modern and the building
will cost $4,000. 1t is to be built of
white sandstone from quarries near
town.
Alter spending twenty years in n
dug-out in the mountains a few miles
south of Buena Vista, w. f. Arfund
Swede prospector, was found dead on
the morning of January I'D. He was
seVenty-nine years of age and had no
relations in this country SO far as
known.
The grand total valuation of Boul.
der county for the year 1903 is $40.
064,4OO as compared with 1896 S02
Tor the year 1902. This change is
made by the increase of new propcr.