The Dolores star., 1905-07-28
COLORADO NEWS lrEms


Boulder ON the 18th inst. by hanging
himself. He leaves . widow and two
small children.
During the week ending July 18th,
$500 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most of them were Ep-
worth League tourists.
The Denver Chamber Of Commerce
is planning q big excursion over the
Noffat road when the line Is completed
to Hot Sulphur Springs.
Greedy Is to have a new city hall at
cost OF $4,000 and a new armory
building costing $1,000, to be rented
by the builder to the state.
! Company b Of the First infantry, N.
G. c., was mustered out at Pueblo
July goth. A new company to take fts
place will be organized next fall.
I. DR.. Charles G. Lamb. state veterin-
arian, reports that 1t was not anthrax
but bad feed and water that killed M
teen head OF cattle at Amity recently.
; Miss Rosa M. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer. and assigned to duty In the
Denver once of the reclamation SER
vicA .
Colorado Springs and eastern capi-
talists are interested in the develop
,ment OF $500 acres of promising coal
land in La Plata and Archuleta coun-
ties.
At Brookside, Fremont county. ON
the afternoon of July 18th, Felix MOS
chetti shot and killed Camilla Yer
lengia, whom he accused Of having In
suited his wife.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning OF the l7th
inst. 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at a reported cost OF $50 0Oo
and was insured for considerable
sum.
< Leroy Triplett, convicted at Denver
Of the murder of Lafayette Marsh
banks on the night Of June 10th, was
sentenced by Judge Booth Malone to
term of from twenty to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
E. A. Frish, senior conductor in the
Salida division, Order Of Railway Con-
ductors, committed suicide at Salida.
July 21st, by cutting his throat with q
razor. His wife died last October and
he leaves one child. = four-year-old
daughter.
The new city directory now being
ID lOT CIOTs suCC COAln4ho thS
names OF 2,258 people. There are 1900
school children in addition to 1900
young people whose names do not ap-
pear in the directory, giving the city
a population Of 1900.
The state memorial statue to be
erected In honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War. for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature, will be placed in front OF
the capitol building In Denver, where
the fiagpole now stands.
Mrs. Ben Davis and her two-year-old
baby boy and sixteen-year-old daughter
Alga, were hurled over seventy-five-
foot cliff to the bottom of the gulch in
q runaway, near Carbondale July 21st,
all of them being seriously, but 1t Is
hoped not dangerously, injured.
Melvin Acorn. the eager employed In
the Jo Dandy mine on Raven hill at
Cripple Creek, was killed on the 10th
inst, by falling OF the cage and going
down the shaft 120 feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
The cornerstone Of the new Simon
Guggenheim hall, to be used as the
administration building for the State
School of Mines at Golden, will be
laid September 30th. Mr.. Guggenheim's
first donation for this building was
$4,000. which was recently raised to
SIS. 900.
Pueblo people have purchased the
Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs, and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. Tie Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom, where 1t left
OF at Colorado Springs.
Col. C. w. Barker. for many years
proprietor of the Barker house at Man.
tou, and widely known throughout the
state, died of heart disease at Manitou
July 18th. at the age of sixty-six years.
Colonel Barker was veteran OF the
Civil War, having served as comman-
der Of the First Indiana cavalry.
John w. Holes of Bradner, Ohio.
/. Ohio. has written to the governor that
ment and is bringing an excellent por-
trait Of Gen. James w. Denver, after
whom the city was named. He was a
soldier under General Denver, whom
he pronounces to have been q capable
and eficient ofiicer.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Mrs. B. F. Stickley of Leadville and
Mrs. ]. D. Whitmore Of Denver to be
members of the board in control
OF the Travelling Library Association.
The other members Of the board are
Mrs. z. X. Snyder Of Greeley, Mrs. A.
M. Welles Of Denver and Mrs. M. E.
Churchill Of Greeley.
Of the slate game and fish commits
sioner in Denver, that two prosecutions
for violation Of the game laws have
been successful before magistrate at
Paonia. Robert L. Young was fined
$50 and costs for killing a deer out Of
season. and A. McAdams has been
fined $25 for killing beaver.
For the first time in nine years the
ordinances Of the city of Pueblo are
being compiled. Associate City Attor-
hey John A. Martin has charge OF the