The Dolores star., 1905-09-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

pie trees at Pueblo during the past
two weeks.
State Treasurer Holmberg will prose
cute all saloonkeepers and druggists
who undertake to do business with
state licenses.
The Womans Club OF Colorada
Springs has voted to donate $50 TO the
Jacob Riis settlement at 48 Henry
street, New York City.
The county commissioners OF FIRE.
mont county have ordered a large
steam roller, crusher and other ma
chinery for road work at a cost OF 81
900.
The broad-gauge railroad from Du-
range to Pennington, New Mexico, was
finished September 18th. All fruit
shipments from Pennington now come
to Durango by rail.
Harvey w. Hawley, editor and pro-
prietor of the Denver Times from 1888
to 1894, died at Berkeley, California,
September 21st after an illness of
several years from paralysis.
President David Starr Jordan of the
Stanford University will be one OF the
lecturers at the meeting of the Colo
RADIO State Teachers Association in
Denver December 26th to 29th.
The baggage room OF the Rio Grande
railroad at Colorado Springs handled
$4,000 pieces of baggage during the
month of August. this business far ex-
ceeding that OF any previous month in
its history.
F.. C. Smith, retiring general super
intendent of the Cripple Creek Short
Line, was presented with a $3.50 gold
watch and chain by several of the
Short Line employees, previous to his
departure for New York.
Rufus Petit, full-blooded Cherokee
Indian and graduate OF Carlisle
school, enlisted at Trinidad few days
ago in the regular army as an infantry
private. Petit graduated from Car
Isle with the highest honors.
On September 21st more than 1,10o
Pueblans went to Canon City to at
tend the Fremont county fair. Each
wore a badge on which appeared
large cluster OF grapes and the words,
Pueblo Greets Canon City Sept. 81.
1906"
Gov. Joseph w. Folk. the celebrated
reform executive of Missouri, was a
guest of the Denver Chamber Of Com
merce luncheon September 21st and
made a ringing speech in behalf o:
clean government and the enforcement
of the laws.
H. l.. Hall, post trader for the Ute
Indians at Lgnacio, Colorado, is author
ity for the statement that the name
given TO Pixies Peak by the Utes was
"Acowacadee," meaning Red Top
mountain" The accent Is on the sec
ond syllable, cow"
A meeting has been called in Salida
by Marshal Herzinger for October 23d
and cath for the organization of the.
Colorado State Association OF Chiefs
OF Police. Mayors, city marshals and
heads of city detective departments
are eligible to membership.
Invitations have been issued by the
board of trustees and faculty Of the
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, an
nouncing Monday, October I'd, as the
date on which the cornerstone of the
Simon Guggenheim hall will be laid
The exercises will be held in the after
noon.
The contract for the construction OF
a new high school building in district
No. 20. Pueblo (South side). has been
let for $1OS,000, the structure to be
completed by October 1, 1906. While
the present building will cost $10S.000,
tIe plduS call lOE lWO WluSS Ou lu0
ends OF the building and when these
are copleted, the cost of the building
will be 100000, but these wings will
not be constructed until there is de-
mand for more room.
At the close of the second trial at
Durango, September goth, the jury in
the trial of Jake Zipperian, charged
with the murder of Matt Luxsinger, af-
hninp Ouf fxualvn hrD,, L.,
verdict of guilty of manslaughter.
Zipperman was then sentenced to from
seven 10 eight years in the peniten-
tiary. The murder occurred on the 14th
of last October and was the result of
quarrel over some of Luxsinger's cat
tie that got into Zipperman's fields.
Thre new members and one transfer
are announced in the faculty Of the
Royal Hawlett and Miss Florence
Stuver will be assistant professors in
mathematics and Professor S. A. Nc
iDonaud will be acting head of the
mathematical department Professor
e. B. House, formerly at the head of
this department, will take the position
of professor of irrigation engineering
under Director L. G. Carpenter.
On September 22d H. ]. Williams.
Jr., Of Battle Creek. Michigan, for
merly physical instructor in the sani-
tarium of that name, walked from the
summit of Pixies peak to the cog sta
tion at Manitou in one hour and 25k
minutes. Williams started with the
train, arriving at the station two and
one-half minutes ahead of the train.
This beats all records for the descend.
ing of the peak, and the time is
vouched for by several passengers on
the train.
The Western Polo Association has
been organized at Denver The repre-
sentatives of the Glenwood Springs.
Tenth cavalry, Colorado Springs and
Denver Country Club teams met at the
Denver Country Club to form the new
| association. w. B. Devereaux. ar