The Dolores star., 1905-02-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Louisville. in Boulder county, wants
. -four mill.
The board Of trade Of. La Junta pro-
poses to secure site for city park.
The thirteenth annual banquet OF the
Denver Bar Association will be held
at the Brown Palace hotel February
21st.
Grading will be commenced imme-
diately on the Pennington branch OF
the Lenver & Rio Grande, below Dur
ango.
The National Civic Federation has
made Denver the headquarters Of one
OF the seven districts in which IL will
open Offices.
George Bauer of the Bauer Mercan-
tile Company and Bauer Bank at Man
cos. died at sanitarium in Guadala-
jara. Mexico. January 31st.
The Monte Cristo Rubber Plant
Company has been formed at Greeley
to buy and run a big rubber plantation
In Palemque, Old Mexico.
Colorado College. at Colorado
Springs. has an endowment fund OF
100000. and will make a vigorous ef-
fort to increase 1t to 100000.
| oSOA &C ~. Sioouy, loImcIly Vi lcu-
yer, has been appointed freight traffic
manager for the Burlington in place of
the late Thomas Miller. who died re-
Gently.
The Pueblo police magistrates have
decided that the law prohibiting MI
Dors from entering saloons must be
enforced against newsboys engaged in
selling papers.
George w. Berger, a prominent
blacksmith of Greeley. committed sui
eide February I'd by taking chloroform.
There was nothing In his business or
domestic relations to explain the act.
| John U. and Bruce E. Watkins Of
the firm Of Watkins Brothers at Pu-
eblo. are informed that they are heirs
with five others to an estate in Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, valued at $4,000.
900.
| Secretary OF State John Hay is the
owner of Crystal park, the beautiful
little vale or nook that lies on the slope
of Pixies Peak at the foot of Cam
eron's cone, two or three miles above
Manitou.
The Denver Young Mems Building
Association has purchased a building
| site. 125x125 feet in SIZE at Sixteenth
and Lincoln avenues, which is between
the Brown Palace hotel and the Cap.
itol building.
The Interior Department has with
drawn from all forms OF disposal what
ever. six townships. embracing 13S,240
acres of public lands. in the Glenwood
| Springs land district, on account of
irrigation projects.
On the arrest of Alexander E. Jack
son on the charge of robbery in Den
yer, about 81 500 worth of jewelry and
diamonds was recovered. Jackson is
a negro, and is said to DE an extreme
ly successful sneak thief.
Dudley D. Sales. Denver boy, now
studying at the Stanford University,
has chosen to participate in the con.
| test for the President Carnot prize. Of
fered for he best speech on the gov
ernment or history of France.
The flock of tame ducks in the City
park at Denver has been reinforced
this winter by many wild ducks that
have alighted among them. After be-
ing fed few times the wild ducks
become as tame as the others.
Walter Smith, colored, and his eigh-
teen year old son, William, were found
guilty of burglary in robbing brick
plant and the father sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years, while the
son goes to the reform school.
Judge C. NJ. Miles and Jack Kep-
pei, the famous cowboy cook, started
for Washington few days ago to
return the visit of the President and
i Washington correspondents who were
entertained at Hugo on their western
trip.
At Cauon City a few days ago
twenty-seven drummers for all kinds
of business landed oil the afternoon
| and night trains the same day. The
inns of the place were able TO take
care of them without unlocking the
Hotel de Canon City.
The Salida Board of Trade recently
adopted resolutions indorsing the
scheme of A. G.. Fitzgerald, who is
driving tunnel to tap the Poncha hot
springs. 1t is expected that the tunnel
will also tap deposits of gold and silver
ore and mica.
Sam Erickson was killed at the
Camp Bird mine. Ouray, January Both,
by falling 100 feet down shaft. He
was Finn, 81 years of age. and sim
gle. Two sisters and brother reside
in Michigan, and his father and mother
are still in Finland
Arthur Lewis, a Missouri Pacific
trainman, while going back to flag a
train after an accident near Eads. a
station east of Pueblo, was attacked
by ravenous peck of coyotes and only
escaped by brandishing lighted fuse
and retreating to the caboose
A convention of the Ell Paso county
Sunday school association will be
held at Colorado Springs March 23d
oath and 25th. The annual convention
of the Colorado Sunday School asso
!, citation will also be held in Colorado
Springs May Both, 31st and June lst.
Mrs. Lucy Ann CranGall. pioneer
of Denver, died December 3Oth, within
two hours after a jury had pronounced
her incapable of managing her bust.