The Dolores star., 1905-02-03
COLORADO NEWS TINES

The hearing at Denver in the Kan
sas-Colorado water suit closed January
25th.
The President has nominated
Thomas A. Davy for postmaster al
Fort Collins.
The Boulder Valley Oil Company
has paid on all its indebtedness and
declared its first dividend.
Andrew Carnegie will donate SO .0O6
for public library building at Silver
ton, the town to appropriate $1,000 q
year for its maintenance.
The Colorado Springs Carnegie Ii
brary board has already received $45.-
600 Of the 100000 donated by Mr.. Car.
Degie, and the building is nearing
completion.
Wung Lung, who presided over
the joss house between Blake and Mar
ket streets in Denver for thirty years,
died in the Denver county hospital q
few days ago.
Professor Paxson, who has been In
Europe for several months, has re
turned to Boulder to resume his duties
versity Of Colorado.
The members of the Woman's
League of the State University at
Boulder are raising fund to be loaned
to young ladies who are working their
way through college.
Loveland has changed its classifica-
ton from a city of the third class to a
city Of the second class. A census
taken by the city in December shows
a population of 2.457.
AT a meeting of passenger officials of
the western roads at Chicago 1t was de.
termined that hereafter all party bust.
ness from Colorado common points
must move on tariff rates.
The ore house at Stratton's Inde-
pendence at Victor was destroyed by
fire on the morning of January 21st.
The structure and its equipments cost
between 100000 and $4,000.
The body of Mexican found in
Four-Mile creek west of Florence
could not be identified. The man was
apparently upwards of fifty years oil
age. A union labor card on his body
was watersoaked and illegible.
The application OF F. NJ. Weiland S.
w. Taylor r. l.. King, J. o. Nelson and
]. ID. Mcdonald to organize the First
National Bank of Fowler. with $25,00O
capital, has been approved by the
comptroller Of the currency.
In the District Court at Trinidad
January 26th, Lazaro Trujillo was con.
victed of murder in the first degree for
the killing Of Joe Bosco. near Stark.
vile, October 18th. The penalty was
fixed at Imprisonment for life.
Last year $50 arrests were made
by the police of Denver, of which S,523
were Of males and LOAF OF females
| The number found drunk and taken to
the city Jail in the patrol wagon was
2,345.
Telegraphers from all over Colorado
are preparing to attend the first annual
ball of the Denver & Rio Grande div
vision 9. Order of Railway Telegraph
ers, which will be held in Woodman
hall at Pueblo, on February 28th.
Seventy-six cases of burglary were
reported In Denver last year and Chief
OF Police Delaney reports that the
burglars were captured in every case
and many Of them sent to the peni
tentiary.
At a recent meeting the Denver
Chamber of Commerce took action to
greatly increase its membership, 5000
being the figure named. Young and
active men are being pushed to the
front in that and the Real Estate Elk
change.
Pueblo authorities are Of the opinion
that fully 300 spurious $40 bills have
been circulated in Pueblo. Some
woman passed many of these bills al
several dry goods stores, receiving a
large amount of change in each in
stance.
No more timber Is to be sold by the
State Land Board. At recent meeting
of the board Governor Adams pre-.
sented a resolution instructing Regis.
ter Woodruff to refuse to consider any
further applications for the purchase OF
state timber.
A Loveland special to the Denver
Republican January 27th says: The
Loveland Reporter, after being under
the management Of w. l.. Thorndyke
for the last twelve years, was sold to.
day to Frank McMeekin of Canon City
who will take possession tomorrow.
Representatives of Frank P. Blair
Post Of the Grand Army of the Repub.
lie at st. Louis have already been in
Denver to engage headquarters for the
post for the national encampment the
! hISI week III 0cpleulUeT. lney expect
an immense crowd and came early to
| avoid the rush.
DR.. ]. Robert Blair Of Omaha, who
recently visited Panama, says that the
firm Of Orman G Crook, the head OF
which Is former Governor James B.
Orman, is doing the most satisfactory
work Of all the. contractors. He also
says that he heard a great deal of Col.
orado cement; that most Of the engin-
GERS there favor the use of the Colo.
RADIO article over all others.
Commander Downen Of the Grand
Army, department of Colorado and
Wyoming, has recommended that the
date Of the department encampment
be changed from May "a to May II.
10. The encampment is to be held in