The Dolores star., 1906-11-30
COLORADO NEWS TIMES

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The new 1.co0ton sugar beet factory
at Swink was opened November goth,
the formal celebration and barbecue
being set for Thanksgiving day.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company will
spend $4,000 on the yards Of the COM
paEy In Trinidad. The freight depot
VIII be moved up near the passenger
depot and enlarged.
Six thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven books have been added to
| the library of the University of Colo
rado during the last year. Two wings
are tn be added to the present library
building.
made the principal address at the deji-
cation Of the new Methodist church at
Greeley on Sunday. the 18th inst. The
building Is a fine one and will seat
thousand people.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has passed a resolution that there shall
be no increase of the number OF sa-
looms in the city. New licenses will bs
granted only as old ones are relin-
quished or revoked.
DR.. Duren J. Ward, anthropologist in
the State University Of Iowa, will move
to Boulder next winter. to continue his
Investigations of the American Indian.
He will be affiliated with the Unitarian
movement near Boulder.
The Crystal River G. San Juan rail-
road was completed to Marble, Gunni-
son county, November 23d, and the
people Of Marble celebrated the event
with no little jubilation. This means
the opening up Of vast deposits Of VAL
liable marble.
The Durango alleged horse and cat
tie thieves, Red Satriano and Edward
Duggan, who were trailed by the Du-
rango sheriff into New Mexico, went to
Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured
tie horses and camping outfit, but the
men got away.
Lieut.. e. E. Scranton, q. 8. N. has
been detached from duty in charge of
the navy recruiting station at Denver
and ordered to the naval station at
Tutui!a, Samoa. for duty. He will be
relieved at Denver by Lieut.. ]. H. Com
fort.
Actuated, 1t 10 believed. by jealousy,
David Babb shot and killed his cousin,
Bennett Berlus, at the ranch Of the
latter near Earl, about twenty miles
east Of Trinidad. on the Santa Fe rail-
road. on November 21st Babb
mounted his horse and escaped.
Resolutions upon the discharge Of
the colored companies of the Twenty
fifth United States infantry were
passed at a meeting In Zion church,
Denver, attended by about 600 colored
people. A copy was sent to President
Roosevelt, asking modification Of the
order.
Gov. Jesse F. Mcdonald, with the
consent Of the pardoning board, has
Issued an unconditional pardon to
Eugene Scott. a well-known mining
man OF Victor, who was convicted in
the District court of Teller county a
year ago Of murder. It is claimed that
the evidence against Scott was not
fully reliable.
A peculiar accident occurred on the
18th inst, ten miles north Of Central
City. The fourteen-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Tregay, while out hunt
ing rabbits, leaned his shotgun against
stump and his dog knocked It down.
causing Its discharge. The shot struck
the boys right arm above the wrist in
hicting very bad wound.
There seems to be no room for doubt
that Judge James NJ. Ellis Of Denver
was burned to death in the recent hotel
cume to Denver in 1886 as receiver of
the land Office and afterward served as
city attorney and as police magistrate.
TIe was born in Mississippi and served
in the Confederate army during the
civil war.
Mr.. Fred A. Gordon, game warden
1t Glenwood Springs. reports to the
state game and fish commissioner that
kh~ f-l Loo ArIu
back out of Colorado. About forty
Utes broke over the line into Routt
and Rio Blanco counties and killed a
few deer. but all have now departed
and NO further trouble IL feared.
For many years, in fact, ever since the
town was started, there have been in
Denver number Of tents occupied by
consumptives, summer and winter, and
there has always been some complaint
by persons afraid of infection. Now
the Fire and Police Board has ordered
that al! tents must be removed from
within the city limits by December 1st,
which will be . serious hardship to
many people.
A marble column bearing a bronze
sun dial has been presented to the
state and set up on the capitol
grounds at Denver by the Society of
Colonial Danes Of America in Colo
RADIO. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Goddard of
Colorado Springs, president of the So
ciety, made the presentation speech.
which ives responded to by Governor
Mcdonald.
It is reported on what II claimed to
be good authority that work will begin
In two weeks on the new steam rail-
way to be built into the country east
of Greeley by the Greeley Railway
company. Workimen now employed to
the number Of 400, with teams. on the
Empire resrvoir in eastern Weld
county and in Morgan county, will be
brought here to grade and build the
road.
Judge Melvin, grand exalted ruler