The Dolores star., 1906-05-11

entertain the idea that Colorado Is the
home of only the buffalo and savage
Indian tribes. The celebration will
serve to demonstrate to the entire
country that Colorado. although one or
the youngest states, Is one OF the
greatest in the Union.
There are eighty divorce cases on
the District Court docket at Pueblo.
The State Land Board has appointed
w. T. Fairfax Of Pueblo as timber COM
missioner.
The Helen Hunt school in Colorado
Springs won prize Of $25 for the best
showing of any school in the city on
Arbor Day.
The Twin Lakes people think they
see good prospects of the building OF
an electric line from Leadville to the
lakes.
]. J. Harbeck, now at Nice, France.
recently cabled subscription of 200
to the fund being raised for first-class
hotel at Boulder.
Delta is making determined effort
to secure the new Presbyterian Col
lege that is to be located somewhere
on the western slope.
Mrs. Laura A. Lane of Florence, who
was thought to have perished in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire,
writes that she had a narrow escape
from death and lost all her household
effects.
The commissioners of Fremont
county have decided to make a re-
quest on Werden Cleghorn of the State
Penitentiary to furnish fifty more con-
victs to work on the county roads this
summer
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
tion destroyed the plant of the West
ern Glass Company at Denver on the
4th. The plant is total wreck at a
loss OF $l50,000. The loss Ia two-thirds
insured. About 200 are thrown out of
employment by the fire.
Unofficial returns from the school
census show an increase in Cripple
Creek of twenty pupils over last year.
Victor has lost 200. The outlying
towns have gained practically all that
Victor has lost. Total decrease from
the district, 166. Total number OF
children of school age, 3,344.
Plans for the entertainment of the
Missouri Pacific immigration Bureau
in Denver in June provide for a state
dinner to be given by the Colorado
State Commercial Association on June
18th, a trip over the Moffat road on the
following day and an automobile trip
through the city of Denver itself on
the morning Of June 18th.
!, Perry Beeney, George w. Ball, sher-
in of Washington county, and Ezra
Stone appeared before Judge Robert f.
Lewis of the federal court at Denver,
May I'd, to answer to an indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury
charging the two first with gross land
frauds, and the last with cutting tim
ber from government reserves.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
the mark 20" of the New Orleans
mint, and stamped with the dates 1898,
| 1896 or 1901. are being circulated in
Denver, and large number Of the
coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
coins are underweight, have scarcely
any ring to them. and most Of them
have been merely washed in silver.
1t is reported at Boulder that the
| Colorado & Southern company will
electrify its road between Denver and
Boulder and perhaps further north, and
will secure power from the Westing-
house company, which is backing the
Henry deal in the purchase of the Boul-
der Electric Light & Power Company's
| plant, and which is to put up 81 1,000,-
900 electric plant at or near Lafayette.
The following new patents have
been issued to Colorado inventors: AL
| fred E. johnson, Denver, assignor to
| johnson Furnace & Engineering Com
pany, Colorado Springs, furnace; Pc
ter A. Mortensen, Sanford, whistle;
Edwin A. Sperry, assignor, one-third to
w. G. Wilson. Denver, ore operator;
Jean F. Webb and c. N. Frederickson,
Denver, electric signaling system.
Durango is to have another tele-
| phone line to Denver, an improvement
which. is much needed, as the present
| line is overcrowded with business
much of the time. The link necessary
to complete the short line lies between
| bayfield,, twenty miles east of Durango,
and Del Norte. The line will run
through Pagosa Springs. The survey
will begin as soon as 1t is possible to
| cross the range and the line will be
constructed this summer.
Professor Cajori, dean Of the engin-
eering school of Colorado College, has
| recently been elected a member of the
| Italian Mathematical Society, known
as the Circolo Mathematical di Pa
lermo. This society Is composed of
| mathematicians Of Italy and other
| countries. and has a membership of
| 366, of whom nearly one-half reside
| outside OF Italy. Professor Cajori is
| one of the very few Americans who
| have heeu elected tn memherahin