The Dolores star., 1906-09-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

tember 9th.
The Adams County Fair will be held
at Brighton September goth to 2Sth.
The Arapahoe County Fair will be
neid at Littleton October 4th to 9Th.
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand junction September 26th to
2Sth.
The fair at Hotchkiss, In Delta
county, takes place September 26th to
2Sth.
q. c. Bachelor. a pioneer of Boul-
der, died at his home in Boulder on the
9TH inst. at the great age Of ninety
three years.
Jacob Rush, father of State Senator
John A. Rush, died ct his home in Den
yer on the 9Th inst at the age Of sew
enty-two years.
II. w. Ward, a prominent Canon
City contractor and builder. has beea
ad1udged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo
The Flint Automobile Company, or
ganized by eastern capitalists. contem-
plates building large factory In DeE-
yer at cost of 100000.
While walking on the tracks of the
Soioi ouo * ooutHtTn On
the 18th inst, Robert Wilson, aged fif-
ty-two years, was run over and killed.
He leaves a widow.
During the last twelve months in
Weld county 156 marriage licenses
were issued, eleven divorces granted
and thirty-six persons convicted, sew
enteen of whom were Juvenile delin-
quents under sixteen years Of age.
At Durango on the 9th inst. Sam
Nichols, aged fifty years, a ranchman.
suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top of his head of in liv-
cry stable with revolver. He leaves
widow, son and two grown daugh-
ters.
General Agent J. P. Hall Of the
Santa Fe, on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water
melon Day at Rocky Ford, stated that
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended OF the nineteen
that he has visited
A report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were 305 marriages
and 1OS divorces. The number Of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one-half this year over last.
While temporarily insane from men-
tai and stomach trouble, James II
Arkush, a Denver insurance man, be-
longing to the firm of Lehman, Stew
art & Arkush, committed suicide on
the 11th inst. by shooting himself
through the head. He is said to have
attempted suicide several times be-
fore.
The Greeley sugar factory began op-
erations on the 14th inst Eight thou
sand acres of beets were planted for
the Greeley factory and will give an
average yield of twelve tons to the
acre. Eighty thousand tons OF this
yield will be handled by the Greeley
factory and the remainder sent else
where.
In quarrel over his refusal to pay
for 15-cent drink of whisky. Roy Has.
kin, wen.y-one-year-old vagrant, shot
and killed Andy Carlson, a cripple.
who was porter in the saloon, at No
lan's saloon in Denver, on the 18th
inst. Haskin was arrested by Police
man Green and will be tried for the
crime.
Agent H. B. Kerr of the State Bu-
reau of Child and Animal Protection
has filed complaint against Contractors
Orman G. Crook, charging cruelty to
animals. At camp No. 10, near Topo-
mas, Colorado, Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from sore should
ers. The animals were in charge Of
Foreman r. Davis.
The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce at
Colorado Springs, $500 for a stereopti-
con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
trict, to be delivered in the East. Grip
pie Creek and Victor by their respect
i've City Councils, have each appropri.
ated $3.50 for the same purpose.
Helen Thomas. daughter of Calvin
Thomas of Greeley, has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
cataloguing department of the library
of the state University OF Michigan,
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas is
graduate of the Greeley High school,
State Normal School, Wellesley, and
Albany, New York. Library School.
Bert Mellen, sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary for embezzlemeDt
from the International Trust Company
at Denver, died of typhoid fever in the
| prison hospital at Canon City on the
14th inst A plea for his liberation was
made before the State Board of Par
dons at its last meeting, but not acted
upon, reports seeming to indicate that
his illness was not dangerous.
Following are the newly-elected Off
GERS of the Denver Live Stock Ex-
| change: President, A. A. Blakely;
vice president, J. P. Adams; board Of
directors for two years, Richard Brack-
enbury, C. ]. Mann and Ben Kemper:
| for one year, James Mckee and Clyde
B. Stevens; board Of arbitration,
Henry Gebhard, D. ]. A. Ritchie and
M. H. Mack; board of appeals, A. j.
Campion, A. Bosserman and Paul Hen
derson.
The Christian Assembly Ranch
Company, an incorporation not for
profit. has been formed by members Of