The Dolores star., 1906-09-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

tembcr 18th to 21st.
Douglas County Fair at Castle Rock
September goth to 22d.
The Adams County Fair will be held
at Brighton September 26th to 2sth.
The Arapahoe County Fair will be
held at Littleton October 4th to 9Th.
The fair at Hotchkiss, in Delta
county, takes place September 26th to
2Sth.
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 26th to
2Sth.
Sixty thousand young trout have just
been placed in the streams OF Boulder
county.
The Labor day parade at Pueblo had
| to be abandoned on account OF a soak
ing rain.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Bar Association will be held at Colo
RADIO Springs September 9th and 2sth.
A man eighty-three years old got
drunk in Denver the other day and
was arrested for creating trough
house."
G. 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.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has invited Vice President Fairbanks
| to be the guest of honor at banquet
| September goth.
Jacob Rush, father of State Senator
John A. Rush, died at his home in Den
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
H. w. Ward, a prominent Canon
City contractor and builder, has been
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
The Flint Automobile Company, or
ganized by eastern capitalists. contem-
plates building large factory in Den
yer at cost of 100000.
The finest of weather and an unus-
ually large and fine parade combined to
make the Labor day celebration in
| Denver one of the most successful ever
held
B. Fred Tritch of Denver, son of the
late George Tritch and secretary of the
| Tritch Hardware Company, died at his
home in Denver, September 9Th. of ty-
phoid fever. o..
Oscar Parks of Durango was danger
ously hurt at Pine River by falling
from a haystack and striking a spike
on hay wagon. The spike pierced
his bladder, necessitating an opera.
ton.
The little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
| Andrew Buchanan, two and half
years old, was drowned September 1st
in an irrigating ditch at the Buchanan
| home in the Animas valley above Du-
| range.
Mrs. Minnie Brown of Fort Collins
ylync, hpvvr ral 10 hn fy,cf
by the explosion of gasoline which she
was using to start fire. She was
| twenty-eight years of age and leaves
two children.
F. w. Hermann, for two years in
charge of the dry farming experiments
conducted by the government at Chey-
enne, is soon to be transferred to begin
drainage Investigations along the Rio
Grande in Colorado.
The Victor Fuel Company has sold
| the Mexican Central railroad 10000
tons of coal, to be delivered at Juarez,
| Mexico. Most of this coal will be TAX
| en- from Las Animas county mines and
10000 tons has been delivered.
n the district court at Trinidad the
Murder charge against James T. Davis,
| marshal of Aguilar, indicted for killing
Mexican while trying to stop street
| fight, was nolle pressed on the 4th
| inst. and the defendant discharged.
At Durango on the 9th inst, Sam
! Nichols, aged fifty years, ranchman,
| suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top of his head off in liv-
cry stable with a revolver. He leaves
| a widow, son and two grown daugh-
ters.
Clark & Sawdy's large livery barn
at Boulder, the Oldest in the city, was
burned on the night of the 7th inst
Six horses were burned to death and
no vehicles were saved. the loss, in
cluding the 5000 hearse belonging to
F. ]. Bucheit.
| A Republican judicial convention will
be held at Pueblo September 10th for
the Tenth district, embracing the coun-
ties of Pueblo, Otero and Kiowa. Two
candidates for district judge will be
nominated to succeed Judges Dixon
and voorhees,.
| 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.
| G. r. Frey, engineer of Burlington
passenger train, was killed in COLI
sion at Schram, twenty-four miles west
of Wray, on the morning Of September
1st His train ran into the rear por-
tion of freight train which had brok-
en- off from the main body.
The Seventh Day Adventist camp
me. ting at the ChautauQua grounds,
Boulder, closed September I'd. The at
tendance was unusually large. Some
noted divines were present. About 600
people were baptized in the lake in
front of the Colorado sanitarium upon
confession of faith.