The Dolores star., 1906-02-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Golden will make a bid for the ioca-
tion Of the Colorado & Southern's new
car shops.
A national golf tournament is being
planned for the Pixies Peak centen-
NAL celebration at Colorado Springs
Maj. Aaron Cove of Denver has been
before the Senate committee ON the
Philippines in opposition TO the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tariff
Wallace Elliott of La Junta was
killed at Guanajuato. Mexico. by CON
tact with live electric wire. His re-
mains were brought home for inter
ment
T. A. Gunnell. father OF Judge A. T.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs, died at
his home in Colorado Springs on the
18th instant at the age of eighty-fve
years.
A company of Durango men being
organized to build $4,000 hotel is
headed by Giles I. Vandergrift. Tom
Lofts and Charles +. Herr. Thirty
thousand dollars has been pledged.
George F. Doane. the man who 10
Gated Aspen. and who later located the
Roane-Rambler mine near Battle lake,
Wyoming, which he sold for $4,000
900, died at Denver on the 14th in
stant of heart failure.
A collision between Santa Fe train
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted in
the smashing of Pueblos newest and
best steam fire engine. which cost $6.-
900. In running to fire the driver
got in front of freight tra-i.
Charles C. Welch. an employe of the
Globe smelter in Denver. committed
suicide on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing stryehnine and laudanum. III
health. by reason of inhaling gas
fumes. is supposed TO be the cause.
The city and the Rio Grande rail
road will jointly build "A new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000. IL will be a modern
structure of concrete, sixty feet wide
and 120 feet long. with a center pier.
George Marshmann, who held up q
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago. pleaded guilty
to highway robbery and was sentenced
in the District Court at Brighton to
from eight to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
]. U. Vigil, Democratic candidate for
county clerk of Las Animas county.
and whose Office was contested for by
Eugene Garcia. Republican candidate,
the latter having been given the office
by the Supreme Court. has filed "A mo-
ton for rehearing.
Governor Mcdonald has received a
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
tion for distinguished services" The
governor helped in making the Colo
RADIO exhibit success and made
speech on Colorado Day.
\.
law and decide the question whether
horse with u docked tail can be i'm
ported to Colorado the cases against
Charles f. Stubbs and Nehemiah Fit
zell in the District Court at Denver
will be appealed TO the Supreme Court.
The yacht Anemone. which c. l..
Tut of Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu, has a
Denver registry. Mr. Tut wanted to
give the boat a Colorado Springs reg
istry, but that city not being a port OF
entry, he was compelled to register the
yacht at Denver, or go outside of Col
orado which he would not do.
Because some one had real or fan
cied grievance against Candido Barela.
Republican member of the last Legis-
| lature, an attempt was made to blow
! his saloon and another building ad
joining off the face OF the earth with
dynamite, at Weston, sixteen miles
west of Trinidad, on the hight of the
18th instant. The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued to the fol-
lowing Colorado people: John A. Fer
guson, Denver. press for concrete
building blocks;l James F. Ferry, Lead
vile. cooking utensils; Eli Forester,
Denver, railway rail joint: Frank w.
| Jacques, Victor, ore sorting belt; ID. c.
Mosher, Manitou, barrel filter: James
e. Pitman. Gold Hill. trap: Paul H.
Widman, Denver. acetylene gas appar-
atus.
The fact that F. J. Sachs was, inten-
tiOnally or otherwise. very bad
marksman probably saved him from n
.penitentiary sentence In the District
| Court at Pueblo. He was accused of
assault with intent to kill Edward
Russell, at whom he fired fourteen
shots without effect. but was permit
ted to plead guilty to assault with a
| deadly weapon and got off with about
| 5000 fine and costs.
Another and still more unique plan
has been proposed in competition with
| the movement to start a library in the
National Union Printers Home at Col
| oradO Springs. 1t was at first planned
to have each delegate TO the Interna-
tional Typographical Union convention
+, in this city next August bring at least
| one work of fiction. The scheme was
enthusiastically adopted, and more
| than 1000 volumes are thus assured
By the. decision of Judge Riner in
the federal court at Denver the gov
| ernment has failed in collecting an
extra $1,000 in revenue stamps which
the revenue officials held should have
been affixed by the late w. s. Stratton
| to his deed to the Venture corporation
| of London. They sued the executors on