The Dolores star., 1906-11-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Inc last train Tor the season on tne
cog road to the summit Of Pixies Peal
was run Sunday. the 4th inst.
| The Denver branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will distribute
$500 garments among unfortunate and
needy families In Denver this year.
| Thanksgiving da, a concerted eRor'
viii be made at Colorado Springs te
raise fund for the proposed 100000
deaconess hospital. A general collec
tion will be taken in all the churches
The Jewish Free Loan Society al
Denver, organized to lend money with
out interest to needy and worthy per
sons. has loaned over $4,000 during
the past three years without losing d
cent.
The Presbytery Of Denver at q re-
cent meeting adopted resolutions in
honor of the late Prof. Thomas Nelson
Haskell, the founder Of Cutler Acad-
emy and Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
A movement 10 on foot to secure
the erection of $4,000 Y. M. G. A.
building in Canon City next summer.
A bequest of $25, 900 by the late F. A.
Reynolds will serve as q nucleus for
the fund.
The Northern Colorado Poultry As.
sociation, which will give a show at
Boulder December 18th to 18th, In
elusive, has already secured the prom.
ise of twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will erect a handsome new depot at
Canon City next spring at cost OF
about $4,000. The present building
will be removed to another site and
used as a freight depot.
Harrison Parks, town marshal OF La.
fayette committed suicide on the 7th
inst. by shooting himself through the
head Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause Of his action.
He was fifty-two years old and leaves
q wife and five children.
On the sth inst. Andrien Adamson, a
driver in the mine at Tertio, near Trim.
idad, was killed while going out with q
train OF cars. He fell off the driveway
and broke his neck. Andriccon Jar.
milo, a Mexican working in Tertio.
was killed the same day by fall OF
rock.
According to report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver, M. Yakutomi,
the Japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado.
and was spirited out Of the United
States by his countrymen, fell or
jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama. and was drowned.
Frank Job, night boss at the Hast
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad, was killed on the Sd
inst. by lump of coal crushing his
breast. He was standing fifty feet
from the explosion Of shot. which
has always been regarded a safe dis
tance. He was thirty-eight years old
and leaves a widow and two children.
An Albuquerque. New Mexico, dis.
patch of the 7th inst says: A sheep
man named Charles w. Darnell, from
Windsor, Colorado, was run over and
killed in the Santa Fe yards at Belen,
New Mexico. this morning. He was
walking along the track with a COM
panion when he was knocked down by
train and ground to death under the
wheels.
Every Coloradan away from home
in the state will be offered an oppor-
tunity to 60 home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action Of the
Colorado Passenger Association,
which has arranged for holiday rates
varying from one fare for the round
trip on the mountain roads to a fare
and third for the round trip On the
prairie roads.
Thomas Freel Of Eaton died at the
Greeley hospital on the 4th inst. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided in
Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one Of the
most daring cowboy riders of the
range. During the last ten years OF
his life he has been in the stock
business and owned string OF valu-
able running horses.
A report was made to Governor Nc.
Donald on the 8th inst. by the special
examining committee appointed to
make regular examination of the
state treasurer's books. The examina.
ton extended over a period from May
1st to October 18th, the present bal
ance on hand being $2.751. 1888. The
committee is composed of Fl. B. Mul-
nix, A. s. Wilson and Richard R. Kirk
The state fish and game department
has received notice of one of the big
gest payments of fine ever sent into
the office. The case was tried twice
In Meeker, the first jury disagreeing,
and the defendant, J. D. Clark, was
forced to pay $50 and costs, the latter
amounting to $176.90. He was con.
victed by Jury Of having illegally in
his possession the parts Of five deer.
E. K. Smith and number of other
Fort Lupton capitalists will build a
big reservoir costing $4,000 in the vi
cinity of Fort Lupton, from which
some $4,000 acres of now non-irrigable
land will be brought under cultivation.
The reservoir is intended to conserve
the surplus over appropriated waters
of the Fulton ditch and draw on tho
flood and seepage water Of the streams
in that vicinity.
The body of the man found dead on
the Union Pacific railway tracks near
the depot at Evans has been identified
as that Of Adam Cock, a potato picker,
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