The Dolores star., 1907-07-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Greeley has a new brass band.

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While digging a well near Kersey
recently a vein of coal was discovered
The find is being investigated.
Colorado small fruit is plentiful or
the markets. and Texas and California
products must take back shelf.
Greeley proposes to build boy pal
ace as one of the attractions for the
big exposition to be held there August
81. 22 and %.
Mrs. A. c. Morris. a farmers wife
living near Durango, committed sui
eide by hanging herself. 1t is thought
she was insane.
A crook from Denver turned up Ii
Boulder the other day. but before Ii,
couIo influence anyone he was shipped
back to Denver.
w. H. Gribble, one of the state
builders who braved the adversities
Of early days. died June q at his
home in Canon City.
William Allen White, the author
who became famous by writing
What's the Matter with Kansas?" Is
rusticating at Manitou.
The Presbyterian church at Florence
was robbed the other day of 81 and tn,
trustees offer a remard for the cap
ture of the thief
Annette. the two-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Virhillon. wat
drowned in an irrigation ditch at For
Collins one day last week.
The state bankers held their annua
meeting ut Fort Collins last week, ant
for few days Young City was tho
richest spot in Colorado.
w. l.. Anderson, a printer from
Eagleville, Missouri, fell beneath ths
wheels OF moving train at Crane
Junction and died shortly afterward,
from injuries.
Mrs. o. E. Hawkins, a Denver
woman, believing her husband To b
untrue to her. poured coal oil on hei
clothes and set them on fire. She wal
rescued before serious results.
Pueblo.-John Cook, son OF Con
gresham George W. Cook, of Denver
died June 80 at private sanitariun
in Pueblo, where he had been pa
tient for several months.
A bristling. 1S-inch porcupine wa.
recently captured by Ernest Shield.
within the city limits of Colorado
Springs. Shields saw the animal ruI
up tree. drove it down with a garder
hose. hit 1t on the head with boart
and placed the stunned animal in {
box.
A Boulder special of June 30th says;
Four carloads of tungsten ore were
brought to Boulder from the Boulde,
county mine at Cardinal this morning
The ore in each car was worth SIC, 1000
making $4,000 for the train This Ii
the second shipment made by tha'
mine this month. So
After suffering for over six month.
with what he thought was rheuma
tism, Chief of Police J. r. Gregory OF
Colorado City secured relief by draw
ing from his left thigh needle more
than two inches long. An X-ray phot
ograph will be taken of his leg in ar
effort to trace the course OF the
needle.
According to the Rev. Earl Hicks O
St. Louis. June 23d the weather is to Ds
warm and showery, June Gath warm
but the 25th to the 9th the weather
Is to be exceptionally cold for summer
Whether or not this is to apply TO 8.
Louis and vicinity only is not stated
II 1t is to take in Colorado 1t might Dt
well for people to get out their winta,
clothes for few days.
"The Colorado Veterans of the Civf
and Indian Wars Monument Society
is the name of an organization soor
to be formed by Hon. J. b. Stephen
Judge John McCoach. w. p. Epper
son and other prominent Colorado City
residents. The primary object is tt
. r..
Col, J. M. Chivington of the First Col
orado Volunteers, the hero of the bat
tie OF Sand Creek.
The first section of the new Chris
tian church in Golden was dedicatec
Sunday. The congregation assembled
at the old church and after short ex
ercises went in a body to the new edi
fee, where services were held prac
tically all day. Rev. J. w. Maddux
pastor of the church, was assisted BY
Rev. William Bayard Craig Of Denver
Rev. j. b. Hasten, Rev. T. #. Tomp
son and Rev. J. e. Pickett.
Prof. Adams, curator of the State
Normal School at Greeley, and Tyn
dali Snyder, son of DR.. Snyder, have
started on trip to North Park, TO,
the purpose of collecting specimens
for the State Normal School museum
The men will pay special attention tc
collecting birds, of which the museum
already has many. Prof Adams and
Mr.. Snyder will tramp most of the
way, going by way of Tie Siding.
About one-half of the fall. grain and
alfalfa crop in the vicinity OF Brush
was damaged by fierce nail-storm
which visited that section recently.
The storm moved from the northwes,
to the southeast. The greatest damage
was suffered by a\strip of country
three miles wide and ten miles long be
tween Brush and Fort Morgan. The
beet crop was only slightly damaged.
The storm was preceded and followed
by heavy rain which will be bene.