The Dolores star., 1907-06-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. West recent
ly celebrated their 62nd wedding an
niversary al Greeley.
Ex-Governor Peabody and daughter
are witnesses in the famous Haywood
murder trial at Boise.
Denver and Greeley are to be con-
nected by an electric line. Articles Of
importance have been filed.
o. W. Yeager died of Bright's dis
ease. aged fifty-one. He had been IN
honored citizen Of Longmont for years.
J. B. Bailey. coal miner at Flor
ence. fell dead the other night He
had been complaining Of not feeling
well for several days.
The Sisters in charge OF st. Fran
els Seminary at Longmont are super.
intending the furnishing Of the build.
Ing, and expect to open the school Sep
tember 1st.
The new hotel committee at Boulder
has decided to name the new structure
the "Boulderado." being made out OF
the words Boulder and Colorado.
Work is beieng pushed rapidly.
Pueblo captured the 1908 convention
q the State Federation of Colored
" Momens Clubs. President Ida-Joyce
Jackson Of Colorado Springs, and other
ofncers. hold over until next year.
Gov. Buchtel has received the resig-
nation of Senator NJ. E. Lewis of Ere
mont county. He has just been ap-
pointed postmaster of Florence and
resigned before the expiration of his
term.
John Corne, probation officer OF
Weld county for the last five years.
resigned and p. Tisdel. known as
Father Tisdel. who devotes his life
to looking after the unfortunate in
Weld county. was appointed to the va
cancy.
Costello and Stevenson, two Oak
Creek merchants before the County
Court charged with the illegal sale OF
liquor, were discharged. the jury con-
sidering the evidence against them in
suflcient to sustain the charge. The
defense offered no evidence.
Lucille Murtis, one Of the most prom
inent graduates of the Trinidad High
school this year. was thrown from q
buggy and fatally injured at Berint-
Vile, la. She was prominent in the
young society set and the sad news
IL received with great regret.
While aiding the other farmers OF
Fountain valley to exterminate the
magpies of that section, Gus Wilson.
living near Little Buttes, fell from a
tree, dislocating three vertebrae. His
recovery is doubtful. The ranchmen
killed exactly 1000 magpies.
The Wellington association is con-
structing dam for the purpose OF
storing water on the high ground north
west Of Boulder for irrigating pur-
poses. The dam is to be about 600 feet
long, have a base of 100 feet and be
nifty feet high. The reservoir will
cover about thirty acres and will irri-
gate several thousand acres.
Workmen excavating for the lake to
be used in connection with the shoot
the chutes" at the Zoo, near Colorado
Springs, have unearthed the skeleton
OF a giant Indian and a horse at q
depth Of about ten feet. With the
skeleton were found the remains Of d
bow and arrow and a half decayed
fragment of a blanket. The supposi-
ton is that the Indian was a Cheyenne
and was carried from the cliffs In a
landslide.
What is said to have been the first
frame building erected in Fort Col
| lluo, lS UClu6 LuoNCu " AudhS A0OAu loi
a hardware store, 75x125 feet, which
Judge Jay Boughton is building. The
old building was erected in the win
ter of 1928 by Judge Boughton, he
doing most of the work on 1t. 1t was
built for the use Of the secretary Of
the colony. and later used as a printing
ONCE. When Judge Boughton was
elected county Judge in 1876 he occu-
pied it as court room and office.
The Anti-Saloon League claims to
have secured evidence of violations Of
the gambling and Sunday-closing laws
against nearly every saloonkeeper In
Arapahoe county, and District Attor-
ney Smith filed twenty-nine complaints
in the County Court. The men for
whom warrants were issued are:
Charles Lawlin, Fort Logan, four
cases; Harry Livingston. Fort Logan,
four cases; H. Ulind, Fort Logan, two
cases; Patrick Slyney. Fort Logan;
James Buck, Petersburg; c. A. Hort
man, Petersburg, five cases; Frank A.
Beandle, Petersburg, seven cases; ]. E.
Crawford, Littleton, two cases; Henry
Heiney, Littleton, two cases; Lewis
Steckline, Sullivan.
In appears from investigation that
much of the fruit thought to have
been killed by the early May storms
is alive and flourishing, and reports