The Dolores star., 1907-05-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEt;s

! The late snowstorms have been oi
great value to farmers and stock grow
! ers.
Fruit was greatly injured by the
heavy snow and freezing weatL er last
week.
Pueblo Ii to have = new county
courthouse TO take place Of the old
one erected forty years ago
"A Bigger Colorado" is the cry Of
the citizens of Boulder, and everybody
Is rushing over to help them.
Rocky Ford gave the Odd Fellows
rousing reception on April 20. the
eighty-seventh anniversary Of the or
der.
Denver chemist discovers that a
California coffee firm puts chicory In
their coffee. and the authorities are
after them.
Denver is having another 'pnre
food" crusade, and for while baled
alfalfa won't be served as pre-digested
breakfast food.
Fire Chief Owens, of Denver. says
he had a seismographic sensation on
the exact anniversary Of the San Fran
cisco earthquake. How shocking
The MacMonnies Indian statue has
caused about as much commotion
among the pioneers Of Colorado as the
appearance Of the real red men did in
early days.
Charles Friend won in the High
school oratorical contest at Colorado
Springs. and will represent the school
at the interscholastic contest to be
held In Boulder, May 10th.
After being confined in the county
jail at Grand Junction for nearly a
week, James F. Goddard. a prominent
contractor. whose arrest on the charge
OF robbery caused a sensation here,
was liberated.
Mrs. Mary Quisenberry of Trinidad.
40 years old. has gone to Oregon to
be married to the sweetheart OF her
youth. Obstinate parents had side
tracked the match many years ago. but
now the barriers are buried away.
christianity has wasted much
time and energy in justifying God and
making the devil responsible for evil.
declared a Denver preacher. and some
Of his listeners are wondering who he
was luding to.
Little packs Of garden seed,
Little plats of ground.
Little early rising,
And a little scratching round
Will supply hungry family
And overflow their cup
In this land of Colorado
II the hens don't scratch 1t up.
A cheap and delightful way in which
to spend ones vacation is entertain.
ingly described in booklet, Camping
II, the Rocky Mountains" just issued
by the Passenger Department of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. This
little book tells where to go, what to
wear, what to take and what 1t will
cost.
While attempting to arrest four men
whom he had detected stealing wire
from the traction company's barn, at
Pueblo, Thomas Self, a private watch
man, was struck with a stone, and a
deep cash inflicted in the right side OF
his head. Self succeeded in capturing
one of the trio. who gave the name Of
Peter Doyle.
The Boulder Oil Refining Company
| will build a refinery on Dabney place,
east of town The plant will cost &c.,
| 900. The stills and other machinery
have already been purchased. D. b.
| Burton of Denver will be the superin-
tendent. The main object of the com
pany is to make by-products of oil
| rather than paraffin.
The Pioneers Society of Colorado
raises a vigorous protest against the
| design for the proposed monument to-
| be erected in their honor at Denver.
| The artist suggests the statue of q
vicious Indian poised on top of the
pedestal, and the pioneers object to
having such prominence given the
enemy they had to conquer.
After ten years of patient waiting
the widow of the late H. A. w. Tabor
| expects to realize her dream of wealth
which has occupied her mind since her
| husbands death. In the Matchless
| mine, near Leadville, the one asset
which Mr. Tabor valued more than
anything else. rich body of ore has
been discovered during the last week.
Several hundred lives were endan-
gered and property valued at 100000
| threatened when fire broke out in the
basement of the First Baptist church,
corner of Ninth street and Grant ave-
nue., at Pueblo. Several fire companies
| responded to the alarm and the blaze
| was extinguished with small loss. The
church was crowded and several were
| slightly bruised in their hurry to get
| out.
| William Dunno, after whom the town
| Of Dunneville was named, died at the
! county hospital. Death resulted from
heart disease, superinduced by alco-
holism. Dunno was sixty-one years
| old, single, and lived at Adelaide. He
| was employed on the section by the
| Florence & Cripple Creek road. In
1904, Just before the battle of Dunno
| Vile, several section men christened
| the town after their fellow workman.
A fortune estimated at $4,000 has
| been hunting Tom Thomas, a former
resident of Grand Junction, for six
| months. Postmaster Price received a
| letter recently from Joseph Neuville Of
| Wellington, New Zealand, urging him