The Dolores star., 1907-06-28
COLORADO NEWS LIENS

The fruit crop in Colorado is comma
'ut on top despite the frosts and bad
reports.
John Wolf of Denver. a retired
larmer has purchased a home a.
BOULDER and will occupy 1t.
Peter Christianson. a prominent
business man of Morrison. recently
oied after an illness from paralysis.
Tom Hussie. a Boulder local auto
mooiiist, has contracted with two
eastern women to take them in an
auto 10 Glenwood Springs and back
In six days
A Denver girl was kidnapped on the
main business street the other day and
spirited away" to Pueblo The girl
Is IL years old. but didn't call for help
until she was 100 miles from home.
A fire at Robinson, near Brecken-
ridge, which originated in mine
boarding house last Sunday. destroyed
Ten buildings and for a time threat
sned to wipe out the entire place. Loss
$25.000. Elmer HOFFMAN was Sc
verely burned while trying to save his
property.
! Arrangements have been perfected
at the electrical plant at Lafayette to
send current to Boulder to supply
the southern part of the city with
light. 1t is hoped 10 have the north
ern part of the city ready for the cur
rent. soon, and after that the plant
here will no longer be used for cleo
| trio lighting, but will furnish power
for the street car service for some
| time.
]. H. and E. c. Williams are going
1 10 all Il l.. IL
with fine products, according to plans
and specifications recorded at Trini-
dad. The papers state that three
reservoirs. with combined capacity of
34,5OO.O00 cubic feet, together with
numerous bitches. will be built. The
land is near Aguilar. and has never
been used for anything except the
grazing Of sheep.
Police Judge d. d. Finch, one Of the
most prominent and influential Repub-
lican politicians in Trinidad, was seri-
ously, II not fatally injured in a run
away accident. Judge Finch had one
| leg broken below the knee. the bone
protruding through the flesh. He also
had several ribs broken and 1t is feared
that he Is injured internally. His
horse collided with a telephone pole.
demolishing the buggy. Judge Finch
was thrown violently against the stone
| curbing. Judge Finch was at one time
sheriff.
Andrew j. Macky, a wealthy banker
of Boulder. died last week and after
providing for 4 number of relatives,
he willed the remainder of his fortune
to the State University, and for the
purpose of building hospital and
home for dependent children and
widows, the latter to be erected at
Boulder The bequest to the univers-
fly provides for the erection and main
tenance of Macky building to be
devoted to some branch Of education.
The sum of 100000 is available for
this building and $4,000 for the chill
drens and widows home.
The remains of Morris Havens of
Colorado Springs, who died at Boulder,
from the effects of burns, we're sent
to his home for burial. The boys
brother, Leon, who. was with him at
the time of the accident, says they
had fired several small lunches of
powder left on stone to dry without
beinH harmed. Morris fired the last
batch and when the powder blazed up
in his endeavor to jump away, he
jumped into the blaze. The boys
hands were literally cooked and the
flesh fell of. He did not suffer much.
as the burns were SO severe that the
nerves were practically deadened.
United States Senator Simon Gug-
genheim paid Longmont visit re-
Gently He was met by Mayor Brad
ley, Judge F. p. Secor and l.. l.. Breck-
enridge F. NJ. Downer accompanied
the committee in the drive with the
senator over the city. A reception
was held in the rooms Of the CONNER
cial association, when the business
men met the senator. Thomas Mo-
honey, secretary of the association,
gave short talk in reference to q
United States geological survey of the
country lying between Longmont and
the foothills, the object of which is
to determine whether the gypsum beds
are large enough to warrant the man
ufacture of cement.
E. H. Chase, a feeble old man Of 76
years, was taken before Judge Lewis
in the federal court in Denver recently
on a bench warrant issued because he
die not appear before the federal grand
jury when summoned. The old man
lives in Pagosa Springs, and although
he has made his home in Colorado for
thirty years he told the court that he
had never before visited Denver. He
explained his failure to obey the sum-
mons to his lack of money. He pre-
Bented such pitiable appearance that
Judge Lewis dismissed him without
punishment. He testified before ths
grand jury and was allowed three days
witness fees in addition to five cents
per mile mileage.
For the purpose of personally
observing the route for proposed
high line canal, Secretary of the
Interior Garfield and Land Com
missioner Ballinger took an auto spin
over the Orchard mesa and spent
nearly an hour viewing the land near
Grove Junction last week. They were
fayora hly imnresspd The high line