The Dolores star., 1907-03-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Two people were killed In the rail
road yards at Denver on the LIST.
Ground was broken at Greeley on
the 2Gth for a new Congregational
church to cost $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. barr of Long
mont were divorced on the 26th after
thirty years Of married life.
The fifth annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 26th. One hun
dred and fifty visiting Masons as
sisted.
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride. probably fatally injured, by
cave.in at the Smuggler-Union mine
on the 26th.
Louis Padillo was killed in a head-on
collision On the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 26th, while riding brake beam.
He had SIT on his person.
Jerry Harmon, an old time restau-
rant man and an early settler Of Las
Animas county. died on the 26th at
Trinidad. Of pneumonia, aged sixty
seven years.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Grippon
Turner, a negro. have been placed in
Jail at Trinidad on the charge of the
murder of Manuel Charez. preferred
against them by the authorities Of
Starkville.
The contract has ben let for the new
armory at Fort Collins. 1t will be 50x
100 feet In size and will cost $4,000.
The contract has also been let for the
new Y. NJ. c. A. building, to cost $751;
900.
The cornerstone of the new Chris
tian church at Canon City was laid Oh
the 26th. The building, which will
cost about $4,000. will be of Grecian
style Of architecture, and is to be COM
pleted by August 1st.
The Wa,senburg and Western Rail
way Company was incorporated at Den
yer on the 9th; capital stock 100000;
E. w. Griffith, l.. E. Rowland, F. f.
Guy, George c. Barnard, F. ]. Jackson,
incorporators; Denver.
John DeBaker, who died at Boulder
on the 26th, and who went to that city
in 1859, was the first man to erect a
quartz mill at Gold hill in Boulder
county. It proved failure. He was
also the first man to erect a Touring
mill in that county, In 1862.
The locomotive OF Colorado Mid.
land passenger train on the night Of the
18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
A county bridge four miles north of
SaIjda collapsed and N. c. Laws. a
ranchman. who was driving over the
bridge with load, was precipitated
int thn hvl p~tv avnd nriO q "
, injured. The bridge was condemned
By the county commissioners several
years ago, but had never been closed
to traffic.
William Berry and Charles Green.
, colored, aged ten and twelve years
! respectively, are in jail at La Junta.
charged with the murder OF Freeman
Henry Austin, aged six, by beating him
on the head with a brick, during an al
tercation which arose while the three
, boys were going home from school, on
the 26th.
One thousand acres Of land lying be.
tween Greeley and Loveland, above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch. will
be plowed this spring and sowed to
: fall wheat next September This land
!, belongs to DR.. ]. T. Youtsey and
] George A. Jackson Of London, and
will be cultivated by the dry-farming
method.
February proved a record breaker
in the building line at Denver. During
the month 233 permits were taken out,
the largest number on record. The
!. I increase ever those issued during the
. same period last year was so. while
the cost of the buildings erected was
$13,93O more than the aggregate
amount expended in January, being
$427.700.
The annual breakfast and election
of officers Sf the Denver Press Club
has been arranged for Sunday morn
, ing, March 10, at the Albany hotel in
, Denver. Among the important mat
tiers to be discussed are the removal
of the headquarters Of the club to n
more desirable location, the establish
rent of a permanent building fund and
} the securing of an extensive library.
-'ke dates for the next livestock
, has been decided to make 1t a national
, shcw, throwing the competition open
to the world, with special classiica-
ton and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show, the short
grass country. The executive commit
Q tee of the, Western Stock Show Asso-
Y citation yesterday set the dates for the
next show for the week OF January
. 20th-25th, 1908.
w. Harold Stewart, twenty years
, old, son Of w. II. Stewart, postmaster
, and ranch owner, Ironton. Colorado.
killed himself at his lodgings in Den
yer at about o'clock Thursday
. morning. Fighting OF an imaginary
assailant while in his sleep, he turned
the muzzle of the weapon to his head
and fired. Circumstances that sur
, | round the affair show that he was be-
: ing tortured by wild visions Of his
sleep, and this alone was responsible.
The February business in the United
, States lano office at Pueblo is record
hroaker shovfnp 227 homestead en-.