The Dolores star., 1908-10-16
COLORADO ITEMS

Denver.
Plans have been prepared for a new
$4,000 hotel to be erected In the busi-
ness section Of Grand Junction.
The cornerstone for the new club
house for the boys Of the First Con-
gregational church at Pueblo was laid
Sunday.
On the University grounds in Den
yer Saturday the University OF Dem
yer football team defeated the eleven
Of the University OF Utah by q score
of IL to is.
The new addition to the Denver
postoffice has finally been occupied
and opened to business. It cost about
$4,000 and is much smaller than was
really needed.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey has announced
his intention Of running for Judge OF
the Juvenile Court in Denver on an
Independent ticket that will contain
only his name.
William Barth. q Denver capitalist.
has bought the Equitable building In
Denver Of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society for 81 100000. 1t Is the
finest business building In Denver.
An examination for steam filter in
the Denver mint, at $3.50 day, will be
held November 5th. Persons desiring
to apply for this position should write
to Werner w. Campbell, secretary,
postoffice building. Denver. for appli-
cation blank.
The county commissioners Of Gilpin
county have appointed Charles e.
Wiley, Democrat, to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the death of County Treas
urer Trezise. A partial examination Of
the books and accounts of the treas
urer's office showed nothing wrong.
DR.. Hugh L. Taylor, state health
commissioner, thinks 1t is not impos.
sible that bubonic plague may appear
japanese laborers who work part OF
the year In California and then come
to this state.
During the year 1907 the state OF
Colorado led in the production Of tung-
sten minerals, 1,146 tons of wOlframite
ore approaching wolframite in compost
tion, valued at $573,642.74, being taken
from the mines located in Boulder
county.
The biggest consignment of bucks
from the big game hunters this year
came into Denver Saturday on the Den
yer q Rio Grande. There were fifty-five
bucks in the shipment and for nearly
every one there was said to be claim
ant with q gun in the passenger coach
es. The deer were from the Rio Blanc0
country round Meeker.
DR.. H. Bowles, veterinary surgeon,
returned to Cripple Creek a few days
since from hunting trip to the Black
mountain county, 60 miles west. bring
ing back one of the largest bald eagles
ever killed in Colorado. The eagle
weighs a little under forty-seven
pounds. and with wings spread out
measures eight feet and one and one
sixteenth inches from tip to tip.
The Denver Symphony Orchestra
Association has been incorporated
with the following directors: ]. A.
Thatcher, e. B. Field, John F. Cam
pion. John w. Springer. w. A. Hover,
Thomas F. Daily, George B. Berger,
o. e. LIE Fevre. Franklin Guiterman.
Philip Feldhauser, Godfrey Schirmer,
William G. Evans. Lucius NJ. Cuthbert
and Z. j. Hughes, Jr.
The new Mennonite sanitarium, four
miles west of La Juuta has been com
pleted. 1t has three stories and was
erected at a cost Of 100000. 1t Is on
the summit of high hill in the center
of 160 acres of land and is equipped
with the latest appliances for the care
of tubercular cases. There is. sufficient
land for tent colony. The santa
rum will be thrown open about Octo-
ber 25th.
Two Of the candidates for state su-
perintendent of public instruction
have katherine" for their first name
and the other two are named Cath
crime" Following are the names as
they will appear on the ballot: Kath-
crime Craig, Republican; Mrs. Rather
inc Cook, Democrat; Catherine
Schooler. Prohibition, and Catherine
Phillips. Socialist Katie is sure to be
elected.
William G. Slower. member of the
first Legislature in Colorado. and a
resident of the state since 1860, died
on the 8th inst at the home of his son,
DIR. G. H. Stover, in Denver. Mr.. Stov-
er was born in Virginia in the year
1841. He came west with a wagon
train and settled on the Big Thompson
river in Colorado. Later he became
interested in placer mining and went
northwest for time. For several
years he ran an ox-wagon train be-
tween Denver and st. Joseph, Missouri.
His next location was at Loveland.
which was then known as old st. Louis.
In 1869 he moved to Fort Collins and
engaged in the mercantile business.
With Charles H. Sheldon he organized
the Poudre Valley Bank, which has
changed its rame to the Poudre Val
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