The Dolores star., 1908-04-17
COLORADO news

\ remarkable gain OF 35 per cent. over
he same month last year.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved Colorado school indemnity
school land selection list for 1883
acres Of land in the Sterling district
One of the most important features
Of the religious and ethical confer
ence which Is to be held at Colorado
College May 11th-14th. is the Organ
lied Charity's Day." for which spe-
cial program has been carefully pre-
pared.
The assessed valuation Of Fremont
county property is $6.G51 ,134. The
schedule shows that eighteen resi-
dents have property valued at $685.. .63o
and that seventy-five people pay taxes
on 1884 $50. while 1925 others are
assessed on only $2.Sl7. .6s4.
II is stated that the great army of
sheep which passed through Grand
Junction a few months ago under
guard of sixty armed men. en- route
for the ranges of Utah. will return to
the spring grazing ground in Mont
rose county with the same protection.
After two months search. Herman
Pheiffer. formerly Denver fireman.
VINO fell heir to sixth part of
large estate in Germany some three
months ago, has been located in San
Francisco. where he is employed as
bookkeeper with the telephone CON-
pany.
One of the largest shipments OF live
stock ever made from Colorado left
Pueblo on the 11th inst. for Kansas
City. There were fifty -one cars of cat
tie and sheep from the feeding ranches
/ Iar IL. nrI
and Swink. There were twenty-six
cars of steers and twenty-five cars of
spring lambs. The shipment was val
ued at $S1 900.
The first steel ties to be used in lay
ing any extensive section of street
railway in Denver are now being put
down along Arapahoe street, from
Thirteenth TO Twenty-third, by the
Tramway Company in completing the
Denver & Interurban electric line
from Denver to Boulder for the Colo
RADIO & Southern railway. The ties
are shaped like rails. but are not so
heavy. They will last much longer
than wood.
Mrs. Mary E. Price. one of the old
est pioneers Of jefferson county. died
at the home of her son-in-law, viii
liam C. Carroll, at Ralston Crossing
on the 18th inst, aged eighty-five
years. Mrs. Price was born in Ohio
and came to Colorado in 1859. She
leaves three children, Mrs. Alfred
Hurst. Mrs. Carroll and Mrs E. J.
Doyler. Prior to her death there were
five generations of her family living
on Ralston creek.
w. d. Kaessner, who has been EN-
ployed for the last year by the Colo
RADIO Springs Electric Company at its
power plant, left Colorado Springs on
the l1th inst for San Francisco, where
he will join the American fleet on its
trip around the world. He will be as
signed to Admiral Evans flagship. the
Connecticut, as assistant to the chief
engineer. He has already served four
years in the navy and has been in
every European harbor.
The annual encampment of the
! Department of Colorado and Wyom-
ing, Grand Army of the Republic, at
Fort Collins. May goth, 21st and 22nd,
will be enlivened by the attendance
of the members of Custer Post No l
of Laramie. Wyoming, in a body.
They will come in wagons, carriages
and automobiles and will be accom-
| panied by many of the ladies of the
Woman's Relief Corps. At Fort Col
lins they will camp in the field.
Arrangements have been completed
for the tour OF Inspection of the senior
School of Mines class, the finishing
touch to the four years course at the
| state mining school. In charge of a
number of professors. the class of 1908,
numbering fifty-two men, will leave
Golden Tuesday, April 21st. The itin-
erary includes all the principal smell
I ter cities of Colorado. Utah and Mon
tana, with stop OF five days at Butte.
They will return May 18th, one week
before commencement.
The business men of Walden have
organized chamber of commerce to
take up the matter of advancing the
agricultural interests of western Lari-
mer county and twenty acres have
been donated for model farm. 1t is
purposed to put In charge of this
practical and experienced farmer, one
who is acquainted with the climatic
conditions and soil of the section. 1t
is, planned to raise specimen grain,
grasses, forage crops and small
fruits best adapted to the altitude of
North Park.
With the opening of the new Hotel
Boulderado, which has just been com
pleted, the city of Boulder believes ii
will be entitled to prominent mention
among Colorado's summer resorts. The
new hostelry contains 100 rooms and
is located in the heart of the city, just
opposite the postoffice and Elks club.
The hotel proper cost $150.000 and
$4,000 is to be put into furniture by
Denver hotel men who are expected
to open it. The hotel was constructed
by the Business Mems League of
Boulder and has 200 stockholders.
numbering many very prominent citi-
zens of Boulder. 1t will probably be
operated on both American and Eu-
ropean plan and has many balconies.
as well as three corner roof gardens.
1t will be ready for occupancy by
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