The Dolores star., 1908-08-07
COLORADO NEWS

The rate fixed TO the @. A. n. ma
tional encampment at Toledo. Ohio,
from Denver and Colorado common
points IL S4s.zS.
The grand council Of the Red Men
Of Colorado will be In session at Pueb-
10 Aug. 10th, 1lth, 18th and delega-
| ti0ns from all over the state are ex-
| pected.
Number 1, volume /, OF the Rocky
| Ford Daily Gazette, was published
and publisher. and w. H. Butterfield.
assistant manager.
One thousand dollars has been appro-
priated by the city council Of Den
yer to entertain the annual convention
Of the American Federation Of Labor
| In September.
Attorney-General Herbert 8. Hadley
| of Missouri, who, with his family is
locaed temporarily at the e. H. Cook
home at Boulder, will address the ma
tional convention At attorneys-general
| at Denver August goth. and will de-
scribe his fight with the Standard Oil
people.
| Water Commissioner Autrey Of
Boulder states that Notwithstanding
the heavy rains little Of the flood
| waters got into the storage reservoirs.
on account OF the heavy flow coming
down at night. after washing out the
headgates or choking the inlets with
| debris.
In a fight between two inmates OF
the Boulder county poor farm. T. X.
Bracken, aged about seventy-five years.
was knocked down and badly beaten by
an insane inmate name Jack Noland.
Brack wls taken to the University hos
pital, where 1t was stated that he
might recover.
| l.. w. Felter will start from Canon
City on a trip around the world Au-
gust goth. He will sail westward from
Seattle on the Both In the steamship
Minnesota, visiting in the Philippines,
Japan and China. In India he will spend
several months in studying the mis-
sionary work among the natives.
John C. Sitterer of Denver has been
elected professor of civil and irriga-
tion engineering at the University Of
Wyoming in place Of Herbert T. No
well, resigned. Professor Sitterer is a
graduate of the University OF Ohio
and from the civil engineering de-
partment Of the University of Denver.
While driving across dry arroyo
Wednesday night near Maitland, Huer-
fano county. John Wondergern. . six
teen-year-old boy, was caught by q
flood Of water, which came down the
arroyo in . wall six feet high. and was
drowned. and his younger brother was
saved only by being washed into q
wire fence.
Ground has been broken at Fort Col
Inns for warehouse for the sugar COM
pany which will have q capacity Of
10000 sacks, thus giving the factory
total warehouse capacity Of 350.000
sacks. A large storage plant is also
being built to be used In case of short
age in the city water supply. for flum-
ing the beets.
BY the flooding Of the Gunnison tun.
cloudburst, fifteen men working In
the tunnel four miles from the river
portal, almost lost their lives. But
for the timely warning they had. and
the noise made by the rushing Of the
water through the tunnel, they would
have been entrapped. They were
working near the 700-foot air shaft
and made their escape through this.
Tho State Normal summer school al
Greeley has closed its sessions after
the most successful term in its history
Over 800 students attended the school
and all did double work. The greater
number Of the students we're teachers
principals and superintendents and
many were from the East. preferrina
tn. Colorado school to the training
schools In their own state.
Grant M. Lucy, for two terms county
clerk of Routt county. died at Denver
July 2Sth at the home Of James N
Marvel. Death was caused by stomach
trouble. He had been long sufferer
and a few days before his death un
derwent an operation. Mr.. Lucy wal
one of the early settlers in Routt coun
ty. Four years ago he was elected
county clerk of Routt and reelected
two years ago.
The directors of the Kansas-C Colo
RADIO Railroad Company had meeting
J at Pueblo ON the 31st ult.. and let I
J contract for the construction Of the L,
Junta and Kansas divisions Of thu
| road. The contracts were awarded t.
A. B. Hulit, who represents the North
: ern Electrical company, and included
grading, ties and steel bridges. Mr.
Hulit announces that work will be be
: gun within ninety days.
A large party of negroes have mad,
application at the Pueblo land offic,
! for homestead claims at Elliott, fifteeI
miles southeast OF Fountain. The ne
groes are headed by A. Lyle. vel
=. known colored man Of Colorad,
Springs. They intend to cultivat,
: land under the dry farming system
;, and II more of the race can be In
> duced to Join them, will organize
cooperative colony.
In anticipation OF the heavy business
expected to result from the completion
of the Western Pacific. the Denver 4
3 Rio Grande is preparing to double tract