The Dolores star., 1908-09-11
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The State Bank Of Kersey. capital
lied at $4,000, has been organized
with B. P. Brooks president and D. M.
Dccamp cashier.
BY the will Of the late Andy Nc
Nillen. the pioneer stockman Of
Evans, his estate, valued at $4,000.
u left to his widow and five children.
Practically the entire crop OF onion
seed grown In northern Colorado has
been harvested. Robert Boyd. near
Greeley. harvested an eighty-five-acre
field.
A COW belonging to J. w. Anderson
was Kill I'd at Greeley few days since
by veterinarians because they be-
1ieve the animal was suffering from
hydrophobia.
Thomas Conway. aged hfty-nve. one
OF the Oldest and most popular pas
senger conductors on the Rio Grande
railroad, died at his home In Grand
Junction on the 3rd inst. after long
illness.
The State Beard Of Health has de-
cided that hereafter all persons who
deal in food stuffs liable to contamina-
tion by dust and flies. must screen
whatever they display to the public
and keep 1t screened.
Dolores county must pay Bird 8.
Coler, former comptroller OF New
York City, and his business partner.
Leonard II. Fowler, $65. 5.137.05 as the
result of a decree entered by Judge
Lewis Of the Federal Court. The
amount Is due on funding floating in
debtedness bonds issued by the county
In 1885 and 1886. which the county has
left unsettled.
The State Railroad Commission has
sent an order to all of the railroads
operating In Colorado urging them to
give more attention to the handling
of shipments by freight. Many COM
plants have come to the commission
from various parts of the state OF late
in regard to trouble about securing
cars for transportation OF fruit and
perishable goods.
Harry G. Browne. superintendent OF
the Rocky Ford Electric Company. was
instantly killed on the night Of the "a
Inst. by coming In contact with the
large fly wheel. His skull was split
open and death was instantaneous. He
is survived by widow, and his mother
resides in Cripple Creek, while a hall
brother, Frank Glenn, is paymaster OF
the Portland mine at Victor. Browne
was thirty-eight years old.
Thomas Luxen, a wealthy Rio Blanco
cattleman living four miles north OF
Rifle, Colorado, is defendant In dam.
age suit filed In the Federal Court ae
Denver, charging him with having al
lowed cattle and horses to Craze upon
the Battlement national forest reserve.
Mr.. Luxen is said to have taken
chances in the hope that q favorable
decision will be reached In the United
States Supreme Court.
The county commissioners Of Pitkin
county have instructed the county
treasurer to accept the certifi I'd check
for 3,151.3S and the personal check for
$227.oS given by ex-County Treasurer
William H. McNichols to cover the al
legged shortage created during his term
OF office and his half of the expenses
for the recent accounting of the coun-
ty books. and have also instructed that
the civil suit against McNichols be
dismissed.
Colorado's peculiar advantages as a
RidCc Va ICCupCIdtlOh RCASoAo Dull
fering from pulmonary tubercular
troubles are to be set before the medi-
cal fraternity of the world most forci-
bly, at the International Congress on
tuberculosis, which will take place in
Washington. d. c.. September 21st to
October 18th. The state will be rep
resented by large and able delega-
tion of prominent medical practition-
ers.
The official call for a Colorado Min
ing convention, to be held in Denver
Sept. 10th and 11th, has been taken
cognizance of by the majority of the
mining men throughout the state. Let
ters are being received at Denver by
Secretary James F. Callbreath, Jr.,
stating that the miners are organizing
in the numerous camps and mining CEN
ters of the state, for the purpose Of
naming members to attend the conven-
ton.
The formal opening Of the Sanitary
,company's canning plant at Brighton
took place September 1st. This COM
pany is the successor of the Wilmore
Canning Company late of Denver. The
company has just completed a plant
costing about $4,000 to can tomatoes
and other garden produce. There
were several hundred people present
at the opening. Refreshments were
served and music was furnished by the
management.
At Fort Collins on the End inst. s. H.
Atwater Of Canon City, for eleven sue
cessive years president of the State
Sunday School Association, was again
elected to that office. In addition to
the erection Of Mr.. Atwater, president,
the convention chose the following Offi-
GERS: Vice president, H. C. Johnson of
Fort Collins; vice president of the
western slope, F. F. Frazier of Mont
rose: secretary. w. R. Hardy of Rocky
Ford; treasurer, C. S. Watson of Den
yer.
At Leadville on the End inst. after