The Dolores star., 1908-04-24
COLORADO news

] COunt8 uab utSu ulcu III DibtfICt SouTt
at Durango against Charles E. McCon-
City State bank.
/ Pains famous Carnival and Naples"
and Eruption Of Vesuvius" Will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
! in Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition. September
7th TO 18th.
The executive board of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative union has
named g. z. Schnech of Pueblo as rur-
chasing agent. He will buy all sup
plies at wholesale rates and deliver
them to the members of the union.
Pardon Saylers of Ell Paso county was
named as organizer
While riding horse through a gate
on the ranch of his uncle between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs. April
18th. Roy Doud. aged twenty-five was
killed. The horse SHE'D and Doud was
thrown of. his head striking a gate
| post. The force of the blow was such
that his skull was crushed and he
lived but few minutes.
The members of the Senior Class
Of the Colorados Agricultural College.
who will graduate In Horticulture in
June. will help to prune the utility for
est plantation of Mr. F. j Chamber
lain Of Denver. The work will be ac-
complished under the direction of Prof
4 b. O. LOngyear of the Department of
Botany and Horticulture
| Henry Burd. who was charged with
shooting and killing George s. Dubois
at Balarat some time ago, was re-
| leased at Boulder on motion of District
Attorney Van Horn. Later evidence
secured, 1t Is said. showed that Dubois
fired two shots before Burd fired. Two
bullets supposed TO have been fired in
Burd's direction were found and both
fitted Dubois revolver. One was in
the wall and the other in a meal bag.
Doctors testified at the preliminary ex-
animation that Dubois could not have
fired after receiving his wound.
The jury in the Taylor case at Glen
wood Springs April 18th returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree. This verdict carries a
penalty of from ten years to life i'm
prisonment IN the penitentiary. The
crime with which Taylor is charged
was the killing of his wife Eat Coal
Bason, Pitkin county. July 10. 1907.
He was given a trial at Aspen. the
| jury disagreed and a change of venue
was taken to Garfield county. A hard
fight was made to clear Taylor on the
| ground that the woman had committed
suicide.
| Captain Thomas J. Sipple. who was
for Ave years sheriff of Boulder county
died April 18th at the University hos
pital in Boulder after a surgical opera
ton for tumOr 1t proved to be OF
cancerous growth and so badly were
internal organs decayed that death
followed. Captain Sipple was sixty
three years old April list. He gained
his title by his services on steam
boat. He Joined Company F. Ninth
Rhode Island volunteers and served
through the War of the Rebellion. Cap
tain Sipple came to Colorado and 10.
Gated at jamestown in 1882. Before
his election as sheriff he served as un.
dersheriff under o. c. Hansbrough.
At meeting in Denver details were
completed for the formation of a new
Colorado organization to be known as
the Merchants association. The Colo
RADIO Manufacturers association is be.
hind the new organization. which
| is formed to make war on
the mail order houses which
| are constantly invading the ru-
raj districts to the detriment of small
merchants. Every merchant in Colo
RADIO will be eligible for membership
and the aim of the association will
be to cut out the catalogue houses of
| the East from Colorado. A committee
was appointed to arrange for perma-
nent organization. consisting of c. d.
| Griffith, A. ID. Lewis, l.. B. Bridaham
| r. Hardesty, Fritz Thies of Denver and
| c. J. Haines of Pueblo
Reports made at recent meeting of
the Colorado Prison Association show
that during the year 1904, eighty appli
cants for relief were taken care Of In
1905, LOG were cared for and during the
! first quarter of 1908 the association
| has received applications from 115 The
association secured employment for
eighty of the lis applicants, there be-
ing many of the others who did not
need to apply for work. Since the first
of the present year the association has
furnished SIT meals, PSI lodgings ana
forty-three lots of clothing and bedding
| Transportation has been procured for
twenty applicants, money has been
loaned to nine, two have been provided
with tools, medical attention has been
rendered three others and two families
have been supplied with coal.
This dispatch was sent out from
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst:
| Although their combined ages aggre
| gate 142 years and the prospective
groom is embarking on his fourth and
| the bride-to-be on her third matri-
monial venture, c. A. Gordon and Mrs
Eva McCoach today secured license
and will be married tomorrow. Cor
| don is eight-six and is employed by
| the street car company. He has lost
three wives, been around the world
four times, is veteran of the Civil
War and of two East Indian wars, in
one of which he was an English army
officer. He was married the first time
| when only sixteen and has been res
ident of Ell Paso county forty-nine
years. Mrs. McCoach is fifty-six and
| haS two divorcad hui handS l,.inu