The Dolores star., 1908-09-18
COLORADO NEWS

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The Logan county fair At Stirling.
the first for many years. was very sue
cessful.
The University Of Denver has
opened q school of commerce. accounts
and finance. Graduates win be given
the degree Of B. C. S.-Bachelor Com
mercial Science.
The Democratic State Press Asso-
citation held a meeting at Pueblo al
which H. c. Branch Of Denver was
elected president and George NJ. KIM
ball Of Golden secretary.
BY the will OF the late Mrs. Kathryn
Mclaughlin, who died in Denver re-
| Gently, her entire estate escept few
minor bequests will go to the Old La
dies Home Association of Denver. The
income is estimated at $50 month.
The Boulder Fish and Game club has
| been Incorporated, the articles OF fncor-
poration stating that the association
| il not for profit but to stock the
streams and woods of the region with
trout and game. The incorporators are
| Daniel f. McAllister, Peter c. Johnson
and Adam Weber.
Superintendent Deacon OF the Union
| Printers Home will take charge OF
| the homes exhibit at the International
| Tuberculosis Congress in washington,
| d. c., September 21st. A model steam
heated tent, patterned after those
| used at the home. will be a feature
of the exhibit.
A Hartford. Connecticut, dispatch OF
| the 10th inst says that the gray geld
ing trotter, Doctor Harvey. was sold
| ~ ho noL Do today Tn e. E.
Estabrook Of Denver. The considera-
tion was $4,000. and horsemen here
are of the opinion that the Denver
man made a wise move.
Governor Buchtel has appointed Mrs.
J. d. Whitmore of Denver and Mrs.
H. l. Wood OF Trinidad, members OF
the Colorado Travelling Library Com
mission. Their terms will be three
years each and their duties will be to
read and select works best fitted for
the libraries.
Koliang Yih, son of a Chinese admi-
raj and a member of the nobility OF
the Chinese Empire. arrived in Cripple
| Creek from Cornell University few
days since, where he is taking post
graduate course in mining and Will
spend some time in the gold camp In
| vestigating mining conditions.
Forty-two delegates to the National
Irrigation congress have been ap-
pointed today by Mayor West OF Pu-
| eblo and the county commissioners.
The delegates will take a fine display
of photographs and Pueblo products to
the congress and will make a strong
bid to secure the next meeting for
Pueblo.
Mrs. Frona R. Houghan. for thirty
years a teacher in the Denver public
schools and at present principal Of the
Gilpin school, has been named as the
| Denver representative of committee
of educators who will shortly leave for
| Europe where a careful study of the
school systems abroad will be made
with a view to making improvements
In American educational institutions.
During the first twelve days of the
month an approximate total of $4,000
tons of ore has been produced in the
Cripple Creek district. of which $4,000
tons has been shipped to the valley
mills and smelters. The figures ex-
ceed considerably those of the previ-
GUS month and If the weather remains
favorable the output for last month
will be greatly surpassed.
Taft" and Mrs. Taft" the two pet
antelope in the state fish hatchery
near Denver. were killed Tuesday night
by dogs, which leaped the wire inclos
ure and tore the animals to pieces. The
antelope were about year old. and
were presented to the hatchery by the
members Of the state fish and game
commission. one Of the game wardens
having caught them when they were
fawns only few days old.
Fruit shippers are considerably wor
ried over raise In freight rates which
they claim will be in the nature of dis
elimination against Colorado Eacause
the new rate ON fruits from the Pacific
states is the same as that to st. Louis
The tariff on apples from Portland tc
Denver goes up from 80 cents to 81 In
carload lots. The rate on fruits of the
Hood river section in Oregon is ad
vanced rs cents to 80 cents.
The big fruit crop in the North Forl
country has necessitated changes II
the train service on the Rio Grandt
branch from Delta to Somerset. Be
ginning Sunday. September 18th
trains Nos. 377 and 37S, on the NORTH
Fork line. have been changed from
mixed trains to straight passenger
trains. The business of carrying tht
fruit crop to market will be taker
care of by special trains.
Camp Cleghorn, in Las Animas coun
ty, where so or 80 convicts are at worl
on the state highway. Is entirely with
out a guard and the convicts are upol
their own honor. One of their mem
bers patrols the camp at night to keel
hoboes away. Since the guards wer'
taken off there has been no attemp
at escape. and the prisoners openly de
clare that II anyone tries to get ava.
they will assist in having him returne,
to the penitentiary.
Owing to the late season 1t is no
thought that the sugar campaign Il
Weld county will begin until Oct. Isl