The Dolores star., 1909-04-02
COLORADO NEWS

OUlUhAUU N6WO
Ex-Congressman and Mrs. George
w. Cook have returned from Wash
lngton. d. c.. to Denver.
1t IL now announced that the new
Carnegie Library building in Denver
viii be opened by October LIST.
A movement has been started at
Pueblo to secure q large fund for the
erection Of = Young Mems Christian
Association building.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Ass0cia-
tion has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit of Pueblo made goods
In . centrally located storeroom, to BE-
kept up several weeks in campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries.
The following clerks have been ap-
csfnted to the forestry service: War
Tsn M. Cox Of Durango. to be located
At Sulphur Springs: Colonel Willis A.
Wood Of Durango. located at Fort Col
Inns; Sue Trainor Of Leadville, located
at Leadville.
Colorado Springs delegates to the
annual convention of the American
Federation OF Musicians in Mime
apolis May 10th to 10th. will endeavor
to secure the pro:ected national home
Of that organization for Colorado
Springs.
At q recent meeting in Denver the
Rocky Mountain Baseball league was
organized for the coming season. The
league comprises the following clubs:
Denver Gas & Electric Co., Colorado &
Southern, Continental OIL Co., Colo
RADIO Telephone Co., First National
Bank. Sechrist Manufacturing Co.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Plateau City Water Works
Company OF Grand Junction capital
ised at $4,000. 1t is composed of
prominent Grand Junction property
owners who will Immediately install a
water system which may subsequently
be taken over by the municipality.
The Pueblo state fair directors hsye
decided to change the dates Of the fair
from September 1918 to September
20-25. by request of fruit growers Of
the Western slope, who believe they
can make better showing at the later
dates. They ask that one day Of the
fair be known as Peach day. and one
grower has agreed to donate three car
loads of peaches to be given away to
visitors that day.
It ii stated that Frank Shercliffe,
alias Morris. now in the penitentiary
At Canon City. has employed a lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffe was convicted ON a
charge Of numbering Leadville sa-
loonkeeper, fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner Of Leadville, and was q
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota, where he was acquitted of
q charge Of train robbing.
Warden Cleghorn of the penitentiary
gave a complimentary dinner a few
days since to Chaplain Blake and twen-
ty-two teachers. who have been con-
Quoting the prison school successfully
for the last two years. All the teach
ers are convicts. some Of them being
college graduates. and all the common
branches are taught. The enrolment
Of the school number 1876, among them
being those who have attended COL
lege. while there, are others who can.
not read nor write.
T. J.. Tuttle has been appointed gen.
no
the Argentine Central Railway Com
pany, with Headquarters at 314-15 Colo
rado building in Denver. vice C. A..
johnson, resigned, effective April LIST.
The Argentine Central will open It's
line from Silver Plume to the Waldorf
mine. Mt. Mcclellan and intermediate
points earlier this year than formerly,
probably April 18th. and 1t is proposed
to keep the road open the year around
henceforth.
Farmers reservoir No. I. the first
Of several to be built by Theodore
Jones in southeastern Weld county.
east of Platteville, will provide irriga-
tion for several thousand acres now
cultivated. The capacity Of the Farm
ers' reservoir No. will be 714,435.421
cubic feet of water and the cost will be
$41,577. Ranch Draw reservoir is also
one Of the irrigation enterprises to be
built. 1t will be located about twenty
miles northeast of Fort Lupton, will
have a capacity of 900.000,000 cubic
feet Of water, and cost $4,000.
When any person achieves notoriety,
good or bad. his or her name is i'm
,mediately associated with Denver. A
Denver paper prints the following
Sharon, Pa. special: James H. Boyle,
kidnapper OF Willie Whitla. was mar
rfed about a year ago to Hiss Helen