The Dolores star., 1909-06-04
From Our Exchanges.

Moore, Joe McGrew, Howard Porter,
William Brumley, J. l.. Trimble, J. J.
Moore, J. f. Akin, NJ. /. Myler and
Frank Ritter were arrivals from Dolores
to answer some Of "Uncle Sans"
questions. s..Mancos June l.-l:3O a. m.
fire which threatened to wipe out the
east side Of Main street IL now under
control. 1t started In the johnson
pool hall In the Frank Seirrer house,
and it was only by hard fighting that
the whole side of the street was not
flame swept. Aliens drug store is a
partial loss, while the pool room is
completely ruined. Loss and insuranc
unknown.
Rico Item: Supervisor Of Bridges
Fred Bergner and Yard Foreman
George Z. Haney of the Rio Grande
Southern Force, have taken up home
steads near Dolores and are contem-
plating improving them into paying
ranches. The soil is said to be very
| fine, and is susceptible TO the produc-
ton of large crops of all kinds of farm
produce such as is grown abundantly
in our neighbor county.-Isaac Gard
ner came through by wagon with the
mail from Dunton yesterday, the first
trip made that way this spring, the
road not being passabIe heretofore for
teams on account OF the snow on the
high Meadows.
Telluride Journal:-A stranger blew
into town Saturday night who ap-
peared to have a very good streak Of
luck" as he called 1t. He was able
to beat the slot machine to q stand
still and offered to bet any sum that he
could win. He appeared to have a
feinch and cleaned out the machines.
Sunday morning he blew out again
with nearly 500 which he had coaxed
from the machines at the Sheridan and
National.-At 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing Luther Douglas, who was arrested
Friday night on the charge of embez-
cling about 5000 of dues paid him as
secretary of the local tribe of Red Men,
appeared for preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice of the Peace Undegraff.
He pleaded not guilty and waived ex-
animation; bail was fixed In the sum
OF $3.50, In default of which he was re-
Inanded to the county Jail.
Montezuma Journal.-James Trim
bic, ST., of Dolores has purchased a
large flock Of sheep of Hanson Bayle
Of Grayson, 200 head In all, 1900 of
which are yet to shear, which will be
done next week. Wool has risen sew
eraI cents per pound since the purch ase,
which makes 1t good investment
Cortez has cause for much glee this
week In that arrangements have been
completed between the town council
and Peter O'Brien by which our long
desired water works will now be put in.
Mr.. OBrien has ordered the material,
which he calculates will arrive here in
about five weeks, at which time he
will be here and employ sufficient force
to complete the system In sixty days,
giving US water September 1st. This
will be steel pipe system, one for
which we will not have to explain or
apologize, and will give us adequate
fire protection.
Mancos Times-Tribune.-A Mil
Ter drove q bunch of Navajo stee rs
through town Wednesday which he
had bought up ON the reservation about
the old Wilkins trading post.-Moore
d Lansing took their big engine and
sage brush blowing outfit up to J. F..
Bauer's ranch on Tuesday aud on We'd
nesday put the machine through a
thorough test aud we are glad to report
that the plow is a perfect success ac-
cording to the report Of disinterested
parties who are competent to judge.
The outfit consists Of four huge plows
fastened together In pairs aud each
pair carried by rigid frame mounted
on fOur-wheeled trucks and so con-
structed that they may be as easily
adjusted as any ordinary riding plow.
Each plow cuts thirty inches so that
the four plOws cut a swath of ten feet
at . time, leaves the brush on the top
OF the ground, plows the ground, and
does good job of it, and large rake
attached Immediately behind the plows
rakes the brush, dumps them into
windows like hay and does fairly
good job Of narrowing. The outfit Is
drawn by q 25-horsepower traction
engine and is capable Of clearing aud
blowing from ten to twenty acres Of
sage brush land . day according to
conditions.