The Dolores star., 1909-06-25

ceeded up town to the jewellery estab-
Iishment Of b. J. Sutton. Sutton,
after making . careful test pronounced
them 1s-carat pure, purchasing the
same for $3.50. The chicken was
raised by William Aldred who resides
near the bank Of west Clear Creek
where the gold must have been found.
Fire early Friday morning at La
Junta destroyed . two-story building
and caused the death Of q fire team
and the almost total distructiOn OF the
hose cart and chemical engine. The
fire started In the Lawton carpenter
shop shortly after midnight and when
the driver Of the e'chemical started into
the alley hack Of the shop one horse
stumbled and baked. The other horse
In struggling became entangled in
barbed wire and both animals were
thus held fast and burned until they
had to he shot. Driver Jack Tinsley
received severe burns In trying to save
his team.
For the purpose Of watering $4,000
acres Of heretofore unirrigated land,
located north of Denver, a contract
has been let to raise the Barr lake dam
twenty feet, which will give the lake a
capacity of 10000 acre feet. The rails
ing Of the dam will necessitate the
moving Of the Burlington railroad to
the west about 1900 feet or distance
Of nearly four mile. The intake canal,
will be twelve miles long and will carry
800 cubic feet Of water a second. The
work is to cost $4,000.
Evans now resembles an old fashion
New England town. All dancing must
stop at midnight Saturday nights, and
the days when dancing lasted until
morning and when Sunday dancing
was the fashion, have gone. There
can Ike no pool, billiard or base ball
games, or Sunday athletics under the
new city ordinance. All stores and
shops must he closed on Sunday and
the curfew ordinance is IN force. Two
years ago Evans was town of saloons
aud prize fights, cock fights, etc.
At Boulder Saturday the jury in the
damage suit Of Mrs. Grace Hutchinson
Of Louisville, against r.. M. Patterson,
NJ. p. Fox and David Evans, owners of
the Matchless coal mine, brought In a
verdict for the plaintiff. Mrs. Hutch.
inson asked for 5000, and the jury
awarded her $500. Mrs. Hutchinson
asked to recover for the death of her
husband, who was killed in the mine
January 25 of this year by caveln of
rock In the gallery in which he was
working.
At a meeting held at Garry, fifteen
miles up the Beaver from Brush, Fri
day, preliminary steps were taken to
organize large irrigation district. The
Big Beaver reservoir was surveyed and
filed on three years ago, and planned to
hold about 1900, ,OOO, 600 cubic feet of
water. The estimated cost is $50, 600.
A market for the bonds has been found
Thirty thousand acres more land near
brush will be placed under cultivation.
Robert Benny and others from Cres-
ton, Iowa, on Saturday purchased 5000
acres In the Pierce-CrOw creek country
northeast of Greeley. The. property is
in the Greeley-Poudre irrigation dis
trict and the average price was S22 per
acre. Practically all is what is termed
raw land, without fence or improve
ment. This land will be cut into 100
acre tracts and sold to Iowa farmers.
Two thousand loaves of bread were
dist ributed among the poor of Denver
Friday, by the Salvation Army. The
bread was submitted in contest for
the best loaf of bread baked in gas
range oven. The suggestion that the
bread submitted should be distributed
among the poor was met with unani-
nous approval, and the gas company
notified the Salvation Army that the
bread was at their disposal.
Saturday was Strwberry Day at
Glenwood Spring and 500 cakes and
300 crates of strawberries were fed to
the thousands of visitors.