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Show COI.ORADO NOTf-S. J. W. Calloway of Montrose was seriously injured by a runaway horse. ). K. Cromwell of Colorado Springs, was fatally injured by a runaway team. Frank Ilricc and John Cray were round guilty of burglary at llusiia Vista. Tho st:ito executive committee of the I'. (. S. of A. is now in session at Aspen. The present term of district court at I'.uena Vista promises to be the longest iu many years. Ibivid llaptiste, a Slarville butcher, lias been missing since the first of Inst week, and friends fear ho has bsou made away ith. The Union l'acitio made a wholesale d'wliarge of switchmen recently at Tpnidad. The reason given was that the men were careless. There are now three groceries, two laloons. a hardware and general store In the camp of Cripple creek, aud a drug store is being completed. Acting Secretary ('handler has affirmed af-firmed the decision of t lie commissioner nf the general land oflice, holding for cancellation the placer application of I,. K. 11. llrown and John W. Kay for the ltoyal K. placer claim in tho Lead-ville Lead-ville district. Ir. llsrllett, county physician at Houlder, received a letter wfiich solves the. mystery as to tho identity of the man who died at Mrs. Frazier's restaurant restau-rant in Moulder July 12. The letter is from the deceased' man's wife, ilis name was Job Thomas, and he came from Oregon City, Oregon, for the purpose pur-pose of working in the mines in Moulder county. The farmers in the Ticinity of Fort Collins have formed a pool and will place their crops in the elevator and employ the farmers' mill to put it into a lloiir product, thereby realizing every cent there is in it. The scheme was tried last fall by a few of the leading lead-ing tarmers and met with marked success. suc-cess. J. S. McClelland, a promineut farmer there, is president of the new pool. The new building of the Colorado Btrtte bank of Durango, has reached the third story and will be one of the finest itructures iu the way of a business block outside of Denver. Tho stone ised is tho Durango purple sandstone, ne of the prettiest, oddest and most lurable of any quarried in this section, the building will probably be completed com-pleted and ready for occupancy by Sep-iembcr Sep-iembcr UO. |