Chester Helmick and Mack Carver were found guilty by the jury in the district court last week of having kidnapped a young Arriola girl, and were sentenced to serve two to five years in the penitentiary. The two young men took two young girls of the Arriola neighborhood with them to Denver last summer remaining there about two weeks. The trial was presided over by Judge Geo. W. Bruce, of Montrose.
Mrs. Marion Smith recently had a bad fall in her home and sustained a break to her leg that she had just been recuperating from. Mrs. Smith was injured last summer in a bad car accident.
Marion Smith, Otis Smith, Glen Bill and Sylvester Smith (The three last named from Oklahoma) and Lee Elder went to the Gunnison country last week to hunt elk, but they had a fine trip.
Deer killed this year so far have been few in number and as the paper goes to press we have but five bucks to report: Lloyd Pyle, M. Smith, Chas. Rash, Pat White and T. W. Caylor, each having made good. There may be more to report next week as all the hunters have not returned.
On Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m., members of the Ft. Lewis college faculty will be at the Memorial hall in Dolores with equipment to show moving pictures of various events in the basin as well as some reels of commercial pictures. These pictures are taken on the small size, 16 mm films, and have the sound feature with them. At the close of the program there will be an opportunity given to discuss the proposed amendments to the constitution which will appear on the ballot this fall.
Dolores always fares in the worst way possible when it comes to allocation of any sort of highway funds. Recently it was announced a certain sum of money was to be spent for construction "east of Dolores." This was intended to be used building a section of road from the town limits to the forest boundary. Except that someone in highway circles saw fit to gum the works and throw the project into a controversy over right of way.
The world price of silver hit a new high Monday when the white metal was quoted at 55 1/4 cents per ounce. This in no way affects the domestic price of 64 1/8 cents for newly mined domestic silver. The Chinese government placed an export charge of 10 per cent on silver which caused the raise.
A crew of seven men of the Western Union telegraph company came in last week and is here at the job of repairing the company's line through this territory. The work will be completed about the end of this week.
Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Clark returned last Friday form their trip east which included a visit to the Chicago fair.They had a splendid trip.
Musgrave & Calhoon, local Dodge-Plymouth dealers, report the sale of a Plymouth sedan to Jesse Armstrong and a Dodge pickup to Harlan Withers, both residents of Summit Ridge.