Bent County register., 1888-12-15

he people ot tnis STATE pe'e'e
there is but one Colorado, and that
is good enough for them. Just such
satisfaction makes country.
The eating-house at Wellington,
Kansas, Is being moved to Coolidge
to take the place of the one tha,
burned down = few weeks ago.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church at Rocky Ford will give an
entertainment Christmas eve. for the
children of their Sunday school.
Lamar once had = building and
loan association and board of trade,
what has become of them, there is
work for both in the near future.
A merchant at La Junta draws Gus
tom by keeping barrel Of cider on
tap free to his customers. We would
like TO see the scheme tried in Lamar
The sixth annual meeting of the
Boulder County Pioneers was held
at Boulder Tuesday, they talked over
old times, had big supper and
dance.
John Snowberger twelve year
old boy Black Hawk had one of his
feet mashed SO badly by a heavy
loaded wagon that it had to be am
putated.
There is not much wheat raised in
the vicinity of Lamar, so far, but
there will be, and inside of two years
we expect TO see large Touring mills
right here.
The business men of Rocky Ford
have petitioned the editors of the
two papers of that town to consoli-
date, as they do not feel able to sup
port two papers.
The Chivington Chief says there
is too much monkey business going
on in that town, pow if You know
what that means, you know what the
trouble is at Chivington.
The editor of the Fort Garland
Republican killed deer last week,
and is doing good deal of blowing
about it, he says he can kill deer
now every pop, some pops.
Pusblo wants E,,Sen. Chilcot elect
ed Sen. this winter bu. then this is
only QUE of the many things Puel.
10 wants, an item OF interest would
be something they did not want.
Las Vegas, New Mexico, is max
ing strong effort to have laud of
fce established there. 1t no doubt
can be done, Lut 1t takes time and
hard work, with considerable influ
ence.
| Frank Barker, of Las Vegas, n.
NJ, poor hoy, is extremely anxiou.
to hear from his father, Geo. w. Bar
ker, and his four sisters aud two
brothers, whom he thinks are living
somewhere in Colorado.
The Gulf road has given motto,
that they Will sell tickets for two
hundred miles from a station at hall
rates beginning the oath. tickets good
until the first of January, they are
called holiday tickets.
The interesting communication.
headed Land Office, and signed Reg
lister, will soon drop out of the demo.
crat papers and then won't they howl.
the government and everything else
will look to them like it was going
to the dickens.
If Kansas man goes down to
kan,as City to make inquiries at the
stock yards as to the hog market, his
local paper is sure to say there was
no political significance to his trip.
They are politicians in that country
and Colorado is not much behind.
Hardly day passes but what we
see an account in the papers of boys
being either badly injured or killed
while playing about the cars. Some
of the school children in this town
follow the dangerous practice of
craving under trains while they are
standing at the depot or on the cross
ing one block west.
We see it stated in some of our ex-
changes that Judge ID. ". Frost, of
Dodge City, is an applicant for the
position of Register of the Garden
City land Office. Judge Frost has
done much good service for the re-