The Lamar register., 1889-12-14
HOME AND ABROAD

ue COTl DOuSe, lo"a, Jun al
nounces that they have been publish
ing paper for year on wind, and
up or get no paper.-Attorney Bost-
wick has been sick at Las Animas.-
Mrs. G. M. Dameron for many years
n resident of Las Animas died at St
Joe, Mo-, last week.-The settlers of
Klowa county have organized to pro
tect their property from range cattle.
"A La Junia preacher goes for
dancing in poetry and gets the same
prlnted.-The friends of Sheriff Par
sons of Bent county will regret to
hear that his wife is very ill.-Corn
in eastern Kansas is sold as cheap as
thirteen cents a bushel Stealing
from claim houses in the vicinity of
Chivington has caused the settlers to
swear vengeance if the thieves are
eaueht-Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Ellis
near ChivIngton, celebrated their sill
yer wedding one day last week.
The young people at Springfield find
amusement in giving taffy pulls.-E
S. Martin near Springfield last week,
planted fifteen acres in black locust
seed.-Foretelling the weather is all
guess work in Colorado, and the
guessing Is mighty poor.-G. A.
Watson and the New brothers are
constructing reservoir near Mulvane
that will hold sufficient water to irri-
gate their land.-1t is said of news,
paper men, that they are abused and
cursed So much, that when they come
to die they are not afraid of hell or
anything else, go die happy.
Dye of Rocky Ford has received two
dozen ARIZONA quail, and will turn
them loose on a ranch IN the spring.
The Rocky Ford Watermelon says
with an air of truth, that ten new
families have located in that vicinity
the past month.-The Iron Hand is
the name OF new paper at Bessemer
suburb of Pueblo.-Fifty or sixty
Mormon families are expected to set
tie in the San Luis valley by spring.
There Is already quite settlement
of that faith over there.-Rev. DR..
Jackson, of Bloomington, Illinois,
has gone back on the devil idea, he
says there is no deyll.-Snow is from
three to ten feet deep in the noun
tains, and will increase in depth be-
fore 1t begins to melt.-The cattle
growers will hold convention at
Fort Worth, Texas, in March.-The
superintendent of the Leaveuworth
soldiers home announces that no
more old soldiers can be cared for
there until further notice.-We are
under obligations to Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker for bis annual report
for the fiscal year ending June 3oth,
1ss9.-Trinidad is trying to raise
fifty thousand dollars to advertise
the town.. S. Bennett and w. d.
Kelsey two lawyers at Holyoke, were
taken out by a mob last Saturday
night and whipped nearly to death,
no reason for the act was given, but
it is supposed the punishment was
administered on account of the part
the lawyers are taking in an elec-
tion contest.-M. L. Cook city clerk
of Aspen skipped with nearly two
thousand dollars of the city money.
lie was arrested in Ohlo.-The Pueb-
10 Merry World is still after McKin-
ney of the Press.-Judging by the
daily papers, politics is one of the
chief industries of the United States.
Kansas has prohibition but it keeps
all the temperance workers of the
state busy to keep it.-President
Marvel of the Santa Fe passed east
on q special Mopday.-Fort Union,
New Mexico, will be abandoned next
srring.-The Las Vegas Optic says
the street cars do not run 10 that city
Sundays because the drivers all at
tend church.-The Arkansas valley
is the most pleasant part of Colorado
in winter time.-Snow storm in the
mountains Tusday, bright and warm
the same day in this valley.-Mrs.
Scott Lord sister of Mrs. President