The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1890-05-03
STATE NEWS.
Stone is said TO be the leading pro.
duet of Boulde. County

lHefS were 1,uoS CAhNTeu AZ tht
Leadville schools last year.
The drummers of the United States
are to meet in Denver in June.
Almost every day brings the news
of an accident at Aspen in which miner
is killed or injured.
A man at Fairplay has been SEN
fenced to seven years in the penitentiary
for beating his wife.
The Divide Coal and Oil Develop
ment Company of Monument has let
contract for well 900 feet deep.
Base ball games at Denver are to
be taxed on the ground that they are
places of amusement as much as theaters
are
The grand jury at Durango has re-
turned twenty indictments against saloon
keepers in that town VINO have kept open
or Sunday.
Ex-senator Tabor has called u
meeting of the vice presidents of the Col
orado Silver Association to meet in Den
yer, May Sd.
The Castlewood reservoir, above
Castle Rock, IS still being pushed toward
completion. About one-haIt OF the ditch
is completed.
Three hundred Odd Fellows cele-
brated the seventy-first anniversary Of
the order in America, at Salida last Sat
urday. People came from all the ueighoor-
ing towns.
The county commissioners of Logan
County are offering premiums for the
largest yield of sugar beets on one square
rod of irrigated land, and also for the
largest yield on unirrigated land.
j. L. Brush. president OF the Colo
RADIO Cattle Growers Association says he
has been in the live stock business for a
number of years, but in all his experience
he has never seen so much to encourage
! cattle men as at present.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany have secured a large contract from
the Union Pacific railroad. The order is
for seventy-tive pound rails, and will keep
the steel department at Pueblo busy TIL
late in the winter to I'LL it
Col. E. s. Nettleton, OF Denver, is
conducting an investigation as TO the ar
tesian basins of the West, and the proba-
bility of water being obtained In that way
for irrigation purposes. The government
has appropriated 10000 for the survey.
\ Colorado Springs gentleman. who
has been addicted to drinking has Just
~
in the future. The papers call attention
to the fact in order to dissuade peopleifrom
following the pernicious custom Of offer
ing to treat him.
The gold washers working in the
gulches west of Elizabeth find consider
able quicksilver which was lost from
sluice boxes when the gulches were worked
years ago. IN nearly every instance the
quicksilver has collected all the gold that
would adhere to it
A distressing accident occurred 10
Colorado Springs last Thursday. A i've
year old child of c. E. Knapp got a loaded
revolver out of trunk and snapped it at
mis- baby brother, shooting him through
| the eye, causing instant death. The boy
was too young TO know what he was
doing.
| The United States Supreme Court
has rendered decision in the celebrated
Sierra Nevada mining case, involving The
| title TO a claim near Leadville, claimed by
the Iron Silver Mining Company. The
| Supreme Court reversed the decision OF
the Colorado Circuit Court, and remanded
| the case back for a new trial, which viii
give the Iron Silver people another chance
Senator Teller has prepared the
following amendment TO the Jones' silver
| bill now before the Senate: That any
| person may deposit at any mint or assay
Office of the United States either gold OF
silver bullion. or both, in Quantities of not
less than five ounces of gold or eighty
ounces of silver, aud demand and receive
coin or coin certificates therefor at the
rate of 81 in coin or certificate for twenty
| five and eight-teuths grains, troy weight,
| standard gold, and at the rate OF 81 in GER
tificates for 4l2js grains standard silver.
That coin certificates provided for in this
act shall be receivable for all taxes and
dues TO the United States of every de
scription, and shall be lawful tender for
the payment of all debts public and pri-
vate.
A dispatch from Aspen says: \
warrant is out for Santos Sierra for hav-
| ing offered the street commissioner IS a
month if he would employ his team. II is
believed there has been much of this kind
Of work done in the past, and the mayor is
| determined to break it up. The affairs Of
the city appear to have been conducted ir
@ scandalously loose manner IN all the de
| partmeuts, Each officer seems TO have