The Lamar register., 1890-06-21
COLORADO NOTES.


begun.
The First National Bank are about
to erect handsome new building in Grand
Junction.
The anthracite coal mines ut Crested
Butte have opened up again and $50 men
are employed.
Grand Junction is rejoicing over
the completion of the broad gauge line to
Salt Lake City,
1t is said that 1900 men are work
ing on the new railroad between Dallas
and Telluride.
The Denver dailies assert that the
census enumerators of that city are slight
ing their work shamefully.
The Utah authorities have arrested
a Mormon living at Trinidad for polygamy.
He has been taken to Ogden for trial.
Clarence is the name of new town
located five miles below Crystal at the
confluence of Yule and Carbonate creeks
with Crystal River.
The Rio Blanco NesrS says that the
reports from the western part of Routl
County are to the effect that the cattle
losses there will exceed 80 per cent
The State Sunday School Associa-
ton was in session at Boulder last week
A large number of delegates attended and
the meetings were very interesting.
A band of burglars visited Aspen
the other night and went through SIX
stores. They got away with money,
whisky, revolvers and Waterbury watches.
The twentieth annual convention OF
the Colorado State Medical Society was
opened at Denver on the 18th. This con,
vention represents las physicians of the
State
Five parties have been fitted out by
wealthy mining men of Aspen to prospect
for coal, asphalt and the precious metals in
and eastern Utah.
Last Monday during a thunder
storm, Mr.. D. c. Montgomery, an old and
well known citizen of Pueblo, was struck
W Ills Elkut al was SCNSASAN
burned, but he was not otherwise injured.
A fire started near the Denver
Union Depot last Sunday, and did a large
amount of damage to rolling stock. a
large number of freight cars with their
contents were destroyed, and some pas
senger coaches damaged.
The corner stone of Colorado's new
normal school was laid at Greeley June ID.
Speeches were delivered by Governor
Cooper, Senator McCreary, Professors
Cove and Hale. Professor Gray. a prom
inent educator of Minnesota was elected
by the regents as principal of the new
school.
The son of Rev. B. T. Vincent, and
the daughter of Ex-Governor Eaton, had
quite an adventure on the mountains near
Boulder on the night of the 18th They
climbed a very precipitous mountain, and
being overtaken by darkness were unable
to make the descent and wandered about
on the summit all night.
The arrangements for Denver's
Fourth OF July celebration are nearly COM
pleted This will be the occasion for lay
ing the corner stone of the new capitol.
Six bands will Join in the monster process
sion, barbecue will attract the hungry,
and the committee promise free ice water
for the thirsty. The railroads have made
low rates for the occasion.
While a west bound train on the
Manitou branch of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad was nearing Colorado
City the other day the engine struck and
almost instantly killed man named Nc
Gable. He was a workman on the Pixies
Peak road, and came down with three
other companions and filed up on whisky.
McCabe was seated on rail As the
train appeared he got up, but fell back on
the track. He was struck and knocked
about twenty feet.
The convention in the interests Of
charities and corrections met at Denver on
the 18th. The chief object of the organi-
zation is to secure from the State Legisla-
ture the appointment of a State Board OF
Charities to exercise general supervision
of our institutions of charity and correc-
tions. Mr.. j. S. Appel, in opening the con
vention, said: ave assemble to-day for the
purpose of organizing society which shall
endeavor to remedy some of the wrongs
known to exist. We must place men in
these institutions who are familiar with
the best methods of caring for the Deepen
dent people, and bring about needed i'm
provements and reforms, and when we can
show our fellow citizens how much peter
our hospitals, asylums, &c, can be made,
and how the dispensation of charity can be
made wiser and more beneficial, the sym
pathy of the community will be with JUS
and our work of reform will proceed The
following officers were elected President
w. F. Slocum, of Colorado Springs; Treas
urer, Mrs. f. M. Ashley, of Denver; Sec
retaries, G. H. Thompson and Mrs. julia
E. KiIlam.
The Colorado Springs Republic has
on exhibition what it claims to be the
finest elk head and antlers ever. soon l.