The Lamar register., 1890-07-12
COLORADO NOTES.

Denver was dedicated by great NUMBER
OF Masons July 3.
Nearly all of the Denver merchants
have agreed to close their stores at six
o'clock in the evening
Denverites have been suffering from
great heat lately, and many of them are
taking to the mountains.
Beds OF asphalt, almost pure, have
been discovered on the boundary line De-
tween Routt County and Utah
1t is claimed that the coal fields in
Routt County have greater area than
the famous coal fields of Pennsylvania
A cowboy rode horseback seventy
i've miles in six hours on the Fourth in
order to attend a dance at Rocky Ford
and see his best girl.
New money order offices have been
ordered established at the following Colo
RADIO towns: Elizabeth, Antonita, truita
Holyoke, Steamboat Springs and Virgin
ius.
The Manitou people devised novel
illumination on the night of the Fourth
S-,,-,,-,t I,,,,-,l. a. oil ware carried to the
- pm. r,,,.,I, ar,1 ,,oprea upou n pile
- ,,.oo5 ,,.ti.h hair9 lighted made a
-. -. - ~, as f,ra Denver
Pueblo is rejoicing over the fact
that the business done by its postomce
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
amounted to 81, 600, thus placing it in the
rank of first-class postoffices and emitting
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The cornerstone OF the o'a'e col
tol was laid on the Fourth by the Masohs
with imposing ceremonies. Addresses
were delivered by Governor Cooper, eS
Governor Adams and Judge belioru' nc
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The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany are about to place 5000 acres OF land
under the Bessemer ditch upon the mar
liet in eighty-acr tracts, the sale to be
made with a water right in the ditch. The
tracts will be excellent for small farms
and gardens, as the soil is fine and only
needed water to make the land valuable.
r II Bartlett has been arrested at
Seattle, washington, charged with the
embezzlement of a large sum of money
from the Morgan National Bank OF Fort
Morgan, while he was cashier, i Sep
TENDER, 1889. 1t is said that Bartlett was
short $4,000. When arrested Bartlett
was employed as freight clerk on sound
steamer.
Tho Walsh State Eisteddfod met in
,,l .o.sio,, =, .ba rrni+,, Church Dsn.
90. IL. srd Tbe Eisteddfod is an an
lent ins,itntion renresentinp a concourse
of bards and singers, though its exact
origin is unknown 1t is very popular IN
England at the present day. The pro
gramme consisted chiefly OF the rendition
of songs and the delivery of orations for
prizes.
Young man was killed near
fst..rt-rIllc Saturday,. in a runaway acct
dent tbs r1uu was driving team nesr
tsat place. when a hre-cracker was
thrown under the wagon and exploded
i Tue horse Jumped and the man was thrown
frof- the seat. striking the ground on his
bead. The result was fatal. The un-
known gas about % years old and unnar-
rfed. w
The Sa5.e committee on public
lands has made a favorable report on Sen
ator Teller's bill to provide for the dis
posal of the Parosa Springs military res
eryation. in the State of Colorado, to act
ual settlers under the provisions of the
homestead laws. The reservation is no
longer needed or used for military pur-
poses and has been abandoned as mill
tarv reservation by executive authority.
1t contains more than %. 400 acres.
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range Herald, shot and Killed man
named Yoho on the Fourth. The direct
cause of the trouble was an article in the
Durango Herald some five or six weeks
ago, which scored Yoho' severely for re
fusing the loan OF a horse for the purpose
of securing physician to attend woman