The Lamar register., 1890-10-11
STATE NEWS.
The Santa Fe ticket office at Pueblo
was robbed of $3.50 the other night.


Collins is to receive $4,000 from the gen.
eral government
Fifty million dollars worth of real
estate changed hands in Denver during
the first nine months of 1880.
One Thousand dollars worth OF val
liable apparatus from Germany has been
added to the physical laboratory at Colo
rado College.
The State Normal school opened at
Greeley on the Sth. Over sixty students
have entered SO far and more are expected
late in the season.
A Denver Judge has decided that
member of the Colorado National Guard
cannot be compelled to drill on Sunday In
time of peace.
The output OF the Leadville mines
was l sos tons daily for the month of Sep
tember, or an actual hoisting Of one and
one-fifeh tons per minute during the
month. This is an increase Of forty-two
tons daily over August and is the largest
output ever recorded in the history OF
Leadville.
Z. NJ. Ashley, chairman of the Re-
publican State Central Committee, IN
whom was vested the power to decide the
contest between the factions Of the party
in Arapahoe County, has recognized the
Fifteenth Street Theatre convention to be
the legal one. This convention was con-
troled by what are called the gang
smashers," and their county ticket is
therefore recognized as regularly nom
mated.
Great preparations are being made
for the dedication of Del Norte's Masonic
Temple on the 10th inst Judging from
the sale of tickets there will be very
large crowd present a dancing floor 50x
100 feet has been secured and the Masonic
building is being fitted up in grand style.
The dedication will take place on the even
ing of the closing dav of the Jockey club
races and a very large crowd will be in at
tendance.
Several conductors on the cable
lines in Denver have been arrested for
stealing from the company. They are
required to register every fare collected
by bell punch, which is supposed 10 be
sure preventive for stealing. They
succeeded, however, in getting duplicate
punches and with these they registered
about three dollars per day less than they
actually collected.
About 10 o'clock Tuesday morning
while the Denver & Rio Grande express
was making short curve one mile east
| of Sargent three sleepers and one tourist
car left the track and turned over an their
sides. August Boeringen, young man
aged % years, of Efingham, Illinois, was
standing on the platform of the tourist car
and he was instantly killed. His left side
was crushed and his legs broken. He was
on his way to California. About eight
others were injured, but none seriously.
Miss Maud Clarke, teacher in the
Greeley schools, was treated to novel
surprise the other afternoon in the school
room. One of the pupils brought in a rat
tlesnake supposed to be dead, and laid it
on her table as curiosity. Little atten-
tion was paid to the snake, and in a few
| minutes it was noticed in the corner OF the
room, having recovered consciousness and
crawled from the table. The plucky
school mai am dispatched his snakeship on
the spot, and without any unusual pertur-
baton. The snake had seven rattles.
F. Hogdon, for three years county
clerk of Delta County, has skipped leav-
| ing some of his most faithful friends in the
| lurch. In August he attempted to get a
| loan on his wife's ranch by forging her
name to the proofs, but the forgery was
| detected and he barely escaped arrest. A
| short time ago he bought some cattle from
| Moses Ford, a man who was one of his
| bondsmen. He paid part on the same and
| gave his note for the balance, forging his
| wife's name as security. He Immediately
secured a loan On the cattle and left fol
parts unknown.
| Two men were killed and one fatally
injured by an explosion of giant powder al
the Humboldt mine, jamestown, at noon
| Wednesday. The men had Just quit work
| and went to the blacksmith shop to ge,
their dinners. They were thawing ou,
| giant powder, and for some reason it ex-
| ploded. The men killed were Harry At
kinson, nephew of Mrs. Joseph Mcintosh,
| whose husband was killed near jamestown
by premature explosion last year, ard
| Hugh Morgan. Both men were literally
| torn to pieces. A man named Miles died
| subsequently.
An explosion very peculiar in its
character and which might have resulted
| far more seriously occurred in East Pueb-
| 10 Sunday evening. A colored family
| named Dalton, lately from Silver Cliff.
| moved into q new house and three of their
members were sitting around the stove
when an explosion occurred. Nora, girl
of Is years, was seriously burnt about the
| face, neck and arms, while Mrs. Dalton
and boy of were not so seriously
scorched. They had replenished the fire
with shovelful of chips and shavings left
by the.builders and it is supposed that some
powder carelessly left around had become
mixed with the rubbish
A man named Frank Rossi was
brought to Durango, Monday morning
charged with wantonly killing an aged
man at George Dicks place, in Thompson
Park, Sunday afternoon about five O'Clock.
Rossi, with number of countrymen, had
been working on the Rio Grande Southern
grade. He is quite a large man. Sunday
afternoon he went behind the bar at Mr..