The Lamar register., 1890-08-02
STATE NEWS.

793. IS last year.
One hundred women are employed
In the Longmont canning factory in put
ting up tomatoes.
The Postal Telegraph has now
reached Denver and will compete with the
Western Union.
A mountain lion escaped from his
cage in Denver last Sunday, and ran a
muck. He hurt no one and was iassoOed
BY cowboy.
Two men named Hudson and Sulh-
van living rear New Castle recently had
difficulty about line fence and last Friday
it eliminated in Hudson killing Sullivan.
Warren Richardson, who disappear
ed from Guhnison last October, and who
w-s thought by some to have left the
country, was killed in the forest by fal-
ing tree. His body has Just been found.
Eastern Colorado is going TO have
a big corn crop this year, and with little
more rain bids fair to yield from sixty to
seventy bushels 20 the acre. Prepare
lions will be made for several large ele-
vators and corn cribs at various points the
coming fall.
The semi-ofiicial statement of the
census supervisor puts the population Of
Pueblo and the Bessemer suburbs at
nearly $4,000. This is the only city in the
United States which has donbled its pop
ulation in two years, the census returns
in, cb br,r IL 5QO
The Monte Vista Graphic reminds
its readers that General Fremont had an
encounter with the Indians at Wagon
Wheel Gap while on one of his expeditions
up the Rio Grande, and that famous re
sort was named from the large number oil
wagons abandoned after the battle.
Delta fruit growers feel iubilant
over their extensive fruit crop which is
finding ready sale at good prices all over
the State A better price Is realized this
year from the fact that the fruit crop is
virtually e failure in adjacent counties,
nearly all of which are being supplied
from Delta.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua
Assembly closed its fourth session on the
soth. a number of diplomas were dis
tributed to those in the State who have
read the four years Chautauqua course.
A large number of people oamped or oc-
cupied cottages in Glen Park during the
sessions.
The little 6-year-old son of j. NJ
Burkhart, a citizen of Trinidad, was
drowned at Stouewall last Friday. The
family are spending the summer at their
mountain ranch, and the little fellow in
attempting to cross the creek on plank,
fell in. No one was near at the time and
when his body was found life had been ex-
tinct some time.
Pueblo people are great consumers
of water Besides having two of the
largest water works systems TO be found
in the West, there are four teams deliver
ing artesian water, five teams delivering
Oio water, one delivering sulphur water,
two delivering Manitou water, and the
amount of river water sold by the milk
men cannot be told.
The officials of Boulder are shrewd
men and alive to the interests of their
city. The title to the ranch, where the
upper or mountain reservoir for their
water works IS to be located is not very
clear. City officials, TO avoid expensive
law suit, damage suit, etc, filed upon
twenty acres of the ground as placer
claim. This will give the city more
ground than is needed, and without
lengthy and expensive litigation.
THE Sheriff at Leadville threatens
to close the gambling houses which it is
said will be done to get even with the city.
It has been the custom for years for the
county to board the city prisoners. Last
week the city decided to take their prison
ers away from the county and board them
themselves. This takes snug sum of
salary from Sheriff Ryan, and to get ever
he now intends to close the gambling
houses, thus throwing the city out of Sl2,-
600 year in licenses.
The students at the State School of
Mines are to be provided with a gymnas-
ium The gymnasium with the ante
rooms, bath rooms etc, occupies the whole
of the basement floor in the new building.
1t is twenty feet from floor TO ceiling, and
forty by sixty feet in size, making, when
fitted up according to plans, one of the
best gymnasium in the State. 1t will be
ready for use at the beginning Of the next
school year, September 20. Classes in
physical culture will be held twice week.
Mr.. Bennett, an artist from Omaha,
Nebraska, who has been camping on
Prospect Mountain near Leadville, lost
all his possessions Sunday through fire
which had been started in some timber by
loggers. Mr. Bennett has been occupying
q cabin on the edge of the timber for some
time, where he had taken his oils, canvas
and several views of Colorado scenery,
which he was painting for Eastern pur-
chasers. He was on an opposite hill when
hs noticed the fire and could not reach the
cabin in time to save anything.
The Union Pacific ticket Office at
Seventeenth and Larimer streets, Denver.
was robbed early Tuesday morning by
skilled burglars. Between sl,7O0 and
81 500 in gold, silver and notes constituted
the ,plunder. Entrance to the building
was gained through transom on a side
door or Seventeenth Street. The build
ing has large plate glass windows which
face both on Seventeenth and on Larimer