The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1890-04-26
COLORADO NOTES


il twenty-eiSht hours.
Miss Freddie A. Hough, of Wash
ington, is to take charge of the Indian
school a, Grand junction.
The University of Denver graduated
four doctors of medicine, eleven dentists,
and four pharmaceutists last week.
The river and hafbor bill prepared
FOR the consideration of the House appro,
PIRATES $4,000, 90, Of which s2,6eo,Ooo is
for the MississIrpi
VIM. Amsberg of Fall River, while
carrying bucket of hot water the other
day, fell down, and the water burned him
terribly about the head.
There are in Rio Blanco County
from sixty thousand to seveuty thousand
head of cattle and ten Thousand horses.
y successful shooting tournament
was held at Salids ca the nth by the Cen
trial District Sportsmen's Association
The next meeting will be held at Gienwood
Springs, May 18th and 10th.
An interesting test of the various
kinds of railroad snow plows was made on
zhe Pacific road west of St, Elmo, last
week The rotary piow performed wonders
u cutting through ice and snow.
A call has been issued for a conven-
lion of stone and quarry owners, to meet
IN Denver May sth- One of the chief
points for discussion will be the desirable
tty Of fairer rates from the railroads.
The Denver Tramway Company has
a grading machine at work which plows
up the dirt to the depth of a foot and loads
it into wagons at lively rate. 1t requires
one hundred wagons to keep up with it.
AT the encampment of the G. A. r
at Denver on the 18th, MIR D. L. Holden OF
Pueblo, was elected Commander. In the
evening. 1000 persons attended a camp
fire, and Gen. Alger of Michigan delivered
an Address.
The Grand Junction Star reports
that there is mountain in that part of the
country which seems TO be afire in the in.
terror, as steam and smoke come from the
ground. The enterprising citizens now
talk of tapping the mountain for gas.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of this State has tifty-nine local
organizations with about 1000 members,
Il home for fallen women, hospital work,
reading rooms and many other enterprises
for the saving ofsouls from intemPerance.
DR.. W. +. Mcdowell, who has
served the Methodist Episcopal Church at
THIN, Ohio, for the past five years, has
been elected chancellor of the University
of Denver, and president of the Colorado
State Seminary, and will enter upon his
duti in September
The hospitable people of Meeker
have appointed a committee to invite the
Leadvine Teachers Institute to hold their
session in Meeker this summer. Free
transportation will be furnished them
from Rife Creek, and arrangements made
TO assure them a pleasant hunting and
fishing trip through the mountains.
Col Parker. special agent of the
Indian Bureau atthe Ute reservation says
.'You can rest assured that every Indian
buck, squaw and papoose, wants to 20 to
the new reservation. / have not found a
single Indian that wants to remain, and it
will be almost impossible to get them to
send their children to school or do any.
thing else unless they are removed in &C
cordance with the provisions of the treaty
made between them and the Government u
In speaking OF the new tram to
Tourtelotte Park, the Aspen Times says
John Holbrook says that the tram will
throw hundred teams out of employment
and that the pioneer ore haulers will have
to seek new fields of operation. 1t was
thought when the railroads entered Aspen
that the freighting business would be
ruined But mining was so stimulated by
the entrance of the railroads that soon
double the number of teams were en-
ploycd in Aspen. 1t may be that the tram.
way will have similar effect, and that
soon Messrs. Holbrook & Atkinson will
not be able TO handle the product of the
new mines that are opened up.
A very destructive fire occurred at
St. Elmo last Saturday morning. in which
nearly the entire business portion of the
town was destroyed. As the town is de
void of either water works system OF
fire company, the efforts of the citizens
were confined to saving stock fixtures and
personal property. All of the burned
buildings were composed of very pitchy
material, and the flames oftentimes leaped
into the air a distance OF fifty or seventy.
five feet, making it uncomfortably hot for
the brave workers. The loss is about
$4,000