The Lamar register., 1890-05-10
COLORADO NOTES.

Inc Durango grduu jury mas "a
dicted twenty saloon keepers for selling
liquor on Sunday in violation of law.
The miners of Summit County have
passed resolutions urging one and one
half per cent. duty on imported lead ores
The seniors OF the University OF
Colorado at Boulder wear square topped
caps to designate themselves from the
other students.
The First Annual Douglas County
Horse Show was held at Castle Rock last
mails were exhibited.
An association has been formed at
Denver which is composed of graduates OF
the Iowa State University. Chief Justice
Helm of the Supreme Court is president
The Rev. Charles Uzzell died at Los
Angeles, California, on the 5th. He has
done excellent, mission work in Denver,
having started the Tabernacle enterprise
there.
The election for school directors
throughout the State brought out the lady
voters last Monday, and some lady candi-
uaLeS. WO Oh l1ctn Wtio cicShS3 -
Greeley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Burt. OF Logan
County, while at Grand Island, Nebraska,
on their wedding tour, were asphyxiated
by gas at night, they having failed TO turn
it out. Mrs. Burt died and her husband
lay in a critical condition at last reports
Several papers throughout the State
are lecturing the Denver dailies because OF
the unhappy system of charging each other
and all the city, county and State officers,
with lying and unrestrained corruption.
1t is claimed that this kind of so-called
Journalism injuries Denver and the State.
There are four lottery companies
operating in Colorado contrary to the laws
of the State They are said TO rake in
$40, coo a month at Denver alone, and
large sums throughout the State The
United States officials are just waking up
TO the fact that these lottery companies
are using the mails contrary TO law, and
have arrested several parties.
A terrible accident occurred at
Trinidad about noon last Friday, whereby
Hannah Wilkinson, aged Il, lost her life
Being at home alone and wishing to leave
she locked all the doors on the inside and
proceeded to crawl through the window
feet first When nearly through the sash
fell, catching her Just across the throat
and suspending her above ground. In this
position she was found by her father upon
his return home later in the day and life
was extinct
The government reservoir site party
surveyed over g, 900 square miles of terri
tory in the Arkansas valley district at
cost of 500, 900 to the general government.
Several immense reservoir sites were
found, one of which, in the mountains
near Beulah, would be about thirty-six
miles square and 600 feet deep, and could
be made at cost of not over s., 600, Were
it not for the fact that the land within thus
immense basin is mostly taken by settlers,
and to buy them out would take something
like 81, 0oo, 0Oo-RocEy Ford Watermelon
A dispatch from Rocky Ford says:
The ladies have for the first time elected
one of their number, Mrs. w. J. Irvine,
member of the school board No interest
whatever was taken in the election until
some time after the polls were open, when
it was found that the ladies had organized
quietly and were going en- masse TO the
school house, which is about quarter of
a mile from town. This aroused those OPP
posed TO having a woman serve on the
board, and carriages were hurriedly pro-
cured and tickets gotten up, but it was OF
no avail, as Mrs Irvine was elected by a
majority Of one vote over MIR. T. J. Wilson.
There is much rejoicing among the women
folks, who are determined TO have some
thing to say as to how the school shall be
run. 1t has just dawned on the men of
Rocky Ford that they have been outwitted
by the ladies'
"A young man named Charley He'd
rick came near being killed by silver
tip bear while trapping in the vicinity OF
Grand Lake. Young Hedrick and Lee
Tillman found traces of bear and trap
was constructed and baited. with the in
tention of Turing bruin to his death. Tues
day morning the hunters visited the trap
Hedrick was in advance of Tillman and
was the first on the scene. To his sur
prise he found one silver-tip prisoner and
another very much at liberty The bear
on the outside started towards Hedrick
with cheerful but hungry expression on
his countenance. The boy ran for tree
but he was fianked and the bear drew first
blood by hitting him on the jaw. The
bear closed in on Hedrick, who was lying
PROSTATE on the ground and was about to
maunch his morsel of human flesh, when
Tillman appeared. The latter fred two
shots from a navy revolver into the bear,
who rolled over on his side indisposed.
h;s fa,
night when a third shot ended his life.
Hedrick had his jaw broken in two places
and was badly clawed about the face and
body.