The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1890-08-09
STATE NEWS.
The Denver barber shops close on
SUNDAY now

Sunday now,
Silverton'g Cowboy Band is to visit
Iowa in August to play at an exposition at
Creston, and on their return they will
visit Denver and Pueblo. They number
thirty men.
Colonel f. S. Netlleton has resigned
his position on the irrigation survey, be-
| cause of differences of opinion with Major
! Powell. He has been appointed agent for
| Colorado of the Agricultural department.
An effort is being made in Pueblo to
have the town of Bessemer consolidated
with that city. This would add 5000 PEG
! pie to the population and would remove an
| OBSTACLE in the purchase for u city park of
Lake Minnequa, which is in the corporate
limits of Bessemer.
Mr.. Frederick Chish dim, agent of
the census bureau to collect mining stats
tics, is having trouble 10 secure answers
TO questions asked of big mine owners. A
heavy penalty attaches for their refusal,
and the giving Of such data can in no way
iniure their business interests.
Expert coal men have been pros
pecting Delta County's coal veins, and
from the best information oOtainable they
are negotiating for the purchase of large
tracts of coal land, which would indicate
that they are satisfied there is a good
quality of anthracite and bituminous coal
in this section.
There was terrific explosion of
chemicals in Denver last Monday, which
killed ]. o. Bosworth, president of the
| Denver Fire Clay Company. 1t is not
| known exactly what Mr.. Bosworth was
| doing with the chemicals, but they were
OF highly explosive nature and blew out
| the whole front of the store and nearly
tore Mr.. Bosworth in pieces, the body
being unacceptable Another man was
blown clear out upon the sidewalk. Flames
burst forth at once, but were subdued by
| the fire department before they reached
other high explosives that were stored in
the building.
The dynamite fishermen who have
infested the Rio Grande river in the vi
cinity of Antelope park for years, have at
last been caught. A detective has quietly
| been working up the case for over two
months, and few days since caught them
/ in the act of staying the trout, party of
three, a white man and two Mexicans.
| The offenders were taken to Silverton and
| lodged in Jail, where they will soon receive
the full penalty of the law. II is matter
| for congratulation with all who are inter
/ ested in the execution Of the fish law of
! Colorado that this capture has been made.
/ They have been supplying the Silvertou
market by means of pack burros, selling
them "a New Mexican trout
At about II o'clock Tuesday night
Sheriff Payne of Moutrose was notified by
wire that vigilance committee, consist
ing of residents of Delta, were in Montrose
| for the purpose of taking Mark Fewer
from the county jail and hanging him.
The sheriff lost no tine in getting Power
| out of the cell and driving him TO Fort
| Crawford for safety. In fifteen minutes
| the committee were at the Jail seeking the
murderer, but learned. OF his escape and
at once disbanded. Power was the self
| confessed murderer of ex- Conductor Baer
of the Denver s. Rio Grande railway, who
was ueighbor on the ranch adjoining
| Power. The enmity grew out of "a ditch.
| While the people at large believe that
| Power richly deserves hanging, they com
mend the action of the sheriff in prevent
ing arbitrary Justice.
There was another disastrous ex-
/ plosion in Denver last Tuesday The ca
| lamity was caused by an explosion OF gas
oline in the cellar of a drug store, the
] vaporous liquid being ignited by lighted
match held aloft by q clerk who was in
the basement looking for q syrup bottle.
| The inflammable stuff at once took fire and
fifty gallons of the liquid exploded with
horrible force and power. The shock was
felt several blocks away Half dozen
people were in the pharmacy at the time
They were hurled into the street in an in
slant and had a miraculous escape from be-
ing crushed TO death. The clerk was fear
fully burned, but he may recover. He
| rushed upstairs all afame, and dashed
through the shop window in the frrnt. In
his madness, through pain, he dashed
across the street and then sank to the
ground overcome by the shock. While
! fremen were trying to extinguish the
fire that followed the explosion the wall S
! fell and injured two men.
a very neat piece of burglary work
was done at the Sunnyside Hotel, Mani
tou, last Saturday morning. The night
clerk lies down in a room adjoining the of
fee after l2 o'clock. The porter was
sleeping in a cot in the parlor across the mar
row hall from the office. The doors were
all open and lights burning. The crooks
slipped in, closed all the doors leading our
from the Office, turned off the light, pulled
a writing-desk iu front of the office win
dow which looks out on the front porch,
threw lady's cloak over the safe, got un-
der this little shelter and went noiselessly
to work. A small hole was drilled into
the door about two inches from the steel
knob. After drilling the hole they inserted
the steel punch, gave it tap with the
sledge, and the tumbler was broken. The
safe then opened upor its hinges noiseless-
ly. They took two chilled steel boxes
which contained the valuables, and went
out as noiselessly as they had entered
The boxes contained s2I5 and some railroad
tickets.
Last Monday afternoon Sheriff Har-