The Lamar register., 1891-07-25
STATE NEWS.

A man while swimming in the nat
storium at Denver with some friends was
drowned without their knowing it.
Professor James II. Hayes OF Win
field, Kansas, has been elected assistant
principal of the State Normal School.
A severe hail storm swept over the
eastern part of Lariner county on the
10th Some farmers lost nearly all their
crops.
The commissioners OF Park county
have offered 81 900 reward for the detec
tion and conviction of the murderer OF the
two Swedes found killed on the road.
Aspen don't have to advertise for
school teachers. 1t has become noised
about through the East that nearly all
Aspen school teachers get married soon
after coming here. This alone burdens
the mails with applications for positions.
Stephen W. Dorsey is in the state
In the interest of a syndicate Of capitalists
who propose to buy up the canals now
being fought over by L. C. Henry and the
Travellers Insurance Company. 1t is
understood that the plan is sure of sue
cess.
There is a quarrel existing between
the owners of the Palmer ditch, near Hen
derson. and the farmers along its lines
The farmers claim that injustice is done
them, and they open the headgates al
pleasure. The agent OF the company was
| fired upon the other night by farmers.
Joseph Hayden, colored gambler
of Manitou, was shot and instantly killed
by another colored man named Henry
Maupin at a little after midnight Monday.
The shooting was clearly in self-defense
and after an inquest Maupin was released
by order of the coroner and district at
torney,
AT the last national convention the
brotherhood of locomotive firemen found
itself with a surplus fund Of $4,000, and
determined to invest it in the city which
should promise the best returns. After 8
very extended and impartial investigator
it has been decided to place the money il
Denver, and $4,000 of the sum arrived
last week, and the balance will shortly
| follow.
Denver Markets-Eggs 17(921c;
Butter-Jcrsey creamery CSC, dairy Isc;
Hsy-new upland Sl5.0oaSI700. second
bottom Sl2.00@sl600, alfalfa $500; Wheat
-sL30 = 100 ms; Oats-sl. .4s(dsl.55; New
Potatoes-si.5oasl.75 y 100 fbs; Cattle
| choice steers So. COG 81. 40, ,goodhay fed COWS
81, ,so@s2.1 10, native feeders s2.a09sa.75 81
Hogs-choice s5O5Gs5.5o. Sheep-choice
muttons sS.25@ss.15; common feeders,
s2..5dSa.50
The Board of State Capitol Mana
gers met Thursday and the plans in detail
of the dome of the building were submit
| ted, approved and signed by the governor
and Secretary Leuders. The masonry yet
| to be built upon the tower as 1t stands Is
seventy-three feet, and upon this the dome
will be erected. The whole building will
| be SO far completed in eighteen months
that some of the departments will be oper
ated from the interior OF that structure.
| The attorney general has deci ded
that Collier & Cleveland cannot receive
their claim OF s., 500 for printing the state
|
| dered by q concurrent resolution of the
| last legislature and the opinion is that the
money should not be paid OF such docu-
ment. The opinion defines clearly the
| difference between joint and concurrent
resolutions and will put an end to the
practice Of using these documents as q
law. The opinion will also be used as a
refusal to pay the same firm for printing
the superintendent of public Instructions s
| report, which has already been issued
A Las Animas correspondent OF the
Denver NeVs says: "The Beat cssuty
| wool clip. amounting te. sbout 1916. 900
pounds, was purchased Of the various
sheep men hers- yesterday. The purchaser
was H. -Holthusen of Colorado Springs,
who has bought this season over 5000, 600
pounds of wool. The wool this year is
generally very light and clean, and it sold
for better price than was paid last year
| the Bent county clip this year being worth
something over $50, 600. H. c. Abbott.
and Crane & Abbotts clip will together
amount to about to 0,00o pounds, and Scott
Bros, the next biggest producers, will
have about 1000 pounds.
A novel bet was made in Central
City the other day relating to the speed of
animals. A gentleman wagered the sum
of $50 that no horse in Gilpin County
could make the round trip to Denver and
return from Central City in twelve hours
The task was undertaken with Mr. James
Connor as driver. The time of starting
was Al a. M, on the return trip IA the
same evening ahead of time. This is con
sidered the best time ever made. The an
imal was driven to a dog cart and reached
the home stretch apparently as fresh as
when she left the score. Several hundred d
dollars were won and lost on the match.
The distance is nearly eighty miles.
Chancellor Snow OF the Kansas Uni
versity, who was sent by the State Board
of Agriculture to investigate the grass
hopper plague in Eastern Colorado, re-
ports as follows from Arriba, Colorado
''My observations confirm my previous
opinion that the grasshoppers now infest-
ing portion of Eas tern Colorado will not
invade Kansas. 1t is not the destructive
Rocky Mountain locust which devastated
Kansas in 1874 and 1875, but native
species of the plains, the long winged
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