The Lamar register., 1891-07-04
STATE NEWS.

| urdtsOu ou tIr uuFli-
| A woman was burned TO death in
e house at Manitou last week
| Judge Elwell OF Pueblo has sem
tenced W. H Davis to be hanged
A Trinidad butcher WAS ran over
and killed by train the other day.
The Pike's Peak cog road is at last
finished and made its hrst trip on the soth.
The Trinidad Adrestsser has heen
sued for Slo,o-e damages for iheliing an
attorney,
Lightning blew up powder house
near Denver the other day. but no one
was hurt.
Crops in many places in the eastern
part of the State were damaged by hall
last week
A Denver man is about to start
an ice cream and fresh air resort on the
top Of an elght-story building.
4 runaway horse at Colorado
Springs rua into the procession OF the
Salvation Army, killing one woman and
iniuring two others.
Professor Walter j. Quick has been
elected as professor of agriculture at the
State Agricultural College He will have
charge of the farm.
/ The Monsrose Fair Association
offers s, 600 in premiums for agricultursh
horticultural and livestock exhibits foi
the October meeting.
Popular subscriptions for the build.
ing and furnishing of the Citizens hos
pital Of Aspen have reached the band
some sum of SIS, 42a %
Some one in tho employ of the
United States ExpressCompany at Pueblo
has stolen or allowed some one else TO
steal package OF $500.
Mesa county is to have the largest
orchard in the state. A. B. johnson will
put in l,2eo acres TO fruit and nursery
between now and next May.
Three bold bioy clists from Denver
rode their wheels down Pixies Peak the
other day, via the Cascade toll road. 1t
was rough and dangerous ride.
The body of dead child was found
recently lying on the ground in the Lead
vile cemetery. II was neatly dressed and
probably died a natural death when i've
days old.
A heavy rainstorm visited Denver
on the a5th. It was accompanied by hail
stones larger than any that have been
seen in that section for years. Some
measured over two inches in diameter.
A little girl only four years old tel
from a train near Lamar the other day
After her absence was discovered a train
was sent out to nnd her body. The little
one was finally found seated in the grass
unhurt, but afraid of Indians.
| Wednesday afternoon, while COM
ing down Poneha pass with a heavy stock
train, the air gave out and six or seven
cars were ditched. About twenty head Of
cattle were killed and the train from
Durango delayed three hours. No one
injured.
MADAME Philo, who was under bonds
at Denver to answer to charges OF for
gerry, fed to Chicago, where size was ar
rested and atterward turned over to g
Denver detective While returning to
/
dow and escaped.
The Federal Land Court of Private
Claims met and organized at Denver on
July lst. J. Il Reeder Of Hays City,
Kansas, was made clerk; Eusabio Cha
cone Of Trinidad, interpreter, and Luman
F. Parker stenographer. Denver was
en-. sen as the place for the first sitting,
which will be called about November Ii
next The court will at that time hold a
session of two weeks and then adjourn tc
Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the second
session of the tribunal will open Decem-
bec /.
Mr.. W. B. Slocomb brought to this
city on Monday stool of bearded whea
measuring six feet ten inches in height.
The stocks were very large and the leai
or blade about twice the usual size of the
| ordinary wheat stock. Mr.. Slocomb says
he has about twenty acres Of this wheai
and that it will average more than six and
half feet all over tine field. This is the
first year this soil has ever been under
cultivation, and he attributes this rank
gruwth to that fact. - Grand function
Netos.
a bulletin on the limestone indus
try of the United States just issued by the
| census office shows that Colorado has
| fifteen limestone enarries, the pro-
duct from which in 1889 was sl3s,-
osl. One hundred and forty-six thousand
soven hundred and thirty-seven barrels
OF lime were made, which were valued ut
$sl, ,l0l, or 6a cents per barrel; 1,5o0 tons
OF stone for burning into lime were also
| produced at value of 50, $50, or 25 cents
per ton, and in addition 51,s5l tons of iux
were sold for SIS, $40. or 60 cents per ton.
The total number of employees in the bus
mess was ia, and ga, $50 was paid for
wages, slsO9l for supplies and material
consumed, and s2,Ol3 for other expenses.
| The capital invested is stated To be s107,-
45O in land. s34, $50 in buildings and fix
lures, sii,62O in tools and implements and
| s29, $50 in cash, making G total of sls3, ,3TO
Colorado Postoffices.
The salaries of the tbird-class post
masters in Colorado, as read!usted by the
postofics department for the new fiscal