The Lamar register., 1891-07-18
STATE NEWS.

Under the new election law 21 900 |
voter, have already been registered in
Arapahoe county.
Professor Baker OF the Denver high
school has beea elected president OF the
National Teachers Association.
The engine in the new cotton mill
at Danver was started up Monday Th
looms will be started in September.
A handsome memorial to the late
Governor Pitkin has been erected by his
friends in Riverside cemetery, Denver.
The shipment of Strawberries from
Canon City this year amounted TO LOG, 500
quarts. The average price was twelve
and a half cents.
There has Scarcely been day since
the opening of the cog line to the summit
Of Pixies Peak but that there has been at
least loo persons made the ascent.
1t is reported that Mr.. w. B. Deve-
raux has returned from Europe with
sSooOeo with which TO build another fine
hotel and improve the bath houses a.
Glenwood Springs.
Will n. Thatcher, of Pueblo, grad
uated from Yale a few weeks ago and
with party of companions went to Eu
rope. He was taken sick and died sud
denly at Chester, England.
Fred Lupton, an Arvada boy, was
thrown by broncho in the streets of that
place Monday evening. The boys foot
hung in the stirrup, and he was dragged
/ and EfNlrad 10 ,ba bo,- in To he
stable where the boy was extricated, but
he lived only few moments.
Extensive arrangements are being
made for holding the Washington County
Fair and old settlers and soldiers reunion
at Akron, Sept. Is to Il, inclusive Sena-
| tor Wolcott has consented TO be present
and make an address. There will also be
several prominent G. A. Il. speakers in
attendance from abroad.
Aspen Junction was the scene of an
awful tragedy on the night of the 18th.
local excursion train on the Midland was
crashed into by an engine and the escape
of steam fearfully burned a large number
of people, Eight of them died within
twenty y-four hours. II was one of the
worst accidents that ever happened in the
State.
5 z, d. Hudson, proprietor of the
Hotel Enterprise of Rico, shot and killed
Rose Isgar, dining room girl in the
house, the bullet entering the right breast
and passing through the upper portion of
the heart. Realizing what he had DONE
he then shot himself through the brain.
Death was almost instantaneous in both
cases.
A report comes from Leadyille OF
: the discovery of an arrow head, made of
tempered copper, and of q number of
human bones, in the Rocky Point mines
near Gilman. The relics were disclosed
400 feet below the surface of the earth,
imbedded in vein of silver bearing ore
More than 500 worth of ore clung to the
bones when they were removed from the
mine.
The mountain brooks in this sec
tion Of the state are teeming with specS-
led beauties, and anglers at this season Of
the year are rewarded in their exhilarat-
ing sport by remarkably good catches. A
well flled basket after q successful expe-
dition obviates all necessity of straining
the imagination or wounding the con-
science by concoctinR fish story. The
glorious truth is rich enough.-Aspen
Times.
Denver Markets-Eggs 1s622c;
Butter-Jersey creamery 22c, dairy 13c;
Hay-new upland s16OoQsIs.O0. second
bottom s120oGs16 alfalfa 50. 90; Wheat
-s1.40 q 100 lbs; Oats-SL4sdsL55 New
Potstoes-s1. .25@s1.5O . 100 lbs; Cattle
choice steers s3. .OoGs3. 25, ,goodhay-f fed COWS
81, l,so9s2. 75 native feeders 81 2o@sa. 75;
Hogs-choice 81. i.s59s5.Oo. Sheep-choice
muttons s5.0oas3.5o; common feeders,
s2.25qs2.50.
The work on the assessment roll Of
Pitkin county has about been completed
and today the board of county commis-
sioners will meet for the purpose of ex-
amining it. According to the roll the
valuation eff the city, real and personal, is
placed at 81, al, ,545, and the county out
side of the city amounts to 81, 672 $40, ex.
elusive Of the property belonging to the
different railroads, telegraph and tele-
phone companies, which will probably
amount to 5000, ,O0O.-AspeIl Times.
The annual sheep shearing is about
completed and the year has been the most
successful ever seen in this State. One
Denver firm alone has bought, along the
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific, / 500 OOO
pounds of wool. This is reported to be of
fine quality, much finer than has been
seen here in many years. Those people
who had sheep to shear were very fortu-
nate, for while last year the price paid was
13 cents ound this year it ran Is and
cents higher. Everybody connected with
the industry has been making money
quite readily. The-outlook for next year
is very promising and from present indica
tions more sheep will be raised in Colora
do than ever before. .-DenUer Nelus.
There was another terrible wreck
on the Midland Wednesday, this time in
Ute Pass. 1t was freight, consisting of
twelve cars and a caboose, all loaded with
ore and bullion. When going down the
Pass below Cascade the air brakes refused
| to work, and the train ran away Just at
the south of tunnel No. there is a very
sharp curve that ends in the north of the
| tunnel, and here the engine Jumped the