The Lamar register., 1891-08-08
COLORADO NOTES.


Dr. Talmage lectured in Denver on
the 3lst to an immense audience.
The brewery at Boulder has been
sold to stock company for s15o,ooo.
John Putney was held up and
robbed by tramps near Loveland the other
day.
A rattlesnuke six feet and nine
inches long was killed near La Junta last
week.
An Italian laborer was run over and
crushed to death by a switch engine al
Pueblo.
The sheriff OF Fremont county has
been chasing tbree ESCAPED convicts with
bloodhounds.
A little boy was killed at Rockvale
on the 4th by water cart overturuins
upon him.
DR.. Talmage preached to AN audi
ence of $500 people at Green Mountain
Falls last Sunday.
Frank A McFerren, miner, was
killed at Ward on the lst He was
crushed by falling rock.
George L. Goulding & Co will hold
stock sale this fall devoted entirely to
the sale of Colorado bred horses
A breeder of Scotch Collie dogs
nAr Denver reports total sale of SIS out
of one litter of pups and demand for
more.
..Up in a balloon is the most at
tractive amusement for Denver people Of
late. A number Of ascensions have been,
made lately.
Robert j. Krague, chief of the Pu-
eblo fire department was killed on the 3lst
by being thrown from his buggy. He was
very popular and efficient officer.
j. I. Boyer, Denver, he who raises
the Poland China and Yorkshire hogs, re
ports over three hundred hogs and little
pigs on his farm, two thirds of which are
thoroughbreds.
Denver Markets-Eggs 16(G2lc;
Butter-Jcrsey creamery 23c, dairy lsei
Hay-new upland sl3.Oodsl50o second
bottom sl0.0o9sl2.0o, alfalfe $500; Wheat
-Sl.D q 100 lbs; oets-sl. lsdsl.2 25; New
Potatoes-Si, ,eoGSl.2 .25 q 100 ibs; Cattle
choice steers s.. .oo(a g. 40, ,goodhay fed cows
sl,s0t9SsT0, native feeders 81 22o@sa.'oi
Hogs-choice s.. 5.40ds5.65. Sheep--choice
muttons s3.25@s3.75; common feeders
$2.25@s2. so.
The postofiices in Colorado at
which the mail will be counted and
weighed during the week beginning Sep
tember Is next are Denver and Colorado
Springs. This count will be made with a
view to assisting the census bureau in de-
termining the relative uses of the tele
graph, the telephone and the mail sys
TENS of communication The count will
also be made in the Georgetown office
durirg the entire month of September.
The Denver, Leadville Il Gunnison
passenger train was wrecked below Al
pine, the mishap being the result OF d
cloud burst happening some hours before
and which had placed the track in an un
safe condition. The engine passed over
the dangerous place in safety, but the
track gave way under the weight of two
cars of ore and the passenger coach, all Of
which rolled down the hill The car stood
end in little gully. Miraculously, nc
one was injured. The passengers rode
into Buena Vista on the engine
The Presbyterian college which is
to be built near Denver and known as the
Westminster of Colorado, will have in all
probability q novel feature attached to it
1t is proposed by those who have charge
of the enterprise to lay aside some eighty
acres and in case any boy or young man
should come along who cannot afford tc
pay the regular fees for tuition the trus
tees will grant him a couple of acres or so
and with the aid of head gardener in
= charge, give him chance to cultivate this
ground aud pay his way out of the pro
ceeds OF his labor.
Ex-Governor B. H, Eston's resi-
dence at Greeley was entered by burglars
few nights ago, but nothing was taken.
The burglars acted in a cool, professional
manner, Taking a lamp from a stand
downstairs they lighted it and rummaged
about, but the noise they made on the sec
ond floor aroused the governor from his
sleep and he made for the intruders They
became frightened and fed, and in their
rapid descent down stairs dropped the
lamp, breaking it into pieces. Running now
in the dark they upset stand in the par
lor and knocked down chandelier, dam
aging it beyond all further usefulness and
escaped out Of the house.
There was double tragedy at Blue
Mountain, near Durango, last Saturday
night. A ball was in progress when a
drunken tough named Roach attempted ID
crowd in. He was requested to stand
aside as the sets were full, but he de
clared he would dance and attempted to
move gentleman. from his place A
young m an by the name of Frank Fl
Hyde. attempted to quiet Roach. Roach
turned on him and, drawing a knife, cui
him dangerously in several places. Roact
then went outside, but continued his dis
orderly conduct A cowboy by the name
of Billie McCord, thinking he could paci
fly Roach, went out to talk to him, but
Roach was still thirsting for blood and
killed McCord on the spot. boy slipped
away, ran TO house and got Winches
ter. With this he shot at Roach, but un
ortunately missed him and killed Mrs
Charles E. Walton. Roach made his es