The Lamar register., 1891-04-25
STATE NEWS.

ed Judge OF the District Court for
Arapahoe County.
A Central City miner fell down a
shaft a distance of seventy feet the other
day and received fatal injuries.
From fifteen to twenty carloads of
horses, cattle and sheep continue to be
shipped from Fort Collins weekly,
A number of Durango's young men
have formed militia company and applied
for admission to the Colorado National
Guard,
An immense number OF trees were
planted On Arbor Day At Lamar fruit
trees took the place Of shade trees in the
planting
There are three horticultural soeie-
ties ia the Arkansas valley-Canon City,
Pueblo and Rocky Ford. An are doing
good work.
o. P McAIains, the uuti-Maxwen
Land Grant agitator, has been sent to jail
for six months for resisting United
States marshal
Prot Paul Hanus of the State Nori
NAL School has received high but de-
served compliment in being called TO thl
chair ofpedagogy in Harvard College.
\ very successful dog show wu4
held in Denver, beginning on the 22nd.
The prizes given aggregated $500, and
were competed for by large number ol
fine dogs,
The ninth tournament of the Cen'
trai District Sportsman's Association
which was to be held April IL anc Il, will
be held Monday and Tuesday, April p an'i
9S, on the Broadmoor club grounds al
Colorado Springs,
Aspen capitalists have organized to
build another railroad twill start from
Castle, a small station on the Rio Grando
at the mouth of Bush Greek. 1t will run:
up Busn Creek fifteen miles, then up
Nolan Greek three miles to Nolan Camp,
John Sweazev, young man -
years OF age. and an inspector in the EN-
ploy of the Colorado Telephone Company,
was killed by electricity at Denver on the
END. He was first shocked 10 death, and
then roasted in midair by an eiectric light
wire which was underneath his body. He
had come in contact with il while il the
performance OF his duty.
Superintendent Coy says that the
returns from the election for State
flower are coming in slowly and that it
will probably be month before the re-
suit will be definitely known. The IN
dications are, he thinks, however, that the
columbine will in the end show probably
10 per cent. of the total vote. In Arapahoe
county the average vote for the ,olumbine
has averaged So or 90 per cent. while else
where it runs lower. In Arapa hoe caunty.
the tiger lily aud rose have received the
next largest vote, but elsewhere the sol-
den rod has been second in the race gen.
orally. phe returns show about thirty
flowers which received votes.
A powder mill near Denver was
blown up the other day James Wilkins.
one Of the Oldest and best nitro glyeerine
manufacturers in the country, was in
charge at the time, having seven men
working When the fire commenced he
had, with daring almost inconceiyable,
crept toward the rolling fluid and en-
deavored to quencb it with water. With
u mad impetuosity it steadily ate its way
and began TO cracxle warningly. Scyeral
times the ominous hiss and crackle was
reiterated as though in warning, and Mr..
wilkins shouted TO his men to iy behind
the bluff for protection, and he followed
them. No sooner had they reached cover
than the explosion occurred and the build
ing went up. Fortunately the powder
house near by was not exploded.
Prof. \. B. Webb was buried Tues
dao afternoon at Boulder. The large flag
at the Central school house hung at half
mast all day. Schools adjourned at As
o'clock. A large number OF children,
mainly those of the eighth grade, attended
the funeral in body, each pupil carrying
floral offering and sprie of evergreen,
and each one wearing Grape around the
arm. All Of the teachers attended the
funeral. The pail bearers were members
of the school board Some Of the G. A. L.
members were also out in uniform, for
Prof. Webo had been lieutenant in the
army, and had at the time of his death two
rebel bullets IN one arm, and had con-
tracted the disease OF consumption while
prisoner at AndersonviiIe. The funeral
procession was very large one and tso
floral offerings many.
A fright'ul accident occurred Satur;
day morning at the Cameron mine IL
Aspen, whereby three men lost their live
and two others were wounded. The dead
are Shaft Boss Ed. Reed, John Malone :
and Tom Kennedy. E. ID. Chilean wal
seriously and Jack Williamson slightly
injured. The men were about to lire Z.
round of twenty-four holes, half in one
end Of the station and half in the other
Chilean and Williamson had spitted their
fuse and, turning around. saw the other
men were having some trouble. They
went over and spit two FOR them, then said
they had better get out as things were
getting dangerous. They then went and
repeated the warning twice more. Imme-
! diately after the third warning was
uttered the first shot went off and Chilean
and Williamson started to climb the iu-
cline. Chilean was hurt quite seriously in
the left side by flying rock and dirt; The
other three were killed by the explosion.
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