The Lamar register., 1891-06-27
STATE NEWS
..eelo is 70 have a new sg5NoOo


that their ball club had won game the
day before.
An expIosicn IN the armory ouiid-
ing at Durango last Sunday resulted in
tho complete destruction Of the building
and contents. Loss, $4,000.
An engine und tender on the mar
row guage road from Boulder to Sunset
Jumped the track into Boulder Greek the
other day while backing down hill.
The fruit gre eers of Mesa County
ere iabisant over the fruit prospects, aud
viii make a grand showing at the State
horticultural meeting in September.
The commissioners of otero uonnty
have paid a. J. Bis. s,ue for the loss OF
four horses, wagon aud household goods
bg the giving away OF the Timps.s creek
bridge few days ago.
4 cattle car on the Santa Fe caught
fire near Nepesta the other day and before
II was noticed several cattle were burned
to death Others escaped from the car
when the doors were opened, and ran
about the orairies in terrible state
A Florence special says that Satur-
day morning, at well 20. l6, the Rocky
Mountain Oh Company, at about l,SOO
feet, struck another oil well 1t indicates
production Of 100 barrels pei day. Wen
Is, reported several days ago as doing so,
has increased TO 800 barrels per day.
Coloraao College has secured as
professor geology, Francis Cragin, who for
several years has been connected with
Washburn College az Topeka, kansas.
Professor Crsgin has made name for
| himself throughout the country BY his
original researches, and his enthusiasm as
a collector
The school fund of the State has
! oeeu unexpectedly enriched by 800 re-
| celved at the ctate treasurers ofice from
the superin tendent Of the Burlington
Voluntary Relief Department. James
Murphy. section hand with no relatives,
joined the relief fund April -, 1891, and
died last May. He left Instructions that
| ii not married at death the money was to
| be given TO the school fund.
The sale Of school land near Denver
last year which was claimed to be iilega,
| is now before the courts. Governor Routt
refused to sign patent TO the land aud
the purchasers applied to Judge Allen OF
| Denver for uoandamus to compel him TO
do SO. Judge Allen denied the application
for writ or tie ground thai his court
did not have jurisdiction. The case win
probably go to the supreme Court
Missouri Pacific east-bound train
had a most unusual experience at Eads,
a small station near the State line, few
days ago. At that point local constable
boarded the engine with 4 garnishee
| Judgment for Si7.5O brought on an en-
ploye of the company, and which, through
| an oversight, had not been attended to.
None OF the train men had enough money
to satisfy the claim, and the train was de-
tanned three hours until Superintendent
| Derby of Pueblo could be caught by wire
aud the payment guaranteed.
Con Stl'eb ard sou Willie are resi-.
dents of North Fork. One day last week
while they We're up in the hills cutting
poles their dog freed mountain lion. Not
having any firearms, Willie went back tc
the house to get rifle while Con held .
parley with Mr.. Lion. The boy was gone
about half an hour and MIR. Streb KEEP;
clubs flying in the air to keep him from
springing upon the dog, which he appeared
bent on doing. Upon the lads return the
old man ended the argument with bull
let and the state will pay another SIC
bounty.-AeeIsef' Herald.
A heavy rain up Gilson's gulch, near
Idaho Springs, at o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, washed an immense quantity
of debris upon the track of the Colorado
Central railroad, 50 that q passenger train
from up the canon was held bound all
night. The water came in such torrents
that it brought from thu. gulch above and
left upon the track a mass OF rubbish from
four TO eight feet deep and more than fifty
feet in length. The blockade was of logs
limbs of trees, driftwood of all nature,
wedged with rocks and sand in such a
way as to make its removal long and
laborious Job.
4 petition has been sent to the
Interior department to reserve body of
land about Pixies Peak for park. The
petitioners, in their communication to the
president, state that the tract is almost
wholly covered with sparse timber and
underground which might be preserved
not only for the general benefits derived
from any forest, but also 10 protect
streams which rise in this region. Large
areas of fertile country and many towns
and settlements depend upon these hill
sides for their water supply, SO that their
Importance cannot be oYerestiniated- In
deed, the growth OF these towns has been
so rapid, say the petitioners, That if this
action is not taken this water supply will
be seriously affected
A sad accident happened ut the
Tfmpas Creek bridge, about seven miles
west Of La Jnnta, Friday morning 4
party OF emigrants were on their way from
Cimarron and Deerfeld, Kansas, to Grand
junction, Colorado and Southern Oregon.
The personnel of the party was as follows :
a. J. Bliss, wife and four children Henry
Sears, wife and four children; Grant
Green. wife and one child; Charles VII
l1inson, single man. Bliss and his family
were in the wagon that lead the caravan,
and was the first to drive upon a bridge