The Lamar register., 1892-01-23
STATE NEWS.
.tez has a good coal mine.


Glenwood Springs is to have new
bath house and hotel which will be very
complete and elegant
Simon Anderson, Swedish miner,
was killed in his mine near Leadville by an
explosion of powder on the 10th.
Messrs. Wolfenbarger and Huckins,
the well known temperance workers, are
holding meetings through the State.
The commissioners OF Pitkin county
are so economical that they turned con-
victed prisoner loose recently rather than
feed him.
Chas. Wood, of the Salvation Army
at Leadville, was arrested and fined the
other day for holding a meeting on the
sidewalk in front of a saloon.
A very interesting course of lectures
has been arranged to be given in Colorado
Springs during February and March for
the benefit of the public library fund.
The Childs- Drexel Home for Union
Printers at Colorado Springs, is to be ded-
icated, with interesting ceremonies, on the
18th day of the coming May, the auniver-
sary of the birth Of MIR. Childs.
The first shipment of flour from
Colorado to Russia was made last week.
1t was a car load from the Grand junction
Milling Company, and was carried over
the Colorado Midland lines free. 1t will
receive free transit to Buffalo, where ii
will be transferred to steamer bound for
Odessa.
Governor Routt has sent letter to
the assessors of the state saying; ~ am
of opinion that it is unnecessary at this
time to make the enrolment provided fol-
in section !, article 2, of an act entitled,
AN act concerning the enrolment and
| or anization of the militia of the state,
etc. approved April ., 1889, and hereby
order and direct that said enrolment be
dispensed with"
Denver Markets-Eggs 25(627ci
Butter.Jcrsey creamery 27C934; dairy 2oc;
Hay-new upland s13.0o@sli.oo. second
bottom s9.0o@S10.00, alfalfa $500; Wheat
$40 2 100 fbs; Oats-Sl.o7GSl.1 Is; New
Potatoes-s6sc a ss5 z 100 lbs; Cattle
choice steers SIS l9s3. 5o, good to choice cows
Sle0ai2.50, native feeders Sl.9o9s2.l5;
Hegs-choice s3.9o9s4.0a Sheep-choice
muttons shorn s3.25@ $3.50; common and
feeders S2.25Cas2.5o.
Robt. Condit, H C. Long and Perry
Rodgers have returned from visit to the
chalk cliffs bringing with them a dozen or
more specimens of petrifed bones The
bones consist mostly of the vertebre of
some monster and were entirely agatized.
| The members of the scientific society have
| been exceedingly industrious in adding to
their cabinet of curios and 70 their already
| large collection specimens of the remains
of prehistoric animals.-Grd1ld junction
| Netrs.
A bob-sled with load consisting of
| fourteen people coming down East Sixth
street, in Leadville, at lightning rate of
speed the other evening, became unman-
ageable and ran into Nollenberger's sa-
loon on the avenue. Thomas Hicks,
who was steering, was badly cut and
bruised, and Mary Murphy of East Sixth
street, had four teeth knocked out and re
ceived a bad scalp wound. Other mem
bers of the party were more or less in
iured.
William Wilson, the conductor of a
Freight train on the Denver & Rio Grsnde
railway, was killed at Castle Rock on the
| 18th. His train had gone up to Castle
Rock stone quarry, a distance of about
| four miles, for load of stone. Wilson
was coming down steep grade alone on a
| loaded fiat car. The brake was defective.
and the car became unmanagable. He
stayed on the car. trying to stop it, until it
left the rails. His body was fearfully
mangled and his death instantaneous
The State Bee-keepers' Association
met in Denver on the 18th. The following
| officers were elected: President, E. b.
Porter of Lopgmont; vice president, X. C.
Aiken; secretary, H. Knight of Littleton; !;
| treasurer, Mrs. Rhodes; member of execu
| tive board, Mrs. Booth. 1t was decided
to celebrate Honey Day. at Longmont
| September IS, and a honey exhibition will
| be held in Denver in the fall. The next
| meeting of the association will be held at
| Golden, April 81.
Thomas Smith Of Aspen took a
| frightful but effective method of killing
himself last Saturday night. He threw
himself across the Midland track, Just in
| front of passing switch engine, and in an
| instant there was CHASTITY crunching of
| bones. He made no outcry. After being
dragged twenty-five feet the engine was
| stopped, and Smith was picked up, still
alive and conscious, but so frightfully
| mangled that death was but an hour dis
| tant. Smith refused TO tell the names of
any relatives or their place of residence,
and nothing was found upon him to give
clue to his family connections. A badly
spelled and scarcely intelligible note found
| in his pocket stated that he and man
named O'Brien robbed man of a watch
in place on Front street in Pueblo, and
alleged that remorse over his share of the
deed drove him to take his own life.
Engine No. 8 of the Silverton rail-
road, while going up Lookout mountain
with three loads, was struck by a small
snowslide. The forward truck was thrown
off the track. At the same time another
small slide came down ahead of the train.
The slides were shoveled outand the engine
puton the track in about four hours.
Bert Curtis and "Peg-Leg" Watson
have been convicted at Denver of robbing
the Rio Grande train at Texas Creek last
August. They will go to the penitentiary
for life. On February 10 the other four
men, charged with being accessories to the
robbery, will be tried. They are now in
the county jail.
Two roughs who stoned the occu-
pants of the Yorktown's gig at Valparaiso
a week ago have been arrested and an
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