The Lamar register., 1893-10-28
NEWS 0FV


Collins. r-~ IN Hi
s2O3, ,464.
The postoirlee at Fort Collins wasS A.
lied few nights ago. scesS
Mrs. jenkins of Cheyenne is stumplnd u
rado for equal suffrage.
There is to be a chrysantheum show in
Denver early In November.
There are now $50 men working on the
State Capitol and the plastering IS far ad-
vanced.
The Denver Athletic Club beat the club of
the University Of Missouri at foot ball Satur-
day by score of 40 to 0.
The State Board of Charities have been in
vestigating the Jefferson county jail, against
which charges of bad sanitary condition have
been made.
j. is reported that work on the Cripple
Creek branch of the Santa Fe road will be
commenced at once and rushsd forward with
all possible speed.
The Busk-Ivanhoe tunnel is 1883 feet in
length, with 50-foot approaches, is 20 feet
high and 10 feet In the clear. II Will be ready
for service about December l. less than three
and one-half years from the first blast.
The state engineer has completed plat of
the Monument reservoir showing that IL is
necessary for the State TO purchase ia acres
of land In addition TO the land now included
In the site. The reservoir will cover about
fifty acres and now has five acres of water. 1t
has cost nearly So, COO.
Rev W. s. Priest. pastor of the Frst Chris
tian church of Colorado Springs. has pre-
sented his resignation, and asks that it take
effect on November l. He has received call
from the South Broadway church at Denver,
and it Is probable that he will accept 1t.
This Is the third pastor of the city who re-
signed within Il week.
Sfirartpp aJ ara sfivor
brick to send to Senator Allen of Nebraska,
for his unlirlng work on the floor of the Sem
ate lately. The brick is chemically fine and
was made ut the Crooke smelter and is of
San Juan County. On It will be inscribed:
From many friends in Silverton, Colorado"
The brick weighs forty ounces.
State Land Registrar Childs has made out
and issued to the governor for signature q
list Of lands In Routt County which the state
will claim of the United States. The lands
are well scattered along the mineral drift OF
the county, although not directly on the
veins, and comprise about 10000 acres. As
soon AS the matter can be reached, the State
Land department will continue claiming
lands Of the government until the full zoo, 900
acres due the State from the Indian awards
are received.
Mr.. George Sackett of Ohio, a large prop
erty owner at Salida, has donated to the city
the property formerly known as River Front
Park, comprising two blocks of valuable
property fronting on the Arkansas River, to
be used as a public park. This was accepted
by the town at a special meeting OF the city
council and a vote Of thanks given the gen.
tleman for his magnificent donation. 1t will
in future be known as Sackett Park. 1t ie
rich In natural beauty and fine, heavy timber,
and at but little expense can be made most
charming resort.
Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior,
has decided that the motion for a review of
the case of the Union colony of Colorado and
Others against John 7. Fulmele and Others
should be denied. The effect Of this decision
Is to confirm the title to all property in
Greeley The Denver Land Office received
the decision Saturday. The secretary holds
that the entries by Fisher, which were al
lowed TO lapse, and the entries Of Fulmele
and others two years after 1887, when the
act was passed making the land not subject
to entry, were vitiated. The entries by Full
mele were improperly allowed. Greeley's
present property owners titles are safe.
Colonel L. P. Hoyt has made discovery at
clay business. Recently he discovered a clay
which is universally used by potters for glaz-
ing earthenware. Outside of New Jersey
this is the only deposit known to exist in the
United States and as there are inexhaustible
quantities around Golden, the Colonel pro-
poses to compete for the demand of the en-
tire United States. The "glaze" is readily
marketed at $50 to s23 ton, and as 1t can be
cost Of 70 cents ton 1t is obvious that the
the present time.