The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
NEWS OF THE
Colorado.

The pententiary commissioners\ y Nh
cidcd to reduce all employees Of the * s,Xl
itentiary 10 per cent. W.
II. T. E. Wendell, of Denver, was awaSN. &c
medal Tor the Colorado state building Ey
the judges of liberal arts.
Ore receipts at Pueblo show a gain last
week OF 120 cars over the previous week. and
three more smelter stacks blown in
Thomas Holt was killed and Salvador Cam
panari badly injured by the cavlng in Of a
sewer bank in North Denver Saturday
The Rio Grande tralnmen have decided not
to strike. The 10 per cent. cut in their wages
will only last till January LIST, when old rates
will be restored
Miss Minnie c. c. Love of Denver has been
appointed member of the State Board Of
Charities and Corrections In plaee of the Rev.
DR.. Hall of Pueblo, who resigned. Her term
of office is four years.
The business men of A spen are making an
earnest effort to bring ab out compromise
between the mine owners and their men
whereby the mines may start up again. The
owners want the men to work ten hours and
the latter object.
The death rate in Denver for September
was 9.09 per 200. This is the lowest 1t has
been for years, and is an exceedingly low
figure. For the corresponding month last
year the rate was 1880, and for the same
month in 1891 the rate was 1904
Judge R. d. Mobley, an old and disttu-
guished citizen of Mesa County, and holding
up till now the office of register of the land
office at Montrose, was killed Tuesday morn
ing in the yards of the Union depot at Grand
Junction by being run over by a switch en-
| gine.
w. b. Harter, an Ionia, Michigan banker
who has been residing in Denver for the past
six months, committed suicide on Monday by
taking twenty grains of morphine at his resi-
dense, 137 West First Avenue. He has had
business troubles and was afflicted by fatal
disease.
Denver Markets-Eggs, ranch 24c, state
2Oc; butter, best creamery 32,G33c, dairy l9c;
hay, upland baled $l00gSl2, second bottom
! $3.50 alfalfa Sc 90 coats old 90c new s0a95c;
| potatoes 90@Sl 90; cattle, choice steers IS. 90
| @S3.25 COWS g.. 00ds2.30 native feeders s.. so
| (ds2.7o; hogs, choice 1856; spring chickens
&. OOdS3.5O per doz.
A freight brakeman on the Burlington IL
| Missouri River railroad between Denver and
Akron, named Frank Cassels, was badly hurt
at Brush while doing come switching His
| foot got caught in some way aud threw him
/ on the track, and one pair of wheels of
! empty box car passed over both his legs be-
/ tween the knees and hips. DIR. Firestone was
| called, and upon examination found that not
bone was broken. There was hole about
one-half inch in diameter clear through the
feshy part of the forearm.
The Colorado Weather Bureau reports as
follows for week ending October 3rd; During
| the past week the days have been warm and
the nights cold. killing frosts occurred
September 25th and October lst and End, but
the late crops have nearly all been secured.
Considerable corn has not yet been cut in
Huerfano county. The third alfalfa crop
will be light. The corn yield will be below
| average. The rains ard SHOWS during the
latter part of the week will put the ground in
good condition for fall plowing and seeding
The eastern part of the state has suffered
from long drouth, and ground has been too
/ hard for working.
1t is quite likely that the work of building
the peoples reservoir at the Haynes lake near
Loveland, Larimer County, will be carried
on the coming winter. 1t is the plan of the
company to build supply canal from the
! Thompson below the mouth Of the Buckhorn.
This canal will be four miles long and sixty
feet wide. The reservoir will hold enough
water to cover rs, 600 acres to depth of six
inches, or $50 acres forty-seven feet deep, in
all 5000, 600 cubic feet of water. Itwould be
supplied with the early waters from the
Buckhorn, which is foothill stream, thus
assuring water before 1t is needed in the
older canals The fill that would be required
for the embankuient at the lake would be
only 200 feet, twenty feet elevation at the
highest point. The entire work will cost less
than 800, 900 and # is thought the money
| will soon be guaranteed to carry on the work.
IL the peoples reservoir is constructed 1t viii
certainly prove grand improvement for Lar
inner County.