The Lamar register., 1898-01-22
WESTERN NOTES.

Nlti0E utN GtAA anu ltiAi VIVA
=ost Si2,5oo.
The Delta County Bank of Delta has
resumed business.
The Metho,iists at Fort Collins have
dedicated n new church.
There are s37 students enrolled for
the term at the State Agricultural col
iege.
George Fred Williams OF Massachn-
setts was given a warm welcome In
Denver.
Two Seminole Indians who murdered
Mrs. Leard some time ago. wepa
burned alive last week hy v,riiantcs.
The contested election cases at Colo
RADIO Springs have been decided in
favor Of the coniesiees, Steinmetz and
Jackson.
The Colorado Northwestern road will
probably start new town at the Dew
Drop mine, making It's terminus there
instead OF at Ward.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has af-
firmed the fwenty-year sentence Of ex-
State Treasurer Barley, who was
convicted OF embezKling STS5.0oo from
the stale.
President Mckinley has appointed
the following Colorado postnlasters.
Frank NJ ReardoH. Victor: Daniel l..
Cooper, Lamar: Robert J. Mccartney
Silverton.
Six lives are supposed TO have been
los; by an explosion. probably OF ius,
or gas. in shaft No. ; OF the Mount
Carmel Coal Company's mine. near
Chicopee, Kansas, on the Sth.
The receiver OF the Colorado Coal
and Iron Development; Company has
applied to the federal court for an liz
junction to prevent the treasurer af
Pueblo county from selling It's lands
for delinquent taxes.
The eighteenth annual meeting Of ;hs
Colorado StAic Bcckcrpers association
VIII be bcld January i5ih and isth. in
room - OF the capitol building. An in
tercsfing program has bsen arranged
FOR those Interested in hec culture.
II. H. Fleetwood. colored man ~
Colorado City died after terrible ~uf-
fering as . flrsult OF cruel joke An.
other negro fyOnrrd alcohol In Fleet
woods shoes while he was asleep utid
set IL on fir.. IIr was terribly burned.
\ number of rich Denver men have
subscribed Sii,I1sD toward the museum
TO be built in the City PARK, IN which
VIII be placed the Carter cell,ction ~
natural historical i-pecimrns now at
breckenridge. Il = dcsinrd to raise
$4,000
Work fns Just hccI1 started up in the
Barton coal milne, tuFenty miles north
OF Fort Collins and there j. n demand
FOR every ton thar can h. mined Tbs,
indinn Springs mines, :, Few miles west
Of the Barton mipe, arc HiS0 running 10
their fullest capacity.
Miss May Waite. daughter OF the cS.
governor OF Colorado WHO attempted
TO commit suicide nj Washington by
taking n grain OF strychninc, has ~.
covered from the effects or the poison
A reporter who called AZ THE house "a
ascertain the girls condition was told
that she seemed TO b. stiil dcspg1dcnt
and that IL was the Intention Of hcf
brother and friends 10 send her TO her
home in Aspen. Colorado. ES-Goyern.
or Waite is now engaged In business in
Texas
The Philadelphia smeIter at Pueblo
has commenced work on two new fur
naces and two roasters- When al
these improvements are completed the
Philadelphia smeiter win be- able "a
greatly increase It's output In isss over
that Of 1897 While the ore receipts
of last year were very large. develop
ment work and increased railroad IA,
cilities In the Cripple Greek district In
dictate that the volume OF ore to b
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