The Lamar register., 1900-12-26
COLORADO NOTES.

sugar factory at Denver.
A movement is on foot at Glenwood
Springs to organize home company
and run prospecting tunnel into one
OF the mountains near the city.
The Teller County Bar Association
gave banquet in the National hotel
in Cripple Creek on the night Of De-
cember 22nd. Covers We're laid for 1O0
The state engineers report shovx
the Taylor state road will be great
benei.t to the state when completed
Already $4,000 has been spent on this
thOroughfare.
The Eaton school has opened again,
after being closed II week on account
of scarlet fever. There are no new
cases in the district. and the few cascs
We're of mild form.
Teller county paid ont during the
past year S1,330 for <eeley cure To
drunkards. making n total expenditure
for poor of SS,O6312. Lake county's
bill was $12.25O.5T and Morgan SSS4-S'-
The Hoffman Milling Company IS
erecting new 1OO-sack merchant
Touring mill in Fort Collins. 1t is To-
Gated three-fOurths of II mile south
east of the postotfice and will be driv-
en- by water power.
Florence men have Incorporated In
the office of the secretary of state. The
Florence Labor Mon Building Asso-
citation. The capital is 100000, and
the building will be used for headIu7r-
tiers of all labor unions of Florence
John Matthews. the man who AZ
tempted to rob the Boss saloon ON East
Bennett avenue. Cripple Creek. last
fall. and who shot the bartender. has
been sentenced by Judge Harris to an
indeterminate term in the Buena Vista
reformatory to not exceed fifteen yenrs-
In the criminal court at Denver yes-
terdny the case of William w. Ander-
son, who shot Fred Bonfils and ii. IL
Tammen, proprietors of the Post, came
up on the 10Th inst. for second trinl.
but on motion of defendants counsel \
postponement was taken until the next
term.
The Rev. Thomas A. UzZell. who
has for years done Il magnificent work
in the slums of Denver, appeals to the
public for funds to complete his new
tabernacle on which 300 has al
ready been expended. The sum of 81
600 Is needed to complete present con-
tracts.
The contract for building twenty-five
miles of railway from Trinidad up the
PurgatOire river was awarded by fl,s.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to
the firm of Orman X Crook, of which
the governor-elect is n member. The
road is mainly built for the transpor-
tation of lumber.
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right of the state to assess the cars Of
foreign corporations doing business in
this state, and thus upheld the Stair
Board Of Equalization, which has as
sumed to take the action questioned by
the American Refrigerator Trainxit
Company as test suit
George NJ. Huskins, for twelve years
associated with Frank c. GOudy in the
conduct of the affairs of the Rio
Grande Valley Land Company and kin
dred companies, and who had served
as treasurer and deputy clerk In Mesa
county and deputy auditor of state.
died in Denver December 18th. of con-
sumption. He leaves II wife and five
children.
At Lake City. on the night of De
cember 18th, Jim Harrison got into an
alteration in a saloon with Dick Price,
colored, whom he accused of setalinE
provisions from n cabin. Harrison
stabbed Price in the breast and arm,
and when the city marshal, G. w
SmeltZer. tried to arrest Harrison the
latter stabbed SmeltZer five times in
the abdomen. Harrison was arrested
The report of State Engineer 4 J.
McCune shows that 1.JOOOOO acres Of
land are under ditch in this state and
are now being irrigated and that with
the bitches now in existence 1,OOO,OOO
more acres can be irrigated than at
present. A total of 10000 miles Of
bitches is to be found in Colorado,
which is just double the mileage Of
six years ago. This shows wonder
full advance in the work of irrigation
in Colorado.
1t is said that Joseph Lesher will cE-
tablish his mint for the making of his
referendum souvenirs in Denver if the
federal government will allow him
to coin his octagonal money. He has
referred the matter to District Attor-
ney Greeley w. Whitford and expects
also to hear from Secretary Lyman
Gage. The coinage of the money
which contains 4S0 grains of sterling
silver, may be interdicted, but it has
attracted great attention.
U. NJ. Henderson, the abscondinx
assistant cashier of the First National
Bank of Greeley, was captured in a
small town eight miles from Ell Paso,
Texas, Monday evening, December
10th. and City Marshal David Camp Of
Greeley left for the southern city 10
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