The Lamar register., 1900-03-21
c,sorAoo Norss.

it NANli fStTNiCc w ~
hold an examination in Denver and
Pueblo some time in the spring to Sc
lect clerks for the local land offices.
These examinations will be general
throughout the country. The dates OF
examinations have not been set.
Over one hundred residences are now
under course of construction at Rocky
Ford and arrangements have been
made for the erection Of new business
blocks. The American Sugar Beet
Company is pushing work on the sugar
factory, 100 additional men having
been put to work during the week.
The Mutual Life OF New York has
paid its SJO,OO0 policy, held by the
Metropolitan National bank as secur-
ity for debt, to the receiver of the
bank, and the smaller policies will be
paid in a day or two. Detectives have
been working on the case for months,
but have not been able TO substantiate
the fraud theory.
Notes and papers representing money
cannot be taxed in Colorado IL they
are the property OF one not residing In
the state, even though the loans were
originally made here. Thit is the opin-
ion handed down by the Court OF Ap-
peals in the case Of Seth W. Hathaway,
administrator of the estate OF Edwin
French. deceased, appellant, versus Ar
mand Choury, treasurer of Costiiia
county. M#sE&
A political convention called by the
labor unions of the state met at Pu-
eblo on the 18th. The first days session
was stormy one, developing the pres
ence Of two factions and resulted in a
split. II appeared TO be contest be-
tween the Denver men and delegates
fF,Nuf af ha IN 20 tho Denver
contingent being opposed to putting up
an independent state ticket next fan.
They We're out voted and bolted.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Kansas City local on the Union Pa
cific between Magnolia and Watkins
Saturday morning by piling ties on the
track The engine WAS damaged and
the train delayed several hours. Some
time ago n rail- was raised near the
same place and an accident narrowly
ayerted. A grudge against the com
pany seems to be the cause, as Rock
Island train had passed over the road
few minutes before.
Colorado College has lately been Of
fered $4,000 toward the endowment OF
n science building. provided 100000 for
building purposes be secured by April
LIST The uneXpectedness Of the offer
and the shortness OF the time VIII ne
csssitate great and unceasing efforts
on the part of the college to meet the
conditions. General Palmer has given
$4,000. Mr.. Howbcrt $500. and other
gifts bring the total mp to nearly $780,
COO So there remains $4,000 to be
raised in two weeks.
What appears To have been a das-
tartiiy attempt to burn the J. J. Maher
ls,ItIfnU a
Masonic hall. at Ouray. was made last
Tuesday night. by placing sack satu-
/ rated with kerosene In some boxes un-
I der the rear stairway and setting IRE
/ to IL. About sixty ladies OF the order
l OF Rebekah were holding banquet In
/ the lodge room, and they discovered
I the fire In time TO avert a catastrophe.
! The constable of the precinct was ar
/ rested on suspicion at midnight.
The National Beet Sugar Company.
I now erecting half million dollar
Z sugar factory, fifty miles east of Pueb-
( 10 ON the Missouri Pacific railroad,
I have 80 ment at work and expect to
I complete the factory by October LIST.
/ This company proposes to raise its own
beets, and has prepared about 1900
acres of ground for this years crop.
Z Two trainloads OF experienced beet
| growers viii leave April LIST for Sugar
| City With their arrival will be gin
the planting OF the first beet sugar crop
IN Dtero county.
Probably the most important move
ment inaugurated by the club women
OF Colorado, and one OF the most I'M
portant public works undertaken by
women anywhere received its prelini.
mary impetus when the committee on
the preservation OF the cliff dwellings
met with the chairman. Mrs. Gilbert
McClurg. at Colorado Springs last
week. This committee was appointed
over year ago by the Colorado Fed
Grafton OF Women's Clubs. Since that
time Mrs. McCiurg, who has made the
study OF the ruins her life work. has
visited the canon. has settled the terms
Of a lease with Ignacio. has secured
its confirmation from the Indian agent
and has canyassed the matter of q
road to the ruins and a rest house on
the way. These things she laid before
the federation at Its annual meeting
last fall and the club women from over
the state Were intensely Interested In
her accounts OF the depredations there
and the necessity for action if these
wonderful relics OF a bygone ciyiliza
ton are to be preserved. The commit.
tee. including Mrs. j. d. Whitmore,
Mrs. George T. Sumner and W. S. Pea
body, Mrs. Lewis Of Pueblo, and the
Colorado SprifiyS members met Tups.