The Lamar register., 1900-09-19
COLORADO NOTES.

Many cities OF Colorado are SenulDS
funds to Galveston.
Denver people have already sub
scribed over $4,000 for the Galveston
relief fund.
At mass meeting held at Colorado
Springs. $1,000 was raised for the Gal'
weston flood sufferers.
Byron II. Fox. timbcrman at the
Smuggler mine. Aspen. was killed mt
80 this afternoon by II cave-in in the
sixth level. He was putting In set
or timbers when II rock weighing sew
crai tons tipped down, rolled over and
crushed him against the timbers.
The horse show will he held Mt ID. A.
q. Park, Denver. and contract mas
been let for the constructing of grand
stand with Il seating capacity OF 4,cV.
This Will. of course. include boxes ana
seating accommodations of every kind.
A round-trip rate OF one fare has been
secured from the railroads.
The third annual exposition of the
Las Animas County Fair Association
was opened Wednesday morning with
splendid line of exhibits. The agri-
cultural. fruit and poultry display are
especially fine. The main attraction
was baseball game between the local
team and Sopris. The score was j. 10
in favor of the home team.
Professor c. j. Scaly, who recently
came to La .Iunta and who has been
much concerned over the fate of his
relatives in Galveston. has received
word from that city that his mother,
sister two brothers, IN uncle and other
relatives to the number of twenty -one,
in all, have been lost. lie is Frustrated
with grief.
The first day of the district fair OF
Garfield, Pitkin and Eagle counties
was devoted to the arrangement of the
numerous exhibits, which bid fair TO
eclipse all former exhibitions held at
GlenwOod. The bountiful production
of fruit already Is apparent on every
table. The display OF agricultural prod
ucts is also very fine and conclusively
shows that the district cannot be sur
passed by any section of the state.
A trammer at the Portland mine
named Tony Quincy fell from the end
OF the trestle down the dump at 3
O'Clock Friday morning and dragged
his ore car after him. He rolled some
forty feet over sharp rocks to the bot
tom. Fortunately the heavy ore car
took n different route and this fact
saved Quincy from death. He escaped
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| bruises.
1t is reported that w. S. Stratton has
made another gift to the State School
of Mines, the amount with which he ~
credited with giving the institution this
time is $4,000 this being the third do
nation to the school. Mr.. StrattOn IL
member of the board Of directors and
has always taken an active interest In
the welfare of the college. The gift is
entirely distinct from the one made n
short time ago, and Will be used FOR
the erection of another building at the
school to be known as the Stratton
building.
The Republicans OF Arapaho county
| have nominated the following candi-
dates: For state senators from Arap-
ahoe county, Wolfe Londoner, william
| A. Hover. John X. Smith; for district
| judges, Calvin =. Butler, J. G. Stark.
weather, George w. Allen, l. p. Bar
mum, George +. Steele: for district at
tOrney, l.. w. Hurlbut: for county
commissioners, Theodore Mott; for
members of the House of Itepresenta-
tives, Louis Anfengcr, w. w. Booth,
John COrcoran, Sidney Eastwood, Mrs.
John Glitch, Jr. DIR. w. NJ. Robertson,
Peter Whine, John NJ. Walker, Paul
| B. Gaylord, Frank c. GOff. Joseph D.
ID. Rivers Ralph w. Smith and Will
! liam ii. Sanford; for justice Of the
peace (secOnd district, J. A. @. Rey-
nolds; for constable tsecOnd district,
I John Holmberg.
A movement is nfoot to induce Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler, recently retired
from the United States army, to come
to Colorado to accept n position as
head of the National Rough Rider
military encampment, which will SOON
be established in the Shenandoah val.
ley of San Miguel county. The leaders
of the enterprise are Governor Thomas,
General Il. V. Sumner, General Irving
Hale, Colonel $. X. Hooper, ID. II.
Moffat and G. ID. Gurley. Mr. Gurley
has opened offices in New York. Tho
governor in a letter to Mr.. Gurley.
says: 81 trust that the National Rough
Rider encampmcnt may prove the first
movement in the establishment of a
permanent national military camp
within the limits of our state, and that
the future benefits will be as pro-
nounced and constant as those derived
in the past from the national military
academy at West Point or the naval
academy at Annapolis"
The annual report OF Superintendent
Lennon of the Teller Indian School,
Colorado, just received shows salts
factory progress in both the industrial
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