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


Pagosa Springs over the Rio Grande'
Pagosa 4 Northern new line.
The dairy stables of ID. ]. Horkan at
Leadville We're burned on the 6tn lhst.
and thirty-seven cows burned to DEATH
Judge Charles Wright, formerly at
torney general of Colorado, died at
Tuscon, Arizona, of appendicitis, aIter
a short illness. Mr.. Wright was at,
torney general of Colorado in 1879 anu
1880.
Il. A. Falkenburg, head consul of the
western Jurisdiction of the Woodineh
of the World. has taken S4,OOO TO Gai-
weston, Texas, donated by jurisdiction
for distribution among the storm SUI
ferers.
In the District Court mt Telluride
Angelo Silver. convicted of assault
with intent to kill. was sentenced ny
Judge Stevens to the penitentiary for
term of not less than three nor more
than five years.
Engineer John r. McCune of Denver
was knocked off the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special, fast Union Pacific train.
near Atwood, December 18th, by man
crane. His injuries are considered
likely to prove fatal.
The Democratic state central COM
mittee reports that It's receipts during
the last campaign We're $1G.2j5 and It's
expenditures SIG. .191 81, leaving bal.
ance In the treasury of SI3.15. Cover
nOr-Elect Orman contributed $1,000.
The Colorado Il Canadian Valley
railroad is proposed new Cripple
Creek road. The line may be built
from Cripple Creek to Il point ON the
Red river, near the mouth of the wa
shita river. The headquarters of the
In, T., la
Governor-C. s. Thomas is one of the
owners of n coal mine in southern Col
orado. The property is near the sta
tion of Pryor. on the line of the Colo
RADIO n Southern, between WalsenburS
and Trinidad. Coal men predict good
shipper when the mine is fully opened.
The corner stone Of the new First
Presbyterian church at Canon City
was laid December 9th. The building
will be of white stone and Will cost 3
about $4,000. 1t will have Sunday
school rooms. n reception room, dining
room and kitchen of the most modern
and commodious style.
The contract for the new Carnegie
library mt Grand Junction has been let
to j. L. Stull for $4,69G. 1t will be
erected Oh n lot belonging to the Wo-
mans club, OH Seventh street. and Will
building will be started at once and is
to be completed April list.
Calvin Mortimer of Walsenburg,
Colorado, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for two years by Judge Mills at
Las Vegas. for taking $3.50 from
gambling table and sticking 1t in his
own pockets. He was also sentenced
to one year in the county jail for con-
tempt of court. Mortimer had just
served term in the pen.
/. ii. Robeson. manager of the Peli-
can. Dives, 1:30 and Bismarck mines.
as has been his custom for several
years past. gave to each employe on
the mine n turkey for Thanksgiving.
Two hundred and twenty turkeys
We're distributed. amounting In the ag-
gregate to over 5000 pounds.
The Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad
will send n stockmen's special train to
the National Cattlemen's convention in
Salt Lake. The train will leave Den
yer at 9:30 the morning of January
18th, and will arrive in Salt Lake at
| 30 o'clock the next afternoon. The
fare will be SIS for the round trip.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Fort Collins as appreciably abating.
But few new cases have been report
tHt Ntth anu VI
those attacked with the disease at the
outbreak have passed the critical stage
and are convalescing. Up to this time
there have been but four fatal cases,
two of them being nonresident college
students. The other two were resident
school children.
DIR. Coltman, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Ia Junta. re-
cefved n message from his son. Robert
Coltman. Jr.. at San Francisco, stat
ing that he and his wife and six chill
dren had just arrived from Pekin, Chi
ma. and that they would leave there
December 11th for La Junta. The doc.
tor and his wife are overjoyed at the
thought that their children are safe in
Christian land.
John Q. Riley, who mysterously dis
appeared from his home in Boulder on
the afternoon of November 9th, and
was supposed to have been drowned in
Weisenborn's lake. reappeared at his
home in a weak and apparently de-
! mented condition December 9th. The
Woodmen had offered 500 for the re-
covery of his body and the lake was
carefully dragged.
/ Harry T.. MulniX, who served n term
as state treasurer. is slowly recovering
| from an attack of typhoid fever at St.
Luke's hospital in Denver. and until
n few days ago was in a serious con-