The Lamar register., 1900-01-17
COLORADO TENS.

than two ounces OF gold.
A voter has been arrested at Golden
for showing his ballot.
by the overturning of truck while
going to a fire recently.
Three Leadville firemen were injured
]. b. Orman, who has the contract
for building the Crystal river railroad,
says that the road will be completed
to Marble this year.
The body of William Zaden was
found in well near La Junta the
other day. He had evidently been
murdered. Two Mexicans are sus-
pected.
A disastrous fire broke out Friday
morning in the heart of Colorado
Springs, and before the flames could
be checked about S140,000 worth of
property was destroyed. The greatest
sufferers were the May Clothing Com
pany, w. S. Nichols & Co, wholesale
gracers, and A. II. Whaite & Co.,
clothiers. The losses are covered to a
great extent by insurance.
A. l.. Humphrey, superintendent of
motive power of the Colorado Midland
Railway, is in Paterson, New Jersey, to
inspect the $4,000 rotary snow plow
ordered several months ago. The ma
chine is now completed and will be
as sOOu dppTONeu ny MI
Humphrey. 1t will be the biggest
snow plow in the West, having a
sweep two feet greater in width than
those now In use in the mountains.
BY the agreement of the telegraph
ers and the Rio Grande, new office
Is created, that of manager of the
main telegraph office. at salary of
S95 month. j. L. Fegan has been in
charge of the Rio Grande telegraph Of
nee for ten years, but without official
position. Now that the position is de-
fined, 1t is to go to the man who Is
oldest in line of promotion, who is j.
w. Brunton of Pueblo, now wire
chief, with headquarters at Pueblo.
; Secretary Martha A. Shute of the
State Horticultural Society has been in
consultation with the National Paris
Commission as to the display of Colo
RADIO fruit at the Paris Exposition. 1t
was the intention of the commission to
have a fine fruit display in Paris from
Colorado, but the fruit growers Of the
state have responded coolly to the np-
peals In this behalf. Mrs. Shute now
fears that the state will not have any
fruit exhibit at Paris, as the growers of
Colorado do not seem to think that the
effort will bring a fair return for the
expense involved.
The four days from the 7th to the
10th of February are to be gala days
at Colorado College. Preparations have
already been largely completed for
double celebration-in honor of the
opening of the new Pickens Fine Arts
building, and In commemoration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the found
ing OF the college. The exact anniver
sary date came last May. but 1t was
decided to postpone its celebration un-
til the Perkins building should be fin
ished, and then make the joint cele-
bration the most notable occasion of
Its sort in the history of the college.
The body of man recently found
hanging In the woods near Florence
has been identified as that of Joe
Graindarge, Frenchman. Holes in
the clothing indicated that he was
shot Two people, suspected Of
numbering him have been arrested at
Rockvale. Their names are Joe Chevie
and Mrs. Devivers. Both are French.
Relations known to have existed be-
tween the victim and his alleged
/, murderers support the murder theory
and furnish the motives of cupidity
and jealousy. 1t develops now that
Graindarge was not a bachelor. He
left wife and two children in Bel
GUM. but lived with the woman Devi-
vefS. ABOUT tnree years ago Joe
Chevie appeared upon the scene and
in time won the affections of the
woman Graindarge was living with.
Intense jealousy sprung up between
the two men, and II Is now alleged
that the woman and her present para
mour shot Graindarge, carried the
body to the desolate spot in the noun
tains and there suspended 1t from a
tree. The house which belonged to
Graindarge was torn down and the
lumber hauled away and appropriated
by Chevie. Deputy Sheriff Mooney
found Graindarge's horses, harness
and wagon on the premises of the
woman and man. Mr.. Mooney Is
highly commended for his work in
this case.
The application of the Midland Ter
minal railway, the Florence & Cripple
Greek railway, the Metallic Extraction
Company, and the other companies
that were enjoined by Judge Steven
son In November from perfecting their
alleged sale and reorganization at the
suit Of the attorney general, by direc-
tion of Governor Thomas, for the disso-
luton of the injunction, came on in
the District Court before Judge N. Wal
ter Dixon of Pueblo, who was called in
to hear the application. After presenta-
ton of evidence and argument by the
attorney, Judge Dixon held that the