The Lamar register., 1901-07-24
COLORADO NOTES.

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| A new postollicc has been estnb-
lished AT Nona. Kit Carson county,
with Sarah C., Webb rs postmistress.
The Woman's Club of Boulder has
| placed wire Scttces in various parts OF
town In shady places, for the beneht
/ of strangers
a large working model of Cripple
Creek has been proposed as one of the
chief exhibits of this state ut the 81.
Louis Worlds Fair in 1903.
While drilling well twenty miles
south OF Granada. in I'rOwers county,
Ley Blackwell struck heavy now
of artesian water mt II depth of loo
| feet.
| The facl that there We're tnlleged)
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines ut Rocky Ford We're
fairly in blossom is troubling the mel
on growers.
Peaches from Grand junction and
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market throughout
most of the non-pcach growing por-
tions of the state.
The directory publishers who have
| lust finished n ne directory for l'ueD-
10. estimate the population at 4I,Uoo'
| The census of 1900 gave Pueblo Il pop
/, ulation of 2S, lJT.
Superintendent of Fish Hntchcries
Holland recently went to Estes park 10
put 25,Ooo young trout in the brooks OF
that section. The fish were Matched In
the Denver hatchery.
The City Council of Rocky Ford. nav
| ing n $1,000 issue of water bonds 10
| dispose of. accepted the bid OF II Cnl-
cago firm which offered to take the
bonds at par at four and one-hali per
| cent. interest for ten years.
The committee in charge of the nor.
ticulturc show at the Festival OF
Mountain and Plain at Denver has de
cided to divide the state into the SIX
horticultural districts for the purpose
of offering sweep stake prizes.
! Arupahor county will take a few Sc
Iect boar,lcrs 1t has agreed with Shcr-
| if Adm Putnam of Elbert county TO
keep in The Arapahoe county jail such
prisoners as he cannot care for AT home
| ut cost of 20 cents II day each.
| Five new street cars patterned after
the convertible open and closed car,
which recently won a grand priZe at
the Paris exposition. have been ordered
for the Colorado Springs railway ana
will probably be in operation by sep
tember 1st
! While John Mosconi. Ed. GabaIsky
and party of dog fancicrs from Cen
| trail City were out east OF Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
MIR. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by II coyote that had been
brought 10 bay by the dogs.
Aided by the use of electrical min
ing machines lately installed by the
Fremont coal mine at WilliainsDurs'
better known MS Bear gulch. the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is said to
he producing rs much coal Win slNt!
men MS it did last fall with Ito.
The Pullman company In its repair
shops nj Denver will pay the list and
10th of each month. conforming will
the new state law calling for bi'
monthly payments of employees. There
are 300 men now employed. but 1t Il
eypected that the number will be
raised to between 100 and 500.
Long mountain trips on foot. OF
horseback and by wagons are one OF
the popular features of the Glen l'hrR
Chautauqua nj Palmer Lake this sum
mcr. \ recent three days tril' incl,lu
cd Manitou park, Woodland park. ut'
pass. Green Mountain falls. Cascade
canon and the Garden of the Gods.
James Page, postmaster nt White
water, Colorado. has Informed Postot
flee Inspector Sullivan mt Denver tli'
his office had been burned on the nigh,
of July 10th. The loss was somewhere
between 500 aud SO in stamps burned
Just The amount could not be deter
mined until the safe was recovered anu
opened.
A largely signed petition was recciv
ed by the Fort Lyons Canal Company
| Ia. Inn, n \
mas few days ago. requesting that
suit he Instituted against the Amity
canal and the oxford Farmers canal
TO determine their rights to the use OF
water as against the rights of the Fort
Lyons canal
The petition to force the Boulder
street ear company to suspend operat'
in. the car and electric line and to
lease the same was refused by Judge
Bennett The petition was brought on
behalf of the creditors of the company
represented by j. s. McBcth. Receiver
Over was ordered to make n report
within reasonable time.
The SNOWFALL excursion of the BOul
der Chautauquans. July nth. was Il
novel experience 10 many of the Wis
itors The cXcursionists went on the
narrow gauge road as far MS camp
Frances. the last station before reach
Ing Ward. and from there went ON foot
or horseback to the snow fields on The
northern slope of the mountains. There
they enjoyed n rare sport. for snow
baIling in the middle of July is not Il
frequent occurrence. especially for the
people of Texas.
The adjutant general of the state
has ordered detachment of the mill
tia. consisting of the First regiment in
fanny. Two troops of cavalry ana the
signal and medical corps, 10 phrtlci'
paic in the cncampmcnt at the Boulder
Chnutnuqua. July 31st. August 1st ana
oud The order is not compulsory ana