The Lamar register., 1901-03-06
COLORADO NOTES.

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Ex-Mayor T. S. McMurray has been
appointed cashier at the Denver post
office.
The Thirty-fourth infantry, which
had Its rendezvous Mt Denver, Is on its
way home from Manila.
Colorado Springs is considering the
purchase of IL large tract or tracts Of
ground to enlarge its park area.
George II. Adams of Boston will
erect $125,OOO hotel building at the
corner of Eighteenth and Welton
streets In Denver.
Adjutant General Overmeyer has
commissioned Charles S. Card, n SER
geant in troop C, Denver city cavalry,
to be second lieutenant.
Eight hundred persons, mostly school
children, were recently vaccinated In
one day by the Denver health commits
sioner and his assistants.
At state conference of the Prohibi-
tion party, held in Denver, February
26th, n resolution was passed endors-
ing the work of Mrs. Carrie Nation Of
Kansas.
Plans are being made to run three
mile spur from the Denver, Lakewood
Il Golden railway to the newly opened
basalt quarries on South Table noun
tain, near Golden.
On February 2Sth Fred Cheney, one
of the Oldest and best known miners
in Aspen, was caught by II body of ore
in the shoot in the Bushwhacker mine
and instantly killed.
The Board of Pardons has agreed to
commute the sentence OF George Cor
don from ten to six years. Gordon
was convicted in Arapahoe county.
May 3. 1897, on the charge of criminal
assault.
II. f. Fisher, general passenger agent
of the Colorado & Southern, has re-
turned from El Paso. He says the
outlook is good for large travel from
Texas to Colorado during the tourist
season.
No certain evidence has been Sc
cured against Al. Cowan, the suspect
ed woman murderer in custody at Den
yer. However, his hatred of women
is established and experts pronounce
him insane and advise his confinement.
The large shafthouse and machinery
of the Golden Age mine near James
town, in Boulder county, We're destroy
ed by fire on the night of February
2Gth, the loss approximating $4,000.
They will be replaced.
Two brothers named William and
Max Stanley became involved in II row
Mt Leadeille n few days ago. Max at
tackled his brother and fastening his
teeth in the chin, almost chewed the
lower portion of his face Of.
Della Breckenridge. grandniece OF
Colonel w. C. =. Breckenridge, who
was forced to seek shelter mt the police
station in Denver owing to her being
out Of funds, received money from her
father in st. Joseph, and Immediately
left for that city.
Attorney General Post holds that ap-
plicants for notaries' commissions
must be qualified electors. The attor-
ney general regards notaries as county
officers and says they must be resi-
dents Of n county ninety days to be
qualified for commission.
At Breckenridge, February 2Sth, I.
II. Thompson, who had been recently
divorced from his wife, shot and dam
yerously wounded John Keenan,, whom
he accused of having induced his wife
to leave him. Thompson promptly
surrendered himself to the authorities.
The South Platte river will be
stocked with trout. More than 10000
brook trout We're taken n few days ago
for distribution among several stations.
| The government will furnish 100000
more and the state 100000. The work
| of distributing the trout will be fin
ished within thirty days.
Twin babies We're born to Mr.. and
| Mrs. Herman Hissa of Lyons about
midnight, February 2Sth-a boy and n
girl. A sufficient interval elapsed be-
tween their births to make the girls
birthday February 2Sth and the boy S
March 1st. 1t would probably be diff
ficult to find any other pair of twins
with separate birthdays.
September 10th, 18th, 10Th and 18th
will be dates of the next horse show in
Denver. The Denver Horse Show As
sociatioh met a few days ago and
dent, C. E. Stubs: vice president, w.
w. Porter; treasurer, John w. Spring
err; secretary, C. +. Martin; assistant
secretary, j. A. Burnett.
General H. C. Merriam is in Omaha.
where he was installed as temporary
commander of the Department of the
| Missouri. He continues in charge OF
| the Department of the Colorado. 1t is
| thought n new commander of the De-
partment of the Missouri will be
named in short time to succeed Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, retired.
For the month of February Secretary
of State Mills turned into the state
treasurer the sum of $7,930.25. OF this
the largest item, $6,303.I5, was de-
rived from interpretations. 1t COM
pares with S2.5O0.9O for February
1900. The total receipts for February,
1900. were S694S.O5, showing n gain
in favor of last month of $9S2.2O.
The Home pyritic smelter blew in at
noon, February 26th, and Stag was
running into the pit in exactly forty
eight minutes after the match was
touched. The formal starting of the
plant was witnessed by hundreds of