The Lamar register., 1901-09-11
COLORADO NOTES.

dad September 3Oth.
The Socialist Labor party in Denver
has nominated n full county ticket FOR
the fall campaign.
General w. j. Palmer of Colorado
Springs has given $500 to Command
ant Snyman for the BOer relief fund.
The Colorado Springs Y. NJ. G. A.
building directors have received gift
of $500 from IL donor who desires
not to have his name published.
At the rock drilling contest in Lead
vile on Labor Day. Hupps and Lind
quist of Ouray broke the worlds rec
ord by driving the drill 411A inches,
which beats the former record held by
Chamberlain and Andregg nearly two
Inches.
The directors of the state fair to be
held at Pueblo September 23d to 2Ith
have received a letter from GunnisOn
county asking that arrangements be
made to allow the county to have n
building made from bales of hay III
which to place Its exhibits.
August was the heaviest month of
tourist travel Colorado has ever known,
II the baggage records Mt the union de-
pot in Denver are n correct index. The
number of pieces sandled was 1O3,oGS,
while for July 1t was but 1OO,S3O. This
is also an increase over August OF last
year of 1880 pieces.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell will make n
careful inspection of the public schools
in the North park, n part of the state
that has not always received the at
tention 1t deserves on account of the
time required TO reach 1t from Denver.
John Erickson proposes to build Il
$4,000 opera house Mt Florence.
The grand stand for the Festival of
Mountain and Plain will be erected on
the site of former festival arenas ut
COlfax avenue and Broadway. The
seating capacity will be upwards of
10000. All special events will take
place in the arena. All parades will
pass in review before the grand stand.
+. l.. Dana and Charles Zobrist an
nounced their intentions to build
street car line to Prospect Lake from
Colorado Springs. The lake is about
mile and a half from the center Of
the city and the parties intend to make
1t big resort. The building of this
car line will be the first step. 1t will
cost $4,000.
During the storm at Loveland Sep
tcmber Sd, two men. William Clark
and Charles Wells. We're hurt by II
lightning stroke while under their wa
gon, about n mile west of town. Their
uok WIS sIluCh
some hay stacks on the farm of A.
Rist, four miles west of town. and
about fifty tons were burned.
Blast furnace A at the Minnequa
steel works. Pueblo. which has been
In course OF construction for more
than n year. was blown in September
4th. Miss Grammer, daughter Of Su-
perintendent Grammer of the blast
furnace, started the big machinery go
ing. The furnace will add about 400
tons OF pig iron day to the output Of
the plant.
1t Is announced that by October 1st
work will be commenced on the new
steel wagon plant at Pueblo to be
erected between the MinneQua town.
site and the Union Stock Yards on the
land of the c. F. & l. Company. 1t is
understood that the $35OOOO of capital
stock of the company has nll been sub
scribed. and all possible efforts will be
made to get the work under way.
At meeting of the Cripple Creek
board of aldermen the granting of an
electric light franchise to Il. L. Wade
Of Colorado Springs was carried by Il
vote of to 2. The franchise asked by
the Pixies Peak company and Peoples
Electric Light Company were voted on
by the same vote. The action of May
or Crane in closing gambling in that
city was also indorsed by Il majority
vote.
On the evening of September Sd
fire at Engle. Il mining camp a few
miles south of Trinidad, totally de-
stroyed the mercantile store of Pine Il
Co. The stock was entirely destroyed.
The loss was about $1,000, with little
insurance. The building belonged to
A. Raskower of Trinidad and was
worth about $1,000. Mrs. Welcll's res
taurant and boarding house was also
destroyed.
The following patents have been
granted to Colorado Inventors: Leon
ard G. Bailey, Florence. bottle; Melvin
Fl. Beck, Victor. chair for mining
cages; Merritt G. COnley. Longmont
bedstead; Augustus A. Clougl. Denver,
dust trap for street sweepers; WILL
lam ]. Jones. Denver. apparatus for
carbonating liquids: james II. Mont
gomery, Denver, aerial wire rope
tramway; A. r. Rathron, Florence,
book rest.
In suit brought by eastern credi-
tors against the Brown Palace Motel
Company, managers of the Brown Pal
ace hotel in Denver. ID. II. Mofiat tes-
titled that the company has upward of
$4,000 to its credit in the First Ma
tional Bank and is making money at
the rate of $1,000 or $1,000 n month.
The ten years lease held by the hotel
company expires November Both, 1902.
The company now has $25O,OOO in
bonds outstanding and is regarded as
one of the most fiOurishing hotel COM
panies in the West.
At meeting of citizens held at De
Beuue Ii was decided to hold the an