The Lamar register., 1901-12-11
COLORADO NOTES.

Charles II. Springer has been ap-
pointed engineer in the Pueblo public
building.
Senator Teller has taken his seat on
the Democratic side of the Senate
chamber.
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth spoke
to an immense audience in the First
Presbyterian church, Pueblo, on the
night of December 1st.
George Winston and l.. A. Williams,
of Muskogee, Indian Territory, have
purchased controlling interest in the
stock of the Mercantile National Bank
of Pueblo.
Chancellor T.. Benjamin Andrews of
the University of Nebraska, will pre-
side at the laying of the cornerstone
of the new science building ut Colo
rado College, Colorado Springs.
Many of the Cripple Creek gamblers
have left for other points throughout
the state and country. as they are said
to believe that gambling has been
closed for good In Teller county.
For the month of October the Colo
RADIO & Southern Railway Company
earned S497.244, an increase of $29,727,
and net $149,G22, an increase of 3d.
SIG; surplus $132,OG6, an increase of
$s,723.
A meeting of the Pueblo Business
Mems Association was held November
Goth to condemn the action of Mayor
West in allowing the gambling houses
to reopen. Strong resolutions were
passed.
The postofiicc order establishing n
free delivery service Mt Grand juno
tion has been postponed to the 10TH
inst. The occasion for the delay is the
failure of supplies to reach the office
in season.
The ladies of the Norton Art Club of
Pueblo opened four-days' art eNhi-
bition and sale of pictures on the 3rd
inst. The proceeds will be devoted to
fund ,or founding an art gallery i'll
Pueblo.
o. Z. Adams of Denver, editor of the
National Standard, has been appointed
by Commander-in-C Chief Torrance of
the G. A. X. to be inspector general of
the Department of Colorado and wy
oming.
The electric line between Denver and
Arvnda was opened December 1st. 1t
is believed that this Is but the begin
ming of number of important sub
urban extensions by the Denver Tram-
way Company.
The anual report of the Denver Char
ity Organization Society SLOWS an ex-
penditure of S25,500 during the year.
Excellent work was done with the
money by the various charitable soci-
eties of the city.
Capitalists of Boulder have raised
enough money to put the Boulder Rail
way IL Utility Company out of debt.
They say the company will soon extend
pt,I nl... InI m n
ments at the plant.
Owing to the cut In rates nearly
thousand people visited the Cripple
Creek district on Sunday, December
list, coming up from the valley over
the Flarence L. Cripple Creek and the
Midland Terminal lines.
At Ward on the 9th inst. Justice of
the Peace Gibbons fined John Field.
farmer living near Longmont, the sum
of 5000 and sentenced him to the
county Jail for ninety days for stuffing
twenty-six turkeys with stones while
the birds were still living, and selling
them. dead but undressed to a butcher,
at Ward.
w. S. Stratton has accepted the invi-
tation of the Colorado Springs Mining
Stock Exchange to be the guest of hon
or at n banquet at the Antlers hotel,
january 18th, to commemorate the en-
trance of the association into the STRAIT
ton Mining Exchange building. and as
an expression of the public spirit
shown by the millionaire.
Beet pulp from the Loveland susr.,
factory is being tested as to its value
for fattening cattle and sheep. w. ii.
Turner is hauling to Berthoud and
feeding cattle. Bartholf & Kelim have
n large number of lambs on the John
stone farm southeast of town, and
about mile from the factory, to
which they are feeding about forty
tons day.
The resignation of G. II. Middleton,
assistant chief engineer of the Denver
& Rio Grande, has been announced.
Mr. Middleton has another position
awaiting him. 1t was announced that
no successor would be appointed and
that the place. would be abolished.
This is taken to mean that the Rio
Grande authorities are contemplating
no plans for extensions of Importance.
A new club of horsemen, to be called
the Country Club, will be organized in
Denver to replace the Overland Park
Club. Henry Wolcott is the principal
owner of the stock of the Overland
Park Association, which for the last
five years, it is claimed, has been
maintained at loss. Mr.. Wolcott, 1t
is said, is preparing to make his resi-
dence in the East. and has offered to
make a two years lease to the new
club.
w. S. Stratton will donate to Ell Paso
county the new park Mt the end of the
Cheyenne canon street car line recently
improved by him. County Assessor
Layden was notified by Mr.. Stratton,
1t is said. to strike the tax levy from
the rolls. as the owner intended to give