The Lamar register., 1901-07-31
COLORADO NOTES.


The President has appointed w. IL.
Ogle postmaster at Lake CITY.
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
The newsboys of Denver propose to
give fair August 18th to 11th to raise
money to pay for uniforms.
The plant of the Golden Pressed
Brick Company at Golden. which was
recently burned, will be rebuilt imme-
diately.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that the
accounting department of the Rio
Grande Western railroad will be
moved from Salt Lake to Denver Oc-
tober list.
The hail and wind storm in the vicin-
ity of Rocky Ford on the night or July
9th did good deal of damage to can
tnloupes and fruit. but fortunately on
ly hit II limited district.
The executive committee of the
Transmississippi congress at Cripple
Greek awarded the first prize of $50 in
cash for the best decorated building to
the fire boys of station No. !.
On the night of July 23rd at Grand
junction safe blowers wrecked the
safe of the Book Cliff railroad depot
Osborn. The amounts taken were not
large.
The chlorination plant of the Ell Paso
Milling Company Mt Florence was COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the morn
ing OF July 22d between and o'clock.
The loss is estimated at $2O0.0OO in
surance, $4,000.
An eastern automobile firm Is said
to be considering the project of estab-
fishing an automobile service at Colo
RADIO Springs and ManitOu to carry
tourists to the Garden of the Gods and
other points of interest.
A break occurred In the Victor city
dam on the southwest side of Pixies
peak about 4 o'clock on the morning of
July 23d and carried away about
twelve feet of the dam, also causing Il
loss of 5,O0O,0O0 gallons of water.
Running races will be held at Glen
wood Springs August 21st 22nd. 2ird
and 24th. mt which $1,000 in prizes
will be offered A cowboys tourna-
ment will conclude the races, in which
the entire western slope will partici-
pate.
Extensive forest fires are reported in
Park and jefferson counties. A great
fire has been spreading on Mount Ev-
ans. destroying hundreds of acres of
pine. Another great fire has been dew
astating the mountain forests between
Evergreen and Pine Grove.
\ Toledo. Ohio. dispatch says that
W. +. Moses the land script dealer of
Denver has made claim to four is
lands near the mouth of the Maumee
river. The islands are valued at
S15O.0OO and are now claimed by the
state under the swamp act of 1850.
The Pueblo Single Tax Club has
been organized with b. ID. V. Reed as
president and ]. w. Printlinger as sec
retary. J. Il. Herman. who has been
giving lectures on the street corners in~
Denver and Pueblo on the single tax,
has gone west to continue his lecturing
in other cities.
The net earnings of the Denver &
Rio Grande in the second week in July
We're S250.2O0, an increase of S41 600
over the corresponding week of last
year. The first two weeks of July the
net earnings We're S464 800 an increase
of SGO.SOO over the corresponding two
weeks of last year.
J. +. Carney. foreman of the pipe
line construction gang. recently
brought to Loveland n skeleton which
was uncovered near big dam west of
Loveland. The skull and jawbones in
rup and bride bit were found in a per-
feet state of preservation.
Colored members of the knights of
Pythias from Colorado Springs, Cripple
Creek and Leadville met in Pueblo re-
Gently and founded the first Afro
American Pythian grand lodge in Colo
RADIO. There are some 240 members
among the colored people of the state,
but no hitherto recognized lodge.
About thirty non-uniou miners left
Leadyille July oath for Rossland, Brit
ish Columbia. where they will take
the places of striking miners. The
agent for the company had consider
able difficulty in getting the men away
from town, but when the train finally
pulled out there was no demonstra-
tion.
The Denver Republican correspond
en-. at Florence writes that the apple
crop of Fremont county was never
larger than will be the case this ye0
being fully one-third greater than that
of last year. The country for miles is
covered with fruit trees loaded down,
owing to the weight of the fruit upon
them.
The Pueblo Press Club will keep
open house in Colorado Springs to the
editors of the state during the Quarto-
Centennial celebration. August 1st, End
and 3rd. Joseph ID. Glass, the repre-
sentative of the club, has secured, sub
ject to the approval of the Press club
at its next meeting, headquarters in
the Antlers hotel.
Hirnno. japanese who keeps res
tnurant in Denver, has been having
trouble with the Walters Union,
which has placed n boycott on his es-
tablishment and driven away all his
help. He was denied an injunction by
Judge Carpenter and has appealed to