The Lamar register., 1901-12-04
COLORADO NOTES.

Work on the new cement plant at
Florence will soon be under way. The
plans are completed and the machin-
cry ordered.
The United Oil Company at Flor
ence gave away over 100 Thanksgiv-
ing turkeys, presenting one to each Of
its employees.
Mrs. Finis +. Ernest of Denver has
been appointed member from Colorado
to the Board of Managers of the St
Louis Exposition.
The Denver Housemaid's Union has
had to expel several woman managers
of employment agencies who gained
admission in the guise of working
girls.
The Artists Club In Denver is max
Ing an effort to raise money enough
to equip department in the Colorado
Museum building soon to be erected
in City park.
A. b. Mckinley. who was struck by
car and badly injured some two weeks
ago in Denver, is reported to be much
better and his physicians believe that
within few weeks he will be able to
walk.
Unless n compromise Is effected,
Boulder Is on the &C of n bitter fight
on electric light rates. and the citizens
may be able to let theh light shine ut
small expense.
DIR. Joseph Cuneo, Italian consul at
Denver, celebrated Thanksgiving Day
by becoming married to Miss Flo
mena Ferrari. who came to Colorado
only short time since from Rome.
The finest floral piece ever seen In
Cripple Greek was sent to Aspen by
the Western Federation of Miners of
the Cripple Creek district as token
of their love for the late Governor
Waite.
Bud Parrott. tried in the District
Court ut Ouray for the murder of
Charles Randall, was found guilty and
sentenced to life Imprisonment. The
jury stood for some time eleven to one
in favor of hanging.
George f. Peabody of New York has
offered $1,000 toward the building
fund of the Colorado Springs Y. NJ. G.
A. lie is n member of the Board of
Trustees of Colorado College, having
been Interested in the institution by
General Palmer.
George ]. Ilindel of Denver, who rt,.
ceived a sample dollar bill from n
green goods men in New York. has been
subpoenaed to appear in that city rs Il
witness, the government paying his
fare. J. T.. Altberger of the Western
Union Telegraph Company will also be
called upon to give evidence.
Officers We're elected at the annual
meeting of the Pueblo Club November
25th as follows: President. George II.
Scott; vice president, l.. ]. Tyson; sec
retary, ]. II. Dimes; treasurer. II. G.
Royce. The club is the leading one of
its kind in Pueblo. and is composed of
the majority of the business men of the
city.
The annual election of the Denver
Club November 9th resulted in the
selection of the following officers: John
G. Mitchell. president; w. ii. Bryant,
vice president; Thomas ii. Hardcastle,
secretary; Thomas keely. treasurer.
House committee, DIR. ID. ii. Dougan.
Henry Van Mater, John c. Montgom-
cry.
Edward J. Reilly. an engineer of the
ID. & II. G.. road, has been presented
with costly gold watch by the ID. &
Il. G. firemen of Royal Gorge Lodge
No. so, b. of l.. F.. at Pueblo. Reilly
was recently in the race for gold
watch in voting contest, and his
friends maintained that he should have
won it.
In the District Court at Castle Rock,
Douglas county, w. A. Dye pleaded
guilty to shooting out two switch lights
In the Santa Fe yards at the time of
the telegraphers' strike in December
last, and was sentenced to three
months In Jail and fined 800. Upon
recommendation of the Santa Fe rep
resentative both fine and sentence were
suspended.
1t is estimated that up to November
Goth of this season there has been
shipped to the Loveland sugar factory
from Fort Collins 5,45S, sos pounds or
2.73O tons of beets. An equal number
of tons were shipped each from Bell
vue. Laporte and Timnath, making the
total shipments from the Poudre val
ley to the Loveland factory about 10,-
600 tons. or 45O carloads.
The Pope's encourage deny the report
circulated in the United States by n
news agency that Bishop Matz of Den
yer has been asked for his resignation
OH account of his difficulties with the
Irish-American clergy of Denver. Fur
ther Inquiries brought out an official
statement to the effect that Bishop
Matz had not been asked to resign.
Prominent priests in Denver declare
that no friction exists.
In behalf of the Board of Trustees of
the Denver University Vice President
]. w. Gilluly and Secretary Joseph G.
Shattuck have issued statement
thanking the friends of that Institution
who assisted in the efforts to avert the
sale of the University hall, and an
nounce that compromise has been
made under which the University pays
Its interest in full and Is allowed fif-
teen months longer on the principal.
The Denver News says the extension
of the Crystal River railway to the
North Fork region and the construction