The Lamar register., 1901-01-16
COLORADO NOTES.

believed to be the work of iirebuSs.
Charles f. Wilson has been elected
president OF the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce.
1t is announced that the Silvertoh
railroad. from Silverton to lronon,
has been closed for the winter
Moses Livcrman, cashier of the Den
Vcr pOstOtliCc. has resigned III ofuer 10
attend To his business in Silverton.
The board Of trustees of Telluride
have granted II twenly-ycar frahci'sc
TO the Colorado Telephone Company.
Thirteen carloads of hogs We're
shipped from Fowler during the month
of October, bringing more than S''o'o'
The Colorado Federation of Womehs
Clubs has selected Cripple Creek as
the place for holding its convention
next fall.
William Stincr and William Hood
Were KILLED by an explosion IN me
Consolidated mine at Newcastle on the
9th instant.
John W. Crooks, state supcrintrnu-
cnt of the Baptist missions of toiorn-
do, died at Monte Vista ON the Sun
instant, from an attack OF pneumonia.
The Pueblo Cowboy Band attracted
much attention in Denver. where thcy
stopped over n day on their way 10 the
Stockgrowcrs' convention ut Salt Lake.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared n twelve and onc-half per
cent. dividend in favor of the creditors
of the insolvrnt Commercial National
bank of Denver.
The town council of Glcnwood
Springs is moving toward mullcpai
ownership of its water and electric ser
vice and has ordered II survey of 'riz-
Zly creek with that purpose IN view
Mrs. Emma Fitzgerald of Denver
whose husband is II railroad iirenihh'
has applied for n divorce because her
'worScr half" pulled her out OF bcu
and forced her 10 pray for four hours
Judge j. G. Rraliirt, for twenty-five
years II resident of Alamosh, dicu on
the 18th instant. lie WAS the seventh
man who has died in Alnmosa In the
past eight months who had been resi-
dent Of the town for twenty-five years.
At n meeting of the Denver Minis
tcrs Alliance, rarson tZZcll of the
noted Peoples Tabernacle, Is alleged
to have said: II have raised S2o,op
since last April for my church. ana
out of that not $500 has been given me
by Christians"
]. A. Lowell Of the Denver City park
Zangg. of the public schools at Hugo,
n fine antelope which he shipped to the
National geological gardens at WASH
ington, -. c., in exchange for two
whitc-tailcd deer.
At Trinidad. Nlcol FerrarO, 1.u-
ciano Pcrrino and Nofrio Cnlnsso, all
Sicilians. We're sentenced on the oth
instant to not less than ten nor more
than thirty years in the pcnitentinry
for the murder at Bcrwind of an ltal-
ian. Francisco Pccarraro.
Robert Huntington of Atlanta, Gcor-
gia, is in Colorado Investigating the de-
STABILITY of erecting II factory at
Rocky Ford or elsewhere in that vicin-
ity to treat watcrmclous, or the waste
product of watermelons, ms has been
proiitably done in Gcorgia.
At Telluride. within the space of
twcnty-four hours. Oliver Scovcl was
killed by n falling rock. William Tenn
eat was crushed to death by snow
slide mt the Tomboy mine, and Rich
ard Griffith lost his life by II fall of
$50 feet down a shaft in the Smuggler-
Union.
At faculty m9ting of the state
School Of Mines on the 18Th instant, 1t
was decided that the school should be
closed until January 18th. nt least, on
cpdcmics The public schools are also
closed indefinitely. No deaths have re-
suited so far.
In the District Court at Trinidad,
Jack Madill was sentenced by Judge
Northcutt to not. less than ten nor
more than sixty years in tho pcnitcn-
tiary for shooting his wife on the night
of February 1Ith last. Mrs. Madill
fingered in half-conscious condition
for some time, dying on April 10Th.
The Lincoln County Cattle Growers
Association elected the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year: President,
r. S. Harper of River Bend; vice prcsi-
dent, l.. II. Field of Hugo; secretary
and treasurer, j. +. Dickinson; cxccu-
tive committee, j. O. Dostal of Aroya,
G. C. Sutherland and u. y. Lowell of
Hugo.
Freight representatives of railways
leading East from Colorado are ex-
pccting n heavy movement of lambs to
eastern markets within the next few
weeks. 1t is estimated by the experts
that more than 5000 carloads of lambs,
fattcncd in Colorado for the market,
will be sent out of this state before
next April.
The Lincoln County Cattle Growers
Association and the Lincoln and Ebert
County Wool Growers Associations
elected the following delegates to at
tend the National Live Stock Associa-
tion meeting ut Salt Lake: \. McIn-
tyre, James VIII, J.. NJ. Laurie, ID. B.
Brockway. c. NJ. Miles, j. o. Dostal
and i. II. Field.
The county commissioners and Archi-
tect Smith of FL Paso county recently
went to Salt Lake city to inspect the
marble and other interior decorations
of Salt Lake City's new million dol
lar city and county building The de-