The Lamar register., 1901-07-10
COLORADO NOTES.

ing ten-ton Ice plant In Canon CITY.
The hotel ut Idalia in Arapahoe coun-
ty, John Mccoy, manager, was burned
June 2Sth.
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs will be run strictly on tho
European plan.
A fifth sub-statiOn of the Denver
postofiice IL to be established, located
on Capitol hill. and three new carriers
added to the force.
Samuel Mofrat. the oldest brother OF
David II. Moffat, the Denver banker
died few days since at Goshen, new
York, aged eighty-two.
With the opening of the ID. 4 X. q;
line from Texas Greek, WestcliIe anu
Silver Cliff have made their second oe-
but into railroad society.
Mrs. NJ. A. Shute, secretary or the
State Board of Horticulture, Will nave
charge of the horticultural department.
of the state fair at Pueblo next fali.
There is very pretty rivalry be-
tween Boulder and Colorado springs
in the matter of quartO-centenhlai
celebration. Good advertisement for
both.
In excavating for the basement of a
new building ut the corner OF Four
teenth and Lawrence streets, Denver,
the workmen found the tooth OF n
mastOdOn.
The county commissioners of El Paso
county are considering Il petition for 9
franchise to construct an electric raj
way from Colorado City to the Garden
of the Gods.
At Its recent session in Columbus,
Ohio. the supreme council. United Com
mercial Travellers. granted charters Tor
councils at Trinidad and Pueblo and
also a charter for the grand council OF
Colorado.
The new law permitting the infiic-
tion of the death penalty for murder
went into effect July 1, but the quo
tations do not show any rise In the
price of hemp.
At Ouray. on the Fourth. in the min
ers' double-hand drilling contest,
Hupps and LindIuist drilled in the
regulation contest time 1914 inches in
Gunnison granite.
w. +. Bailey. formerly general pas
senger agent of the Colorado Midland,
has been appointed manager of the
railroad department of Rand, McNally
x Co., publishers of Chicago.
The American Microscopical Society
will meet in Denver Mt the same time
Win tle AHltTlcHu ASSoclHtiOH lOI Aue
Advancement of Science. One hundred
members are expected to be present.
There We're iifty-nine eases of diph-
iberia in Denver during the month of
June as compared with fourteen the
year previous. and the health commits
sioncr has Instituted an investigation
to try to find out the causes.
Chancellor II. A. Buchtel of the Uni.
sNf
versity had S7S students last year in
all departments, q. gain of 2iS over
the preceding year. He says the at
tendance will easily reach 1000 this
fall.
From all parts of the state come tlo
usual reports OF Fourth of July acct
dents. II all the victims could be
gathered in one crowd 1t would furnish
an appalling object lesson, for there
would be fully 100 sufferers, some very
seriously hurt.
During a sudden squall of wind at
Pueblo. June Both. Mrs. j. w. Mitchell
was struck by falling limb from
dead cottonwood tree and dangerously
hurt. She was taken to st. Mary's
hospital. A babe that she held in her
arms escaped almost entirely unin-
jured.
President Mckinley has signed the
following Colorado commissions: Per-
ry Hobkirk, receiver of public moneys
at Del NOrte; David c. Fleming, reg
lister of the land office at Sterling (rc-
appointeD: Charles B. Timberlake, re-
ceiver of public moneys at Sterling ire
appointed.
At Pueblo June 10Th the temperature
as shown by the thermometer was 1881
degrees at $3.50 p. m, which was rec
Ord-breaker. The hottest day previous
to that was in July, 1883, when the
mercury rose to 1927. But no pros
trations We're reported as would have
been the case in any eastern city.
The safe in the postotfice at Mama
lola was blown open about . o'clock
in the morning on July 4th and $1Oo
stolen by robbers. who escaped. II
was good time for the safe blowers
as the explosion attracted no special
attention on account of the celebration
of the day by firing guns and crackers.
Carl Hahn. a machinist in the en-
ploy of the Colorado Fuel and Ir0a
Company at Pueblo. has invented
machine to be run by liquid air. He
estimates that one gallon of liquid air,
which can be manufactured for 25
cents. can be made to run a bicycle $50
mobile 100 miles.
A Cheyenne dispatch says: 1t is re-
ported that rich gold and copper bear
ing ore has been discovered near Dia-
mond Peak. just over the line in Colo
rado. and between the headwaters OF
the Cache la Poudre and Big Laramie
rivers. 1t is said that the ore at the
grass roots carries $40 in gold ana
copper. There has been rush of Wy
oming miners to the scene.
Thomas f. Armstrong. prominent
rnnllman from unar E'rn nj, town In,