The Lamar register., 1901-12-25
COLORADO NOTES.

Senator WolcOtt with q CABINET POSI-
ton.
By quit-claim deed from other heirs,
Admiral Dewey has become the owner
Of lot in Denver.
The November pay roll of the Mime
qua steel plant at Pueblo amounted to
more than S2l2,OOO.
4he Denver Mining Exchange will
occupy new quarters in the Equitable
building after January LIST.
The nomination of b. G. Fleming.
register OF the Sterling land office, has
been confirmed by the Senate.
Congressman Shafroth has intro
duced bill 30 increase the cost limit
of the Denver mint TO SSOO,OoO.
Extensive improvements, to cost in
the neighborhood of 100000, will be
made in the u. & X. G. shops at Den
Yer.
Senator Teller and Representatives
Bell and Shafroth have decided to re-
main in Washington during the holi-
days.
A Washington dispatch says that
Mrs. Il. II. Gibbon, wife of Justice Glib
bon. has been appointed postmistress
of Ward.
Colorado Springs capitalists talk of
building summer concert hall ut La
Vergne, a new suburb just south OF
Colorado City.
The Brighton Vegetable Growers
Association has been organized by the
gardeners living in the Platte valley
near Brighton.
Michael Ambro. aged eighty-four,
was struck by a freight train and In
stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 18th instant.
Holyoke people now 'hello" on a new
telephone line which they hope to have
connected with the long-distance line
before long.
Hosea Townsend of Colorado has
been reappointed judge of the United
States Court (Southern districD of In
dian Territory.
The City Council of Victor refused
to grant license for n saloon in the
Richflieu hotel on account of it being
close to a church.
Attorney A. B. Mckinley, who was
terribly mangled by n street car in
Denver some six weeks ago, is reported
to be almost well again.
Tracklaying on the extension of the
street car line at Boulder has been be-
gun. The rails were secured from the
AiaihNas SoLhpahs VI ich'Si'
The butchers of Florence have or
ganized to combat an alleged traffic in
horse flesh, which. it is asserted, is be-
ing sold by peddlers as beef.
The Denver & Northwestern Rail-
way Company proposes to light the
town of Arvada by electricity as soon
as the Platte street power house is put
in operation.
NI,o hnr
Timberlake receiver of public moneys
at Sterling. and P. Hobkirk receiver at
Del Norte. Both were confirmed by
the Senate.
Judge ]. l.. Semmes, adjutnnt of the
department of Colorado, Patriarchs
Militant, I. o. o. F., died suddenly Mt
Colorado Springs on the 18th instant
OF heart failure.
1t is claimed that no better education
al program has ever been presented in
the state than that of the Colorado
State Teachers Association in Denver,
December 26th, 9th and 2Sth.
The Railway Mems COOPERATIVE
Supply Association will start a coop
erative store in Denver with cash
capital of $4,000. c. NJ. Hubert is
president Of the association.
The enrolment of students at the
State Agricultural College, Fort Col
Inns, has reached 42S. This is the larg-
est number registered at single
term in the history Of the institution.
-Four annual poor reports filed with
the secretary of state are as follows:
Las Animas county, number of poor
helped, 81: cost of maintenance, S592.
Lake. 10; S15.7G747. kit Carson, o;
$1,O49.25. Otero, 113, S5,225.26.
Thomas Preston Brooke, n Chicago
man, is said to be planning telescope
that will. he predicts. bring the moon
to an apparent distance of only eight
miles from the earth. He proposes to
build an observatory for it on the top
of Gray's peak, Colorado.
The purchase of Coliseum hall in
Denver by Patrick r. Gallagher, ath-
letic Instructor of the Denver Athletic
Club, gives rise TO the report that it
will be maintained as n boxing arena,
but the purchaser says it is acquired
solely for investment purposes.
Lawrence Hex, negro, on trial at
Pueblo for the murder of Lizzie Alley
and William White. both colored, was
found guilty by the jury, who also
agreed upon the death penalty. His
was the first murder trial in the Pueblo
courts since the enactment of the capi-
tai punishment law.
The county clerk of Arapahoe coun-
ty has received the following letter of
inquiry: Mr.. clerk of denver colorado
has thare bin eny lisens ishued to Miss
lola Wilson for mariedg If SO please let
me no no she married to have you got
countyes in colorado if so please give
me ther names be tweene denver and
Cheyenne, Wwoming, is tahre Phase
named merakey in your territory.
PleaSe ancer. youreS truly Pat WE