The Lamar register., 1901-10-30
COLORADO NOTES.


Hummel of M0ntrose have been ap-
pointed railway mail clerks.
The annual report of the commits
sioner Of pensions shows the number OF
pensioners on the roll for Colorado was
! S,134; amount paid them, S04, ,O25.
Thirty-thrcc building permits have
been issued since April list by the city
! clerk of l.ongmont, and the estimated
! cost of their construction was placed
nt S3O,OOO.
The members of the Gentlemen's
Driving and Riding Club of Denver
are again agltating the building of Il
| grand stand at City park race track.
| The polo games attract great crowds.
/, Nearly Il quarter Of Il million dollars
was distributed on the 10Th instant Mt
the Minnequa steel works in Pueblo
among the employees of the institution
and the men angagcd in doing contract
work there.
A new shipping station has been es-
| tnblished two and II half miles north
of LOngmont on the Colorado n South
ern. u is called Boettcher, in honor of
the peesidcnt of the Loveland sugar
factory. and was put in for the accom-
mediation of the beet raisers.
A contract has been awarded by the
county commissioners of Teller coun-
ty for hospital and poor house, to be
built at broadway and Moynahan ave
nue., in Cripple Creek. The contract
was let to Edwin Barrett The build
ing will be two stories high and Will
cost about $1,000.
Major H. H. Wilson. in charge Of the
Denver recruiting station, has received
orders to stop recruiting artillerymen
and to get men for the Philippines. The
reason Is that during the next few
months the terms of enlistment of IL
large number of men. most of whom
are in Luzon. will expire.
John ID. Howlands latest painting.
entitled The Coming Storm" which
has been on exhibition at Denver. has
been purchased by Edward Williams
of Central City. The painting repre-
sents n herd of buffalo milling" on
the prairie for mutual protection
against an approaching storm.
In Il quarrel in the room of Madge
Barry ut the Hotel Colorado. in Den.
yer, on the night of October 9th, VIII.
lam Beal, II paper hanger, shot ana
probably fatally wounded John Swan.
son. proprietor of the Scandinavian
House saloon. Rivalry over the pos.
session OF ihe woman occasioned the
affray. Bcal was taken into custody.
Yhe recent purchase for $4,000 of
200 acres of land southwest of Ivywild
by the International Realty Company,
| which has assumed ownership of prac-
tically all of Stratton's real estate, re-
| wives interest in the report that Mr..
, Stratton and other Colorado Springs
people intend to build big athletic
park in that vicinity.
Secretary Whitney of the Rocky
Mountain Smelter Company ut Flor
| ence has unearthed relic In the shape
of II bulletin of the New York Mirror,
issued June ~. 1912, containing the
news that war had been declared
against England. The paper was found
between the leaves of an old Bible and
is very well preserved.
The contract for the work on the
new Longmont water system has been
let to Il. =. Mcdonald of Denver. The
contract includes only the work to be
DONE the city having purchased the
pipe for the twelve miles of the main
line The price for the work was S1S,-
| 600. BY agreement LongmOnt labor
will be used as far as possible In the
work.
Deputy Sheriff Clamptt returned
from North park to Fort Collins Octo-
Der 22nd, having in charge Dan Nc
| Farane. charged with cattle stealing.
McFarlane had n hearing before Jus
ticc Charles w. Cowdrey and was held
! in $1,000 bail. James McFarlanc, Sr.,
Dams father, and Hugh his brother,
were each held in $1,000 bail. They
furnished bail and We're released
Thirty waiter girls in the Home
Dairy restaurant, ut Denver, an extern
sivc and high-toncd establishment,
struck a few days since because they
were compelled to pay for broken
dishes when, as they asserted, 1t was
the agreement not to exact pay for ac-
cdcnts but to discharge those who
were careless. The girls gained their
point and went back to work the next
| day.
The postmaster general has adver-
tiscd for proposals for carrying the
mail between the Denver postoffice and
| the depot. Heretofore the railroads
have carried this mail as part of their
contract with the department. Now it
| is proposed to have the carriers hired
directly by the government. Bids for
the work will be opened In Washing
ton on December 3d, the service to COM
mcncc July l. 1902.
State Auditor Croutcr has sent n cir
| cular letter to each of the county as
| SCISSORS asking them to forward to him
| Immediately complete abstract Of as
| sessment of all property assessed by
them and e1unliZed by the state board
! of cQualiZat.. !: also abstracts of all
property assessed by them and certified
| to them by the state board of assessors.
| The abstracts are wanted rs n basis
| for the auditors estimates and appor-
| tionment of the state tax.
| sessions of the State Normal school at
| Greeley during the summer months is