The Lamar register., 1901-02-13
COLORADO NOTES.

bueTa VISTA, died IN hanSaS CITY Oh
the 9th inst.
The new plant of the Colorado
Springs Electric Company was put In
operation February 3rd.
! 1t is announced that Il. o. Stead has
been appointed postmaster at Salida,
to succeed w. p. Harbottle.
! In the District Court at Buena Vista,
five year sentence was given to Col
lett, the negro who killed Dave Davis
ut Salida last August.
| The graduates OF Colorado College
living in Chicago have formed an as
sociation, w. l.. Tibbs of the class of
1893 was elected president.
branches have been asked for by the
Colorado Springs Rapid Transit Com
pany with view to considerably eX-
tending the street car system.
Arthur Ball suffered Il broken leg
from the explosion of Il small steam
boiler in No. 9 shaft house of the Val
entine Mining Company at Leadville
a few days ago.
| Lewis G. Stevenson, son of eX-Nice
President Adlai Il. Stevenson, will
hereafter make his home in Denver.
He Is interested in various Colorado
mining enterprises.
| Mrs. Samuel Wolcott, mother of Il.
o. Wolcott and Henry II. Wolcott, of
Denver. died at Longmeadow, Massa.
chusetts, on the 9th inst Mt the age of
seventy-nine years.
| Mrs. II. w. Steele, wife of the first
provisional governor of Colorado when
it was part of the territory of Jeffer-
son, died in Colorado Springs. 'Febru-
ary 9TH, aged eighty years.
nv EnlI
cinity are becoming very much inter
ested in the sugar beet industry and
nm effort will be made to build rae
tory near Golden or Arvadn.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
citation recently met in Denver and fix
ed the same summer excursion rates
that were in effect last season, as well
as the same special train rates.
1t is stated that all the teachers of
Arapahoe county will be ordered by
their school boards to attend the
monthly institutes which Miss Herey,
the county superintendent of schools,
has organized.
The Idaho colony has been incorpor-
ated with n capital of 100000 and will
have offices at Salt Lake City and Den
yer. The incorporators are =. "
Wantland A. w. Barbour and Richard
Brackenbury.
Ex-Governor Davis IL. Waite, B.
Clark Wheeler and others have organ
lied the Colorado Oil and Fuel Com
pany, capital stock S3.OOO,OOo, to de-
velop 24.OOO acres of oil land, mostly
in Routt county.
NJ. +. Leach is at the head of n new
combination at Boulder that has Sc
cured franchise for gas works. 1t is
stipulated that mile of mains shall
be laid the first year and six miles
within six years.
| Between 1000 and 5000 persons have
been vaccinated in Denver by the
Board of Health so far this year. Five
doctors are employed day and night in
the work. averaging 800 or 400 every
twenty-four hours.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
disbarred NJ. b. Wnldron and a. w.
Sndlinger of Denver, for unprofes-
sional conduct. Waldron was charged
with approprating $3.50 belonging to
n client and Sindlinger's offense was
utterng fraudulent check.
Pueblo veterans have formed soci-
ETY. to be known rs the Association of
4 Veterans of the Spanish-American
War A. X. Lewis of Company a,
and Alfred ID. Runyan of Company n.
Thirteenth Minnesota, secretary. Thir-
ty members are already enrolled.
On February 2nd the Eaton School
Board decided to close the schools,
possibly for two weeks, owing to light
attendance occasioned by grip, few
scarlet fever cases and the fear some
people entertained of smallpox, though
tho lnttar wnS NOT in evidence.
In the case of the county of Pueblo
against Wilson z. Gartley and his
sureties, the Supreme Court ruled that
the District Court of Pueblo had erred
in not holding that n county treasurer
should pay over to his successor the
moneys collected as interest on coun-
ty funds The cause was remanded for
a new trial.
The Greeley Business Mems Social
Club, which has lived and prospered
for eight years, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year on the 9th
inst: President. Jesse S. Gale: vice
president. William Mayher; secretary.
G. n. Jackson; treasurer. Clarence
Neill; directors, +. Il. Lennon, w. G.
Wilson. Judge Smith, II. d. Parker
Frank Stockoyer.
In n saloon quarrel at Pueblo on the
evening of the 9th inst. David Allen
keeper of the saloon. and his brother
Arthur Allen, We're shot by William p
Campbell. colored porter at the hotel
David Allen died within Il few minutes
and Arthur was dangerously wounded
Following up previous quarrel the
brothers attacked Campbell in the EN-,
ployes' dining room of the hotel.
The mountain stage running between
Red mountain and Ouray was caught
in n snow slide near the Yankee Cir
mine in Ironton on the afternoon OF
the 9TH inst, and the half dozen passen