The Lamar register., 1901-08-21
COLORADO NOTES.


propose to construct fine driving
park near the city.
The horse show Mt Colorado Springs
August 10th to 22nd, is expected to be
one Of the finest affairs Of the kind
ever held in the state.
The Colorado Federation of Wom-
ans Clubs will hold Its annual meet
ing ut Victor and Cripple Greek, Sep
tember 10th, 11th and 18th.
The open season for deer and ante
lope with horns, grouse, prairie chick
ems, wild turkeys and sage chickens.
began in Colorado on August 18th.
L. Il. Clark, Cripple Greek police
man, was killed on the night of the 9th
instant by accidentally coming in con-
tact with n live electric light wire.
The following new postoffice ap-
pOintments have been made in Colora-
4 do: Austin Crooks. Bowen; Thomas
Pattison, Sopris, and Petrolino Paiz,
Trujillo.
The drill corps of Colorado Command
cry, No. /, knights Templar, of Den
ver will compete for prizes at the tri-
ennial cOnclave in Louisville, August
26th to 2Sth.
"The sightseer who comes to Colo
RADIO and does not take in Cripple
Creek has missed half the show" Is
what Kentucky editor says of the
great gold camp.
The Telluride Reduction Company,
which has been boring wells on the
Hobbs tract near Colorado City, has
opened two springs with capacity of
10000 gallons n day.
The haying season is now well under
way in the South park, and n large
tonnage Is being cut, for which good
prices are expected owing to the drouth
in Kansas and Nebraska.
The directors of the Pueblo state
fair have established bureau of in
formation to help visitors secure lodg-
ing places and hotel accommodations.
l.. ]. Tyson will be in charge.
The-old Tabor opera house at Lead
Vile, erected by Fl. A. w. Tabor dur
Ing the palmy days of the camp. has
been purchased by the Leadville Lodge
of Elks and will be greatly improved.
Colorado football teams are already
beginning to arrange dates for next
| falls contests. The Denver Athletic
Club will have n team in the field as
usual, but the Denver Wheel Club
may keep out.
While prospecting near hewitt, fif-
teen miles east OF Buena Vista, George
Cooper discovered the tooth Of n mas
| todon In n very good state of preserva-
| ton. 1t Is described as measuring eigh-
teen inches in length and six inches in
| breadth.
| The Colorado Holiness Association
| will hold their annual camp meeting
| Mt Greeley from August Both to Sep
tember 10Th, inclusive. Rev. Isaiah
Reed of Iowa and Rev. E. A. Ferguson
| OF Normal, Illinois, will be in charge of
the meeting. ...
| A Los Angeles dispatch says that f.
| d. Bright, formerly n prominent resi-
dent of Trinidad. Colorado, committed
| suicide in East Lake park, Los Ange-
les, August 18th. by shooting himself
through the head. Mr.. Bright was an
| old timer in Trinidad.
1t is stated that hotel company Is
| now being formed under laws of Tex
| us for the purchase Of the tract of land
Of about forty acres, including the
| tou Springs. 1t Is proposed to erect Il
new building to cost 100000.
| The American MicrOscopical Society
| will meet In Denver August 10th and
Both. Indications are that about 100
microscopists, representing many parts
| of the United States, will be in attend
ance Mt the meeting. Twenty papers
and discussions and some clinics will
occupy their time.
Ivy Baldwin's two-thousandth bal
| loon ascension at Elitch's Gardens in
Denver ON the night of August 18th,
was Illuminated by fireworks which
| he set off in the sky. But in coming
| down he struck n barbed wire fence
and got badly scratched besides hav-
| ing his balloon ruined.
The gross earnings of the Rio
| Grande Southern for the fiscal year
ending June Both were $3.50, $50, an In
crease of $14,392 compared with the
preceding year. The net earnings
amounted to $3.50. T4S, an increase of
$9,2T4, and the total net earnings We're
$3.50, AS, an increase of $11.0O3. -
| 1t is estimated that between 10000
| and 1000 people participated in the
"iog rollings at Boulder Saturday,
| August 10th, of whom nearly 6,OOO
| came from Denver, taxing railroad fIl-
| cilities to the utmost for their trans
portation. The log rollings at Glen
| wood Springs, Montrose and Chey-
enne, Wyoming, on the same day were
also largely attended.
| In her address before the teachers
institute at Colorado Springs Mrs.
| Helen l.. Grenfell. state superintendent
of public instruction, said that thirty
one out of fifty-seven county superin-
tendents are women, as are also nine
! tenths of the teachers. Many mem
bers of the school boards of the state
| are women.
1t is expected that when the troops
about to be sent home from the Phil
ippines return Fort Logan, at Denver,
will probably get a battalion of in
fantry, troop of cavalry and bat