The Lamar register., 1901-04-03
COLORADO NOTES.

mute baseball players this summer.
Cripple Creek people will make an
organized effort to induce President
Mckinley TO visit the great gold camp.
A big apartment house to be built in
Denver will have n telephone to each of
the apartments, of which there will be
twenty-four.
Nearly 400 acres of sugar beets have
been contracted for In the vicinity of
Fowler. being large increase over the
acreage of last year.
The Rio Grande saloon at Cripple
Creek was held up ut 30 n. III. on
March 25th and robbed of $37. Five
men We're in the place at the time.
President Packard of the Denver
Baseball Club is gathering in the mem
bers of the team and expects to have
them all together before April 10th, the
day set for them to meet.
The loss of stock by the recent
storms in eastern Colorado is estimat-
ed in different sections at from one to
three per cent. 1t is generally reported
to be mostly young calves.
The agricultural department of the
State Agricultural College has received
very fine microscope for bnctcriolog-
ical work, and also a two and hair
horse power gasoline engine.
A cane made from the historic Chnr-
ter Oak at Hartford. Connecticut, has
been placed in the state museum OF
war relics in the capitol building at
Denver by William A. Fuller.
The valuation attached to Denver
building permits for the month of
March, 1901. was the sum of S4S4, $50
94, n great increase over the year 1900,
when the valuation was only S2G5, 40.
A short time ago it was announced
that the mncaroni factory Mt Coal
Greek, near Florence, would be moved
to Pueblo. but the operators decided
that the plant should remain where 1t
is.
The Lamar Building and Loan AS
sociation has been Incorporated with
capital stock of S3OO,OOO by G. J.
Garvin. Morton Strain. G. G. Huddles-
ton, 1. l.. Maxwell. A. Il. Bent, l. IL.
Myers and w. J. Johnston.
Benajah S. Phelps of Colorado
Springs celebrated his 1O1st birthday
March oath. He is in very good health
and is believed to be the only person
in the state who has lived In the
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Mayor johnson of Denver has signed
an ordinance passed by the City Coun-
ell prohibiting storekeepers from eN-
changing candy, cigarettes. etc, Tor
milk, bread, yeast and car tickets. post
age stamps and other articles offered
ns barter by children.
After being out twenty-four hours
the Jury in the Nanolia VS.. Thompson
attempted murder case nt Montrose
was dismissed and the prisoner bound
over to the next term of court. The
jury could not agree, standing ten for
conviction and two for acquttal.
In a rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Rio Grande near
Apache, forty five miles south of Pueb-
10, March Both. ut 9:O5 p. m, in fierce
snow storm, Head Brakeman Edward
Miller was killed outright and Conduc-
tor Goodlow of train No. AL, was in
jured.
ihe receipts Mt the United States GUS
tom house in Denver from duties on
imported goods We're twice as much
for the month just closed as for March,
1900. The greater part Of the revenues
come from taxes on whisky and tobac-
co, and the rest mainly on silks and
other articles Of luxury.
A division of the Salvation Army,
consisting mostly of young women, in
vaded n number of the saloons and
gambling houses at Victor n few nights
since. where they sang songs and en-
horted the keepers and others present
to turn from the error of their ways.
The army lassies We're treated with
much respect.
The Florence field seems to be going
right ahead with its production with
out any fear of losing Its position at
the head of the list of oil producing
sections in Colorado. The field is grad
ually extending. A few days ago
new well was struck about three miles
southeast of Florence and on the ex-
treme limit of the developed field. 1t
produces $50 barrels n day and was
struck at "A depth of 2.1OO feet.
A large cheese factory is being erect
ed at II point ten miles north of Pey
ton in the center of one of the richest
agricultural sections of El Paso coun-
ty. Il will be known ns the Bijou Ba
sin Cheese Factory and will cost from
$1,000 to $4,000. The plant will have
capacity of handling 1,20O gallons
of milk and will turn out 600 pounds
of cheese each day. Francis Capell of
Colorado Springs is the proprietor.
Curator Ferril of the State Historical
Society and Museum. at the capitol
building in Denver, is receiving some
distinction at the hands of the st.
Louis papers, which give him the credit
for the first suggestion of rot only the
centennial celebration of the Louisiana
purchase in the Mound city. but of the
first suggestion of the coming centen-
NAL of the Lewis and Clark expedition
to the northwest, which will be held
in Portland. Oregon, in 1908.
The Crystal Springs Brewing and Ice
Company's plant of Boulder has been
purchased by s. Pells and !. NJ. Loben-
stein of Rock Island. Illinois. The con-
s!deration stated Is 100000. The brew