The Lamar register., 1901-09-25
COLORADO NOTES.

A movement is on foot to establish q
frst-class hospital at Victor.
Twenty divorces in one day is the
record of the Arapahoe county court.
Work will be commenced Immediate
~ on the new water works system ut
LOngmont.
The State University at Boulder has
opened with an increased number of
students.
1t is estimated that nearly forty
square miles of timber has been killed
by the recent fire near Eldora.
A. G. Dewitt, arrested at Denver on
the charge of forgery, is said to have a
record of having forged over 300
checks.
Miss Odessa Ross of Kiowa has been
selected as maid of honor for Elbert
county at the Mountain and Plain fes-
tival.
The grand stand for the Festival of
Mountain and Plain In Denver looks
as If it were intended to hold all the
people in the state.
The Bent County Fair, at LES AMI
mas. closed September 18th, after
three days of successful exhibition
and entertainments.
A large crowd gathered in Littleton
the otner night and burned in etfigy the
assassin CZolgosz, and Emma Gold
man, whose words served as inspira-
ton for his crime.
Miss Rose Moody of Monte Vista has
been chosen to represent Rio Grnnde
county as maid of honor at the Festi-
val of Mountain and Plain.
Surveyors are now Mt work on the
Eldora extension of the Colorado N
Northwestern railroad. Several routes
will be surveyed and the most feasible
one chosen.
Miss Louise ROseberry has been Sc
lected by Custer county as maid of
honor to the festival queen. She Is
eighteen years of age and was raised
in the Wet Mountain valley.
The directors of the State Fair at
Pueblo have changed their plans of
having Midway, but will Introduce
the feature of German village. to-
gether with other novel attractions.
Miss Edna Sweeney of Walsenburg
will be maid of honor from Huerfnno
county in the Festival of Mountain
and Plain. and Miss Ida Milllnger of
Holly will represent Prowers county.
The worst of series of violent rain
storms struck Manitou and vicinity on
the forenoon of September Sd. continu-
Ing for some time, and wreaking con-
siderable damage. Between Colorado
The village of Ash. short distance
north of Ouray. was almost completely
destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. The
Graham supply store was totally de-
stroyed. Loss about $1,000; insurance,
$3,4OO
Miss Ella Naomi Penfold of Bur
lington has been chosen maid of honor
to the Mountain and Plain festival
queen from Kit Carson county. She Is
n daughter of j. w. Penfold, county
treasurer.
A stock company has been organized
principally among the Woodmen of the
World of Fort Morgan to build an au-
ditorium and lodge room. 1t Is pro-
posed to erect n building at cost OF
about $1,000, to seat GOO people.
On Sunday. September 18th. the day
after the death of President Mckinley,
nearly every pastor in Colorado devot-
ed his sermon to topics connected with
the great national tragedy. Large pub
lie gatherings We're also held in all the
principal towns of the state.
Oliver 2. Virgins. the aged scout
and Mexican war veteran who has
been stationed as officer in the postof-
flee building Mt Denver for many years,
has been replaced by younger man.
Officer Virgins was picturesque fig
ure and will be much missed.
The members of the a. o. U. w. are
arranging for n grand union meeting
and Initiation ceremonies at Canon
City on the evening of October 2Sth,
in which lodges from Pueblo, Florence,
Coal Greek, Canon City, Westcliffe
and Salidn will participate.
On the day of William McKinley's
funeyal Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 8, G.
A. r., of Boulder, adopted resolutions
calling on Colorado's senators and con-
gressmen to secure federal legislation
against anarchy and suggesting an IN
ternational bureau in that connection.
September Goth was Pioneers Day
at the fair in Glenwood Springs, of
Eagle. Pitkin and Garfield counties.
Anyone who moved into the region be-
fore January l, 1887, Is accounted
pioneer, though If lie We're n baby at
the time he can hardly be an 'old pi-
oneer."
On the 18th instant DIR. ID. L. Nc
Murtrie, of Emerson, Iowa, who was
staying with his son in n cabin at n
mining claim on Quinn mountain. near
Eldora, was so badly burned while
trying to save some property from the
cabin, which took fire from the blaz-
ing forest. that he died next day from
his injuries.
Six men were killed and four in
jured on the 10th inst. by a terrible eX-
plosion in the Spring Gulch mine of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
fourteen miles from Cardiff on the Je-
rome branch of the Colorado Midland
railroad. The dead are: p. G. Picker
ton, Andres. Peter Deldora, David
Collier. George Cassenger and an un-
known Italian.