The Lamar register., 1902-09-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.

potato crops.
| Duck hunters from Denver and other
! large towns can now be found at about
/ every lake in the state.
| The Arapahoe county Democratic
convention is called to meet in Denver
1 September 9th.
| Andrew Peterson was killed by a
falling bucket while eXcavating for the
new brass works at Boulder August
Goth.
| A party of Rio Grande engineers are
making new survey for the line OF
that road between Palmer Lake ana
Monument.
1t is stated in Denver that ex-Presi-
| dent Edward Boyce of the Miners red
Grafton will make Denver his perma-
nent home.
The Pueblo county mandamus case
| to compel a reduction in the number
of county commissioners will be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court.
| The new Baptist church building at
Fowler was dedicated August 24th IN
the presence of a large congregation.
| The sum of 500 was pledged to cover
all Indebtedness.
The people of Arvada, which is now
| connected with Denver by trolley
| line, are taking steps for Incorporating
the town. One of the first things will
be a careful census of the population.
The Denver papers are predicting
great scarcity of Colorado hay next
winter but they expect that enough
Kansas and Nebraska hay Will be
brought in to keep the price within
| bounds.
The Weld County Sunday School AS
| sociation met at Greeley August 2oth
| NAL. pttn Inn
| ty-five delegates. Addresses We're made
| by a large number of prominent Sun
| day school workers.
| Frederick G. Bonfils, editor of the
I Denver Post, has petitioned the City
J Council of Guthrie, Oklahoma. for 4
| franchise to establish n S15O,OOO cleo
! tric and gas plant, including an cleo
trio railway system.
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
and the University of Denver at Den
yer both expect to open September 10th
! with the largest attendance in their
history. At Colorado College more
that $4,000 has been expended IN
ground improvements.
The Methodist conference at Cen
trail City declined to accept the gilt or
Henry Cole which to be known as the
Peniel trust. Mr.. and Mrs. Cole are
| in litigation over the property and the
| church was unwilling to become IN
volved in family feud.
During the performance of the Cen
! try animal show at Trinidad n big hail
| storm came near breaking down the
great tent on the heads of an immense
audience. The threatened disaster
was prevented by cutting the canvas
and letting the hail out.
Ernest Thompson-Seto the writer
of animal stories, will arrive in this
state soon for six weeks hunting
trip. He will be accompanied by Mrs.
! Thompson Seton and Mr.. and MRS. w.
| E. B. Bemis of New York. both OF
| whom are enthusiastic hunters.
The answer of the Rocky Mountain
| News Printing Company. in the suit
| filed against them by the Arapahoe
county commissioners for alleged over
charges on printing contract several
| years ago. is short and sarcastic. 1t
valves all technicalities and courts in
| vestigation.
| At Ouray, August Goth, Judge Ste
| vens in chambers heard petition for
an injunction from citizens of Grand
| Junction asking that the school board
| be restrained from selling bonds issued
1 for building new school houses. The
petition was denied. District Attorney
|
sented the board.
Figures compiled from the new Pu-
eblo directory, now in press, show that
the city has gained twenty per cent. in
population during the past year. There
| are %, ,157 names in the new directory,
| as compared with 10, 9,1S2 in the 1901 di-
rectory. On the basis of two and one
half population for each name in the
directory, Pueblo has n population of
| 5I,SS2, as against Al, ,95J at this time
last year, an increase of 20.T1 per cent.
The Boulder correspondent of the
Denver Republican says that the mem
1 ory of the Oldest inhabitant of Boulder
county does not recall n time when the
| snow on the mountains was as scarce
as it is now. At the headwaters of the
various branches of Boulder creek
heretofore large beds of snow have
lasted all summer. but this year they
have dwindled into small ones, and
where there are usually small beds by
the hundreds in the latter part of Au-
| gust, there is now no SNOW at ALL
There will be two Peoples Party
| conventions in the First congressional
district. The committee of which Ste
phen Il. Pratt is chairman and Mrs. j.
NJ. Callahan secretary has issued Its
call for convention to be held Sep
tember 9th at noon, at room No. 81
kittredge building. Denver. The other
committee. which has its headquarters
IN the Railroad building. in Denver.
! with +. Il. Taylor. chairman. and II.
IL. Moore. secretary, calls its congress
sional convention for September 11th
| at p. m, at Boulder.
State Game Commissioner Harris re
Gently received the report of the prod