The Lamar register., 1902-04-30
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Thre hundred is the average number
of bicycles stolen every month in Den
yer.
j. Stitt Wilson, the noted socialist
lecturer has been having immense au-
dtences in Denver.
Raymond and WhitcOmb excursion
parties have begun passing through
Colorado. Look out for bad weather
Colorado railroads will be given
chance to exhibit mt the st. Louis ex-
position by the Colorado Fair commits
sion.
EX-Gov. John L. Routt is now in
Paris, France, with his family, but eX-
poets to return to Colorado about
June LIST.
Seven companies of the Eighteenth
infantry have been ordered to Fort Lo-
gan. near Denver. They are at present
in Texas.
While in apparent health. Frank
Sinner, n prominent hardware mer-
chant at Creede, suddenly fell dead of
heart failure OH the morning of April
10th.
At Canon City, April Goth, Rev. w.
ii. Ilightower. a widower. aged eighty
three years, was married to Mary
years.
The fund that is being raised by the
capitalists of the capital city to pur-
chase presents for the cruiser Denver
has reached $500. 1t was to have
been $4,000.
Captain James Reed of Bucna Vista
died of pneumonia mt st. Anthonys
hospital. Denver. April 21st. He was
n
years of age.
The new steel bridge across the
Platte river at Brighton is completed.
The structure is 300 feet long and cost
the county of Arapahoe S1S,OOO. 1t
has two spans of 100 feet each.
a. NJ. Hawley, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has received the
appointment of statistical agent of the
United States Department of Agricul-
turc. He will collect Colorado crop
statistics all over the state.
a Colorado zephyr blew Emil Strand,
the team of four horses which he was
driving. and Il load of timber over the
bank near the Eagle Bird mine at Sill
Yer Plume II few days ago. Neither
team nor driver We're badly injured.
The committee of investigation on
the books of eX-City Clerk w. ii.
Moore of Durango has completed Its
work and the report shows Mr.Moore's
shortage for the three years term to
be something in excess of $1,000.
The bill granting the city of Colo
RADIO Springs the right to buy 2,OOo
acres of the forest reserve in the vicln-
iiy of Seven Lakes, where the new
water works system is located. has
been passed by both houses OF Con
gress.
Isabella Dayton of Peyton, Colorado,
in the County Court of El Iaso coun-
ty, has been granted divorce and IL
tie to 400 acres of land she decided TO
her husband. They We're married eX-
actly thirty days before she filed the
complaint.
President Van Horn of. the Laramie,
IIahn's Peak and Pacific ltailroad has
written from the Boston office To Wee
President Miller in Laramie, Wyo-
ming. instructing the conpany's of
ficers to resume operations ON the line
as soon rs possible.
Rabbit coursing is crime. n viola-
tion of the humane laws of the state
according to the verdict of the jury in
the West Side court at Denver which
tried the test case in that tribunal
the State Humane Society.
The commissioners of Saguachc
county at the April meeting took up
the matter of display at the st. Louis
Words Fair. and decided to ask Rio
Grande, Costilln, Conejos and Mineral
counties to join with Saguache in a
display to be known as the san Luis
valley exhibit.
w. II. Brown of Marble. who was
accused of blasting fish in the Crystal
river several weeks ago, was brought
before Judge Stevens of the District
| Court at Gunnison for trial. He plead
| ed guilty and was sentenced to not
less than six nor more than eighteen
months in the state reformatory mt
Buena Vista.
The Gem Gold Mining Company has
secured Judgment in the District Court
at Cripple Creek against the town of
Altman fo- $4,000. During the small
pox epidemic last year the town seized
the claim owned by the mining COM
pany and established n pest house
there. preventing mining operations
and damaging the company.
In the District Court at Meeker,
James Wallace, wealthy cattlcman
of Rio Blanco county, was acquitted
on n charge of cattle rIStling. William