The Lamar register., 1902-01-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

at Canon City on the morning of Jan.
uary 4th, injured the new organ and
occasioned some $1,000 damage.
James Smith, who had his leg cut
off in n railway accident Mt Divide
January 9th. died at the Sisters nos
pital in Cripple Creek the next day.
No one knew where the man belonged.
The Colorado Fuel IL iron Company
paid S7,OOO,OOO in wages in 1901, ana
turned out n product, including 4,O43,.
$50 tons of coal and 554.44O tons OF
coke, of about thirteen million dollars.
J. S. Teaukenburg of Boulder has
begun final survey of the new rail-
road from Loveland to Berthoud Dy
way of Hillsboro, which will be built
in time for marketing this years Deet
crop.
The President hns sent to the Senate
the nominations of the following Colo
RADIO postmasters: l.. G. Dana at Colo
RADIO Springs. B. p. Quaintance ut
Golden and Homer II. Grafton at Man.
itou.
The State Fair Association at Pueb-
10 has selected its date for June race
meet. The first week in June has been
decided upon. inasmuch as that date
will not conflict with any other organ-
ization in the state.
The Denver Bricklayers' Union an.
nounces that all its demands for the
coming year have been complied with.
They will work throughout the year
eight hours n day, the wage schedule
being S..
]. NJ. Current of Denver committed
suicide at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
on the 9th inst. by taking morphine.
,hn Mt to nil al to htIsinngS trnJl.
bles and despondency. He leaves n
wife and four children, from seven to
fifteen years of age, in Denver
Civil service examinations for de
partmentnl positions will be held at
Denver, March 31st and April I'D;
Pueblo, April 10th and 22d; Trinidad,
April 25th; Glenwood Springs, April
I'd; Grand Junction, April ed; Albu-
querque, April 22d and 23d; Cheyenne,
April 21st and 22d, and Laramie, April
10th.
At n special meeting of the Victor
common council the contract for the
Bison Park water reservoir site was
ratified and completed. The total pur-
chase price for the property Is $9,-
TO9,2S. The property is now owned by
the city, and as soon as practicable
will be improved by the erection of
first-class dam.
The county commissioners of Ell
Paso county have decided to change
and shorten the county road between
Monument and Palmer Lake. The
change will cost $500. and cuts one
mile off the present four miles, and
changes the thoroughfare to the west
instead of the east side of the tracks,
making more pleasant drive.
The board of education of Florence,
in conjunction with the teachers, is
arranging to give the school children
of the district an opportunity to see
the many wonderful experiments that
can be carried on by means of liquid
air. They have secured Professor 81.
N. Hanaford of the Boston School of
Science to work the experiments.
The Oakes home for consumptives in
Denver is to be enlarged by the erec-
tion of a detached cottage to cost $780,
600. The money has been donated by
Charles l.. Adams of Chicago, with
the understanding that the addition be
called '"The Mrs. Charles l.. Adams
Memorial House." 1t is to be built in
memory of his wife, on land adjoining
the home.
On the 9th inst. w. T. Dowery was
appointed assignee of the Colorado
State bank of Grand Junction. ]. F.
Mcfarland, cashier of the bank, is
manager of the Colorado Sugar Man
ufacturing Company, whose obliga-
tions are held to n considerable ex-
tent by the bank. Officers of the bank
feel assured that the suspension will
be temporary.
Efforts are being made to establish
day nursery in Denver. The plan is
to hire a room near the Tramway loop
on Arapahoe street, where mothers can
leave their children while they go out
to work. The charity organization
will pay the rent of the room and de-
pends on the churches of the city to
contribute the only other expense, the
matron's salary.
Contracts have been signed by the
governing board of the Denver public
library for the purchase of n site on
which ultimately large public library
building is to be erected. The ground
is the half block of ground located on
Colfax avenue between South Fif-
teenth and South Fourteenth streets, n
part of which is occupied by La Veta
place. The dimensions of the property
are 800 feet on Colfax and $50 on the
cross streets.
1t is estimated that the value Of FIRE.
mont county's fruit and garden proI
duce reached the 100000 mark last
season. A conservative average valu-
alton of the product of the orchards
In the county per acre is: Apples. $500;
Strawberries, $3.50; raspberries, $3.50;
cherries, $500; grapes, $175; and gar
den produce, 5000. Exceptional or
chards yielded over $1,000 per acre.
The seasons output of fruit was large
and n ready market was found.
Robert H. Beggs. principal of Whit
| tier school, has subscribed the first