The Lamar register., 1902-01-01
COLORADO NOTES.


Palmer Lake
The November pay roll of the Mime
qua steel plant at Pueblo amounted to
more than $4,000.
he Denver Mining Exchange Will
occupy new quarters in the Equnapie
building after January 1st.
The nomination of B. G. Fleming,
register of the Sterling land office. has
been confirmed by the Senate.
Congressman Shafroth has intro
duced bill to increase the cost limit
of the Denver mint to SSOO.OOO.
The striking plumbers of Denver ad-
here to their plan of establishing
cooperative plumbing establishment.
Senator Teller and Representatives
Bell and Shafroth have decided to re-
main in Washington during the holi-
days.
Since the recent railroad tariff war
has got down to business coal mas
sold in Cripple Creek rs low as S2.oo
n ton.
Milton Hess of Frederickstown, Mis-
souri,, has been appointed an industrial
teacher ut the Grand Junction Indian
school.
Edwin B. Potter, aged seventy-four,
n lawyer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head in Den
yer on Christmas day.
A heavy wind storm in Buena Vista
on the 22nd blew down the telephone
and electric light wires and left the
town temporarily in darkness.
Judging by the number of marriage
licenses issued Just before Christmas,
Colorado is likely to break the record
for holiday weddings this year
The Denver &c Northwestern Rail-
way Company proposes to light the
town of Arvada by electricity as soon
as the Platte street power house is put
in operation.
The President has appointed @. B.
Timberlake receiver of public moneys
at Sterling, and p. IIobkirk receiver at
Del Norte. Both were confirmed by
the Senate.
The carpenters union of Denver
have voted to demand an increase or
wages on May 1st. The present scale
is Al cents an hour and they will prob
ably make 1t 30.
The county clerk of Pueblo county
gran-ed sixteen marriage licenses the
day before Christmas. In the much
larger county of Arapahoe twenty-six
We're issued on the same day.
1t is claimed that no tereducntion-
nj program has ever been presented in
the state than that of the Colorado
State Teachers Association in Denver
December 26th. 9th and 2Sth.
In Boulder county and along the
foothills south hay was uncommonly
active during the big gale of December
23rd. The contents of many haystacks
We're scattered far and near.
There have been an unusual number
of deaths from pneumonia in Denver
recently. People seem to have gone
out without overcoats and wraps on
account of the bright weather, which
was much colder than it seemed.
Telephone poles are being received at
Alamosa for the new line to connect
Alamosa and walsenburg. This line
will put Alamosa in telephone connec-
tlon with Pueblo. Colorado Springs.
Denver and other eastern and northern
points.
A large new furnace at the Philadel-
phia smelter. in Pueblo. is practically
completed, making the twelfth of the
new model. 1t is planned TO replace all
the small furnaces, one of the new
ones having IL capacity equal to two of
the old.
Robert Haight. seventy-flve years
old, n Colorado pioneer, dropped dead
Mt the headquarters of the Pioneer So
ciety in the Charles block. Denver, on
the night of Christmas. He had been
playing whist with old friends during
the evening.
The custom house business of Den
yer is increasing materially. The re-
ceipts for the last six months of this
year. December estimated. were $685.
22S.S1. an increase of S25,2GS.32 over
the same period for klst year. The
number of entries were 523, an in
crease of 146.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and the directors of the Festival of
Mountain and Plain are planning an
excursion In January to FL Paso, Tex
MS, to attend the winter carnival which
Is held there from the 14th to the 18th.
Inc Santa Fe road has made q special
rate of SO for the round trip, and
enough persons will go. it is expected,
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide n special train.
Flora L. Mcdonald, formerly of
Georgetown, but who had been in Den
yer for some time. disappeared on
Monday, December 23d. and was found
dead in the lake at the City park on
Christmas day. Her father, brother
and sisters live in Georgetown and she
had been living with her brother-in-law
and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. George Dal-
gleish, in Denver. 1t is supposed to be
n case of suicide occasioned by de-
spondency.
A romantic ending to n case pending
in the County Court of Pueblo county
was announced December 26th by the
granting of n marriage license to Hen
ry w. Snider of Burlington, Iowa, and
Miss Imogene Hopkins, aged nineteen,
of Carmen. Illinois. Less than week
before Snider was fugitive from JUS