The Lamar register., 1902-07-30
COLORADO RIEF 81

GrasshOppers have been doing con
siderable damage in Otero county.
The rough riders tournament will be
held at Denver on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, October 7th and Sth.
The Chautaqua assemblies at Boul-
der and Glen Park boast of large
attendance and much interest.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Bankers Association will be held
at Colorado Springs August Ith
and Sth.
Since the danger of a water famine
| has become imminent in Denver, the
| Denver Dairy Association has raised
the price OF milk to 81 for fourteen
| quarts.
i The ninth annual convention of the
| Philatellc Sons of America will meet
| in Denver August 18th and Sth to dis
| cuss the subject of postage stamp col
lectIons
The robbery of two powder houses
near Denver is thought to indicate the
presence of gang of train robbers.
who are laying in supplies of dynamite
and caps.
The water shortage in Denver prom
| ises to be serious until the water com
| pany can finish and fill its new reser-
| voir. which is not likely to be before
next spring.
A county convention of the Arapa-
| hoe Industrial League. to further
| three constitutional amendments, will
be held in Denver on the third Sun
day in September.
The Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
| Summer School ut Colorado Springs
| opened on June 23d with an attend
ance of fifty Students which will be
considerably increased.
The recent Arapahoe county printing
| scandal has resulted in the appoint
| ment of NJ. j. Mcnamara as auditor
and commissioner of supplies for the
| county commissioners.
At Colorado Springs few days
| ago. 1000 tickets were received from
| tourists in one day by the Western
| Passenger Association. This breaks
| the record for tenderfoot arrivals.
Lieut. Gov. d. c. Coates has started
on tour of several weeks through
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in the
! interest of the Western Federation of
! Miners and the socialistic movement.
According to the reading of blcy-
| cler's cyclometer the distance from
| Aspen to Meeker. via the New Castle
road, is 40 miles-fifty- to New
| Castle and fifty-one from New Castle
| to Meeker.
Bob Reigan of Piccance creek, in Rio
| Blanco county, is accommodating wealth
| by lassooing wolves and presenting the
| pelts at the county treasurers Office
| for the bounty. His lariat never
| misses fire.
Emile Berne. n striking machlnist at
Denver. was fined So and costs by
Magistrate Thomas for applying the
word 'scab' derisively to John Farm
berg. n non-union boilermaker working
in the Union Pacific shops.
The date of the laying of the city
hall corner stone at Colorado Springs
has been changed from August 18th to
| 10th, owing to the fact that the Elks.
who have charge of the ceremonies.
will be busy on the 18th with their
street fete.
John Pallister. n raDchman living on
Lake creek, in Eagle county, was shot
and killed few days ago by Bert
Siddell, living on an adjoining ranch.
The quarrel was about some money
and Siddell Immediately surrendered
himself to n deputy sheriff.
The Steel City Oil Company. operat-
| ing large acreage outside of Pueblo.
and controlled by Colorado Springs
| capitalists, has encountered small
| flow of oil at 129 feet, the drills pass
| ing through a stratum of sand 40 feet.
which yielded frequent indications OF
OIL Drilling will be continued to 1000
feet If necessary.
A dam is at once to be built across
| the outlet of Lawn lake near Estes
| Park. In order to hasten the work
and speed supplies several miles of II
road has just been completed to the
lake from Estes Park. The lake lies
at timber line on Hague's Peak. nor
| far from Hallet glacier. and for the fu-
ture will be n storage reservoir.
On July oath three children, the old
| est being only twelve years old, made
| the round trip to the summit OF Pixies
Peak and return oil foot in the record
breaking time of ten hours. The chill
| dren are Mary and Gudella Hurt aged
respectively twelve and ten years. chill
dren of tourists from Missouri. and ten
year-old Earl Keeler of Colorado
| Springs.
The Denver park commissioners have
| accepted three months-old mountain
lion cub captured recently by ID. f..
| Howard of New York and I. w.
Hampson of Salt Lake while on
| hunting expedition near Steamboat
| Springs, and who made n present of
the animal to the city. The mother of
the cub was killed while trying to pro-
tect 1t from the hunters.
| The town council of Fowler has
granted to the Crystal Springs Pipe
and Water Company twenty-year
franchise to supply the town with
| water. The company owns the
| springs among the hills two miles
north of the town. According to the
terms of the franchise work must be-
gin on the construction of the pipe
line within sixty days after the final