The Lamar register., 1902-08-27
COLORADO BRIEFS.

FIRE on the lctn instant uestFoSeu the
| old Five-NIile road house Mt Sand
| Creek, north of Denver.
The Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
at Colorado Springs closed Its first an
| nual session August list.
Judge Elbert c. Smith of Greeley
was badly injured in runaway acci-
dent on the 18th instant.
| A branch of the Hoo-Hoo was insti-
tuted in Pueblo on the 10th inst. with
fourteen charter members.
The building trades propose to turn
out 3, 100 strong in the Denver Labor
Day parade September list.
Police Magistrate Thomas has sus-
tanned the ordinance closing the barber
shops in Denver OH Sunday.
Labor Day, which comes on Monday,
September LIST, will be largely celebrat-
ed in almost every county in the state.
A small band of Indians from New
Mexico surprised the people of Grana-
da in PrOwers county few days since
by an unexpected call.
Colorado City is considering prop
osition to establish n water plant of its
own instead of continuing to purchase
water from Colorado Springs.
Thomas Withers, Jr, of Denver, was
pass the mental examinations at An
napolIs for entrance to the naval acad-
emy, class of 1906.
]. w. Pope. prominent business
man of Florence, died suddenly on the
Goth inst. from pit naine poisoning,
supposed to have | caused by eat
ing trout affected with some disease.
Headquarters of the new Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific Railroad will
be in the new Majestic formerly Nc
Murtrie) building. ut the corner of Six
teenth street and Broadway, In Den
yer.
An immense crop of peaches is being
harvested in the Grand valley and the
railroads and express companies will
be uncommonly busy in carrying the
fruit to market during the next month
or more.
A suit has been filed in the District
Court at Grand Junction for the re-
covery of $4,000 of Mesa county funds
that were on deposit in the Colorado
State Bank that failed last January.
Suit has also been brought against ex-
Treasurer w. G. McCurdy and his
bondsmen.
On the 10th instant ladies' on the
north side in Pueblo met and organized
the Pueblo Civic Improvement Asso-
citation. There are twenty-eight char
ter members of the organization, the
purpose of which is to take an active
interest in the work Of general city
improvements. Mrs. NJ. A. Noble was
elected president.
The Democratic First district con-
gressiOnal convention has been called
to meet in Denver Tuesday evening.
September 9th. The representation
will be as follows: Arapahoe, III dele
gates; Boulder, 21; Jefferson, H. Lari-
mer, IL; Lake. 20; Logan. g; Morgan.
O; Park, 4; Phillips. .: Sedgwick. .;
Washington, 5; Weld, 10; Yuma, 3; to-
tai, 235.
Benjamin Tuck, keeper of the ami
mails at Elitch's Gardens in Denver,
died August 10th of concussion of the
brain. Mr.. Tuck received the injury
while bathing the day before In a small
lake near the city. He dived from n
considerable elevation into what he
supposed to be deep water. but it
proved to be so shallow that his head
struck violently against the bottom.
The cornerstone of the new $11S,OOO
city hall building ut Colorado Springs
was laid August 18th by the Elks. An
address was delivered by Hon. l. N.
Stevens. During the exero ses the
roof of an adjacent stone shed col
lapsed under a load of amateur pho
tographers and spectators and Arnold
Unger, a cigarmaker, and his three
year-old son were injured, the former
seriously.
Two suicides and a mine accident
were one days record at Anaconda on
the 18th instant. Abe Trevarthen, Il
well-known miner ut Stratton's Inde-
pendence, shot himself through the
head. Mrs. John Ronning. aged forty
four and the mother of ten children,
took carbolic acid and died. Nels Mar
kinsOn was precipitated to the bottom
of an eighty-fivefoot shaft by defec-
tive brake and sustained fractures of
his right leg and shoulder. while j.
Ludwing, who was with him, was
badly bruised.
The superintendent of buildings fon
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
at Pueblo has awarded the last con-
tract for bunch of houses of the 200
which the company announced it
would build some two months ago.
When this latter contract is completed
the company will prepare plans for an
other bunch of 200, and SO continue un-
til 1000 buildings have been construct
ed. Ihey are all or modern improve
ment and cost from $1,000 to $1,000,
and for the greater part are rented to
employees of the steel works.
At Loveland great arrangements
have been made for the annual corn
roast to be held Friday. September 9Th.
One of the events scheduled is match
race between the Star hook and ladder
team of Georgetown and the Bartholf
hose team of Loveland. This will be
a 6OO-feet speed race and will be for
5000 a side The corn rnast cnmmittea