The Lamar register., 1902-08-06
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Rockvale is calling in the last of its
municipal water bonds. of which $10-
600 worth are outstanding. The water
plant was built by the city in 1893 at
cost of S35,OOO.
An effort will be made to raise
fresh air fund in Denver to take poor
children into the mountains, where cot
tagers will be asked to care for them
| for Il week ut time.
A wild coyote, apparently about two
months old, entered the City park in
Denver n few days ago and tried to
get into the cage with the captive coy
otes. He was accommodated.
| While walking up the stone steps ut
the Loretto Academy in Santa Fe. New
Mexico. July 25th, Rev. Joseph +. Car
rigan of st. Patrick's Church iu Den
yer, fell and dislocated his hip.
Building permits were taken out in
Denver during the month of July for
the erection of new buildings that will
cost $44S,S7O This is $7O,OS1 more than
the permits of the same month last
year.
The State Association of District At
| torneys was formed at Glcnwood
Springs July 2Gth by the election OF
Henry Trowbridge of Cripple Creek
president. and ii. G. Thurman OF Cen
tTsIl Slty secTeuTy-
f. G. Whitney writes from Rocky
Ford to the mayor of Trinidad that
for the sum of 81 600 he will produce
three inches of rain in Trinidad within
| four days by an entirely new process
which uses neither prayer nor exoios-
| ives.
The required sum of money has been
raised to save the buildings and prop
| erty of the Colorado Woman's Baptist
| College at Denver. further amount
| of $4,000 Is needed to complete the
| building ready for the opening of the
school.
The Pueblo Gas and Fuel Company
| has filed incorporation papers with the
secretary of state The company is
capitalized for $500, 900. and the direc-
tors for the first year are: L. Il. Ey-
man, II. A. Cowan. J. II. McCorkle, ].
ID. Taylor and C. II. Prall of Pueblo.
Pueblo, Canon City and Rockdale
are competing for the nrtesian water
flow from the well drilled by the Colo
RADIO Springs OIL and Gas Company at
Chandler creek. 1t is the largest arte-
sion flow ever opened in'Fremont coun-
ty, and is estimated at half million
gallons of water daily.
Elwood Mead, chief of irrigation for
written to State Engineer McCune that
he Is coming to Colorado Immediately
to join with Mr.. McCune in n study of
drainage conditions within the state.
This work by Mr. Mead is considered
of especial Importance on account of
the new law.
Shortly after midnight on July 31st.
at the crossing of Logan and Alameda
| avenues in Denver, tallyho coach
containing party of nineteen was run
| into by an electric car and overturned.
Several of the party were seriously in
jured, but all are expected to recover
soon. Mr.. LYDIA A. Horton was badly
cut about the head.
The Jury in the damage suit brought
in the District Court at Denver by the
Colorado & Southern Railroad Com
pany against the Denver Union Water
Company for 100000 for damages "n
| account of the breaking of the Chees-
| man lake dam in Platte canon in 1900
was unable to agree after delihcratnc
for twenty-four hours and The case W i'll
be tried again.
Great commotion was caused at Bal
| ley in the Platte canon one afternoon
few days ago by the appearance of
large cinnamon bear and two cubs.
which took possession of the station
for some minutes. After many bear
like antics-while the people at safe
distance We're discussing the situation
the bears quietly trotted out Of town.
much to the relief of the entire village.
w. X. Martin has just returned to
Boulder from Washington, d. c.,
where he closed contract wsth repre-
sentatives of an Egyptian syndicate to
| drill four wells 1000 feet deep each at
| Cairo, Egypt. Mr.. Martins company
| is to receive SSO,OOO for this work. or
$50 foot. The average cost of drill
| ing in the Boulder belt is 81 per foot
for deep drilling. and somewhat less
than that for 1,OOO-foOt wells.
| Arrangements are being completed
for the erection Of the new Santa Fe
| hotel at Trinidad. The ground on
which the hotel is to be built was pur-
chased from the city by the Santa Fe
Railroad Company and is on II tri-
angular plot north of and adjoining
the depot. The sale was made on con-
| dition that the Santa Fe should erect
n hotel building on 1t TO cost not less
than $6O,0OO. The style of architecture
will be Moorish.
The Denver Republican correspond
ent says the grasshopper pest is be-
coming more and more serious In Otero
county. Farmers have already lost
| from twenty-five to forty per cent. of
their crop Of Mexican beans Every
field has n wide strip destroyed
around the edge. Alfalfa is still being
damaged by them. On the range they
are so numerous that they. bother the
horses of the cowboys almost as badly
as n swarm of tieas.
T. L. Monson, state dairy commits
soner. is sending out the premium list
| of the Colorado State Fair, which Is to
be held in Pueblo from September 10Th