The Lamar register., 1902-09-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| large towns can now be found at about
| every lake in the state.
Seventy-five cars of cantaloupes were
| shipped from Rocky Ford on the nrst
| two days of September.
| A good deal of damage was done IN
| the vicinity of Fowler by severe nail
storm ON the night Of August 3lst.
The Denver theater on Curtis street
| has been renovated and remodeled ana
| will hereafter be known as the curtis
| theater
A party of Rio Grande engineers are
| making n new survey for the line OF
| that road between Palmer Lake ana
| Monument.
1t is stated in Denver that ex-Presi-
| dent Edward BOyce of the Miners red
Grafton will make Denver his perma-
nent home.
Professors ID. ]. Griffith of Ames Col
lege, Iowa; will act as coach for the Az
ricultural College football team at Fort
Collins this year.
Boulder business men have iGauSur-
ated n crusade against street fakirs
who make a market-place of the prln-
cipal streets of the city.
Large forest fires are constantly IN
sight from Denver and it seems as II
the foothills of the Eastern range
must soon be entirely bare of timber.
A party of scientists have been max
ing survey of the large glacier on
Arapahoe peak in Boulder county and
will later publish Il full description oil
it.
The football team of Colorado College
at Colorado Springs has begun practice:
1t is reported that the University OF
Denver will also haye team In the
field.
The Otero oil well near Boulder was
shot on September LIST with sixty quarts
of nitroglycerine. OIL rose to within 100
feet of the surface, indicating n valu-
able well.
Denver fans" stoutly assert that the
Denver baseball team will again win
the Western League pennant, though
beginning its series of home games at
fourth place.
The Gates system of mercantile
houses, creameries and cheese factories,
has inaugurated $50 miles of barbed
wire fence telephone line on the Divide
east of Palmer Lake.
Several strings of cow-ponies have
been attracted by the large purses Of
fered by the Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo September 18th TO 10th. and the
relay races promise to be the best ever
held in the state.
1t seems likely that the new Lead
vile electric power anu railroad scheme
will be carried through. The company
proposes to build Il railroad connecting
the mines and smelters of the district
and to furnish power to mining plants.
w. w. Price of Colorado Springs and
Webb Jay of Denver drove fifteen
horsepower automobile from Colorado
Springs to Buena Vista In nine hours
OH August 31st. but were delayed be-
tween Buena Vista and Leadvllle by
the illness of Mr.. Jay.
The August report of the sales of the
United States land office at Denver Is
as follows: Total receipts from sales,
S,OOO55: the fees of the office, $1,000
O5, a total of sol. 100000. This is an In
crease of S1.GOOO0 compared with the
corresponding month last year.
At Ouray, August Goth, Judge Ste
yens i'm chambers heard petition for
an Injunction from citizens OF Grand
Junction asking that the school Doaru
be restrained from selling bonds issued
for building new school houses. The
petition was denied. District Attorney
McAIullin and Attorney Caswell repre-
sented the board.
John Drager, an old settler in the VI
cinity of Fort Collins. was instantly
killed September list by an explosion
of the boiler of Il threshlng machine en-
gine. His son, Arthur Diager, was at
the same time seriously injured. The
machine belonged to William Foy and
was at work on Parker's ranch four
miles south of Fort Collins.
Secretary Gilbert McClurg of the Col
eu,,I. cnripuC Chamber Of Commerce,
who has recently returned from two
weeks trip through New Mexico, Iowa,
Kansas and Minnesota, reports great
interest in the coming meeting OF the
National Irrigation Congress at Colo
RADIO Springs October 9th to 9th. Thorn
'as +. Walsh, president of the congress,
has made n generous subscription FOR
the entertainment of delegates.
A mass meeting of fruit growers was
held at Grand Junction August both to
protest against the high rates charged
by the express companies. AS result
express rates for fruit shipments from
all points in Mesa county have been
reduced by the Wells-Fargo and Rio
Grande companies. In carload lots the
price has been reduced from 30 cents
to 75 cents, while in 2,50O-pound ship
ments it has been reduced to 81.
The city council of Glenwood Springs
has granted the Denver * Rio Grande
| concessions in the way of closing part
of the river from Front street in con-
sideration of the building of o. SoO,OOo
| depot This is an Improvement greatly
needed. but 1t has been delayed several
| years for want of suitable site. The
+! new building will be located at the foot
| of Copper avenue. opposite the bath
house and lawns of the hot springs.
There will be two Peoples Party
| conventions in the First congressional
| district. The committee of which Ste
i L. nd AlI.s.