The Lamar register., 1902-08-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Denver market August 5th.
A Rocky Ford couple have given up
the idea of n runaway marriage be-
cause this is the cantalOupe season.
The lawyers of Ouray beat the doc
tors and druggists in n baseball game
| on the 7th inst. by score of % to 10.
The joint ticket agencies at Denver
Colorado Springs and Pueblo estimate
| there are 27,OOO tourists now in the
state.
About 100 members of the Tennessee
| Press Association will arrive in Den
YER August 14th and make trip into
| the mountains.
| The Hotel Ryan. at Gilman, and the
| office Of the Gilman Water Company
were burned August 7th. There was
no insurance.
| The. Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
1 pany's power house mt the Crested
| Butte mine was burned on the morn
ing of August Bird.
]. Wallace Gum has resigned the pas
| torate of St. Pauls Episcopal church
| at Florence, and on September list will
take up work in the city of Ouray.
On August 14th 1900 tickets We're
stamped at the Colorado Springs offices
| of the Western Passenger Association.
The previous record for day was
| 1000.
Secretary of State Mills is already
preparing certificates of election and
also blanks for the submission of the
constitutional amendments at the COM
ing fall election.
Great preparations are being made
for Watermelon Day at Rocky Ford
September 4th. Arrangements have
already been made for eight special
trains on the Santa Fe.
The Normal institute of the Fifth
district began a two weeks session at
Colorado Springs, August 4th. The
district embraces Teller. Douglas. FL
Paso and Elbert counties.
The forest fire at Aliens park haS
been extinguished. Appraised IL. A.
Wells and nine men. assisted by the
weather, put out the flames. The
method used was back-iring.
William Coyne. who died at Helena.
Montana, few days ago, was one OF
the first printers on the Rocky Noun
tain News in Denver when the paper
was founded by William n. Byers.
Willard l.. Ames, formerly assessor
Of Arapahoe county, died at Denver
on the 9th inst. from appendicitis. AS
assessor Mr.. Ames made a state repu-
tation for fearlessness and efficiency.
While Colorado Fuel and Iron Off
cials were debating the propriety of
shutting down their coking plant for
want OF water. word was received that
the employees We're drowned out and
had to fly for their lives.
Grant Upton of Hygiene. aged about
thirty-five. who was declared insane
in Boulder county and taken to DIR.
Works private asylum ut Pueblo. Sun
day, died there August 4th. He leaves
a wife and two small children.
1t is estimated that the recent storms
in the southern part OF the state have
damaged the railroads to the extent
of $150.OOO; the Rio. Grande loss ap-
proximating 100000, that of the San
ia Fe $4,000. and that of the Midland
$4,000.
A village improvement society has
been organized at Glen Park and Pal
mer Lake. Special attention will be
given to preserving the natural beau
ties Of the two resorts and prizes will
be awarded for the most attractive
premises
Brooding over the death Of her
adopted son, who was murdered by an
unknown man on the plains south of
Durango last September. Mrs. Laura
K. Ehrenfeld Of Colorado Springs has
become insane and was ordered to be
sent to the Woodcraft sanatorium At
Pueblo.
As a dance was in progress at Bal
ley, Platte canon. on the night Of Au-
gust md. Il meteor was discovered
about 1 o'clock in the eastern part of
the sky. 1t was like one grand illu-
mination and the rare beauty of the
scene stopped the dancing until 1t had
passed.
In Difference to the difficulties that
tenderfeet have in pronouncing names
derived from the Spanish, the Santa
Fe railway has ordered that in all its
signs and advertising the word 'can-
on" shall be spelled canyon" As for
instance, Canyon. City, Cheyenne Can
yon, etc.
Appraisers Toombs and Jamison are
preparing contour map of the San
Luis valley, showing the agricultural
sections of the valley and irrigation
and drainage conditions. They have
recently completed full investigation
Of the valley with respect to these
matters and the map will be valua
BILE addition to such records.
Terseto Chaves, Mexican sheep
herder in the employ of Felix Chavts.
n large owner of. sheep in Saguachc
county, was shot and killed August
2nd by David Tucker, cowboy en-
ployed as a range rider by Clark Bros.
The shooting was done at the Sa-
guache big park east of Saguache.
Tucker surrendered himself TO the ai-
thorities.
Jasper d. Ward, for many years
prominent in public affairs in Illinois
and Colorado. died at Denver August
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