The Lamar register., 1902-03-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

tained Il fractured arm and ankle.
| j. f. Torrance, an oil man. had his
right hand badly mashed while in
stalling pump for the Florence Oil
Company.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Wagon Wheel Gap hot springs
by General Palmer. who owns the
property. The old bath house will be
replaced by a modern structure and the
hotel greatly improved.
Herbert Randall, aged nineteen.
while duck shooting in boat near
Golden, picfed up his gun with the
muzzle toward him and shot his right
arm to pieces. The arm was amputat-
ed and he may recover
Mrs. Mary Gillespie. aged eighty
three. and the mother of thirty-seven
children. is In the Denver county hos
pItal. She is said to be cultured and
dignified and will not say why none Of
her children assists her.
The annual distribution of trout in
the Platte river has begun. The Colo
RADIO x Southern railroad expects to
place from 100000 to 100000 eastern
brook, rainbow and native trout In the
Platte within the next six weeks.
In order to do away with the smoke
nuisance in the narrow canons and
tourist resorts the Colorado Southern
railroad will use oil as fuel for its To-
comOtives during the summer and aut-
umn. 1t will cost more than coal.
| Alamosa grew more last year than 1t
ever did in any one year before, but
1902 will be n record breaker in this
| respect More new buildings are
| planned now than there were last year
ut the same season.-Alamosa Courier.
James E. Kearns, who was arrested
| in Cripple Creek OH the charge OF the
murder of Martin Gleason, the superin-
| tendent of the Wild Horse mine OH
Bull hill had his bond reduced from
$4,000 to $1,000 and was released
from jail
John NJ. Francisco, one of Colorado's
earliest pioneers. died ut his home at
La Veta at the age of eighty-two
years. He was Virginian by birth.
but had lived in Colorado for the last
half century. He built the first house
Of any Importance in Pueblo.
The San Miguel mine near Telluride
was visited by two snowslides Thurs
day morning. The damage was scarce
ly 500. ii. Goetinger and Isaac john
son were carried over 1000 feet. one
escaped entirely unharmed and the
other with bruises and his scalp gone
In an answer filed in the Denver
District Court by the Supreme Tent.
knights OF the Maccabees to the suit
for $4,000 brought against them by
David Lieberman. who sustained per-
manent injuries while undergoing H.
itiation into the order. general denial
is made.
The union bricklayers Of Florence
have notified the building contractors
that hereafter they will not work for
| less than IS for an elght-hour shift.
| The union has also passed resolution
| imposing n fine of IS upon any of Its
members who patronize Chinaman,
when there are Americans In the same
business.
James Owen. who left Ouray Feb
ruary 9th, for the Bob Tail mine, five
miles south of the city. never reached
| the mine. and it is feared he was
caught in storm and perished. He
| had been working on the FL Mahdi for
| two months. The last heard of him
was near Ironton, where he procured
pair Of snow shoes Mt Rice's cabin.
He has wife living on IL ranch near
Durango.
While attempting to capture Mex
lean fugitive, who, it is alleged. abb
Quoted n sixteen-year-old girl, Un'ler
Sheriff l.. NJ Kreeger fell from a San
| tn Fe passenger train which was NOV
ing at rate OF forty miles an hour.
near Trinidad. He received injuries
about the head and back which will
make it impossible for him to leave
his home for many days. The Mex
lean escaped.
| The Pueblo city council made appro-
priations for the ensuing fiscal year.
l Il 1-k
tai is $3S7. sos. as against S2SS. 165 for
the preceding year, an increase of $09,-
34O The increase was made necessary
by the growing demands of the city.
The new appropriations provide,
| among other things. for n fire station
| in East Pueblo, n city ambulance and
q street roller and grader.
Plans for an eight-story building.
covering five lots at the west corner Of
Seventeenth and Curtis streets. Den
YER. have been prepared for Quincy A.
| Shaw, the Boston capitalist who has
| acquired two lots on Curtis street ad
joining the Quincy building for $77.-
600. The pair. together with the three
lots on the corner covered by the
Quincy. which Mr.. Shaw has owned
for some time. will be the site for the
| new structure.
Telluride reports the mysterious iis-
appearance of w. G. Smith. a former
shift boss at the Liberty Bell mine.
After the disaster on February 2Sth.
ut the mine where he was employed,
he came to town and made arrange
ments to visit his wife at La Junta,
but has not reached there. On the
night of March 4th he settled his bills
and told the landlord of the Victoria
house to call him in time for the Den