The Lamar register., 1902-06-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.


A hail storm did considerable dam
age In the vicinity of Fowler ON the
10th instant.
A postotlice at Sellar, Pitkin county,
has been established, with Otto Is. ALL
patrick as postmaster
The Colorado X Southern is meeting
with success in its efforts to attract
visitors to the Platte canon this sum-
mer.
Roy Bourquin. boy of IA, had both
hands blown off while playing Win
powder at Cripple Greek on the 10Th
inst.
The Grand Junction School Board
has purchased sites for two new school
buildings and will erect handsome
structures.
The Denver base ball team by repeat
edly defeating Omaha has reached sec
ond place in the Western League and
is crowding Kansas City for first.
President Benjamin Z. Andrews of
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on the occasion of the
graduating exercises of the Leadville
high school.
The property of the Jarvis Hall
school for boys at Depver has been
sold by the Episcopal Church author
tiles and no attempt will be made TO
revive the institution.
President Frank Adams of the Den
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously sick for II long time,
Is reported to be much improved ana
in fair way to recover.
There will be no more electric light
competition in Denver. The managers
of the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany have purchased a majority OF the
stock of its rival, the LacOmbe Elec-
trio Company.
AT Colorado Springs June 18th James
Walsh, barber. was killed by n stan
from n pair of scissors in the hands OF
Joe Scott. Walsh had interfcred to pro
tect Scott's wife from an assault by
her husband.
Rev. Canon Bywatcr of Grace Cathe-
dral, Topeka, and member of the fac
ulty of Kans;,s Theological Institute,
has been appointed by Bishop Olmsted
archdeacon of the Denver diocese of
the Episcopal Church.
James T.. Secrest, formerly banker
OF South Side Camp No. II, Woodmen
of the World. in Denver was arrested
on the 18th inst. on a Warrant chnrg-
ing him with cmbczzling S1,O4.i5 OF
the FUNDS or the camp.
A Chicago dispatch says that mem
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will go 10 Lcndville, Colorado.
where an inquiry will be made CON
corning charges filed by the Board of
Trade OF that city against the trans
continental lines.
Former Sheriff Joseph Yates and
William Mott. two well known mining
t..aft al
from the Thunder Mountain country
In Idaho and report that 1t has been
greatly overestimatcd and has no at
fractions for prospcctors.
The Denver x Rio Grandc has re-
ceived five of ten new passenger loco
! motives 1t has ordered. They are the
largest ever placed in service on a Col
| orado road. and can make sixty miles
| an hour on the heavy grade between
Denver and Palmer Lake.
John Brisben Walker. editor and
publisher of the Cosmopolitan maga-
| zine, has been elected president. and
| Mortimer +. Taylor. formerly of the
law firm of Wells, Taylor X Taylor of
| Denver. secretary, of the Colorado So
ciety recently organized in New York.
Supervising Architect Taylor has re-
| jected the bids of the Congress Con
I struction Company for the interior fin
! ish OF the Denver mint. This bid,
| amounting to S21932G. was the only
| one furnished in response to the adver-
tisement New bids will be called for.
| This is the old. old story told again.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute, secretary Of
| the State Horticultural Society calls
| upon the people of Denver to spray
| their trees, especially the maple and
locust trees. which have been attacked
by what is known as the maple scale.
| The scale is of au oval shape and a
yellow or brownsh tint, and contains
| thousands of insects that eat their
way to the heart of the tree and de-
| stroy its life.
AT the recent meeting of the Colo
RADIO State Dental Association in Colo
RADIO Springs an artificial palate was
| inserted in the mouth of Mr.. Burk-
| head of Denver. who was born with Il
soft palate and could not eat well or
| articulate distinctly. DIR. +. l.. Smith
| of Denver performed the delicate op-
Grafton. witnessed by n room full of
| dentists. Burk head can now talk and
| eat normally.
Rural free delivery service to com.
mence August 1st has been ordered for
| the route from Eaton. Weld county.
| length twenty-four miles. area forty
square miles. population 800. number
| OF houses. 100; carrier. VIII Lowry.
| Also for the route from Fort Morgan.
Morgan county, twenty-five miles, area
| thir1y-siy square miles. population 40.
| number of houses ninety-tive; carrier.
| Mark G. Getchell.
Maj. William Cooke Daniels Of Den
/ yer narrowly escaped being caught in
| the Martinique horror He is now in
| London. and wrote to friends in Den
| yer that he reached Martinique only
| the day after the destruction of ST.