The Lamar register., 1902-02-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Many sections in the eastern part
of the state were visited by heavy
| rains on the 18th inst.-an unusual
thing for February.
State Game Commissioner Harris has
ordered about fifty Mongolian pheas-
| ants, which he will distribute in sew
eral of the southern counties.
The railroads will make n rate OF one
fare for the round trip for the encamp-
ment of the G. A. r., Department OF
Colorado and Wyoming, to be held ut
Rocky Ford next June.
The school census for 1901 shows
| 162, 17S children Of school age In the
state. OF that number, s1,33G are boys
and SO.S42 are girls. There are 800
men and 1,67S women teachers.
| The Montcalm sanitarlum of Mani
tou, n Roman Catholic institution, has
just received gift of $1,000 from Gen
eral w ]. Palmer. the money to be
applied to the debt of the institution.
Farmers living on Beaver creek, be-
tween Florence and Pueblo, tell or a
large mountain lion which has been
| lurking In the hills Of that neighDor-
| hood. Several unsuccessful attempts
to kill the beast have been made by
| the farmers.
l
| bill for the relief of o. T.. Noland OF
Mancos. Colo. providing for payment
or 5000, being the value of stock
killed and stolen by the Navajo and
Ute Indians and belonging to Noland.
between 1887 and 1892.
The home of the Misses Burns, SIS
tiers of James +. Burns, president of
the Portland Mining company, at Colo
RADIO Springs, was entered by burglars
on the night of the 10th inst, and
silverware. jewelry and other valuable
property taken to the amount of S1,2OO
worth.
II. Inge and J. +. Anderson, who
have been prospecting for coal about
thirty miles south of La Junta. have
found two veins. one five feet and the
other seven feet in thickness. This has
coused quite stir here and other par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
The following postmasters have been
commissioned: William II. Davis. Flor
ence; William V. Roberts, Fort Col
lins; Richard G. Dalton, La Junta;
Daniel f. Cooper, Lamar, Homer IL.
Grafton. Manitou; James b. Johnson.
Montrose; James w. Long. Ouray; Lib
bic Herman, Elizabeth; Carl FELTON,,
Swandyke.
The contract for the new passenger
and freight depot at Loveland has been
let and work will proceed at once.
The present depot building will be torn
down and new switches placed where
1t now stands. The new depot will be
placed ON the east side of the track
next to the business blocks between
Fourth and Fifth streets.
Congressman Bell has filed with the
postoffice department an application
for a rural delivery route from Plonia
to Hotchkiss. This route. as stated,
is about six miles long, and the petition
contained the signatures of about 100
people living along 1t. Judge Bell re-
quested that an inspector be sent out
as soon as possible to locate the same
Colorado Springs has just completed
| the donation of 40.OO0.OO0 gallons of
| water to the town of Victor but reports
state that that district has barely
enough water to last for another month.
| Another gift of water will probably
be necessary. Colorado Springs is pre-
| pared to give 35.OOO,O0O gallons more,
when further steps would nccessitate
additional action by the City Council.
Harry ID. Zimmerman of Colorado
| Springs. who ranked first in the re-
cent examination for the West Point
| cadetship. has received instructions
| from Washington to report at Fort Lo-
gan on May 1st for physical eNamina-
tion. Mr.. Zimmerman is n nephew of
Captain ]. NJ. johnson. an attorney of
| the Springs. Captain johnson is n West
Point nan and served in the Civil
War.
Petitions have been reaching WASH
| asking the Postoffice Department to in
| terfere in the matter of the removal
| of the Florence postOfiice. 1t is claimed
| the postmaster has located 1t in an in
accessible part of the town. The de
partment informed Senator Teller that
the protests came too late, that per-
mission had been given the postmas-
ter to establish his office where he has
and that the case would not be re-
| opened.
| The biennial reports of the state au-
ditor. which is now being prepared,
| will show that there are 14.2S6,111
acres of agricultural and grazing land
in the state, valued at $50, ,3S1 ,6SS. The
| classfications are as follows Agricul-
tural land, 3.255.1O7 acres, valued at
S3O,971 ,4OS: grazing land, 1O,SGS.29O
acres, valued at S14. SAT 400; coal lands,
163 500 acres, valued at 4,542.SI9. The
returns made by the assessors in the
fifty-seven counties of the state show
that there are coal deposits in nineteen
| counties.
At its meeting in Pueblo February
10th. the Retail Grocers and Butchers
Association of Colorado elected the fol-
lowing named officers: George n. Ord
way of Denver. president; j. y. Gal
Eraith of Fort Collins. first vice presi-
dent; ]. II. Gardner of Victor, second
vice president; w. +. Hazen of Law