The Lamar register., 1902-04-23
COLORADO BRIEFS.

William Il. Pabor the veteran Colo
RADIO editor and colonizer has revived
his Pabor Lake colony in Florida and
is again publishing the Pabor Lake
Pineapple.
-Four hundred workers. in the planning
mills of Denver have been granted an
increase in wages from 2Ila to 30
cents nn hour. The elght-hour day is
still under discussion.
An advance of wages. averaging
about twenty per cent. has been re-
Gently granted employees by the Griliin
Car Wheel Company operating plant
in southwest Denver.
The following new postoi.ices have
been established in Colorado: Boycro,
Lincoln county. Christ B. llocnehs,
postmaster; Pandora, San Miguel couli-
ty, Alexander III. Wood, postmaster.
About 100 citizens met at the opera
house in Alamosa to organize com
pany to build and operate an electric
light plant. plant to cost $2o,ooo
with Il capacity of 1000 incandesceht
and fifty arc lights will be built.
The presbytery of Pueblo. which has
just closed its session at Florence,
elected Rev. Dr. Cotman Of La Junta
Of the Presbyterian church, which
meets in New York city on May 10Th.
William Crcbo. who was charged
with stealing cattle, had his trial in the
District Court ut Golden April H. and
after hearing the evidence, the judge
instructed the jury to bring In II YER
dict Of acquttal, the evidence being in
sufficient.
The glce and mandolin clubs of the
State university returned to Boulder
April 11th, after more than two weeks
spent in II tour of the state. They left
Boulder March 10Th and covered to-
tai of 1.GG3 miles, stopping at every
town of Importance on the route.
The Girls Friendly Club ut Denver
Is the beneficiary of $1,000 from Mrs
Lowthian, widow of Thomas Low
THAN, at one time n wealthy mining
man ut Leadvillc. The money will he
used to build permanent home as an
auxiliary to the City Temple work of
Dean Peck.
Aurclio Espinosa. n senior in the
State University Mt Boulder, has been
appointed to the chair of romance Ian
guagcs at the University of New McNi-
90. lie has filed the position of in
structor in Spanish and French at the
State University for two years. He he
gins his duties next September
Throughout Colorado the bridge and
structural iron workers have demand
ed, and expect, better pay and shorter
hours, to begin Oh May lst Tie union
which is in Denver, with members in
other counties, submitted II demand
yesterday for an increase from 10
cents to ~ cents an hour, and an eight
instead of Il nine-hour day.
Mayor Wright OF Denver has re-
ccived the badge which his daughter,
Miss Roberta Wright. Will wear when
she clIristens the cruiser Denver. 1t is
Il beautiful sample of the goldsmith's
art and Is valued Mt 500 II Is made
of gold from the famous Camp Bird
mine and imbedded in the yellow met
al are two diamonds and n sapphire.
Among the curIosities that Larimcr
county hopes TO take to st. Louis is II
section of the siXty-foot vein Of coal
that has been discovered in that coun-
ty 1t Is the intention to cut through
this vein and TO remove u cross section
of II in pieces which will be set up in
St Louis. showing both the character
of the coal and also the wonderful
thickness.
Governor Orman will ask the COVER
nor of Washington for the cNtradition
of pug" Ryan. alias l.. y. Scott, alias
j. G. Moore. the notorious Colorado dcs-
perado wanted in Summit county TO
answer the charge of killing Sheriff NJ.
T.. Conrad. and for whose detention
there is a reward Of 5000 Ryan was
captured Il few days ago by the oili-
GERS at Seattle.
G. II. Smith. one of the men found
guilty for being implicated in the re-
cent Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
pay check forgepics, was sentenced in
the District Court at Pueblo to not less
than one year nor more than eighteen
months in the pcnitcntiary. Smith
pleaded guilty and turned states evil
dcncc, but was not allowed to testify
on n legal tcchnicality.
within three months we shall have
the groccrs of Colorado thoroughly or
ganized." said President George y.
Ordwny of the State association after
the local grocers' meeting at Denver.
I'VE will get the Arkansas valley or
ganiZcd this week and will then go af-
ter other sections of the state, and will
place the sugar card, giving ten per
cent. profit To the retailer in every
town in Colorado
W. s. Osborn. n Victor groccryman
while hunting about ten miles south,
west of Victor on Millsap creek. came
upon n huge mountain lion devouring
n calf which 1t had killed He took II
shot at the animal Mt Il distance of $50
feet and Killed it. 1t measures ten feet
in length and weighs close to 800
pounds. 1t is the animal which has
long caused much loss to ranchmen's
stock in that locality.
Members of the Colorado National
Guard In Denver hnyc invited Admiral