The Lamar register., 1902-02-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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jutor Of Colorado.
A handsome new church was dedicat-
ed by the Presbyterians at Canon City
on the 26th. 1t cost about $4,000.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Edwin Price to be
postmaster mt Grand Junction, Colo
rado, and the nomination was con-
firmed.
Local parties are to erect n big pa
vilion at Idaho Springs near the hot
springs. They will provide attractions
in the way Of music and entertain
ments for tourists.
William Brinkley of Fort Morgan
was found dead in his barn the other
day, supposedly having committed sui
eide after quarreling with his wife.
The coroner is investigating.
! The city of Florence has let the con-
tract to Bert Gardner for the construc-
tion of a new city reservoir. The con-
tract price is $4,000 and the work must
be finished by the middle of May
| Another man has been arrested. sus-
pected Of the murder of Harold Frid-
born. He was captured thirty miles
northwest of Fort Collins. When ar
rested he tried to shoot the officers and
then wounded himself.
II. Inge and ]. Il. 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 n stir here and other par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
A board of officers, consisting of Ma
Jors Il. B. Mosely. A. c. Sharpe, ]. A.
Irons and Captains p. G. Wales and f.
j. Herman, Second infantry, with Cap
tain II. S. Whipple as recorder, has
been appointed to meet in Denver for
examination of officers ordered before
| 1t for promotion. Second Lieutenant
Haywood Robbins, Fifteenth Infantry,
has been ordered before the board.
The local union at Erie of the United
Mine Workers of America has posted a
notice of n special meeting for the pur-
| pose of Initiating all non-union miners
now Mt work in the mines of that camp.
This is to give the non-union men
chance to join before February LIST, as
after that date the union will demand
of the operators that none but union
men be employed.
The Grand Junction postofiice was
robbed recently by Night Clerk Eu-
gene Phillips. About $50 in stamps
who has lived there for the last eight
years and has been well thought of,
confessed that he committed the rob-
berry, breaking the window and rifing
the mail pouch to give the appearance
of theft committed by an outsider.
Arthur f. Francis, secretary of the
Cripple Creek Chamber of Commerce,
has received letter from President
Trumbull of the Colorado & Southern
railroad. thanking the chamber and
| the business men for the interest dis
| played in the building of the cutoff
from Denver to Cripple Greek. Mr..
| Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
in the near future.
| The Denver police no longer suspect
that TOmassO Minci. who was captured
in the hills north of Fort Collins last
week by Detectives Sanders and Car
berry, Is the murderer of Harold Frid-
| born. They are satisfied that Minci
was in Central City, his home on New
Years eve, the time of the murder, and
that he is demented. Minci, as soon as
he RECEIVERS, probably will be turned
over to the authorities of Gilpin county
For the second time within four
months trplets have been born in Pu-
eblo county. On the 2Ith Mrs Rosario
Mestas gave birth to three sons, whose
combined weight is twenty-one pounds.
| She Is the wife of an employe of the
Philadelphia smelter and lives at Salt
| Creek, n Mexican settlement within q
short distance of Pueblo. The little
fellows are all well formed and
healthy, and the mother is reported to
be doing well.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county will join the commissioners of
Arapahoe county in the investigation
of affairs at the State Industrial School
| for Girls, and before the matter is final
ly disposed of other counties in the
state will take hand in the investiga-
tion, it is said. The Pueblo county
commissioners visited the Arapahoe
county commissioners yesterday morn
ing and stated their belief that their
county had been charged for mainte-
nance not only of girls who had long
since left the home, but for some Of the
same girls for whom Arapahoe had
been paying.
General passenger agents of the
Transmissouri lines, aided by the Rio
Grande system, are outlining n plan
which they hope will draw added traf-
fic to Colorado. The plan is said to be
that originated by John Sebastian of
the Rock Island, and in furtherance of
it. Mr.. Sebastian recently went to
Denver, where a conference took piece
1t is proposed to establish bureau to
disseminate information relating - the
attractions Colorado offers to campers
show the cost of an outing of this char
acter, the places in Colorado adapted
to 1t and similar Information. Last
year there were $4,000 tourists who
visited Colorado. and it is expected
that fully 10000 will go the coming
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