The Lamar register., 1902-05-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Ii. Benton as postmaster.
April receipts of the Pueblo post
| office show an increase of thirty-one per
cent. over April of last year.
on May 9th the Denver baseball
| team stood third in the Western
| League and the Colorado Springs team
seventh. There are eight cities in the
league.
The new chapel in the State Peniten-
tlary at Canon City was rededicated
Sunday, April 27th. Rev. Thomas ID.
Uzzell of Denver was the principal
speaker
The fund to pay for presents to the
cruiser Denver has reached $1,000. The
Daughters of the American Revolution
will present the cruiser with a silver
pitcher.
The faculty of the State Normal
School at Greeley decided that out OF
the senior class of seventy members
sixty-elght are entitled TO graduation
from the institution June 1st.
There were nine contestants ut the
annual contest of the Interstate Ora
torical Association, held in st. Paul,
Minnesota, May ID. Loring ID. Beck
with of Denver WAS awarded fourth
rank by the judges.
Mrs. Martha a. Shutc, secretary of
the Board of Agriculture, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the horticul-
tural display ut the state fair i'll Pu-
eblo. The premium fund for this dis
play has been increased this year from
800 to $500.
The executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners will meet i'll Den
yer on May 22nd for a prolonged ses-
sion. The convention does not open
until May 26th. President Boyce an
ticipates the largest convention in the
history of the organization.
Chancellor Buchtel of the University
of Denver announces that he has Sc
cured pledges for $4,000 of the
amount needed to place the institution
free from debt Only 100000 remains
to be raised and the prospect of getting
that soon is very encouraging.
Bishop Henry w. Warren has telc-
graphed from Chattanooga, Tennessee,
announcing the conferences over which
he will preside this summer as follows:
Wyoming, August Ith; Utah, August
1Ith; Colorado, August 21st. He Will
preside over two Ohio conferences also.
The Rev. Bruce Brown, pastor of the
Central Christian Church in Denver,
has offered the use of the church free
to the labor unions of the city for such
public meetings as they may wish 70
hold. The building is Il fine one, and
is not rented for less than $50 IL night.
The city of Boulder owns its own
water works, which cost about $22OOOO,
and is receiving enough for water to
pay Off its Indebtedness at the rate
of $4,000 IL year. Boulder's municipal
affairs are operated on an S-mill rate,
inclusive of provisions for its sinking
fund.
j. ii. Crowley of Rocky Ford,
member of the State Board of Horti-
culture, has written Secretary Shute
that never in the history of the state
have the fruit trees been rs heavily
laden with blossoms as they are this
spring. lie predicts II crop never be-
fore euualed in his section of Colorado.
A one and n third fare for n round
trip is the rate the roads have given
for Colorado people who desire to at
tend the twenty-ninth annual meeting
of the national conference of charities
and correction which will convene in
Detroit, Michigan, the evening of We'd
nesday, May 18th, ut the Central
Methodist Church.
A. S. IIockett. chairman of the beet
sugar organization of Mosca. has re-
ceived Il shipment of 3,SGO pounds of
sugar beet seed from the Rocky Ford
factory, and 300 acres i'll and around
MUsca is rapidly being seeded to sugar
beets under the direction of +. Il. Meh-
ring, agrculturist for the American
Sugar Company.
Five mules We're imprisoned behind Il
cave-in in tunnel of the Haywood
mine, at Lafayette. and Secretary
Whitehead of the Humane Society no.
titled the mine managers to rescue
them at once. Mr.. Whitehead received
word that the mules had been impris-
oned for three days. y miner crawled
in and gave them some feed, but could
not take water or get them out.
Thomas Holland, state superintend-
cnt of fish hutcheries, has just trans
ferred 100000 rainbow trout eggs from
the Gunnison hatchery to the Denver
hatchery. where there are now almost
100000 eggs. Mr.. Holland says the
Gunnison hatchery is filed with eggs
and that this spring the fish and game
office will have more spawn for lakes
and streams than for several years
past.
There is movement on foot to pave
Colorado avenue from Colorado
Springs to Manitou. prominent citizens
of both towns taking the lead in the
matter a bicycle path on either side
is talked of, and altogether the project
seems certain of unanimous support.
The city and county will each be asked
to contribute toward the enterprise, as
well as the towns of Colorado City and
Mantou.
The new reservoir of the Grand
| Junction water works has just been
completed at n cost of S15.OOO and the
water was turned in on the -lth instant
| The reservoir is 1872 feet square. Its