The Lamar register., 1902-05-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.

ing hopes of visit from ITesiueht
Roosevelt next summer.
April receipts of the Pueblo post
office show an increase of thirty-one per
cent over April of last year.
A new company at Grand junction
will erect an extensive plant FOR the
manufacture and storage of Ice.
The railroads will grant one rate for
the round trip to the Mountain and
Plain Festival at Denver next fall
James NJ. Duysdale of Denver has
been appointed fourth assistant exam
iner in the pension office, at salary Of
Sl,2OO per annum.
Mrs. Grenfell, state superintendent,
addressed very successful meeting OF
the Clear Creek Valley Teachers Asso-
citation at Idaho Springs April 26th.
A new state fish hatchery is to be
established at Steamboat Springs.
There are already three in the state
at Denver. Durango and Gunnison.
The new chapel in the State Peniten-
tiary ut Canon City was redcdicatcd
Sunday, April eth. Rev. Thomas ID.
UZZell of Denver was the principal
speaker.
Managers of the Chautauqua asso-
citation ut Boulder report n highly IA
vorable outlook and the Glen Park peo-
pie expect larger attendance thah
ever before.
]. w. Devclne of Boulder celebrated
his nincticth birthday May 1st ana
was presented with Il handsome ana
costly Masonic charm by his brethren
of the fraternity.
The census of School District No.
in Larimer county, including loveland,
shows 1,175 pupils of school age ana
places the district in the first class ac-
cording TO the provisions of the state
| law.
Ground was broken April 2oth FOR
the new 100000 city hall nt Colorado
| Springs. The building will be con-
| structcd of Colorado Trinidad SAND
stone ana is to be completed during the
year
The controversy between the Pueblo
| county commissioners and the Denver
| n Rio Grande company has been set
| tied and the railroad will be granted II
franchise to lay its tracks TO the new
| zine smcltcr over II route agreed UPON
Eric Johnson fell eighty feet down
raise in the Camp Bird mine nt Oufay
and although he carried with INN III
| the fall drilling machine, no bones
were broken or internal injuries sis-
| taincd, and he will recover soon from
his bruises.
Charles W. Caryl has added to his
first donation of thirty acres to the
brotherhood of Light Society fifty
more acres adjoining the first tract,
south of University Park on University
avenue. south of Denver. The organiz-
alton was formed TO provide Il home for
| waits.
Captain Lennon, superintendent at
| Teller Institute, Grand Junction, has
received word from Washington that
| acetylcnc gas will be the system of
, lighting the building and grounds
| at the Indian schools in the future ana
that the government will supply the
plant ut once.
W. S. Stratton Is rapidly completing
the attractions of Cheyenne park, nt
Colorado Springs, which he will shortly
throw open for the use of the public.
one thousand new benches, each ac-
cOmmodating four people, Will be m
stalled, while innumerable swings VIII
attract the children.
| Mayor Robinson of Colorado Springs
has received letter from Jacob l'ils
| of New York expressing his Wiling
ness to address the Cbautauqua meet
ing at the Springs this summer. Pres
ident Roosevelt appointed Mr.. Rils 10
an important position in the Danish
islands, which he declined.
A whirlwind at Cripple Greek April
2Ith unroofcd the grand stand at I'm
ion park and damaged that structure
| IN the amount of 500. The park was
not in use and the stand WAS nnoccu-
pied. one huge section of the roof
was carried fully 200 feet in the air
and landed 100 yards or more away
from the building.
The Denver weather bureau report
| showed an excess OF scV"nty-slN DE
nrces temperature for the month Of
April and an accumulated excess Of
| Dos degrees since the first Of the year.
| The total precipitation for the month
was O.GO of an inch, or LII below nor
NAL, and since January lst it amount
ed TO LIS inches, or 10 inches below
normal.
At Pembcrton, about fifteen miles
J north of Woodland Park, Lee Elliott,
| Il miner working for the Ohio Mining
| Company, was found dead about 200
wards from the shaft, which he had
been working alone. 1t is supposed
| that he met death from an explosion
| caused by n missed shot. after which
he managed TO crawl to n water hole,
200 yards away.
County Attorney Howe of San Mi
| gucl county has been instructed by
| the county commissioners to bring suit
| against former County Clerk Harry L..
| Servis and his bondsmen to recover
| funds alleged to be due the county.
The commissioners claim that Servis
appropriated the county funds to his
own use. The shortage is not believed
| to be large. Mr.. Scrvis is in Denver
The Otero county board of roundup
| commissioners met at La Junta April
2Sth but owing to the small attend