The Lamar register., 1902-12-31
COLORADO BRIEFS

Colorado convenes January 7th.
The care of the poor, eighteen in
number. cost Montrose county $2.25730
in 1902
Great preparations are being made In
Denver for the inauguration OF Gov
ernor Peabody January 18th.
Secretary of State Mills on Christi
mas Eve received a gold headed cane
from the employees of his office.
Gunnison county spent $4,762.95 in
1902 in caring for forty-four poor per-
sons. twenty of whom were women.
John w. Quick. proprietor of Pu-
eblo livery stable. committed suicide on
the morning of December 9th by
shooting himself through the head.
The Colorado Worlds Fair board
still adheres to its plan of erecting a.
permanent Colorado building on the
grounds of the st. Louis exposition.
On the preliminary hearing of Byron
and Joe Huff at Gunnison. December
Gath, on the charge of cattle stealing,
they were bound over for trial in the,
Circuit Court.
Work is being pushed on the new
reservoir for Central City and 1t VIII
probably be completed within the next
ninety days. 1t will store about L.
O00,O00 gallons.
In Denver, a few days ago. Fred
Whitner put $1,000 in bank biiis In his
watch pocket and started out to CON
clude the purchase of a saloon. When'
he arrived at the saloon the money
had disappeared.
Governor-elect Peabody has an
nounced that he will appoint John
Cleghorn to be warden of the State
Penitentiary upon the expiration OF
the term of Warden Martin next
March.
Lottie Du Pell described as a beauti-
tul French girl, seventeen years OF age.
committed suicide at Victor December
9th by taking carbolic acid. Her
mother committed suicide in the same
manner six months ago
William Griffith, Christian Science
practitioner of Denver, has filed $40
claim against the Stratton estate for
eight weeks treatment given the late
millionaire in Colorado Springs last
January and February.
DR.. Henry H. Rowland, ffty-three
years of age. shot himself in the bar
room at the Drexel in Denver on the
afternoon of December 2lth. The cause
of his suicide appears to have been de-
spondency occasoned by i'll health.
A regular meeting of the Lincoln
County Cattle Growers is called to meet
in Hugo January 7th and the sheep
growers association will meet the fol-
lowing day at the same place. Dele
gates to the national will be selected at
the same time.
L. E. Johnson, who froZe his feet
and ears on the night of December
| 18th while walking from Montezuma
to Breckenridge, was found by jury
to be of unsound mind and ordered by
the court to be committed to the in
sane asylum at Pueblo.
After being lost in the mountains
for thirty-six hours during a terrific
snowstorm Rev. L. o. Butler. pastor
of the Baptist Church of Saguache.
was found on December Goth by people
in search of him. He was on horse
| back and spent one night in deserted
sheepherder's cabin.
Lawrence c. Phipps during his brief
residence in Denver has made Two
large and unsolicited gifts to the char
ity organization. Christmas gift to
the poor of 81 900 was the second con-
! tribution received by Mrs. lZetta
George, secretary of the organization.
Mr. Phipps gave to the organization
$1,000 shortly after he came to Den
yer.
John Singer, veteran of the Civil
War. poisoned himself and his aged
wife with strychnine at Denver on
Christmas day. After their death
letter was found in which Singer states
that he committed the deed because he
and his wife were worn out and unable
to work hard. The two are said to
have left property valued at about Si2,-
OO0
There was light vote cast in Golden
at the special election December 27th
on the proposition of bonding the city
for 100000 for gravity system OF
water works. The bond issue carried
by ninety-five majority. The total vote
cast was 2O5. At previous election
the proposition carried but defect in
the ordinance necessitated reelection
to satisfy purchasers of the bonds.
The Continental Fuel Company has
been organized and filed its incorpora-
tion papers. The incorporators are
John w. Springer, president of the Ma
tional Live Stock Association; Wilson
B. Reid and Hugh ALEXANDER. all OF
Denver. The capital of the company
is $500, 900, and 1t is to buy coal lands
and operate coal mines In Boulder.
Arapahoe. Huerfano, Gunnison. Weld
and Las Animas counties.
Commissioner-in-Chi Thatcher of
the worlds fair board has received a
telegram from the authorities at st.
Louis informing him that the grounds
and buildings committee of the exposi-
tion has received copy of the ordi-
nance drafted by the mayor of st.
Louis to cover the location of per-
manent Colorado building in Forest
park. and that there is no objection on
tho mart Of the commission to the erec-
ton of permanent building.