The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The telephone wires in Pueblo are be-
ing placed underground.
President James H. Baker of the
University of Colorado. returned from
Europe on the Sth Instant
Mrs. George Baldesarri. an Italian
resident of Silverton, was crushed to
death October 9th by the overturning
of a load of baled hay.
Adjutant General Gardner says the
Colorado troops that attended the
army maneuvers in Kansas Will De
benefited by the experience.
The George W. Cook Drum Corps
from the Centennial State were very
much in evidence at the national en-
campment of the G. A. II. in Washing
ton.
Mrs. G. H. Stoiber of Silverton mas
taken out a nonresident hunters IL
cense in Montana. being the first wom-
an to whom such license has been
granted.
The Baptist convention, which meets
in Denver October goth. will be in ses-
sion for three days. Among the things
to be considered are the plans 1or the'
Woman's College at Denver.
There are giants in these days Inc
lightest man in the University OF Ne
braska eleven, who defeated the UNI
versity of Colorado in the football
game at Boulder. weighed 1s5 pounds.
The colleges and high schools OF Col
orado are going in for football this sea-
son as never before and the crop OIL
broken limbs from this most strenuous
OF sports promises to be large one.
H. E. Mulnix. of the Worlds Fair
board, is making tour of the state 10
visit the county commissioners and
sI. nIr. n.IfFVt tn q
tions for creditable display at st.
Louis in 1904.
Grand county has its first bank. 1t
is called the Bank of Grand County and
was opened for business October 1st
at Sulphur Springs. County Judge
j. T. Wills is president and Frank N
Briggs is cashier.
Hazel cottage, the handsomest
cottage on the Boulder Chautauqua
grounds, was destroyed by fire Octo-i
ber 9th. The cottage cost upward OF
$1,000, and was the property OF John
Duncan of Boulder
The town of Colorado City will pur-
chase for the sum of, $4,000 water
right No. 2 of the Findley ranch on
Fountain creek and will construct a
water system of its own. II present
plans do not miscarry.
John NJ. Houk, Denver grocer, COM
mitted suicide on the 4th inst, by swal-
lowing carbolic acid. The act was due
to i'll health and despondency. Houk
Ia said to have been a member of the
A. o. U, w. and p. o. S. of A.
Prominent business men of Colorado
Springs will confer with Chief Hydro
grapher F. A. Newell relative to the
construction of a reservoir on site
seven miles south of the city. to store
the flood waters of the Fountain.
The University of California. after
careful investigation, will give full
credit to students for diplomas in the
following Colorado schools: North
Side high school, East Denver high
school and West Side high school of
Denver; Pueblo high school. Pueblo.
At its meeting in Fort Collins Octo-
ber Sth, the Northern Colorado Lum-
bermen's Association elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Senator w.
l.. Clayton of Greeley; vice president.
Lambert Sternberg of Boulder. secre-
tary and treasurer, l.. r. Haywood of
Loveland.
r. R. Taylor, tried at Colorado
Springs for the murder of Frank H.
Shader last August. was acquitted
Taylors plea was self-defense. and evi-
dence was submitted to show that Sna-
der had threatened to kill him GnG was
in the act of reaching for revolver
when Taylor shot
Mrs. Mary E. Barry. sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary for
stealing house at Victor and moving
it to Cripple Creek, and who was re-
leased from the penitentiary under a
writ of supersedeas and granted new
trial, has been acquitted by jury in
the District Court at Cripple Creek.
The site for the new postoffice in La
Junta has been selected by the depart
ment in Washington. The property be-
longing to j. H. Simington was select
ed. The owner will erect building
and lease it to the government for
term of years at a stipulated sum. This
is expected to locate the postoffice per-
manently for at least ten years.
The annual convention of the United
Mine Workers of America for Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, New Mexico, at it's
session in Colorado Springs elected
the following officers William How
ellis, Coal Creek, president; William
McAllister, Lafayette, vice president;
John Simpson, Aguilar, secretary;
William Price. Palisades, executive
board member
The Colorado Association of Elocu-
itionists has been organized in Denver.
The society has already invfed the
National Association of Elocutionists
to meet in Denver next June and the
invitation has been accepted. Miss
Martea Gould Powell has been elected
president. of the new organization; Joe
Newman, vice president; Mrs. Dorothy
Shinn BTokate, secretary; Mrs. Liska
Stillman Churchill, treasurer.