The Lamar register., 1902-11-12
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Pueblo smeltlnS plantS.
Ground for the new sugar factory
has been broken. Work will begin on
the buildings this winter.
The switchmen employed in the
yards of the Union Pacific railroad ut
Denver have asked for an increase In
wages.
Not straight Populist vote was
cast in Mesa county at the last cleo
ton. This was formerly banner
Populist county.
Mrs. Kate Parker, wife of Kid
Parker the Denver pusilist swallowed
but will recover.
Thomas X. Mann, n formerly weii
known capitalist of Boulder. commit
ted suicide at Lock Haven, Pennsylva-
mia, last Thursday.
A savings bank is among the early
possibilities of Boulder Twenty-Five
thousand dollars was subscribed tor
that purpose Saturday.
Hugo Todenwarth. a Denver taxi
dermist. has procured the arrest OF
James S. Bush, game warden, Tor dis
turbance of the peace.
Indications are favorable for the dis
posal of the Denver. Northwestern &
Pacific roads $2O,000,000 of bonds by
the 18th of this month.
James Williams. former sporting
man of Pueblo, strayed from his party
while hunting near El Paso, Texas.
and died from exposure.
Miss Ethel Moses. daughter OF II.
Moses. leading merchant of Trinidad.
was married to Joseph BRAKEMAN. or
New York City Wednesday.
Considerable damage has been done
to property in Eagle River canon by
the bursting of the Denver & Rio
Grande dam at Pando. near Red CHI
The Revenue mine at Ouray has fin
ished its tunnel to the Telluride SIDE
of the range. a distance of 1000 feet.
A rich vein of ore was struck near
the apex.
Postmaster Davie of Florence has
received official notice from the de-
partment at Washington that free de-
livery will be installed in that city
March 1st.
Colorado's valuation. as shown by
State Auditor Crouter's certiiication to
the various county treasurers. is S354,-
DO2, ,501. Based on the four-mill levy,
the state tax is $l,416,0l0.
A number of Longmont farmers have
organized Percheron Breeders Asso-
oughbred registered Percheron stallion
direct from French importers.
The State Land Board has acted fa-
vorably on the application for n sale of
forty acres of land near Littleton, Col
prado to be used as Il site for the Geo.
teyner Air Compressor and Drill Com
bany.
1t is stated that John w. Gates has
scheduled George Res to be head OF
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
should the control of the company pass
Into the hands of Mr. Gates and his
friends.
The next session of the Colorado
Chautauqua Association at Boulder
will probably open on Saturday, july
4, 1903, and close on Friday. August
7th, though a longer session is not I'M
probable.
Information has been filed charging
DR.. George Elliott with murder, Eli
OFT is proprietor of the sanitarium at
Denver in which the operation which
cost the life of Sarah Vance was per-
formed.
The Joint ticket agency of Colorado
Springs reports that between 10000
and G5 900 tourists visited Colorado
Springs this season. This number Is
about twenty-five per cent. in excess OIL
last years total.
The Office of the State Land Board is
doing good work in collecting back
ROYALTIES due on mineral leases. Sew
eral hundred dollars have been re-
ceiyed SO far and number of thou.
sands are expected.
According to railroad men who are
In Denver from the East the freight,
rate situation between Chicago and
Colorado and Utah points is still in a
precarious condition and rates may
continue unsettled for many months.
Rev. George Doane O'Neill, chanceI-
lor and secretary of the Roman Catho-
lie diocese of Newark. New Jersey
died at St Anthony's Sanitarium at
Denver. Tuesday. He was reckoned
one of the ablest priests of his dio-
cese.
J. H. Springer has been appointed
commercial agent of the Colorado e.
Southern road at Colorado Springs.
He succeeds II. d. Milton. who has
been appointed general manager OF
the road from Boulder to Ward,
known as the Switzerland Trail.
Robert Hahnewald, prominent
business man and pioneer of Lead
vile, was badly injured Tuesday in
dynamite explosion in his mine in
Lake park He was looking after
some work in one of the drifts when
ne drilled into an unexploded hole.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
citation has granted a round trip rate
of one fare plus 81 from all points in
Colorado. except the Cripple Creek dis
trict, in connection with the National
Live Stock Association. which con-
venes at Kansas City on January 18th.
Judge b. B. Lindsey of Denver has