The Lamar register., 1903-05-20
COLORADO BRIEFS

be independent of the merchants
| league.
DIR. o. G. Place has purchased the
| Roberts hotel, at Boulder, containing
twenty-five rooms, and will establish
private sanitarium.
A fiock of ten mountain sheep came
down few days ago and grazed Tor
two or three hours in plain sight Oh
the people of Empire.
Bishop Earl Cranston has been
chosen to preside at the Colorado con
| ference of the NJ L. church to be held
in Denver next August.
II. l.. Wooton. former sheriff OF Las
Animas county and member OF the COL
orado Legislature. has been appointed
chief of police of El Paso, Texas.
DIR. J. N. Hall of Denver has been
| elected first vice president of the
] American Therapeutic Society, which
met in Washington on the 18th inst.
Frederick w. White, Jr.. manager of
| the Pueblo Star-Journal, died at st.
/! Mary's hospital in Pueblo, May 18th.
| after a ten-weeks illness of typhoid
fever.
A party of Harvard men will make
| geological explorations in Colorado
this summer and will establish a camp
in the Needle mountains about the
middle of July.
The people of orchard Place and
! Cherrelyn, suburbs of Denver on the
south, have voted to unite forces and
incorporate n new town under the
name of Englewood.
Gilbert McClurg, secretary of the
Colorado Springs Chamber of Com
merce. has been giving highly sue
cessful series of stereopticon lectures
in New England cities.
The Midsummer joint meeting OF the
Colorado State Editorial Association
and the Arkansas Valley Press Asso-
citation will be held at Glenwood
Springs, June 8th and 9th.
DIR. Pfeiffer of Denver, one of the
regents of the State University, has
presented the institution ITO shade
trees. Three new avenues will be laid
out and these trees used for shade.
The new armory of Company l. N.
G. c., at Fort Morgan, was opened on
the night of May 1ith with an inspec-
tion Of the company by Captain Brooks
from Fort Logan, followed by a mill
tary ball.
Up to Thursday the 14th inst, the
Colorado Springs baseball team OF the
Western League had played thirteen
games and won eleven of them. They
seem to have the other teams entirely
outclassed.
At Pueblo. May 18th, Father Greg
ory, assisted by other Benedictine
priests of southern Colorado. laid the
cornerstone to the new Benedictine
College. The college, when complet-
ed. will cost about $4,000.
n ,f
who recently became almost entirely
blind from the effects of injuries re-
ceived in a football game last year.
has recovered his sight under treat
ment by Chicago specialists.
Union Grange has just completed
fine new hall, with a seating capac-
ity of $50 persons, four miles south
of Fort Collins. 1t was dedicated on
the 18th inst. by j. A. Newcomb of
Golden, master OF the State Grange.
George w. Washington, we'll
known colored man of Pueblo. presi-
dent of the Standard Publishing Com
pany, was found dead in the Bessemer
ditch, near Carlile park, on the 18th
inst. He had been missing for two
days.
The safe of the Black Hawk livery
stable at Leadville was broken open
on the night of May 18th and robbed
of $3.50. The drawer above the one
that was pried open contained $500,
but this was not taken. The proprie-
tors of the stable are Edwards & Don
men.
1t is stated that John Brisben Walk
er, Jr., son of the publisher of the Cos
mopolitan Magazine, is interested in
a company that proposes to erect
al
pie are expected to patronize it large
ly and it will be advertised in the
East.
w. ]. Downing. the ranchman who
shot Samuel G. McMullin at Grand
Judge Joseph P. Sweeney, charged
with attempt to murder He pleaded
not guilty and was bound over to the
District Court in bail of $7,5OO Not
being able to secure bail, he was re-
manded back to jail to await trial.
]. c. Conway of Buffalo. New York,
representing the Consolidated Oil and
Gas Company, arrived in Boulder on
the 14th inst. The company owns the
gas we'll just east of town. Mr.. Con-
way gave an order for six miles of five
inch gas pipe, which is to be used to
conduct the gas into town and to the
various customers. A contract was al
| SO let to sink two additional wells near
the present one.
The Central District Christian En-
| deavor convention at Cripple Creek
elected the following officers for the
| ensuing year: President, E. II. Liv-
| ermore of Colorado Springs; vice pres
| ident, ]. H. Ryder of Victor; treasur-
| er. Orno E. Tyler of Cripple Creek.
| The watchword of the meeting was
Denver 'O3,"' and large delegation
| is assured for the big national con-
vention in July.
The annual oratorical contest of rep
resentatives of the high schools of Col
orado. arranged by the University of
Colorado at Boulder, took place May
| 18th and was won by John Booth of
the Colorado Springs high school, Har-
ry Howard of Monte Vista won second
place, and Maurice Meyers of Pueblo
| received third. The contest was wit
messed by several hundred students of
the different high schools of the state
Fred A. Miller, treasurer of the
| Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific rail-
road. was interviewed relative to the
.