The Lamar register., 1903-02-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.


News.
The Brown Palace hotel in Denver
will hereafter be run on the European
plan only.
The Grand hotel at Pueblo is to be
greatly improved and a large bath
house added.
The President has reappointed Lee
Fairbanks to be register of the land
office at Del Norte.
The will of the late DIR. F. ]. Ban
croft of Denver gives $1,000 to the
Denver Old Ladies' Home.
Representatives of Colorado College
and the University of Nebraska will
meet in a debate some time next
spring.
At the annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce.
January Gath, the old board of directors
was reelected.
The dog license inspector of Denver
Reports that there has been a whole
sale poisoning of dogs in many parts
of the city during the last six months.
The football team of the University
of Colorado is making arrangements
for a ten-day's trip through Kansas
and Nebraska during the spring vaca-
ton.
The new buildings authorized by the
Denver building inspection department
during January aggregated in value
$379.635, which was $94,0SO more than
for the same month of 1902.
The Denver Box Company's plant at
Tenth and Wazee street, in Denver,
was burned January 23rd, occasioning
loss of over $500 and throwing for
ty people out of employment.
Miss Cora Fay of Colorado City, now
government teacher in the Philip
pines, has been given three months
vacation owing to the prevalence or the
plague in the islands. She is now In
Japan.
The Postoffice Department has as
sured Representative Bell that two
rural free delivery routes will be es-
tablished at Montrose, April list, with
Charles Fl. Parrish and Herbert e. Gra-
ham as carriers.
1t is announced that Mrs. Anna Ii.
Brandt, who was the Republican can
didate for superintendent of public in
struction at the late election, has de-
cided to withdraw her contest against
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfell.
The Colorado Telephone Company
will extend its line from Florence TO
the agricultural regions of Hardscrab-
BILE and Wetmore. a distance OF hfteen
miles, establishing toll stations at
Wetmore and Greenwood.
The ten Denver lodges of Knights OF
Pythias are making preparations Tor
great celebration on February l9tn,
which is the anniversary OF the round
ing of the order. There will be
grand parade and banquet in the Wom-
ans Club building.
The factory and business of the Col
orado Condensed Milk Company at
Fort Lupton have been purchased by
the Mohawk Condensed MILK Company
of Rochester, New York. The business
will be continued under the corporate
name of the Colorado company.
The American Bonding Company OF
Baltimore has paid to the city attor-
ney of Goldfield $1,142.60, being pay
ment in full of the shortage OF e. J. NJ.
| Hambaugh, ex-city treasurer. Ham
baugh went South. and later, 1t Is al
legged, caused his death to be reported.
The Denver News of January 2Sth
says: Another carload of Austrians
| from Minneapolis arrived in Denver
| yesterday to work on the new Mofat
railroad, and a carload is due to arrive
every day this week from Kansas City,
and Missouri.
James Marshall, who lives near the
mouth of South Boulder canon, be-
| tween Golden and Boulder, put out
some poisoned meat for coyotes not
| long ago, and in the course OF rev
| DAYS found six dead coyotes and the
| half-eaten remains of a monster gray
| wolf near his place.
Governor Peabody has appointed the
following named gentlemen to serve on
| the State Board of Medical Examiners:
| DR.. David A. Strickler, to succeed him
self; Drs. John Inglis of Pueblo and
| George E. Steman of Denver to succeed
DR.. w. w. Rowan of Ouray and DR..
| Frank S. Dulin of Denver.
The business transacted in the
| United States land office in Denver dur
| ing January amounted to $11 1.1S2O7,
which, while it did not break any rec
ords, is above that of many recent
months. The land business amounted
| to $4,000 for timber lands alone. One
item was $1,000 for coal lands, bought
in three tracts.
The twelfth annual meeting OF the
Colorado State Equal Suffrage Associa-
| tion was held in Denver January goth.
| Professor Theodosia Emmons OF Fort
| Collins was reelected president. Dur
i ing the last year there has been nota-
BILE gain in membership, so much SO
| that the membership of the association
| is now larger than at any time since
| 1896.
The demand of the union bricklayers
| of Denver for an increase of wages
| after March list from SIS a day to $3.50
| has been refused by the brick con-
| tractors' association The determina-