The Lamar register., 1903-09-30
COLORADO BRIEFS.

bicycle at Pueblo a few days ago,
Frank Byers, a young Bessemer lad.
fell and received some bad bruises.
The Santa Fe has taken on les Colo
iado and Missouri river flyers after
closing the most successful season yet
experienced. These trains are run TO
accommodate simmer travel.
Acting Secretary Ryan of the lnteri-
or department has approved the selec-
ton OF the Union Pacific Land Com
pany's list No. 81 to l44.4lS acres oi
land in the Denver land district.
Allen B. Seaman. prominent attor-
ney of Denver, died OF heart disease
on the night of Sept. 24th. He went
to bed apparently in his usual health
and was found dead in the morning
Miss Alfredo Stebbins, late OF LIN
coin. Nebraska, has been elected IL
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an ex-
pcrienced librarian, having taken
regular course in library work in Phil
adelphia.
c. w. Wells. engineer in charge OF
the state wagon road to be built from
Durango to Orc Fino has established
his camp midway between and has been
exploring the section to determine
upon route.
The postoffices at Hotchkiss and Pa
onia, Colorado. are among those or
dered to be advanced to the presiden-
tial grade October 1st. the postmas
ters' salaries being fixed at $l,lOO and
$1,000 respectively.
BY the caving in of the earthen roof
of house eight miles east OF Aguiiar'
a short time since. Elferino Aguiiar,
aged 13. was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The boy
died from suffocation.
The march of Improvement at Den
yer has driven the Volunteers OF amer
lea out of their headquarters on Lari-
mer street, which the owners WISH 10
remodel, and the Volunteers are now
searching for a new location
In Justice Ruby's court at Colorado
Springs, William Roberts was fined %
and costs on each OF three charges OF
selling tobacco to children under six
teen years of age. Roberts pleaded
guilty to all charges and paid total OF
$33.75.
The Pueblo City Council has voted to
spend each year an additional $l,oOO
for the maintenance of the new Carne-
gle library. Carnegie having agreed TO
increase his donation of 100000 to $7O.-
900 il the council would make this in
crease.
The International Onyx and Marble
Company. composed OF Denver ano
English capitalists, has Purchased the
Big Bug onyx fields for $150,000. The
beds are extensive and furnish the
translucent sea-green onyx They are
located near Mayer. Arizona
In the District Court at Durango. on
September 21st. Judge Russell SEN
fenced a negro named Pervis to not
less than four nor more than six years
at hard labor. and Ralph Smalley to
fourteen to sixteen months Tor shoot
ing Ed Lazarus in the ankle.
Rocky Ford is soon to have new
bank known as the First National
Bank OF Rocky Ford. The charter has
been applied for to the Washington
authorities and the bank will probably
be in operation inside of thirty days.
1t will have capital of $4,000.
General Frank ID. Baldwin, COM
mander OF the Department of the Coll
orado. has Just returned from attend
ing a reunion of the Nineteenth Mich
igan infantry at OtsegO. Michigan.
General Baldwin has been for twenty
years president of the regimental asso-
citation.
The registers and receivers at Lead
willie and Gunnison have been ordered
to withdraw from all forms of entry
the following described lands. on ac-
count of irrigation projects: Lead
viIle-Sections 81, 2S, 80 and 81, town
ship l2, range SO; Gunnison-Sections
Z, 8. II. Is, 10 and 20. township IA
south, range 50: and sections 27. 2S.
SO and "a, township II south. range 49,
AT Leadville a few days ago. in q
auarrei over a matter involving $775,
Joseph Coplin, white. emptied his re-
yolver at John Ragland. colored. but
failed to hit him or any of the people
ON the street. who ran in all directions
to escape the bullets. Ragland had
Coplin arrested on the charge of as
sault with deadly weapon. and Cop
| lin swore out a warrant charging the
negro with robbery.
Patents have recently been granted
to residents of Colorado as follows:
Eugene II. Grubb. Carbondale, as
signor to G. w. Bowen. Pueblo, COM
bined land roller and corrugator; John
g. Leyner, Denver. rock drilling sys-
tenn: Harvey c. Lowrie. Denver, means
for securing circular doors or covers
to casings Edmund H. Lunken. Den,
yer, window; Philip X. Morcom and
w. G. Schaffcr, Denver, self-cleaning
oil burner.
On the night of September goth Oil
yer Creswell. clerk in Barnum & GrisI
wold's hardware store at Trinidad, was
awakened by two burglars who had
broken into the store, where he was
sleeping. He shot and killed one OF
them with shotgun and wounded tho
other, who escaped. A file and some
steel saws were found on the person
of the dead burglar. but he was not
identified.
Moses F. Kaufman. of the large Colo
RADIO Springs department store of
Kaufman & Co., died at the Midland
hotel in Kansas City. September 23rd.
MIR. Kaufman was on his way from
Colorado Springs to st. Joseph, Mis-
souri,. to look into the affairs of the
Gazette at that place, in which he was
interested. He was taken suddenly i'll
and stopped off at Kansas City. where
he speedily grew worse and died. as
stated in the dispatch. of consumption.
A letter from one OF the officials of
| the Colorado Oklahoma & Texas rail-
| road to a friend in Denver gives the in
formation that the offices of that COM