The Lamar register., 1903-12-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| ne alumni association Ol tHe otate
Normal School will have banquet in
Denver during the holidays.
A movement has been started among
the labor organizations of Denver for
the establishment of a large co-operat-
i've department store.
At a jubilee meeting Sunday. -Novem-
ber 22d. Trinity NJ. E. Church, Denver,
raised more than enough money to pay
off It's entire Indebtedness OF $25,0Oo.
General Irving Hale declines to run
on the Denver charter convention tick
ct on account of the pressure OF busi-
ness that accumulated while he was
| on vacation.
The body of Julian A. Kebler. 'ex-
president of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, who died at Denver
November Goth, was cremated at chi
cago November 23d.
The Arvada Lighting. Power and
Construction Company has broken
ground for the mains of the acetylene
plant that they are about to construct
Tor the Denver suburb.
| +. e. Robinson, for twenty-eight
years druggist in Colorado Springs,
and one of the leading business men,
died at San Antonio, Texas, November
24th. of heart disease.
Reyes Samara a Mexican, was shot
| and killed by constable Raman Espln-
| osa, also a Mexican, at dance In hio
Grande precinct, Costilla county, across
| the river from Alamosa, on the hlght
| OF November 23d.
Frazier Brothers, renters on the
| O'Brien farm, near Fort Collins. raised
twenty-nine acres of beets, which yield
| 10 tons. for which they received $3.50
from the factory. This is an average OF
$40 per acre.
Bishop Matz announces that the
building of the new Catholic cathedral
| at Denver will be commenced next
spring. 1t is proposed to make 1t one
of the finest church buildings west OF
| Chicago and St. Louis.
| Charles Runyon, Colorado pioneer
and explorer. who first came west as
member of Col. John c. Fremonts ex-
| pedition, died in the Lake county hos
| pital at Leadville November oath, at
the age of seventy-nine years.
George b. Fravert, having charge OF
tho fruit exhibit for Colorado at the
Exposition. went to St. Louis recently.
where he will store five carloads OF
winter apples. These will be placed on
exhibition when the fair opens in May
The United Oil Company, of its own
motion, has again increased the price
| of Boulder crude oil and is now paying
| $1.10 barrel. This schedule is retro
active and takes effect November list.
| About 40 barrels of oil are shipped
daily.
| The Clear Creek Valley Teachers
| Association has been organized by the
teachers of Gilpin. Clear Creek and
| Jefferson counties, with NJ. c. Potter of
| Idaho Springs as president. The next
meeting will be held at Idaho Springs
| in April.
Colorado Springs has been taxing
| stringent precautions in regard to the
purity of its water supply and the dis
posal of sewage. and it is now claimed
| that the health of the city is unusually
good at a season when typhoid fever
\ has been wont to prevail.
The funeral of Tom Horn, who was
executed at Cheyenne, took place at
| Boulder, Sunday. November 23d. II was
not altogether private one, as his
| brother had desired, two or three hun
dred people being permitted to view the
old-time scout. detective and outlaw.
Thirty members of the Pentecostal
| Union, otherwise known as Jumpers.
were arrested in Denver last Sunday
night and taken to jail for making
| noisy religious demonstration on the
street. occasioning street blockade.
| They were released on promising to be
more quiet.
A number of samples OF marble which
is found in great abundance at Beulah.
| are being prepared to be sent to Eu-
| rope for the inspection of capitalists
| who are interested in the Pueblo &
| Beulah railroad. The quality is said
| to be very fine and more beautiful and
varied in color than has been found
| elsewhere.
| A call has been issued for the fourth
| annual convention for the Colorado
Retail Grocers and Butchers Associa-
| tion. The convention will be held at
Fort Collins Tuesday and Wednesday,
| the 18th and goth of January. and pre-
| parations for a most interesting gath
| ering are in progress. The call is is
| sued by the state president j. r. Gard
| nor.
| County Commissioner James u Har-
| ris of Mesa county, stated while in
| Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will haye shipped 100000 worth
of agricultural and horticultural pro-
| ducts He added that If the similar
products of Delta and Montrose coun-
| ties are included. the product of the
western slope this year will reach over
| $lUOUUuU
Concerning reports lately current in
various newspapers that the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company is about to
change its policy in the disposition of
its granted lands by offering to set
tiers only on some homestead scheme.
Mr.. B. A McAl,aster. land commission
er of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
| many. states that sucn reports are
wholly and entirely visionary and un-
warranted. No land will be given
away.
Thirty property owners along Monu-
ment creek in Colorado Springs gath
cred at Colorado College recently to
meet General William j. Palmer and
C. w. Leavitt Jr. of New York. to in
spect and discuss the generals plans
for the parking of his and other lands
along the banks of the creek. General
Palmer intends to expend 100000 on
the first parking project. with 100000
as a secondary expenditure. The parked
tract will extend from the Denver &
Rio Grande depot north to Monroe