The Lamar register., 1903-07-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

scnool building al Paonfa, TO cost About
$4,000.
The Pueblo Normal and Industrial
Institute met June 29th with an at
tendance of over 100.
The health commissioner of Denver
VIII have the weeds cut on vacant lots
In the city as sanitary measure
Forty-six births were reported in
Pueblo during the month Of June
twenty-five boys and twenty-one girls.
The second annual picnic of the
Fremont County Horticultural Society
was held at Cottonwood Springs. near
Canon City. July ith.
The Colorado Bar Association. at its
meeting in Colorado Springs. resolved
in favor of non-partisan nominations
for Supreme and District Court judges.
Mrs. E. w. Leonard of Loveland.
who was injured in street car acci-
dent at Las Vegas. New Mexico, a Few
weeks since. died July I'd at Las Vegas.
A Bible Students convention of Be
levers in the Atonement Sacrifce OF
Christ will be held in the Gettysburg
building In Denver June 10th, 11th and
18th.
At Delta July I'd J. L. Carlow.
charged with the murder OF NJ. e. Da-
Wis at Paonia, was held for trial at
the September term OF the District
Court.
The National Building Trades Coun-
Gil convention will meet In Denver
August 10th for two-weeks' session.
They will be lavishly entertained by
the Denver Council.
The Colorado Chautauqua opened al
Boulder July 4th with large attend
" -tx,tu nf
yer was the orator OF the day. A grand
patriotic concert was given at night.
Harvey W. Green, well known as a
soldier. printer and newspaper man,
died at the Old Soldiers Home at Mon
te Vista June 26th, He was employed
on the Denver News for thirteen years.
Preston H. Hotchkiss died in Mont
rose June 18th, aged seventy years. Mt.
Hotchkiss was one of the Oldest resi-
dents and his son Berry was the first
white child born in the Uncompahgre
valley.
One hundred and sixty-nine building
permits were taken out in Denver last
month for the erection of buildings that
will cost in the aggregate 1861 $40. The
average cost Of eighty-nine dwellings is
$2.104.21
The officers and employees OF the
Denver City Tramway Company have
incorporated beneficiary organization,
the object of which is to provide life
insurance fund for the members and to
pay benefits in case of sickness or acct-
dent.
Mrs. Belle Murray died at the Sis
ters' hospital in Cripple Creek July 1st
of peritonitis. Mrs. Murray had been
chief operator of the Cripple Creek tel
ephone system for the past five years,
having previously been a resident of
Denver.
Colorado capitalists have launched
one of the largest immigration projects
of the Louisiana delta. They have ac-
quired nearly 100000 acres of choice
timber and cotton lands in Concordia
parish and have organized the Con-
cOrdia Land Company.
The Western Slope Veterans Asso-
citation closed a highly successful three
days reunion at Grand Junction July
4th. A resolution was passed making
| all soldiers, sailors and marines of the
| Spanish-American and Philippine wars
| also eligible to membership.
At Denver June Both Price Tuttle,
who was learning to run an elevator in
| the Ernest & Cranmer building in Den
ver lost control Of 1t and was badly
crushed. failing three stories and re-
| ceiving injuries that resulted In his
| death. He was only seventeen years
old.
At the Canon City penitentiary July
4th. in addition to the pardon of Glib
son, a pardon was given to C. A. Yer
| non, No. 4.697 sent up from FL Paso
| county for fourteen years on the
charge of assault. This pardon was
brought to the prison by Vernon's
| sister.
The thirty days of rifle practive re-
| quired of the state troops each year be-
gan June Goth. The troops at Denver
will practice at the rifle range near
| Golden, which is owned by the state
and rented each year to the govern
ment for the use of the troops at Fort
Logan.
Albion w. Tourgee. author and lee
| turer, who was editor of the Denver
Times for few months in 1880 under
| r. w. Woodbury., and who has been
| for several years consul at Bordeaux,
| In France. has been promoted to the
position of Consul general at Halifax.
Nova Scotia.
Judge j. H. voorhees, of division A
| of the District Court at Pueblo has
TuItu lHdt E1duS otiIi Icudih thc
county seat of Kiowa county. For a
number of months the residents OF
Sheridan Lake have been attempting
to have the county capital removed to
| Sheridan Lake.
Mrs Antoine Kenhan. an old woman
who has lived by peddling and begging
| in Denver for the past fifteen years.
was found dead In her bed a few days
ago. She had been robbed. bound and
| gagged. and evidently died Of suffoca-
ton. Her body was not found until two
days after her death.
w. w. Ferguson. curator of the war
relic room in the State house at Denver
has sent to w. w. Dennison. assistant
adjutant general of the Kansas G.. A.
| r., 800 from Colorado comrades for
the the purpose of relieving the Grand
| Army sufferers in the recent disastrous
| floods in that state.
Miss Grace Nottingham, who shot
and instantly killed Ed Murphy in a
| lovers quarrel at Minturn June 29th,
waived a preliminary hearing before