The Lamar register., 1903-11-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.


The valuation of property assessed
for taxation in Colorado Springs is $14,-
100000.
The work of grading the line for the
new electric street railway at Trinidad
was begun November Sd.
Hattie s. Childers has been appoint-
ed postmasted at Rowena, Boulder
county. vice Robert ]. Wilson, re-
signed
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has now a membership of 600. which is
the full number allowed by its consti-
tuition.
Ora A. Hatton, son of Daniel Hatton.
one of the pioneers of Denver. commit
ted suicide at lodging house in Den
yer. on the 4th inst, by taking poison.
rural free delivery route has been
established. to commence December
1st, at Trinidad. The proposed route
is twenty-five miles long and Will serve
a population OF 800.
The pay roll of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company for October amounts
to 1888, 1924, being several thousand
| dollars more than has ever DeIore
been paid in one month.
A free employment office has been
opened in the Office of the police ma
tron of the city Jail in Denver. Ihe
| services of the office will be free to all
unemployed persons in the city.
The Womans Home Missionary so
ciety of the NJ. f. Church. whlch mas
| just closed its annual convention a.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted 10 noio
| Its next meeting in Denver in Octoper'
1904.
The young men of Holyoke and VI
| cinity petitioned Governor Peabody Ior
a company of infantry. and General
Bell appointed Colonel Macdonald to
| muster the company into the National
| Guard.
At Denver and many other places In
northern Colorado a brilliant display OF
aurora borealis was seen by the few
people who happened to be out OF doors
about 4 o'clock on the morning OF Sat
urday. October 31st.
The Western Rubber Company Will
open an office at 1888 Blake street, Den
yer. 1t has been incorporated to man
ufacture rubber from a species OF
shrub that grows wild on arid land and
will, II 1t succeeds, open a new indus
try for the state.
Edward G. Bird has been arrested In
Denver for robbing nickel-in-the-slot
keys. 1t Is stated that Bird has
served term in the State Penitentiary,
under the name of Edward G. Thomas,
for gram larceny.
At Denver. a few days ago. CLIFFORD
Dunifer, sixteen-year-old son OF +. A.
Dunifer, snapped an unloaded revolver
at his tvo-year-old baby brother, put
there happened to be one cartridge In
the cylinder and that went on ana
killed the baby.
Railway passenger agents estimate
that over 1000 strangers visited Col
orado during the past summer There
are 5000 unclaimed excursion tickets
still remaining at the joint agency in
the Union Depot in Denver. Evidently
these people have concluded to remain
in the state.
Daniel F. Carmichael. in connection
with eastern and Denver men. is TAX
ing steps toward the construction OF an
electric railway line between Denver
and Greeley. Several Of those inter-
ested visited Greeley few days ago
and are said to have been pleased with
the outlook.
The Kilton mill in Boulder has been
purchased by the Great Western Brick.
Tile and Pottery Company. of which
Professor A. B. Langridge is president.
and will be utilized for the manufac-
ture of all kinds Of brick, tile and other
products OF the fine clays found in the
Sunshine district.
Mrs. SeIaldia NJ. Seymour. colored.
who would have been log years old
next January, died November I'd at
| the home OF her son, William Seymour,
ten miles northeast of Colorado
| Springs Mrs. Seymour was formerly
| a Kentucky slave and was the mother
| of thirteen children.
The coroners jury at Denver in the
case of Charles Heyn. who was shot
and killed by Humane Society Officer
| oliver E. Tuft. returned verdict COM
pletely exonerating Tuft. who was
found to have acted solely in self-de-
fense. Tuft went to arrest Heyn for
cruelty in starving horse and Heyn
shot at him with rifle.
Thomas F. Walsh, former owner of
the Camp Bird mine at Ouray, is said
to have intimated to the Worlds Fair
| Board that he will furnish the money
to erect a Colorado building at the st.
Louis Exposition. 1t is known that
he has had the matter under consider
alton and that the figures talked of
were $25,000 or 100000.
| Ex-Governor James B. Orman re-
turned from Mexico few days ago.
| Governor Orman is interested in the
| Nacozari railroad now being built from
Douglass, Arizona, to Cos. Sonora.
| The terminus of the road will be at
Nacozari. Governor Orman has high
opinion of the resources of the coun-
try which will be developed by the new
line.
Judge L. b. Gibson of the County
Court of Pueblo county recently an
nounced that parents who neglected
to send their children to school on the
ground of giving them private instruc-
tions at home. would be required to
take a teachers examination to fur
nish the juvenile officer with evidence
as to their qualification to instruct
children.
Manager Sells of the Manitou &
Pixies Peak Cog Road Company, has
been in conference with Manager Tan
of the Pixies Peak Hydro Electric Com
pany, which has immense power
houses in the vicinity Of Manitou, in
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