The Lamar register., 1903-08-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Two Denver dairymen were recently
fined for using formaldehyde to keep
milk from souring.
The Colorado Springs Brick Manu-
facturers' Association has been incor-
porated with 5000 capital. 1t Is In
the nature OF trust to regulate the
price and distribution OF brick.
According to the figures OF County
Assessor Strachen, the valuation OF Ell
Paso county has increased $514.OOO
over the assessment OF last year. This
years valuation is $24,297 OO0.
Sheds for passenger trains Will soon
be constructed at the union depot IN
| Pueblo. The sheds will cost about $780,
| 900 and will extend $50 feet In each d.
| rectlon from the ends of the depot.
Harry 3. Brentlinger, passenger
| conductor on the Missouri Pacific,
| dropped dead at his home in Pueblo
July 9th. His death was caused Dy
| the breaking of a blood vessel in his
| head.
Mrs. Alice d. Hart. formerly Of
| Texas, who has been arrested in Den
| yer on the charge of stealing from the
| department stores lays her downfall
| to the climate. The Colorado light air
seems to have made her light-hngered
The Colorado Springs baseball team
closed Its series OF home games at the
head of the Western League and went
to st. Joseph to play July 2Sth. Al
| that date 1t had won 40 games and LOST
only 2S.
John Barnes. a former town mar
shal OF Walsenburg had his leg pro-
ken July 28th while helping to lay
| track in the Walsen mine. He was
| sent to the hospital at Pueblo Tor
treatment.
The Last Chance boarding house, a
| relic OF Creede's boom and mammoth
| structure, was entirely consumed by
| fire July 2Sth, and only by the heroic
efforts OF the. Big Kanawha employees
was the shaft house saved.
William F. Garbe, of Fort Collins.
| formerly instructor in moldfng and
machine work at the State Agricultural
| college, is certain that he has invent
ed perpetual motion machine. he
now wants some capitalist to help him
put 1t In motion.
The contract for the construction or
the new civil and irrigation engineer
ing building at the State Agricultural
| College at Fort Collins has been let to
| Brawner & Co. of Denver. for $42 .6O7.
The new building will be by far the
finest on the college grounds.
/ T. ]. Hart, a prominent man of Red
| Cliff. who was member of the
| Twelfth General Assembly, died at
| Denver July 25th. On learning OF the
death resolution of coincidence was
| introduced in the House by Represent
ative Fleming of Eagle county.
The coroner's jury in the case of
William Armstrong, who was killed by
Edward Hickey at Denver. July 29th
| for an alleged insult to Hickeys wife,
returned verdict that the deed was
done without justifiable provocation. .
Hickey will be tried for murder.
| Announcement is made of the ap-
| pointment to the position of right-of-
way agent for the Moffat railway, of
C. C. Conkle OF Canon City. Mr.. Con-
kle has held the position of local man
ager for the Colorado Electric Power
Company at Canon City since the
erection Of its plant.
| County Assessor Webber has COM
puted the total OF the assessment roll
of Boulder county and finds the valua-
ton to be $9.960.445, decrease of
$36.35S from last year. This decrease
| is due to cut of the former assess
ment of the Colorado and Northwest
ern railroad.
The Jury at Cripple Creek that heard
the suit of DIR. Estelle Lewis for $780,
] 900 damages against the Midland and
Midland Terminal railroads was dis
charged by Judge Cunningham on the
evening of July 9th. The jury failed
to reach an agreement. having been
out since Saturday afternoon.
Work of reconstruction of the peni-
,tentiary water system at Canon City,
was begun July 3Oth. About $2S.000
will be expended and the work will be
most thorough. Eight-inch iron mains
will be inaugurated to conduct the
water to the pumps. while the distrib-
uting pipes will be of small diameter.
The engineering corps of the Trim
idad electric railroad is working be-
tween Starkville and Sopris. The per-
manent line is being rapidly located
The grading contract will amount to
about $35,000. The line crosses the
river above Jansen ard returns into the
city by way of the Bloom coal mine
camp.
Congressman Franklin E. Brooks OF
Colorado Springs. while out riding
August End, to inspect the Pixies Peak
forest reserves. accompanied by his
wife and daughter and several Colo
RADIO Springs people, was thrown from
his horse and sustained a fracture oi
his left forearm. His horse stumbled
and became unmanageable.
On July 23d NJ. l.. McClaflin's barn
near Hygiene. in Boulder county. was
struck by lightning and totally de-
stroyed by fire. along with one horse
the fire burned granary nearby, and
the total loss is estimated at $4,000
with no insurance. man employed or
the place came out of the barn few
moments before the lightning struck.
c. H. Bristol, according to official
announcement. has been made super
intendent of the Colorado division OF
the Santa Fe. with headquarters In
Pueblo. He took charge August LIST
succeeding F. T. Dolan, who goes tc
the Colorado & Southern as genera
superintendent. Mr.. Bristol comes
from Ration. New Mexico, where ht
was trainmaster.
After night spent on the hills and
exposed to wind and weather. the two
year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Courtney of Leadville was found next
moring. The baby had strayed away
frpp, bomo carly in the evening anf