The Lamar register., 1903-02-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.

orders establishing free delivery ser
vices at Rocky Ford, June l. ~ y
General Funston and his aide Lieu
tenant Burton Mitchell. will leave
Denver for Vancouver barracks.
| March Z.
The present bonded Indebtedness of
the city of Denver is $1,131,61S, of
which amount S412,00O will be paid
during this year.
1t was cold day when st. Valentine
came to Colorado Even Cupid must
have suffered unless he changed his
garb and wore an oyercoat.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce to visit Denver during his
coming western trip in the spring, nan
The Lake Minnequa Park and
Amusement Company at Pueblo is pre-
pairing to establish a pleasure resort at
Lake Minnequa and build $4,000 the
ater. Ntls
Several Of the big department stores
of Denver have adopted the eight hour
| system for their employees. Keeping
their stores open only from $3.50 a. m.
to $3.50 p. III.
Twenty horses were burned to death
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of the Continental OffIcompany in
Denver on the night of Feb. 18th. The
entire loss was about $4,000.
Col. H. N. Chittenden of Denver. a
veteran of the Civil War. who was well
known in business circles and had
many friends throughout the state,
died February 14th at the age of sixty
! one.
Frank R. Stockton, boy fourteen
years old. died in Denver on February
18th of disease pronounced by one
~of his physicians to be hydrophobia
He was bitten by a shepherd puppy
| November 29th. -
| The Park Center Land and Water
| company has bought all the water
flowing from the mouth of the Cripple
Creek drainage tunnel and will use 1t
| to irrigate large tract of land south
of Canon City. ..sIf II r..
Rev. Marvin A. RAIDER. the young.
active and popular pastor of Grace M
E. Church. Denver, has resigned to
accept missionary appointment in
the Philippines and will sail from San
Francisco April 4th. gl.L
The house judiciary committee has
brought in a report exonerating Judge
| William p Seeds of the Fourth Judi
cial District from the charges on which
| his Impeachment was sought. The
| committee, recommends that the
charges be dismissed and all proceed-
ings in relation to them expunged
from the record of the house. -
On the night of February 10th doc
| tor was held up and robbed of S132
on Champa street in the very heart
of Denver. 1t was before midnight and
several persons passed while he was
held in a stairway and searched by
two men, who threatened to kill him II
he called for help. The Little Emma
saloon. in the lower part. of the city,
was robbed the same night.
The total number of deaths in Colo
| RADIO during the month of January. as
shown by the report of the State Board
of Health, was $50; total number of
still births, twenty-three; estimated
population, SCI. 1876; annual death rate
per 1000. excluding all still births.
1747; deaths from diphtheria during
the month, twelve: from scarlet fever.
seven; from typhoid fever, twenty
three. -a ''i a
d. e. Newcomb Of La Jara. special
agent, Of the Humane society, sold 423
head of wild Texas ponies at Alamosa
Feb. 10th, getting for the first car
load $6.05 per. head; second. lS4.10,
third, 81. 10, and the balance. S210. OF
these 1853 head were sold for the own
ers. So far Agent Newcomb has sold
1000 head of these ponies. and there
| are probably 1000 head still runnini;
| wild in the San Luis valley. Five
hundred more are reported to be in the
| pinon hills around La Veta. Many
] horses are said to be suffering in tho
snow near Creede.
According to the monthly bulletin
issued by the State Board of Health
for the month of January there waa
decrease of diphtheria cases last
month as compared with December,
the number being forty-three less
There was an increase of scarlet fever
cases as well as smallpox cases. The
decrease of typhoid fever cases was
1O7 The bulletin states that the quar-
antine period for smallpox cases has
been placed by the board at not less
than four weeks from the beginning
of the eruption and in any case not
less than ten days after scaling is
completed. s s..
The eighth state conference of Char
tiles and Corrections will be held in
| Denver March 1st. End and 3rd. The
| subject of all the sessions, four, in
| number, will be child-saving. Every
body is supposed to be vitality inter-
ested in helping the little children. 1t
| is hoped that all will prove their in
terest by attending the conference ses-
sions and by making suggestions as to
what should be done for the preven-
ton of juvenile delinquency. the caro-
of dependent children, and child labor.
| The governor, the mayor, the presi-
| dent of the conference and other
prominent persons will open the con-
| ference at the First Congregational