The Lamar register., 1904-04-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Denver next Fourth of July. The
statue is ten feet in height.
On Easter Sunday the Twenty-third
Avenue Presbyterian Church of Dem
yer celebrated its twenty-frst ami
versary and raised $4,000 to pay off Its
Indebtedness.
The Baird House at Durango, for
merly used as a hotel. but of late rent
ed to housekeepers. was burned on the
afternoon OF April 9Th, leaving eleven
families homeless.
Mrs. Mary Gillispie. who died in the
county hospital at Denver few days
ago at the age of eighty-six. was dur
ing her life time the mother of fifteen
pairs of twins.
Louis r. Blackstock proprietor OF
the Blackstock hotel at Fort Collins,
died on the 9th inst. as the result OF a
surgical operation performed Few
days before in Denver.
The State University has begun the
| publication of a new periodical entitled
THE University of Colorado Medical
Studies" 1t is proposed to make II c
high-class medical journal.
Winfield S. Hughes. charged with the
embezzlement OF s., ,164 while acting as
clerk in the city water department at
Colorado Springs. has been bound over
for trial in the District Court.
DR.. Rose. a well-known veterinary
surgeon of Salida, was found dead in
his room on the night of April 3rd. A
coroner's jury decided that his death
was occasioned by heart failure.
Texas-Colorado railways will arrange
| low excursion rate from various
places in Texas to st. Louis via Colo
RADIO points. giving tourists chance TO
.N.,t. II
oil coming.
The statements of the two national
banks and one savings bank in Trini-
dad show that the total resources are
$25S2 ,O75, and deposits aggregating ST.
9O9,O8O. One of these banks has 4,gOO
individual depositors.
Col. L. C. Ellsworth. one of the pio-
neers and most prominent citizens OF
Denver. having taken leading part
in many important public enterprises.
died at his home in Denver April 9Th
from paralysis.
1t is stated that Mary Rouse. the
! twelve-year-old girl who accidentlly
shot herself in the neck at Brecken-
ridge, and who was taken to Denver
hospital where the bullet was extract
ed. is doing well and will recover.
| Little Ethelyn McGill. the three-year-
old daughter of Representative and
Mrs. E. D. McGill of Wray. was badly
bitten by two vicious hogs few days
since. but her injuries were not con-
sidered dangerous.
DIR. N. X. Morris and Frank A.
Knight propose to erect mill in Dem
yer for the treatment of fuller's earth.
which they will procure from ranch
near Akron. where the deposit Is said
ha Of
Prof. e. r. Wolcott of the State
School of Mines has found evidences OF
radium in the hot mineral waters of
Glenwood springs. He says the radio
activity of the waters is greater than
that of any that he has previously test
ed.
William Danner has just been elected
secretary of the Young Mems Christian
, Association at Denver for the seventh
consecutive term. His work in connec-
tion with the establishment of the
health farm near Denver Is attracting
, national attention.
The knights of Maccabees of the
| World, at their state convention in
Denver elected J. A. Griffin OF Denver
state commander for the coming three
years. The ladies of the Maccabees
elected Mrs. Murrea Marvin OF Denver
Us State COIllIidHueI.
| At Breckenridge on the 4th inst
Mary Rouse, aged twelve years. acci-
dentally shot herself with revolver
receiving a dangerous wound. On ad-
, vice of her physician she was immedi-
ately sent to st. Luke's hospital at
Denver for treatment
The federal grand jury at Pueblo
! made its report to Judge Hallett on the
9th inst, and returned twenty-one in
dictments. Most of them are revenue
/ and timber trespass cases. Only few
names of those indicted were given out
because many arrests have not been
| made.
The Anti-Saloon League at Colorado
Springs is proceeding against num-
ber OF druggists for the sale of liquor
in quantities less than one quart. One
of the druggists, who has been fined to
the extent of 5000, has appealed five
cases from the Police Court to the
| County Court.
Jimmy Brennan, known as the her
nit of Independence, who had lived
| alone for twenty years in cabin at the
| old mining camp of Independence, near
Aspen, was found dead in his cabin a
short time since, his death having evil
| IDENTIFY resulted from natural causes.
| He was about seventy-two years old
and was confederate veteran.
1t is said that DR.. C. o. Rice is con-
] fined in jail at Ashland, Virginia. for
safe keeping as result of his behavior
| there several days ago. DIR. Rice shot
and killed Policeman Silas Marts in
Pueblo recently while in an intoxicated
condition. He was cleared of the
charge on a plea of insanity and left
| Pueblo in charge of his wife several