The Lamar register., 1904-01-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.

"A
States navy Will be kept open in Den
yer until January 10th at No. s Lewis
block.
The city council of Boulder has vot-
ed to purchase of James p. Maxwell
what are known as the Goose Lake
reservoirs at the foot of Arapahoe
peak.
The Pentecostal Union, also known
as THE Jumpers" has nearly complet-
ed n handsome four-story building in
central part of Denver at a cost of
$4,000.
George S. Phelps. a prominent attor-
ney of Denver and Leadville. died at
his residence in Denver on the 9TH
inst, after an illness OF ten days OF
pneumonia.
Helen Fisher Bagiey, aged seven
tenn, and Lilly Power. ager seventeen,
both residents of Pueblo, were victims
of the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago.
Both girls were attending school in
Chicago.
Representatives of the Russian gov
ernment have contracted with the
Colorado Packing and Provision Com
pany at Denver for 100000 pounds of
mess beef. to he delivered at the op-
tion of the purchaser.
On the 7th. at Central City. Ernest
Bishop and James Doyle We're killed
by the explosion of missed shot into
which they drilled while at work in
the Cook shaft on Bobtail hill, Doyle
was forty-five years of age and Bishop
twenty.
Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Batchelder.
aged respectively ninety and eighty-six
years, celebrated the sixtythird ami
| of haf inc nj RnllHar
on tn 5th instant, four generations OF
the family being present. The aged
couple are still hale and hearty.
A tally-ho coach in which party
of Boulder young people were out rid
ing on the night of January 9th, was
| upset and several of the party injured.
Miss Nelena Newman, daughter of
State Senator Newman of Durango.
student at the university, had her left
ankle broken.
The house of ]. NJ. Crawford in Hay
gulch, fourteen miles from Durango,
| was burned on the night of the 9Th
| inst. while MIR. Crawford was absent.
Mrs. Crawford and her son, Allen, es-
capped, the latter with severe burns,
but Mrs. Crawford's father, Peter Nor
ris, was burned to death.
The body of Robert Green, the
twelve-year-old boy who was missed
from his parents home in Cripple
Creek August 18th, was found on the
| 7th inst. 225 feet underground in the
Bob Womack tunnel at the Ell Paso
Gold King mine in Poverty gulch. He
had evidently fallen through an old
stope and mill hole.
| Z. A. Tulian, superintendent of the
government fish hatchery at Leadville.
4, tf,liG C
Argentine Republic in South America
to establish a fisheries bureau in that
country. The commission guarantees
a five years contract at a large salary.
Mr.. Tulian has gone to Washington TO
confer with his superior about the of
fer
A. c. Glenn, who has been dispatch
! er in the Pueblo postofiice. has been
named as superintendent of station A.
which will be open for business in Bes-
semer about January goth. The force
will consist of an assistant superin
tendent and nine mail carriers and will
handle all the mail in Bessemer and
what is known as the Upper Mesa, in
cluding Minnequa.
The long-pcnding wine rooms case
was settled January 4th in Denver by
a decision OF the United States Su-
maintenance OF wine rooms for women
in the Denver saloons is unlawful un-
der the ordinances of the city of Den
YER The decisions of both the Dis
trict Court and the State Supreme
Court are affirmed.
An order was issued at Leadville
on the Sth inst by Judge Overs clos
ing all poker games which are conduct
ed in saloons and cigar stores. This
follows on the heels of the courts
general crusade against gambling. The
/ court also ordered the deportation OF
! a quartette of dance hall girls who had
been working in the hall where TEN
perance drinks" are served.
The January term of the County
Court at Trinidad began on the 4th
inst. with sixty-fve cases on the
docket. consisting of sixty-five crimi
nal eleven divorce, one lunacy, thirty
three civil. four delinquent children
and two deserted or neglected chill
dren. The fees collected by this
court during 1903 amounted to 1872
071.22.
! DR.. Florian Cajori of the Colorado
College has been elected a member of
the council of the American Mathe-
matical Society, and has an exhaustive
review of a German historical work in
the December number of the Bulletin.
issued by the society. DR.. Cajori is
also a member of an International
council appointed to arrange meet
| ing OF scientists and mathematicians
| in Berlin.
Walter Dale. a fourteen-year-old pu-
pill of the Wheatridge school. two miles
west of Elitchs Gardens, in Denver,
committed suicide on the 9Th inst by
talking carbolic acid. He swallowed
the poison while out at recess and
,,o llrnl n his scat in the school rQlIn.