The Lamar register., 1904-08-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

raised the price of eggs in Denver.
Arvada, the Jefferson county suburb
of Denver. has voted to incorporate.
The Santa Fe depot at Fowler was
destroyed by fire on the night of July
27th.
Hereafter sheriff Clarke of Las AMI
mas county will run down criminals
with first class automobile.
Up to July 26th the secretary of the
fish and game commission of Colorado
at Denver had issued 1,740 hunting
permits this year.
Harry E. Mulnix has been given a
contract to audit the county books of
Pueblo county. for which service he
is to be paid S1.4SO.
President Meyer of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners says that the coop
erative stores at Cripple Creek and
Victor will be reopened for business.
/. 1t is estimated that there is row
over 5,O0O,00O,O00 cubic feet of
stored water in the Poudre valley
available for the maturing OF crops
this season.
Gus White. the S-year-old son OF G..
A. White. fruit. dealer of Pueblo. ran
away few days ago and was neard
from three days later at Great Falls,
Montana.
Thomas Clark has offered reward
of $25 for information leading to the
arrest of the parties who dynamited
his fish pond near Longmont and
killed a wagon load of fish.
The fall circuit OF the Arkansas val
ley Racing Association will hold races
in Leadville for three days. August IL.
~ and 13. under the auspices of the
new Leadville Racing Association.
John Alexander Dowie has been
sending large quantities of Zion City
literature to Pueblo and people are
wondering If he is not coming out in
person to try to capture the town.
A hailstorm July 26th between Or
chard and Weldon. in the western
part of Morgan county, did consider
able damage. In some places chick
ems. pigs. sheep and calves were
killed.
Eugene w. Holmes was burned to
death at Pagosa Springs July 22nd. In
fire that destroyed Gaylord d Gar
WINS saloon. Holmes was about hity-
five years old and mad been at the
Springs abou. threo years.
A. b. Hall, a farmer living near
Sterling, was killed July 27th while
passing from one part of his farm to
another upon the Burlington track.
stepping in front of a train that he
failed to see.
Among the successful Colorado
drawers of land in the Rosebud reser-
walton in South Dakota are Charles w.
Meyer of Denver, w. r. Montgomery
of Colorado Springs and John d. Coop
er OF Colorado City.
Walter Wellman. representing the
New York Herald. the Chicago Record
Herald and the Philadelphia Press. one
of the best-known newspaper men OF
the country. has been looking into af-
fairs at Cripple Creek.
The employees of Denver. dry goods
establishment gave an excursion on
the Moffat road a few days ago in
which over 1.2O0 people are said to
have, participated. The new line is
proving highly popular.
Harry Hunter of the Big Creek
ranch near Pearl. in Larimer county.
lassoed big cinnamon bear near the
ranch few days ago. He afterwards
tied the bear. loaded him into the
wagon and took him to the ranch.
c. A. Rogers. Silverton restaurant
keeper, was killed few days ago by
Gladstone and rolling down the noun
tain side for distance of 325 feet. He
was on his way down to a mining
claim and his body was not found for
several days.
Willie Ennis.- the twelve-year-old
son or F. ]. Ennis, living eight miles
west of Fort Morgan. was instantly
killed by lightning on the night of
July 25th while riding a horse on the
prairie. His horse and dog were also
killed and the three were found to-
gether later in the night.
Harry, Davies, the Colorado snake
charmer. received his twenty-seventh
snake bite at Denver a few days ago.
He was only just recovering from the
bite of a Gila monster. This last nip
was from a Texas diamond-back rat
tier. but Davies doesn't mind a little
thing like that.
DR.. r. ID. Bancroft. who has been
in Colorado Springs for some time ne
gotiating for the construction OF
free home for consumptives. has Sc
cured an option on 11O acres directly
west of the Portland mill in Colorado
City, and expects to commence actual
construction in the fall.
Earl Losey. the 14-year-old son of
Charles A. Losey of the Colorado
Springs Fire Department. ran away in
company with another boy short
time ago and on July 25th word was
received that he was killed near Ozone
Junction, twenty-five miles west of
Cheyenne, Wyoming, while trying to
steal ride on a freight train.
To determine whether the rubber
plant can be profitably cultivated in
the lower. Arkansas valley the Amer
ican Crude Rubber Company has en-
| ployed botanist from the State Ag-
ricultural College to conduct expert