The Lamar register., 1904-06-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Manitou, died May 21st of heart dis.
| ease.
John c. Scott of Sterling has been ap-
| pointed special agent of the General
Land Office at salary of $1,000.
Judge Alvin Marsh who was striker
with apoplexy few days before. died
| at the Homeopathic hospital in Denver
May Gath.
The Salida City Council has author
| izer the issuance of $40. 900 in bonds for
the purpose of building a new city res
ervoir and otherwise improving the
water service.
Harry c. Dunlap, rural letter carrier
at Arloa, Montezuma county. is in the
| county Jail at Denver, charged with ap-
| propriating $40 given him to be sent
| by money order.
The Denver School Board has decid-
ed to erect a new manual training
high school, the present high school
! buildings being insufficient to accom-
modate all the students.
Dan Collins. who held up a Pueblo
lawyer, II. E. Robinson, and robbed
him of $40 and a gold watch. has been
sentenced by Judge Dixon to fourteen
years in the state penitentiary.
On May 25th the state engineer re-
| ported that all the irrigation di-ches
| connected with the Platte river. includ-
ing the Burlington and High Line. were
| full of water for the first time within
year.
Two men stopped the assistant city
| physician in Pueblo few nights ago
and were about to rob him. but when
| he told them he was a doctor hurrying
| to visit patient they politely let MIN
| go on.
| ,f Ia NO NJ
| library at Idaho Springs was laid May
25th, with Masonic ceremonies. An ad-
/ dress was delivered by Superintendent
| Aaron Cove of the Denver public
| schools.
The school census of Greeley. just
completed. shows 1878 persons between
| the ages of six and twenty-one years,
being a gain of 243 over last year.
| There are thirty one more girls than
boys.
| +. H. Carr, who with John Mulvihill
| built the Carr hotel and corral in Den
yer in the early days of the city, died
at Longmont May 2lst. aged seventy
nine years. His wife, aged fifty-five,
died the same day.
Z. w. Rollins of Denver offers to BE
one of seventy-five persons to give
81, 900 each for the purchase of suit
|
um for which the people have just vot-
ed to expend 100000.
Charles De Molli has filed a direct
information in the District Court at
Pueblo charging o. Pagnini and Paul
Gregory. formerly a Denver deputy
sheriff and now ranchman at La
Sale, with assault to kill.
Claude b. Lytle, for the past ten
months an employe of the Hehey-
Acularius Drug Company of Colorado
Springs, has been arrested on charge
of systematically robbing the firm. 1t
is thought that he has stolen nearly
$4,000 worth of druggists supplies.
A special election will be held at
Fort Collins June 9Th to vote on the
question OF granting franchise for
gas works. The the privilege is voted
Mr.. Frank English of Boulder, who pro-
poses to build the works. agrees to
complete the plant within two years.
The plaster factory at tho cement
works. at Portland. near Florence. will
be started up soon. after an idleness
of some duration. The Santa Fe road
has completed a spur from the gypsum
beds to the factory. which insures
easy transportation of the product.
Incorporation papers for the Colo
RADIO Rubber and Improvement Com
pany, capitalized at $4,000. main of
flee in Buena Vista, have been filed
with the county clerk of Chaffee coun'
| ty. 1t is the intention OF the company
to begin producing rubber by the first
Of July.
The first municipal election of
Bowerman. held May oath resulted in
the election of the Citizens ticket. the
following named being the first Off.
| cials: Thomas ]. Kane mayor; j. w.
White. F. o. McFall, Andrew Short.
Bert Beymer, John Chapman and A. F.
! Dukeman. trustees.
A St. Louis dispatch of May 21st
says: Blowing out the gas resulted in
| Charles Kimber of Louisville. Colorado.
being found unconscious and almost as
phyxiated in his room here to-day. He
stated that he was unacquainted with
gas and blew out the fame OF the jet
upon retiring. He will recover.
The Fort Collins City Council has ap
proved of an ordinance granting an
electric railway franchise to the North
ern Colorado Electric Railway Com
i pany The ordinance provides that
construction work on the line or lines
must be commenced within one year
and the railway completed within two
| years.
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
| will graduate class OF forty-two
young men and women this year. Great
| preparations are being made for the
commencement exercises. which will
begin June 9Th and last for three days.
Hon. Charles ]. Hughes, Jr.. of Denver.
! will deliver the commencement address
June 8th.
Friday, May eth, was commence
| mont day in many of the high schools