The Lamar register., 1904-11-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The Colorado Telephone Company
has increased its capital stock from
S5,OOO,OO0 to $10.Q00.O00 to provide a
larger working capital.
The day after election snow storm
was reported from many points in Col
orado. But it was on the day before
that heaps of candidates were showed
under.
Justice of the Peace Rice at Denver
broke the record by marrying three
couples In ten minutes on the day after
election. Perhaps they were paying
election bets.
One of the first things that Hon.
Alva Adams did when he found that
he was probably elected governor was
to telegraph the news to his aged pa
rents at Pasadena, California.
The town of Manitou is negotiating
with General Palmer for lease on
Manitou Soda Springs park. If it is Sc
cured the park will be greatly i'm
proved and made city park.
The remaining four bodies Were
taken from the mine at Tercio on the
10th inst. and taken to Trinidad for
burial. The recovery of these bodies
raises the loss of life by the explosion
to nineteen.
DIR. Charles S. Palmer, late president
of the Colorado School of Mines, has
become associate editor of the Enei-
neering and Mining Journal of New
York. with Mr.. Z. A. Richard, formerly
state geologist of Colorado.
Elmer Sheeder of Independence
while pushing car in the Pinkerton
shaft, was disabled by striking his
head against a timber and forced by
the car into the stump, where he was
drowned in two feet of water.
The Office of the weather bureau in
Denver has been removed from the
federal building to the fourth story of
the Boston building. at Seventeenth
and Champa streets, where more com
modious quarters have been secured.
The day after election Chief OF Po-
lice Delaney started in to clear the
hoboes out of Denver This suggests
that possibly the campaign bosses had
no further use for them and hastened
to surrender them to the tender mer-
cies of the cops
Fred f. Whiting. proprietor OF drug
store on Humboldt street In Denver.
was held up on the night OF the 18th
inst. by masked robber and robbed
OF $l15 in cash. Drug stores and sa-
looms. being open nights. are the favor
lite victims of the hold-up fraternity.
At the annual meeting of the Y. w.
c. A. of Colorado Springs Mrs. Mary
T. Hatch was reelected president. as
were all the officers with one excep-
ton. and fifty of the most prominent
society and charitable women OF the
city were chosen for the board of di-
rectors.
w. Il. Pabor. an old-time Colorado
editor and colonizer, Is still printing
the "Pabor Lake Pineapple" at Avon
Park postoflice. De Soto county. Flor,
ida. 1t is published monthly and pre-.
sents an attractive and prosperous ap.
pearance. The October number is a
special information" issue.
A robber snatchod a woman's peck.
etbook on an electric car at Cripple
Creek and knocked down the con.
ductor after the latter had restored 1t
to the owner. Then the robber jumped
of the car near the Morning Glory
switch. going over precipice and
breaking his neck on the rocks. His
body was found later.
Two carloads of Las Animas county
burros were recently shipped by ex-
press to San Francisco at which point
they will be loaded on transport and
sent to the Philippines to be used as
pack animals for the army. The bur
ros were purchased by Secretary Haw-
ley of the State Agricultural College.
who acted as a special agent for the
government.
Patents have been issued to Colo,
RADIO residents as follows: Milford T.
Goss. Denver. water tube boiler; Ed
ward ID. j. Hof. Colorado Springs.
water meter; Ephriam X. Hutchinson.
Denver. damper regulator; Louis c.
Mayes, Greeley, metallic railway tie;
Joseph w. Stephens. Denver. coin re-
ceptacle; Swan F. Swanson. Pueblo.
dumping car.
The health department of Colorado
Springs has mailed 900 copies of the
October health report, copies being
sent to all the delegates from foreign
countries who were the guests of the
United States government in st. Louis
at the tuberculosis congress and the
congress of military surgeons. The
report is the best ever issued from the
city. 1t shows a death rate, exclusive
of tuberculosis, of SO per thousand, on
basis of 10000 population.
An orchard owned by w. S. Coburn.
president of the State Board of Horti.
culture, has made record in Colorado
fruit this year. says a Denver daily.
The orchard is located at Hotchkiss.
and contains about thirty acres. Mr.
Coburn has already picked $500 boxes
of apples from the trees and is prepar
ing to care for ] 500 more. 1t Is one
of the heaviest yields ever made by the
orchard and establishes a record in
that vicinity.
A sensational suicide occurred at
Tercio on the morning of the Sth inst,
when Harry Waters stood at the en-
trance of No. 3 mine and blew the top
of his head off with a six-shooter. This
is the mine in which nineteen people
lost their lives in an explosion. Waters
had been acting as a Waterman about
the mine since that time. 1t is sup
posed that he became temporarily in
sane from the gruesome sights when
dead bodies were carried out of the
mine.
The following delegates were APP
pointed by Governor Peabody to rep
resent Colorado at the National Irriga-
tjon Congress at Ell paSO Texas No