The Lamar register., 1904-05-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

i ne ItHNeT f1lSH otHooi Sdut's Whi
hold their summer encampment at
Crystal Lake in the Platte canon.
Professor w. L. Carlyle of the Agri-
| cultural College has been appointed
deputy stock inspector at Fort Collins.
The annual convention of the Colo
| RADIO State Realty Association will be
| held in Denver on June 7th and Sth.
Rural free delivery service has been
| ordered established June 18th at Car
| bondale, Garfield county, with one car
| rier.
The officers of the Western Fedora
| ton of Miners are making arrange
ments for representation of 300 un-
| ions at the convention in Denver May
29th.
Mrs. Martha Taft. member of the
| governing board of the Industrial
School for Girls at Morrison, has been
appointed president of the institution
by the board.
| Edward r. Scott has been arrested
in Denver for forging passes on the
| Denver & Rio Grande railroad. He is
said to have had large number OF
blank forms printed.
Hearing on the claim of Leslie w.
Popejoy for $S,000,0 900 of the estate OF
| w. S. Stratton was brought up in the
County Court at Colorado Springs ana
continued until June 18th.
Steps are being taken at Durango to
| annex Brookside, suburb between the
town and Animas City. With the rapid
growth of the town. Animas City VIII
naturally come in soon
| On May 18th the people OF Morrison
| in jefferson county voted by MAORI
| ty of 76 to incorporate the town.
protest was entered by several persons
| in the County Court contesting the le-
gality OF the proceedings.
George o. Beal committed suicide at
| Colorado Springs on the l7th inst, by
taking carbolic acid. He was only
twenty-four years of age. bvt had re-
Gently been in financial difficulties and
was separated from his wife.
Fifty Colorado Springs high school
| cadets will attend the annual encamp-
ment, presumably at Palmer Lake.
from June 4th to 14th. The boys will
go in a special train and have secured
| equipment from the state armory AT
| Denver.
Judge Frost of the County Court at
Cripple Creek is planning to send all
boys who desire employment during
| the summer vacation to Rocky Ford 10
work in the beet. watermelon and can't
aioupe fields. 1t is thought that from
| so to 100 boys will go.
Bert Mellen, the bank teller. who
| was recently sent to the state peniten-
tiary from Denver. is now Deputy War
den Granger's clerk. His duties are
typewriting making out the reports
of the deputy, answering telephone
calls and acting as messenger.
According to a letter received by
Walter C. Smith of Colorado Springs
from Superintendent Baker of the Ma
tional Geological park at Washington.
ID. c., the golden eagle sent there by
the former has grown to be one OF the
finest eagles in the cage. Young smith
caught the eagle in scrub pine on
cliff In North Cheyenne canon and sent
1t to the Smithsonian Institution.
Judge John /. Mullins of the District
Court in Denver has had Crawford
Hill. president, and William Stapleton,
editor of the Denver Republican ar
rested for contempt of court in
! nrinting a statement which says:
"The Supreme Court assumes jurisdic-
ton, and no tool judge on the District
| Court bench can hereafter interfere in
behalf of the election thieves
A. C. Giller, T. P. Jackson and p. F.
Kaiser. three well known railroad men,
were drowned on the night of May 18TH
| in Owens Lake near Boulder by the
| upsetting of a boat from which they
were fishing Mr.. Giller, who was with
the Rough Riders in Cuba, leaves a
| wife and one child. T. p. Jackson
leaves wife and grown son. I. p.
Kaiser leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
Thomas Tobin, n noted scout a2d In
dian fighter of the early days OF Colo
RADIO, died at Fort Garland, few dSys
ago at the age of eighty-seven. He
srent the declining years OF his lie on
his farm four miles from Fort Car
lend. where his children were born.
They are Mrs. Breen of Silverton, Mrs.
William Carson of Fort Garland, VINO
married Kit Carson's eldest son; Mrs.
Newton of Alamosa, and John Tobin of
San Luis valley, who has been blind
| for some time.
| During the year ending the first OF
| Nav. buildings to the value of 1858 3OO
were erected or put in process of con
| struction at Greeley. The public build
ings and business houses erected, and
| their cost, are as follows: West wing
| State Normal School. $4,000; new
| grade school, $4,000; Wolf building,
| SIS. 900; Hawes building. $4,000: Will
liams block, $4,000; Sutor building,
SO 900: Greeley hospital $4,000; Weld
county, $4,000; Willis Hill building,
s3.5OO: Potter building. $4,000.
The board of control will send
track team from the University of Col
orado to st. Louis to compete in the
Junior A. A. U. contest on June 3rd,
senior contest on June 4th, and the in
tercollegiate meet of western colleges
on June 11th. On account OF thesis
work Captain Bell will be unable to go.
The team will probably be composed OF
| Iahnsop Kinpsbury Fowler, Pratt,