The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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The Colorado G. Southern has ordered
a new railroad automobile for the use
of its bridge inspector.
Dennis ]. Donnelly has been appoint
ed postmaster at Lawson, IN Clear
| Creek county, succeeding N. r. HaZeh
The Business Mems association OF
Pueblo will publish $1,000 copies OF an
illustrated pamphlet to advertise the
city.
The date of the national epcampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic at
Denver next summer has not yet been
| fixed
e. G. Cluss was drowned in a stream
near Canon City the other day. 1t was
| very high at the time he attempted 10
ford 1t.
| Colorado Springs will have no ofhclal
| celebration of Labor Day, the local un-
ions preferring to join in the opserV-
ance at Denver.
| Bishop Warren dedicated the Metho-
dist church at La Junta Sunday, August
21st, and enough money was raised 10
clear the debt
| A y-equipped government weather
bureau has been installed at Durango,
In charge of Wayland Bailey, recently
from Portland, Oregon.
The night of August 22nd was very
| cold in many sections of eastern Colo
RADIO and light frost was reported at
| Wray and few other places.
In the annual report of the commits
| sioner of pensions, just made public,
| Colorado is credited with S,251 pension
ers, drawing $1,17O.40O per annum.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Company has contributed $1,000 addi-
tional to the fund being used to search
for victims of the Eden disaster.
A report has reached Rawlins, Wy
oming, that the village of Slater. Colo
RADIO. just over the line, was struck by
a washout. and much damage done.
So far the Denver and Colorado
Springs teams of the Western Baseball
League have had no difficulty In keep
ing well ahead of the other four teams
Elisha Higgins committed suicide at
| Longmont August 25th by taking
laudanum. He had been working on
ranch near Longmont and was formerly
a miner.
Judging from the applications so far
received for admission to the State
School of Mines that institution will be
worse crowded the coming term than
ever before.
Through the explosion of 1000
pounds of molten metal in ladle at
the Radrorf foundry in Trinidad Abram
Garcia was badly burned amout the
hands and legs.
Several thousand dollars will be ex-
pended by the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company in the improvement
of the grounds around the depot at
Colorado Springs.
Thursday, September Sth. will be
Watermelon Day at the big fair in
Rocky Ford. The first day. September
9th, will be Old Settlers Day. the fair
lasting four days.
The annual statement of the General
Land Office shows that in Colorado
during the past year 14.S09 entries were
made comprising 1,629 ,905 acres, from
which $523. .118 was secured.
A mail pouch containing many let
ters, some of them highly valuable.
from Colorado Springs and Pueblo,
was badly damaged by fire August Sth
in railway wreck in Indiana.
Harry Davis, the snake handler, who
was bitten in Denver in July by arattle-
snake and a Gila monster. has had his
right hand removed at the wrist and is
in danger of losing his entire arm. ii
not his life.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Log Rolling Association of the
Modern Woodmen of America finished
its doings at Colorado Springs. August
oath and voted to meet at Pueblo next
year.
Mrs. William Noble, wife of mining
man at Twin Lakes. shot herself. prob
ably inflicting a fatal wound, on Aug
ust Goth Her action is said to have
resulted from a quarrel with her hus-
band.
The Colorado Crude Rubber Com
pany has begun preparations for the
installment of its rubber extraction
plant at Salida. 1t will use the build
ing formerly occupied by the Salida
Creamery Company.
Prof. William Elzinga. formerly of
the Pennsylvania State College, has
been engaged as an assistant professor
in the department of mechanical engi-
neering at the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
A number of centipedes have made
their appearance in Barnum. Denver
suburb. and the wife of Special Police
man Hardman was dangerously SICK
for several days on account of poison
ing by one of them.
Judge Malone has appointed his
brother, r. H. Malone, to be joint re-
ceiver with Judge ]. c. Helm for the
Fidelity Savings Association at Den
yer. The petition for the removal of
Judge Helm was denied.
Details of the cloudburst which
flooded the town of Slater. Colorado.
have been received at Dillon, Wyoming
and show that it swept away many
thousands of tons of ranch property
besides almost wiping the town or
Slater off the map.
Plans have been perfected for the or
ganization of an Automobile Club for
Pueblo. There are between fifteen and
twenty owners of autos in the city who
will join the new organization. 1t is
planned to hold meet late this fall
or early next spring.
Frank Ruble of Denver, in the en-
pIoy of the Telluride Electric Company
died at Provo, Utah, August 23rd, as
result of burns received from an cleo
tric shock He was the son of Mrs.
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