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

deputy stock inspector at Fort Collins
The officers of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners are making arrange
ments for representation OF 30O un-
ions at the convention in Denver May
29th.
Edward r. Scott has been arrested
in Denver for forging passes on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. He ls
said to have had a large number OF
blank forms printed.
At the interstate track meet at
Boulder May 11th. the field and track
team of the University of Colorado de-
feated the University of Nebraska by
a score Of 73 to 81.
Prof. H. A. Smith of Colorado Col
lese has been awarded an Austin
scholarship in Harvard university. He
is entitled to the special course pro-
vided for teachers.
Hearing on the claim of Leslie w.
tPopejoy for 5000 900 of the estate OF
w. s. Stratton was brought up in the
County Court at Colorado Springs and
continued until June 18th.
The Pueblo Title and Trust Com
pany, which failed last December. paid
1t depositors and creditors $6O,OOO on
the 10th inst, and will soon pay the
balance of its indebtedness in full.
The Christian Scientists of Colorado
Springs have announced committee
Of five to secure plans for the erection
of a 5000 church. The members here
tofere have used the Unitarian church
for worship.
The trial of John Hawthorne,
charged with the murder of Merrett A.
Scott at Meredith, in Pitkin county,
last winter was concluded at Aspen
on the 10th inst, resulting in verdict
Of not guilty.
The University of Colorado is ar
ranging to send a track team to the
Worlds fair at st. Louis next month
when a big track meet is to take place
between the colleges located in the
Louisiana purchase.
G. F. Hancock of Barr was killed by
a railroad accident at Denver May
14th. A switch engine ran into the
rear end Of the car on the platform of
which he was standing. crushing him
to death almost instantly.
On May 18th the people OF Morrison
in Jefferson county voted by ma1orl-
ty of 76 to incorporate the town. A
protest was entered by several persons
in the County Court contesting the le-
gality of the proceedings.
In its first sixteen games this sea-
son the Denver baseball team of the
Western League climbed way up to
the top of the heap, winning fourteen
games and losing only two. Colorado
Springs done nearly as well.
George o. Beal committed suicide at
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst, by
taking carbolic acid. He was only.
twenty-four years of age. but had re-
Gently been in financial difficulties and
was separated from his wife.
A large party of Colorado editors.
members of the State Editorial Asso-
alton, left over the Missouri Pacific
from Pueblo May 14th for visit to the
Worlds Fair. Many of the editors
were accompanied by their families.
The Colorado conference of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society Of
the NJ. E. Church has recently pur-i
chased valuable property at Colorado,
Springs, consisting of twelve lots and
a hospital building. with several cot
tages, for Deaconesses' hospital.
The murderers of Mrs. Youngblood.i :
Of Denver, who are now in the state
penitentiary, were to have been hanged
during the week beginning May 18th.
but their case has been taken to the
least a little longer lease OF life.
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.
The Colorado Promotion and Pub
licity committee will soon issue fine
" illustrated pamphlet on "Agricul-.
ture." The headquarters of the COM
mittee in Denver are largely visited by
tourists who want information in re-
gard to different sections Of the state.
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 a scrub pine on a
clin in North Cheyenne canon and sent
it to the Smithsonian Institution.
Thomas Tobin, noted scout and In
dian fighter of the early days of Colo
iado, died at Fort Garland, a few days
ago at the age of eighty-seven. He.
spent the declining years OF his life on
his farm four miles from Fort Gar
lend, where his children were born.
They are Mrs. Breen of Silverton. Mrs.
William Carson of Fort Garland, who
married Kit Carson's eldest son; Mrs.
Newton of Alamosa. and John Tobin of
San Luis valley, who has been blind
for some time.
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