The Lamar register., 1904-05-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Hallett on the bench.
Rural free delivery service is or
dered established June 1st at Dolores.
Montezuma county. with one carrier.
The new electric railway at Trini-
dad is starting out with a large busi-
\ ness. thousands riding for pleasure on
Sunday.
! Reports from all over the state
| show that a large amount of interest
was evinced in the school elections OF
May End.
Mack Kuntz, noted pigeon fancier.
| is preparing to make carrier test
with sixteen pigeons from the Worlds
Fair to Pueblo.
] The track of the new Moffat rail
road has been laid to short distance
beyond Rollinsville, and the ballasting
is being completed as fast as may be.
When Governor Peabody got home
| from the ST. Louis Exposition he felt
so good that he at once ordered the
dome of the state house to be illu-
! minated.
N. NJ. Johnson, prominent livery
man of Boulder, dropped dead in his
stable on the mornig of May I'd. He
was apparently as well as usual Just
before his death.
W
Senator Henry NJ. Teller both arrived
in Denver on the 4th inst. The former
mer came from the East to attend the
Republican state convention on the
9Th.
The ministers of Denver. at a recent
meting of the Ministerial Alliance.
passed resolutions deprecating Sun
day funerals and saying that services
at the grave should be omitted in such
cases.
The Colorado Federation of Woman's
clubs will hold its annual convention
this year in Fort Collins from Octo-
ber 1st to 9th, and the Fort Collins la
dies are already making preparations
for its reception.
Postmaster l.. C. Dana of Colorado
Springs. the newly elected president OF
the Postmasters' Association, has ex-
tended an invitation to the letter car
riers to meet with the postmasters, at
Colorado Springs, on May Both.
The Secretary of the Interior on
the 4th inst. issued permits permitting
the grazing of 1.050 cattle and horses
in Pixies Peak forest reserve, and ,4S1
cattle and horses in Plum Creek re-
serve during the coming season.
The Fort Collins district made the
Eastern market May End, when sew
enty-four cars were started for Chica-
go and river markets. The shipment
was divided between eighteen ship
pers.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce asserts that witnin the
have located at the Springs. and that
past year about fifty wealthy families
the average amount invested by them
in residence property has exceeded
$4,000.
Sixteen striking miners, who had
been arrested by the military. were
placed on a Colorado & Southern
special train at Trinidad May End and
taken south of the New Mexico line,
where they were put off with orders
not to return.
The annual high school oratorical
contest of Colorado. inaugurated by
the State University. will take place
at Boulder on the night of May
18th. There will be eight speakers. On
the same day eight girls will read es-
says for prize. ~
The Western Unions new telegraph
line which is being built from Omaha
TO Los Angeles reached Denver May
2nd. 1t follows the Burlington from
Omaha to Denver. and will take the
Santa Fe and the Denver and Rio
Gralde to the coast.
The third book Issued by the Colo
RADIO Promotion and Publicity Commit
tee is entitled "Colorado-Its Cli-
mate" 1t will be distributed where 1t
will do the most good. The City Coun-
ell of Denver has Just appropriated
81 900 for the use of the committee.
BY the burning of Hotel Turret at
Turret mining camp in Chaffee coun-
ty on the night of May 5th, Raymond
Zook. a miner, was burned to death
and II. j. Gregory perhaps fatally
burned and suffocated. Six other men
who were in the building barely es-
capped with their lives.
The summer school of the University
of Colorado at Boulder will be in ses-
sion from June goth to July 30th, un-
der direction of Prof. Fred B. r. Hell
lens. Instruction in all the depart
ments will be given by recognized spe-
cialists. brought together from lead
ing institutions of learning, East and
West. n
While Mrs. Eva Parkinson. who
lives about six miles east of Fort Col
Inns, alarmed by break in the banks
of the Larimer and Weld canal, was
attempting to go to a neighbor's house
with her three small children on the
night of May I'd. the eldest. a boy of
nine, slipped into the swift current
and was carried away and drowned.
John Charles. supervising inspector
Indian bureau. now in Oklahoma, has
been ordered to Grand Junction, to
formulate plans and specifications for
the new mess hall at the Indian school.
Congress has appropriated $4,000.
There are other minor improvements
contemplated at Grand Junction, which
Inspector Charles is charged to in