The Lamar register., 1905-10-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The members of the Denver Teach
ers' club are considering the question
of erecting club building.
Denver people are not all supersti-
tious. Four marriage licenses were
taken out on Friday, the 18th inst.
| Lewis H. Breeze, assessor of Mesa
county, died on the 18th inst. after four
months illness from appendicitis.
Mrs. l.. E. Aumick was recently
drawn as a juror in the District Court
at Boulder but was excused from serv-
ing.
The interior of the state capitol
building at Denver has been cleaned.
repaired and revarnished at cost OF
$500.
The Ell Paso County Horticultural So
ciety has selected August 22d. 23d and
oath of next year for the next annual
! flower show.
Thomas Grieve of Colorado has been
| appointed photographic aid in the geo.
logical survey and assigned to duty
| in Washington.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will erect a factory at Pueblo for the
manufacture of frogs-not for food,
| but for railroad switches.
The people of Aspen at a special
election nave NOteu III idNOI Vi pot
chasing the old water plant and
against erecting new one.
George Gouson, Denver dairyman,
had his house burned a few days ago,
| and with 1t 5000 in money that he had
been unwilling to trust to the banks.
| Andy Adams, the famous cowboy
author of Colorado Springs. will
shortly issue new book, Cattle
dc Ia TpyDS
range experiences.
Alvin Cummins. who escaped from
the State Reformatory at Buena Vista,
September 10th, was recaptured at st.
Louis and brought back by Deputy
Warden Richard l.. Shaw.
Bids will be received at the state
capitol October 21st for the construc-
ton of the Teller and Fremont county
state wagon road between the Cripple
Creek district and Canon City.
Frank Buster charged with the mur-
der of Martin O'Connor at Victor in
April last. has been released and the
case against him dismissed, there being
no evidence to warrant Il trial.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections has elected DIR. Eleanor
Lawney delegate from the board to
the National Prison Congress at Lin
coin, Nebraska, October 2lst to 26th.
About 100000 was collected at the
United States internal revenue Office
in Denver during the month of Septem-
Der. The territory covered by the Of
lice includes Colorado and Wyoming.
A good deal of damage was done in
the UncompRhgre valley by heavy
frost on the night of October 9th.
Nearly all green vegetables were
killed and some kinds of apples badly
injured.
In order to stimulate good marks
manship in the Colorado National
Guard Adjutant General Bulkeley
Wells is offering a handsome silver
cup as trophy for excellence in skir-
mish fire.
James w. Wilson, who was injured
by a street car at Pueblo in February
of last year, has been awarded judg-
ment of $4,000 damages against the
Pueblo and Suburban Traction and
Lighting Company. The case will be
appealed.
The naval recruiting station in Den
yer has just been closed after gather
ing in fortysix physically perfect
young men. Three-fourths of all those
who offered to enlist stood the examin-
alton and were accepted. This is an
uncommonly large percentage.
The jury at Boulder in the case OF
JacintO Navarette. accused of murder
ing Yenes Was June 22d near Long
mont. brought in verdict of not guilty
on the 10th instant. Was. Mexican,
was killed in fight resulting from
saloor quarrel in North Longmont.
Governor Mcdonald has signed an
order for the organization of a second
section of Battery A of Victor. The
battery will consist of thirty men with
two field pieces and will be commanded
by Major II. A. Naylor of the Second
regiment, who, 1t is said. will resign to
accept the captaincy.
Aaron Cove, the widely-inown for
mer superintendent of Denver schools,
recently returned from the Philippines,
where he spent several months in in
vestigating the prospects of the cane
sugar industry. Mr.. Cove thinks sugar
can be made there so cheaply that it
will eventually prove serious menace
to the makers of beet sugar in this
country.
At the request of DR.. William Will
son, surgeon of the battleship Colo
RADIO, President c. w. Sells of the Man
itou G Pixies Peak Cog road has for
mense bas relief photograph of Pixies
peak, finished in natural colors. Sec
retary Henry Russell Wray of the Col
orado Springs Chamber of Commerce
some time ago sent the officers a re-
production of the famous painting OF
Lieut.. Zebulon Pike, the discoverer of
Pixies peak.
A petition has been filed with the
state engineer by the commissioners
of Ouray county asking that survey
be made to determine the line which
forms the south boundary of Ouray
and the north boundary of San Juan.
The law provides that after the engin-
eer has made the survey as requested
the disputing counties shall go into
court and have the matter adjudicated.
There is mining property in the dis
puted territory that neither county is
able to assess.
Suffering from an attack of acute
melancholia, James Mccartney, aged
sixty-eight years and a farmer superin-
taplapt nf tho III DaSn county Moor