The Lamar register., 1905-09-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

be closed at noon every Saturday dur
Ing the year
Rev. Henry j. c. Gerland, pastor of
the German Evangelical Lutheran
church on Evans avenue, died on the
9th inst.
w. Van Austen of Crested Butte,
who marched in the Grand Army pa
rade at Denver. is past eighty-three
years OF age.
Victor was pretty badly flooded by
sn electric storm on the night of the
9TH inst. There was heavy fall OF
both rain and hail.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition,
The success of the recent Harvest
Day festival at Greeley has resulted
IN the formation Of an organization 20
make it an annual affair
Mayor Connor Of Cripple Creek ap-
pointed committee OF 500 citizens to
entertain the viriting members Of the
Grand Army o! the Republic.
James Alvord miner working the
Mammoth shaft at Leauville, was
killed ON the 9Th inst by the falling oi
q rock from a car above him.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
appropriated $500 for the entertain
ment III Visiting G. A. r veterans and
the citizens raised $1,000 more.
Prizes have been awarded to chill.
dren, schools and organizations for
successful competition in raising flow
ers and vegetables the past summer.
Major F. + Foote, a G. A. Il. veteran
a.,I .E.x.as
Tell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered Il
fracture of the left thigi.
Dean Richardson of the Harvard
Medical school has notified the author
tiles of Colorado college that work
done in the college will be accepted i'll
The Harvard Medical school.
Walter G. Bradshaw. who was en-
ployed at the j. G. Reynolds livery.
was struck by lightning and killed on
the 9th inst while walking IN Eas;
Moreno street in Colorado Springs
w. II. Tabor, for several years head
of the police department az Florence.
died mt Folsom, New Mexico. on .he
9th inst. of strangulation OF the gall
duct. He was fory-four years OF age.
Gen. A. ]. Sampson, formerly OF
Colorado and now envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary for the
United States to Ecuador, was present
at the Grand Army cncampment in
Denver.
Lightning struck the engine room OF
the Pueblo Chleftan on the morning OF
the 1st inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
burning fuses, but the blaze was soon
extinguished.
The South Cheyenne Canon com
pany at Colorado Springs offers to re-
ducc its admission charges from so
cents to 25 cents IL the city will grant
franchise for trolley liEc TO the
entyance gate.
A run of the Denver fire department
On Fourteenth street. with red fire and
Roman candle accomplishments, was
bne OF the most striking features OF
the entertainments offered to the
Grand Army visitors at Denver.
The annual report of Commissioner
of Pensions Warner shows that on
June 30, 1905, there were on the pen
sion rolls S,IS4 residents OF Colorado,
who, during the fiscal year ended June
30th. drew pensions aggregating ST.
l94,f02.
The application of o. H. Shoup OF
Colorado Springs, Max Buchanan, J.
l.. Warren, ]. r. McKinnic, A. j. Ben
die and V. z. Reed to organize the
American National Bank of Alamosa,
Colorado, with $50 600 capital. has been
approved by the comptroller CT the
currency and the hank authorized to
commence business.
At Durango on the sth inst. Judge
Russell sentenced Robert }. Taylor TO
not less than three years nor moro
than five years in the pcnitentiary and
Mrs May Wilson to not less than two
years nor more than three for the
crime of robbery. Taylor and Mrs.
Wilson last June held up +. j. Parker
and took SIS from him.
The second annual fair of Mesa
county, September 18th to 22d inclu
sIve, promises to surpass all other
events of a similar nature held at
Grand Junction. There will he horse
and bicycle races. baseball and trap
shooting There will be increased
prizes on fruits, tarm products and
stock.
The first section of Santa Fe west
bound passenger train was wrecked
one half mile east of Boone, twenty
miles east OF Pueblo Monday after
noon. Eight uS nine persons were IN
jured, but the railway officials claim
that their injuries were slight in every
case except two. and those viii! soon
recover.
When Wilford Howard was dis
charged from Jail at Trinidad on the
3th inst, after thirty days confine-
ment, he was again arrested and tried
for the same oftensc, being given sixty
days more. lie was deputy game
warden and 1t is alleged that he ex-
tortcd money from unsophisticated
persons whom lie found hunting with
out licenses.
William Van Brimer, father of Mrs.
J. l.. Patton and Mrs. Frank Gooden
of Trinidad. a former resident of Trim
idad for many years and now an in
mate o. the soldiers home at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, has fallen heir to n for
tune OF $500,00o. He is one of twenty
four heirs 10 sl2,0O0.000 LEFT by rela-
tives in Holland. The settlement of
the estate has been IN the courts for
thirty years.
The county commissioners of San
Juan county havo granted franchise
fp G TT Rlltr and oSSOcin,ps TO CON