The Lamar register., 1905-03-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

at Grand Junction September 18th to
22d. the first day being entry day.
There are So 4iG volumes in the Den
yer city library. BY reading a book
day person could finish them all in
little more than 242 years-if he
lived that long.
An organization has been incorpor'
ated by prominent Swedes at Denver
TO build a large Swedish Sanatorinni
Tor consumptives- Dr. c. A Brundser
heads the list of trustees.
Geo. w. Baumhoff. who has secured
an electric railway franchise at Canon
City, will investigate the feasibility of
constructing an electric line from
Canon City to Cripple Creek
The First National Bank of Fowler,
In Otero county, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
I. NJ. Weiland is president: J. 2. Eall,
vice president; and L. Butler, cashier.
The smokestack of the Grant smell
ter in Denver, which is 353 feet high
and one of the tallest chimneys in the
world, will be used as receiving mast
by the DeForest Wireless Telegraph
Company.
Simon Guggenheim's check for $780,
900 has been formally presented 10 III
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be used for the erection OF new ad-
ministration building, as mas been pre-
vlously announced
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
| denied the petition for a rehearing in
the case of Newton Andrews. one of
the three young men convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood in
Denver. This decision sustains the
capital punishment law.
The body of Azel d. Galbraith, who
was hanged at the state penitentiary.
was buried in the prison plot of the
old city cemetery at Canon City. His
relatives will be permitted to take
the body away later if they wish to
do SO.
1t is understood that the postoffice
inspectors will recommend the estab-
lishment of a new rural delivery route
south and east of Fort Collins by which
40 families will be served. This will
make four routes supplied from the
Fort Collins office.
Austin Marsh, the seventeen-year-
old son Of the superintendent of the
Eyler smelter at Pueblo, fell sixty feet
from the top of cliff while out hunt
ing. on the 7tn inst. and had one of
his legs broken in two places besides
The Colorado Springs Y NJ. L. A..
with membership of 1857 members.
is said to have the largest enrolment
in the world in proportion to Pop,ila-
tion. This distinction until recently
had been held by jamestown, New
York, with a membership of s1,040.
1t is stated that Colorado people will
soon be able to talk to people at Pa
aGt ha u,
ing been made between The Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Company and
the Pacific States Telephone Company
TO connect the lines in Utah AMI Ne
vada.
The members OF the Pueblo Typo
graphical Union have prepared a me-
mortal to the governor asking him to
select a practical man when he ap-
points a commissioner of printing. The
law requires the appointment of a
printer who hss served a full appren-
ticeship.
The different railroads in Colorado
will grant half fare 10 a number of
conventions to be held in Denver this
season. including the Stock Growers
convention, the Eagles national gath
ering. the Epworth League convention
and the Grand Army of the Republic
, encampmenl.
The contract for the construction of
| The new sugar factory at Holly has
been let to c. Leonard of Los Angeles.
California. work to begin at once. The
building will cost about 100000. The
J company which will construct the
plant is known as the Holly Beet Su.
gar Company and it has G.000 acres OF
beets contracted for next season.
The lecturers of the Colorado State
| Realty Association are talking to big
audiences in the East and central West
about the state. The Iowa City Repub-
| lican devotes several columns to Gil
bert McClurg's lecture there. and the
| other speakers are also meeting with
| iattering receptions, which indicate
| tnat Colorado is ''in the swim" this
| year.
At a meeting of the Farmers league
| of Pleasant valley, in " eld county. the
following schedule of wages was
adopted for tie season of 1905:
Monthly wages, for March. SIG; from
| April 1st to October list. $50; for Oc-
tober, $40. Day wages, s1.25 for po-
| tato cutting S1.50 for ditch cleaning
and haying, and s1.75 for potato dig
ging.
| The Mount of the Holy Cross forest
reserve has been created, Withdrawing
from entry nearly 100000 acres of
valuable timber lands. This will be
the seventh forest reserve 10 be set
aside in Colorado. The others are the
Battlement Mesa reserve, the Pixies
Peak, Plum Creek. South Platte, White
River and San Isabel reserves, cover
ing a total of 2,S7i ,i39 acres.
A. d. Archuleta, treasurer of Archu-
leta county, has been charged with EN-.
bezzling 1900 of county funds. An
examination of the treasurer's books
by experts is alleged to show this
shortage. Archuleta was arrested and
Immediately released on bail. Indict-
ments have been isued against J. Sic
gel Brown, one of the county commits
sioners, who is charged with compile
ity in defraudinS the county, but he
left some time ago and is supposed to
be in Mexico.
In his address before the Colorado
State Realty Association few days
ago, Secretary Burns of the association
said: Even little Mancos. in Monte
| zuma county 200 miles away from its