The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

invited Tom Lawson to make an ad-
dress next summer.
At ouray. w. E. King has been fif5ed
$lOO and costs for killing mountain
sheep. He pleaded guilty.
The Colorado Horse and Cattle
Growers Association is laying plans
for the wholesale destruction of prai-
rie dogs on the ranges.
| One hundred squirrels have been set
loose in the City Park at Denver. A
prairie dog village is another attrac-
tion for the children.
The association of railway tele-
graph superintendents at its session
in Chattanooga, selected Denver as the
| next place of meeting.
A telephone exchange will be in
stalled at the state capitol building at
| Denver to accommodate the thirty
three ofhces using telephones.
Mr.. North. the director of the census.
estimates the present population of
Colorado at 602,925, gain of 12,645
over the estimate for last year. -.
Colorado Springs has an ordinance
forbidding the beating Of carpets inside
the city limits. The inhabitants get
dust enough from other sources.
Senator Patterson has announced
that he will name Caesar r. Roberts,
son of Caesar A. Roberts, prominent
Denver attorney, for cadetship at
West Point.
The Denver posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic have made ar
rangements for an immense June fair
and festival, beginning June 21st and
lasting nine days.
James Mcbride of Barela, in Las An
imas county, was bitten by rattle
snake on the 18th inst. and, insteadd
of resorting. to orthodox whiskey.
drank twenty pounds of milk and re-
covered.
Postmaster l.. c. Dana has received
authority from Washington to adver
tise for bids for the construction of the
United States postoffice in Colorado
Springs, to be erected at a cost OF
$135, 900.
Rev. William Potts George, who was
succeeded by DIR. j. S. Montgomery at
Trinity M. T.. church. Denver, will ac-
cept the call of Bishop Hamilton to fill
the pulpit of Washington Street M. e.
church at Poughkeepsie. New York.
George Huber Weiss of Elizabeth,
Colorado. while bathing at Santa Mon
lea. California, on the 10th, was car
Iieu Out " sea ny tue uiueitoW anu
drowned. Weiss was twenty-four years
of age and leaves a mother at Eliza
beth.
The Carpenters District Union of
Denver has issued a statement that the
mechanics have not combined with the
builders to raise prices. They also
state that the cost of building is no
greater now than at any time for the
past five years.
By the falling of a bin under which
they were working in the Portland ce-
ment works at Florence on the 18th
inst, Grove Miller, Reuben Bayliss and
George Leonard were crushed to
death. They were all young men and
single.
The first excursion of the present
year over the Moffat road will be given
on June Sth, when the Denver, North
western & Pacific company will carry
the employees of the Denver Tramway
Company to- Iolland on their annual
The Santa Fe company will drive
new tunnel under Ration hill, south of
Trinidad, at a cost of $1.O00.000. The
contract has been let to the firm of
Corrigan & Mcdonald of Pueblo. which
will place force of several hundred
men at work in few days.
Evidence on the part of Colorado be-
fore the Kansas-Colorado water suit
commission was closed May 18th. Az
ter an interval of two weeks the COM
mission will again convene in Kansas,
where for about three weeks final evil
dence for that state will be taken.
The following postmosters have been
appointed in Colorado: Charles NJ.
Axsra NnnI1afnr I
vice A. A. Steward, resigned; John S.
Kemnitz, Rosita, Custer county, vice
w. l.. Kirk, resigned; George NJ. White.
Vega, Mesa county, vice II. n. Camp
bell, resigned.
Dean II. Martyr Hart of st. Johns
Episcopal cathedral in Denver is on
the way to Europe, where he will
visit the bell foundries at Mannheim,
Germany, where the magnificent
chimes for the new cathedral are being
made. The chimes. which will cost
$4,000 exclusive of the duty of $4,000.
will be among the finest in the coun-
try.
At Cripple Creek on the 18th inst.
James Warford and Thomas c. Brown.
under Indictment for the shooting of
Chris Miller and Isaac .Liebe at Gold
field on election day last fall, were dis
charged and the cases against them
dismissed by Deputy District Attorney
C. A. Gillett. A trial of the case some.
time ago resulted in disagreement of
the jury.
Actuated by jealousy. Frank E.
Cowles shot and killed Miss Stella
Boice at Pueblo May 18th. and then
shot himself through the head, dying
within few hours. Cowles is said
to have been member of the Order of
Railway Conductors, and the girl he
shot is reported to have formerly
been employed in dance hall at Grip
! pie Creek.
The report of the earnings of the
Denver & Rio Grande for the first
week in May shows substantial in
crease over the corresponding week
last year. The earnings this year
amounted to $305,000, an increase of
$4,000. The earnings from July list
to May 7th show an increase of S3l9,
900 over the corresponding period of
| the year before.
Leslie w. Popejoy. in accordance
with an order of the District Court at
| Colorado Snr;pyc has filed a hill nf