The Lamar register., 1905-10-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

- Sed gun, HleisuIlHS Hiolt IMAM
four feet from tip to tip of its wings,
was recently shot near Florence.
The new sugar factory at Holly has
begun operations and it is expected to
handle over $4,000 tons of beets this
season. e-s
Martin Y. Turpin. who died at Lead
vile on the 18th inst, was Civil War
veteran and one of the pioneers of
the camp.
A postoffice will be established at the
west portal of the Gunnison tunnel. to
be called Lujane, with II. L. McCollum
as postmaster.
The Denve. Republican says that
Joel F. Vaile will be candidate be
fore the next Legislature for election
to the United States Senate.
Simon Guggenheim has given 1900
to the West Side Neighborhood house
in Denver. 1t will be made the nucleus
for fund TO erect new building.
Fred l.. Paddleford has resigned as
a member of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Girls. In
doing so he did not make his reasons
public.
A Settlers Forest Reserve conven-
ton, under the auspices of'the Roaring
II DIh anu hlhtI sStothFIoNtlo
Association has been called TO meet ut
Glenwood Springs, December list.
John Doyle, employed in the rail
mill at the Bessemer steel works. was
drawn into the machinery and in
stantly killed. He was twenty-five
years of age, unmarried, and had for
mcrly lived in Denver.
Thomas G. Clayton believes he has Il
fn, MIA mt
some land the state OWNS near Castle
Rock. The State Land Board has
leased him 100 acres on the terms of a
ten per cent. royalty on the gross out
| put.
The first report of the new Weather
Bureau station at T,ake Moraine, on
Pixies Peak, 10000 feet above sea
level, was issued October nth. The
instruments were imported from
France through the generosity of Gen:
w. J. Palmer.
Fifty dollars reward is offered by
State Game and Fish Commissioner j.
w. Woodward for information leading
to the conviction of the person or per-
sons who killed two fine elk on Sleepy
Cat mountain in Rio Blanco county re-
Gently. 8 J.
Ex;Mayor H. C.. Watson of Greeley,
accompanied by his wife, has started
| for trip around the world. A crowd
of friends met at his house the even
ing before his departure and presented
him with a valuable pair of field
| glasses.
Judge Moses Hallett, of the Federal
Court. has refused to modify an in.
junction recently issued restraining
the Ute Coal q Coke Company. of
Durango, from trespassing on govern
ment land from which the company has
been mining coal.
| Colorado militiamon are to be trained
| in athletics. Sergeant Mckay of Troop
| c, First squadron cavalry, has been as
| signed to conduct the athletic work.
He will visit the various armories and
put the men through training exer-
cises. This will include various forms
Of athletics. leaping, running, sword
exercises, etc.
Through the generosity of Simon
GugGenheim the State University has
acquired an important set of plants
from Routt county-a region hitherto
little known to botanists. He re-
Gently placed sum of money at the
disposal of the regents for the pur-
chase of museum specimens and the
collection of plants.
The favorite rifle of Daniel Boone
carried by him during his hunting and
trapping excursions in Kentucky, Is in
possession of Mrs. c. F. Perkins OF
Florence. She secured it through her
father. Daniel Prutt, who was n part
ner of the famous hunter. On the rife
stock is engraved the name of Boone
The gun Is an old muZZle loader, car
and ball weapon, and is highly pol
ished.
This is the way Fremont. county
cackles in. the Denver Republican
III. A. Tennis of Florence has the most
productive hens ever raised in Ere
| mont county He has one hen that has
brought off three settings of young
ones this year. four that laid every day
during the summer. a spring CHECKER
that is not five months old that is the
mother of thirteen young chickens. ant
three that are not four months ole
that have begun to lay"
Typhoid fever was responsible fol
forty-one deaths in Colorado in Sep
tember. according TO the health bulle
tin for that month. issued from the
Office of the State Board of Health. The
total number of deaths from all cause.
was S19 There were four fatal casa.
of diphtheria and three of scarlet fever
AS compared with August. there wal
an increase of eighty-six cases of ty
phoid and decrease of seventeen
cases of smallpox, four of scarlet fevei
and one of diphtheria.
Plans for escape of twenty-five pris
oners at the Weld county jail at Gree
ley were frustrated by Sheriff Florenc,
and his deputies, who watched tn,
Jail at night and heard the prisoner.
discussing the scheme. The officer!
then made a thorough search and dis
covered four bars gone from the top o
the main cage and in their place bar
of wood closely resembling the iron
The bars had been sawed off by JohI
Cummins. the La Sale hold-up, who
had fourteen steel six-inch saws
doubtless furnished by parties froh
outside. 60
At its last meeting. the State Boar,
of Audit allowed the bill of the Bank
Law Publishing Company of Chicag
and the state treasurer has cashed !;
warrant for It. The bill amounted Il
s2,4GS with interest. and portions of
have been running for nearly ten years