The Lamar register., 1905-08-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


held at Canon City September 10th to
22d.
The date for Pumpkin Pie Day at
1.onSmont has been fixed for Septem-
Der 29th.
The Denver Board of County Com
iHissioners has voted $50 in aid OF an
exhibition at the state fair in Pueblo
September 11th to 18th.
The Bank of Berthoud. which has
been in successful operation since
1892. has announced its intention of
becoming national bank.
Judge ID. c. Beaman. the present
owner of Grand Mesa lakes, is ris-
tributing 100000 young trout in the
streams of Delta county.
new volunteer fire department has
been organized at Silverton with forty
members. The organization includes
hose team and hook and ladder com
pany.
Loveland's annual corn roast festi-
val will be held September 7th, sth
and 9Th. The corn roast and free din
ner will be served on the first day at
12 o'clock.
The Colorado State Fair will be held
1T Pueblo September llth to 18th. 1t
is expected to attract a 81 eat many
tourists who come on G. A. X. eXcur-
sion rates.
Colorado Springs will make a strong
effort to secure the location of the Ma
tional letter carriers home. 1t is eX-
pected that the matter will be decided
at the convention in Portland next
month.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Company has filed answer in the first
suit brought against it for damages
growing out of the Eden wreck and al
leges that the accident was brought
about by an act of God.
The Colorado Methodist conference
will hold its forty-third annual confer
ence in Fort Collins, beginning the
evening of Tuesday, August 29tn, and
ending Monday, September 4th. Bishop
McCabe will preside
The Fruit Growers Association at
Grand Junction opened the pear ship
ments August 22d by sending out three
refrigerator cars of fancy Bartletts.
Six more carloads followed the next
day.
William L. Wilson. a miner working
on the Gloriana claim on Blue hill at
Victor. was killed August 26th by the
falling OF a rock. He was twenty
three years of age and single. His
parents live at Cripple Creek.
The State Stock Inspection Board is
meeting with many evidences that the
laws pertaining to Inspection and en-
tries of cattle are being daily violated.
and immediate prosecutions of all of
Tenders have been ordered by the
board
The board of stock inspection has
authorized the state veterinarian to de-
clare any counties from which mango
or other infectious diseases have been
obliterated d to be free, thus removing
the quarantine and necessity for in
spec.ion.
]. F. Burns has demanded permis-
sion to examine the books of the Port
land Gold Mining Company. by virtue
of his large holdings in that company.
The board Of ditJt>ors will act upon
the demand at the next regular meet
ing on September 9Th.
James Germand, a cowboy, was
killed at Norwood. forty miles north
west of Telluride, August 22d. while
drunk and resisting arrest. by City
Marshal Watkins and Deputy Sheriff
TruaX. He shot at the officers. who
returned his fire with fatal effect.
Following is the list OF the dead in
the TabascO flood in Las Animas
county: Mrs. Joseph Neltry and child,
Joseph Smothcrman. Harry O'Neil,
William Rieboldt, Pasquale Canto. Jos
eph Morocco, Rafael Bucchio, Antonio
Constantine Philip Pastero. Pasquale
Bartolomeo.
Acting Lieut.. Gov. Fred W. Parks
became acting governor when Cover
nor Mcdonald went to the Portland
Exposition. Since January /, 1905,
Governor Peabody has held the Office
for two terms, one lasting only day,
Adams leld il for short term. then
Mcdonald, who temporarily left it to
Lieutenant Governor Parks.
AT meeting of the State Board of
Stock Inspection in Denver. il was re
ported by the inspector at Trinidad
that stock owners are running cattle
and sheep over the line from New
Mexico without health certificate.
The inspectors were authorized to de-
mand either a government or state
health certificate for all cattle brought
in from that section.
Charles Francis Adams of Boston
has offered to sell the city of Trinidad
North lake. the finest reservoir site in
southern Colorado. for storage use by
the city watcrworks. The lake is To-
Gated forty miles west on the North
fork of the Purgatory river. 1t has
capacity OF O0.000. 900 gallons. es-
,imated to be enough for ten years
supply for the city. He wants $4,000.
The publisher of the new city di-
rectory OF Boulder, just out, states that
the 1905 directory contains the names
of over $500 people. Counting two
people to each name. the names of
children under eighteen not being
printed. the population of the city is
over 1000. The directory of 1901 had
$500 names. representing 1900 souls.
This shows that the increase in popu-
lation in four Years was 5000.
The jury Of awards of the late Lousi-
ana Purchase Exposition at st. Louis
have applied to Mrs. Martha a. Shute.
secretary OF the Colorado State Board
OF Horticulture. at Denver. for the
present addresses of a number of ex-
hibitors who won prizes at the exposi-