The Lamar register., 1905-02-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

An effort is being made to lnaugu-
rate flower contest in Denver next
summer
Rock breaking has been commenced
on the Pennington railroad south of
Durango.
The Rio Grande railroad paid over
$4,000 to its employees at Pueblo on
its last monthly pay day, February
nth.
The Pixies peak climbing contest for
automobiles next August is attracting
good deal of attention all over the
country.
Isaac Rosskam, who died at Phila-
delphia recently, left 81, 900 for the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump-
tives at Denver
The annual exhibition of the Colo
rado Kennel Club will be held at
Denver March I'd to 4th. Some IA
nous dogs will be shown.
William f. Jones, auditor of the Mot
fat road, who has recently returned
from the East. states positively that
the road has not been sold.
1t is said that creamery men
throughout the state propose to take
active steps to enforce the law in re-
lation to oleomargarine and butterine.
The name, San Cristobal," as ap'
piled to a body of water in Hlnsdale
county has received the approval OF
the United States Board on Geograph'
lcal Names.
Chris Laib of Longmont was badly
frozen while trying to walk from Ned
erland to Caribou ON the 18th inst. and
it may be necessary to amputate some
of his limbs.
A. NJ. Stevenson, Republican ma
tional committeeman from Colorado,
has been notified that he has been ap.
pointed member OF the presidential
inaugural reception committee.
j. C. Boosinger, the Pueblo enEin'
eer who was injured in a Denver d
Rio Grande collision near Portland,
in Fremont county, some months since,
died in the Salida hospital on the 18th
inst.
Engineer Sullivan of the Colorado &
Southern, in charge of engine 425. was
badly scalded at Loveland on the 18th
inst. by the loosening of rivet in the
boiler. He was taken 10 the Loveland
hospital.
Numerous robins and meadow larks
made their appearance in many parts
of Colorado previous to the recent cx'
tremely cold weather and 1t is feared
that some of them may have been
killed by it.
Oscar C. Reitze. former president OF
the Reitze Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany at Denver, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head III
his room at the Baltimore hotel at Vic
tor February 18th.
Mrs. Jennie Peabody, widow of the
late Jesse Peabody, and sister-ln-law
of Gov. James II. Peabody, died at her
home in Canon City February 18th,
eight days after having suffered
stroke of paralysis.
The late F. A. Falkenburg Will be
succeeded as head consul OF the Wood
men of the World by John IL. Foley.
head adviser of the order until meet
ing Dof the head board of managers
can be held to make permanent Sc
lection.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris. widow of
Richard Sopris. former mayor of Den
yer. celebrated her goth birthday ami
versary at Denver on the 18th inst.
Richard Sopris. was the first represen.
tative of the pixies Peak country il
the Kansas Legislature.
Fiuy-fve carloads of lambs, num-
bering 1900 head, left the depot at
Greeley for Omaha, st. Joseph and
Chicago February 18th. 1t is estimated
that about one-half of the sheep being
fattened for market in northern Colo
RADIO have been sold.
Tine application of Morton Jones of
Denver, j. NJ. Herbert, A. c. Foster.
NJ. Y Osborn. j. J. Meade and E. +.
Fauver, to organize the First National
Bank of Loveland. Colorado, with $780,
900 capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Miss Margaret Prendergast. first as
sistant in the Department of Domestic
Art at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege, has ben elected to the professor
ship of domestic science and art at the
Wyoming Agricultural College and will
begin her duties there next Septem-
ger.
The trial of Charles Wynn, alleged
to be Wellington Llewellyn, for the
murder of Policemen Thomas Clifford
and William Griffiths. will be held at
Denver during the second week in
March. 1t is claimed that many wit.
nesses will swear to the identity of
Wynn and Llewellyn, which the de-
fense will deny.
The secretary of the treasury to-day
requested Congress to appropriate
$50 900 to supply the deficiency in the
appropriation for new machinery for
the Denver mint. The cost of ma
chinery has been greater than was
estimated. and that amount is needed
in order to have the mint ready for
coinage June list.
Treasurer Holmbergs deputies have
been engaged the past month hunting
up druggists. saloons, bottling houses
and others who sell liquor, and collect
ing the state tax. In Denver, since
the 1st of February, they have found
100 unpaid licenses. Out in the state
the discoveries are even larger. 1t
Is all to be collected. The state tax
is $25 year.
Judge Moses Hallett OF the United
States District Court refused to review
the evidence in the Pueblo case of the
seven French girls alleged to have
been brought from France to the
United States for immoral purposes,
and the ,nree men charged with entic-
ing the girls to America and issued an
order that the girls and men be imme-