The Lamar register., 1906-06-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ne COlOTauO state Normal SUMMER
school at Greeley began Its sessions
June 18th with an attendance of 300
and will continue for six weeks, clos
ing July 31st.
Thomas Cunningham, miner en-
ployed on the School Section Leasing
Company's property at Victor. fell
down shaft 125 feet on the 18th inst.
and was instantly killed
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will establish semi-monthly
pay day at the Pueblo Steel Works,
which will do away to a large extent
with the use of scrip or orders.
The assessed valuation of Fremont
county property this year will be s6.'
900. or $125,00O more than last year.
The Increase is due to improvements
made in the vicinity of Canon City.
About 500 colored citizens from Pu.
eblo, Colorado Springs, Victor and
Cripple Creek attended the picnic
given by the Nonpareil band of Pu-
eblo at Clyde, on the Cripple Creek
Short Line.
The school census of Larimer county
taken in April shows the total number
of persons of school age is 1850. This
is nearly double the number reported
in the school census of 1900, showing
a rapid growth.
The commissioner of the General
Land Office has withdrawn from pub
tic settlement, to be included in the
Fruita forest reserve, $4,000 acres OF
public lands in Mesa county, near
Grand Junction and Fruita.
twenty-five miles of the gigantic
Colorado Fuel and Iron Companys ca
nal to supply the steel works with wa
ter from the Arkansas river have been
completed, and the workmen are now
within eight miles of Pueblo.
Clarence Tracey and Frederick
Hanna, linemen of the Denver Gas and
Electric Company, were dangerously
injured on the 18th instant by the
breathing of an electric light pole on
which they were at work.
Judge Charles NJ. Campbell, for
many years prominent lawyer OF
Denver. died at St. Joseph's hospital in
Denver on the 18th instant of hemor-
rhage OF the brain. He had retired
from active practice about two years
ago.
The counties of Fremont and Teller
have decided to construct a steel
bridge over Wilson creek on the new
state road. The cost, $1,000, will be
borne jointly by the two counties. The
bridge will be forty feet long and six
teen feet wide.
John 7. Baldwin, the eight-year-o!d
son OF C. A. Baldwin. was dragged to
death by frightened burro in North
Cheyenne canon at Colorado Springs
on the 10th instant. Mr.. and Mrs.
Baldwin are former Californians who
are erecting a 100000 residence at
Broadmoor.
The city and county of Denver has
purchased its own auditorium bonds to
the amount of $4,000, the money
coming from the following sources:
Eighty thousand dollars from the sink
ing fund, $4,000 from the firemen's
pension fund, and $4,000 from the po-
licemens pension fund.
Cyrus l.. Mann, an accomplished
landscape gardener, committed sui.
eide at Denver on the 18th instant by
taking opium. He had previously made
several attempts to kill himself. Do
mestic troubles, leading to divorce
from his wife on account of his use of
liquor and drugs, were the source OF
his downfall.
Mitchell Benedict, of the law firm of
Benedict and Phelps. one of the pio-
neer lawyers of Denver and man of
prominence in his profession. died at
Asbury Park, New Jersey, June 23d
from heart disease. Judge Benedict
was a Civil War veteran, having been
a captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania
and acting as a provost judge.
Plans for the s25,000 building of the
Y. NJ. C. A. to be located in West Den
yer near the Denver & Rio Grande
shops, are being completed by the rail
way department of the association.
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nation and with the $4,000 in the
treasury of the organization. the struo-
ture will be erected. The Denver &c
Rio Grande will pay for the site.
Daniel Witter. widely-known Col
orado pioneer and prominent land at
torney in Denver. died June 22d. He
had held the position of miners judge.
member of the Legislature, collector
of internal revenue for Colorado, vice
president of the first street railway in
Denver, of the Denver Safe Deposit
and Savings Bank, and of the Denver
Water Company. He was the first Re-
publican nominee for governor of
Colorado.
The reunion of the old settlers OF
Lincoln Park. suburb of Canon City,
was held June 21st, at the home of Dai
DeWeese. OF the half-score guests
present, only one, w. ii. Stover, has
resided at Lincoln Park twenty years.
In fact, all the territory included
within it's borders was a dry. treeless
plain at that time. Lincoln Park now
contains about 1000 people and is one
of the most delightful rural communl-
ties in the West.
Arrangements are being made by a
number of the citizens of Pueblo to
dig up from South Union avenue the
stump of the famous old tree that
stood in that thoroughfare until 1885,
mention of which is given in the early
history OF Colorado and which was the
scene OF many lynchings and Indian
gatherings long before there was any
Pueblo This stump is about eight
feet below the surface of the street,
having been buried by the building up
of the grade.
c. H. Drage and his three sons.
Vivian, Leonard and Ralph, were
struck by lightning during a thunder
storm June 22d. on their ranch, three
miles southeast of Loveland. They
were all knocked down and rendered
unconscious. The lightning struck