The Lamar register., 1906-08-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

some freight cars at Trinidad on the
10th inst.
The county commissioners of Boul-
der have appropriated SIS in aid of a
representation. of the county at the
> State Fair at Pueblo.
Former Iowa people had a reunion
at Eldorado Springs, in the canon
above Boulder on Saturday, August
4th. Several hundred were present.
1t is estimated that on recent
pleasant Sunday the railroads carried
as many as 5000 Denver people on
excursions into the mountains and to
other out-of-town resorts.
Capt. c. H. Warren of the Salvation
Army of Trinidad is planning to erect
permanent barracks for the army at
coct of $4,000, of which amount about
one-fourth has been subscribed.
Governor Mcdonald will be request
ed to open the annual flower show to
be held in North park, at Colorado
Springs, August 22nd to Gath inclusive.
by the Ell Paso County horticultural
society.
A terrific hail storm struck the coal
mining camps of Primero and Secundo
in Las Animas county on the 5th inst,
hailstones covering the ground to the
depth of six inches. Many windows
| were DTOken-
A branch of summer apples less
than eight inches long and containing
seventeen fine apples was recently on
exhibition at Joslin's dry goods store
in Denver from the farm of F. M. Oak
ley, six miles west of Denver.
Gaetano Fiurino, an Italian, living
on Delgany street in Denver, was shot
and killed by his wife on the 9Th, inst.
because he accused her of going with
| other men and started to write a let
ter to her brother in Italy, telling him
SO.
Thirteen cases of Illegal liquor sell
| ing brought by the town of Ault have
been decided against the liquor sellers.
The city administration, aided by citi-
zens, raised $500 and hired detectives,
whose work resulted in many convic-
tlons.
The body of the man found dead at
the headgate of Robinson's lake and
irrigating reservoir, eight miles north
of Denver on the Globeville road, on
the 5th. inst, has been identified as
that of Fred Luksik, resident of Den
| yer.
The offer of Abraham Bosler of Phil
adelphia to purchase certain of the
assets of the defunct Western Bank
at Denver. said to be worth $4,000.
for $4,000. was refused after an ex-
preston against it by meeting Of de-
positors.
During a panic on an Interurban
electric car at Trinidad. caused by fear
of being run down by a Santa Fe en-
gine, Mrs. Thomas Dowd. wife Of
Colorado G Wyoming engineer, resid-
ing at Jansen, fell and fractured her
right leg at the knee in an attempt to
jump from the car.
The beautiful granite monument
which is to be erected by the execu-
tors of the Stratton estate at the grave
of w. s. Stratton, in Evergreen GEM
ctery, at Colorado Springs. has been
completed and will arrive September
1st. The monument which cost $4,000.
will be set up over the grave without
public ceremony.
Harry Smith, who escaped from the
State Reformatory at Buena Vista,
March 5, 1905, wher he was impris-
! oned for highway robbery, was cap
tured at Denver on the 5th inst. He
had become enfeebled and exhausted
and made his way to Denver to obtain
relief from his parents.
The Denver & Intermountain rail-
road has been having a new line sur
yeyed from Johnson's Crossing for
short distance up Clear Creek canyon.
This road was formerly the Denver,
Lakewood & Golden, and is operated
between Denver and Golden partly by
steam and partly by electricity. 1t is
| denied that any immediate extension
is contemplated.
Insane jealousy over his young and
pretty wife was the cause of murder
| nd ROnSp-
camp thirty miles north of Trim
idad, on the 7th inst. when
Juan Duran. Mexican. fired
two bullets into the body of his wife,
Isabella Duran, killing her instantly.
and then ended his own life with Il bull
let through the heart.
Mayor Speer of Denver has APP
pointed full list of delegates 10 the
National Irrigation Congress, which
meets at Boise. Idaho, September Sd
to Sth. Frank B. Goudy. a vice presi-
dent of the congress, will nave charge
of the Colorado delegations. Among
the addresses to be delivered will be
enc on DRY Framing" by Robert
Gauss of the Denver Republican.
An examination will be held in Den,
yer August 29th for stenographcrs and
tyrewriters in the Panama canal and
Philippine services. Only men are ell
eible as applicants. The age limit
ranges from twenty to forty-hve m the
Panama service and from eighteen 10
forty in the Philippines. Successful
competitors have good chance of Sc
curing positions, as there has always
heretofore been dearth of applicants.
improvements amounting to almost
S5 900 on the hospital and dormitories
of the Teller Indian Institute at Grand
Junction are announced by Superln-
tendent Burton. The hospital is being
moved to a new site and when finished
will be one of the best in the West.
Plans for s25. 900 dormitory are being
drawn in Washington and when COM
pleted the Teller school will be in
condition to receive 100 more pupils
than at present. 1t will then RANK with
the first Indian schools in the coun-
try.
The following have passed the exam
ination by the state board for admis-
sion to the Colorado bar: Wilbur NJ,
Alter. Winton NJ. Ault, Ralph Aionzo
Coan, Clyde E. Ellis, Alonzo NJ. Emigh'