The Lamar register., 1906-02-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ganized a fiourishing society.
Two companies of cadets have been
organized at the University OF Denver.
Golden will make a bid for the loca-
tion of the Colorado & Southern new
car shops.
A national golf tournament is being
planned for the Pixies Peak centeh-
NAL celebration at Colorado Springs
Mai. Aaron Cove of Denver has been
before the Senate committee on the
Philippines in opposition to the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tariH.
Wallace Elliott of La Junta was
killed at Guanaju juato, Mexico, by con
tact with 1.-Two electric wire. HIS re-
mains were b.sught home for inter-
ment.
T. A. Gunnell, father of Judge A. 1.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs. died at
his home in Colorado Springs on the
18th instant at the age of eiShty-h'e
years.
A company of Durango men being
organized to build $4,000 hotel Is
headed by Giles T. Vandergrift, rom
Lofts and Charles Z. Herr. Ihir'y
Thousand dollars has been pledged
George f. Doane, the man who TO-
Gated Aspen, and who later located the
Roane- Rambler mine near Battle Lake
Wyoming, which he sold for $2'ooo'-
900, died at Denver on the 14tn III
stant of heart failure.
A collision between Santa re tram
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted III
the smashing of Pueblos newest anu
best steam fire engine, which cost 80
600 In running to fire the driver
got in front of freight tra-l.
Charles c. Welch. an employe OF the
Globe smelter in Denver. committed
suicide on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing strychnine and laudanum. Ill
health, by reason of inhaling gas
fumes, is supposed 10 be the cause.
The city and the Rio Grande rail
road will Jointly build new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000 1t will be modern
structure of concrete, sixty feet wide
and 100 feet long, with center pier
George Marshmann, who held up a
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago. pleaded guilty
to highway robbery and was sentenced
in the District Court at Brighton TO
from eight to ten years in the penlten-
tiary.
j. u. Vigil, Democratic candidate FOR
county clerk of Las Animas county,
and whose Office was contested for by
Eugene Garcia, Republican candidate
the latter having been given the office
by the Supreme Court, has hied mo
ton for "a rehearinS.
Governor Mcdonald has received a
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
ton for distinguished services The
hol in,
RADIO exhibit success and made a
speech on Colorado Day.
To test the constitutionality of the
law and decide the question whether a
horse with "A docked tail can be I'M
ported to Colorado the cases against
Charles E. Stubbs and Nehemiah Fit,
zell in the District Court at Denver
will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The yacht Anemone, which G. l..
Tut of Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu. has a
Denver registry Mr.. Tutt wanted to
give the boat Colorado Springs reg
istry, but that city not being port OF
entry, he was compelled to register the
yacht at Denver, or go outside of Col
orado, which he would not do.
Because some one had a real or fan
cied grievance against CandidO Barela,
Republican member of the last Legis-
lature, an attempt was made to blow
his saloon and another building ad-
joining off the face of the earth with
dynamite. at Weston. sixteen miles
west of Trinidad, on the night of the
18th instant The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued to the fol
lH..I.. L.. Lob
guson, Denver, press for concrete
building blocks: James F. Ferry, Lead
Vile, cooking utensils; Eli Forester,
Denver. railway rail joint; Frank w.
jacques, Victor, ore sorting belt: ID. c.
Mosher. Manitou. barrel filter; James
Z. Pitman. Gold HILL trap; Paul II.
Widman, Denver, acetylene gas appar'
atus.
The fact that F. j. Sachs was, inten-
tionally or otherwise, very bad
marksman probably saved him from a
penitentiary sentence in the District
Court at Pueblo. He was accused of
assault with intent 10 kill Edward
Russell, at whom he fired fourteen
shots without effect, but was permit
ted to plead guilty to assault with a
deadly weapon and got off with about
$500 fine and costs.
Another and still more unique plan
has been proposed in connection with
the movement to start library in the
National Union Printers Home at Col
orado Springs. 1t was at first planned
to have each delegate to the Interna-
tional Typographical Union convention
in this city next August bring at Least
one work of fiction. The scheme was
enthusiastically adopted, and more
than 1000 volumes are thus assured.
BY the decision of Judge Riner in
the federal court at Denver the gov
ernment has failed in collecting an
extra $1,000 in revenue stamps which
the revenue officials held should have
been affixed by the late w. S. Stratton
to his deed to the Venture corporation
of London. They sued the executors on
the ground that the consideration of
5000, 900 named in the deed was only
half the sum really paid. Judge Riner
held that the collection of taxes of that
kind is not in the power of the govern
ment by such proceedings.
Company II of the First Colorado
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