The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

/ rricts OF the state CaIueMeu anu
sheepmen also Join the appeal for
help. which seems TO be general
Keep Your Money in Colorado" was
the motto on the banners and badges OF
the Colorado Manufacturers Associa-
/ ton on the recent excursion OF Us
members to prominent points in north
| ern Colorado.
Marcus Haines. prominent lawyer
and for sixteen years assistant district
attorney at Denver, died at his home in
Denver MAY 10th. of pneumonia. at the
age of forty-seven years. He leaves
widow and FIVE children.
The publishers of the city directory
at Denver for 1906 estimate the popu-
lation of the city at somewhere be
tween 1S5. 1000 and 10000. There will
be 10000 more names in the directory
than there were last year.
Leo Lermiseaux. a French boy. thir-
teen years of age. shot and killed an
Italian rancher named J. Parolino near
Hastings Tuesday. The boy was hunt
| ing and Paroline tried to drive him
away from his farm by shooting at
him.
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
tion destroyed the plant of the West
ern Glass Company at Denver on the
ith. The plant is a total wreck. at
loss of s150,000 The loss is two-thirds
insured. About 200 are thrown out OF
employment by the fire.
A very attractive program has been
arranged for the Pike Centennial at
Colorado Springs, covering the full
week from September 23d to September
29th. The entire state will join in the
celebration, and there will be large
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state.
The receiver of the Denver Savings
Bank announces that he will pay the
creditors another twenty per cent. divi-
dend within a few days and before the
year is ended. still another. making
total of seventy per cent. Checks are
now being sent out for the first OF
these dividends named.
Unofficial returns from the school
census show an increase in Cripple
Creek of twenty pupils over last year.
Victor has lost 200. The outlying
towns have gained practically all that
Victor has lost. Total decrease from
the district. 166. Total number OF
children of school age. 3,34i.
The Cathedral Fund Association has
been incorporated at Denver for the
purpose of receiving donations OF
money and property to create fund
10 aid in the construction. erection
and furnishing of a cathedral church.
The directors are John c. Martin. Will
lam Saver and Herbert Fairall.
The sum of s2,G05.7l was forwarded
TO Chairman Phelan of the citizens
relief committee of San Francisco by
Chairman Pfeiffer of the California re-
lief committee of Teller county on the
tn. col h
seribed by residents of the Cripple
Creek district and forwarded to Cal
ifornia to s1.G05.71.
Carleton Northcutt. son OF Judge
Jesse G. Northcutt, and John Hendrick
son of J. J. Hendrick, city attorney OF
Trinidad. have passed the final exam
nation for admission to the naval
academy at Annapolis. Both were
born and raised in Trinidad and re-
ceived their appointments through
Congressman Hogg.
Mrs. Julia NJ. Bayley, wife OF the
Rev. Frank 7. Bayley, pastor of the
Plymouth Congregational church in
Denver. died of pneumonia AT Snohom-
ish. Washington, on the Sd inst. Mrs.
Bayley had only recently reached that
place on a visit TO her son, the Rev.
Dwight S. Bayley. She had been res
ident of Denver for seventeen years.
Denver's last carload of clothing was
shipped by the Chamber OF Commerce
Relief Committee to Oakland to be
distributed by the Colorado Relief So
ciety among suffering hundreds who
formerly called Colorado their home.
and the contents of the car are now
clothing. warmly and neatly many who
lost their all in the San Francisco
catastrophe.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
the mark 90 of the New Orleans
, mint. and stamped with the dates 1895.
1896 or 1901. are being circulatsi in
Denver. and large number of the
coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
coins are underweight. have scarcely
any ring TO them. and most of them
have been merely washed in silver.
The first forty-fve miles of the
Northside canal of the Pathfinder irri-
CATION project on the North Platte
river were completed April goth This
canal was built jointly by the govern
ment and the North Platte Irrigation
& Colonization Company. of which H.
| ID. Lingle of Denver is chief owner. Ii
will reclaim $4,000 acres of corporation
land and a large area of public land
| lying in Wyoming and Nebraska.
The Moffat road has reached point
| beyond Sulphur Springs and a new
| station has been established at Pas
| chal. Track laying is progressing
daily, and freight is being moved west
of Sulphur Springs by every train that
| goes over the range. Kremmline. the
| point which will be the terminus Of
the road during the present summer,
is being rapidly built up. and will be a
| thriving town. The freight business
over the line is assuming large pro
| portions.
An appeal TO the teachers in every
school liz Colorado and Wyoming and
| also to the business men in both states
| to observe Flag Day. Thursday. June
| 18th, is contained in general orders is
| sued by Commander George w. Curf-
man of the Department of Colorado
and Wyoming. G. 4. X. The COM
mander asks that it be made a special
G. A. r. flag day in every city. village
and home in the department The bust
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