The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-12-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


timber in Tabasco, Mexico, for Den
yer and other Colorado capitalists.
Two dozen Japanese. lately arrived
have been put to work at Filler smelteT
at Pueblo. These are the first Asiatics
given employment by the smelling
company.
Kansas City papers announce that
F. G. Bonfils of the Denver Post is
preparing to build twenty-s.ory Office
building In that city, to be fireproof
and cost from 100000 to 100000.
DIR. l.. F. Ingersoll. a pioneer physi'
clan Of Grand Junction. and one OF the
most prominent doctors In western
Colorado. died suddenly in his Office
on the Sth inst. of heart disease.
The colored orphanage at the Old
Folks Home In Pueblo was formally
dedicated with elaborate ceremonies
on Sunday. the 9th inst. A number
yer and other cities of the state were
present.
Harry Lee OF Colorado Springs. who
has made n considerable reputation by
photographing wild animals In their
native haunts. has gone to the racine
coast and proposes before he returns 10
attempt the ascent of Mount Mchln-
ley in Alaska.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed n committee consisting
of James r, Callbreath, Jr., George
ritch. Charles F. Onderdonk and IL.
A. Lindsey to confer with other com.
rittees in regard to celebration OF
Denver's scmi-centennial in 1908.
Boulder is ready to maintain Its
own high school free from connection
with the State Preparatory School and
m effort will be made to have the In
. oming Legislature do away with the
State Preparatory School altogether,
as the university no longer needs 1t.
Ten years Imprisonment and, fine OF
81 500 was the sentence imposed In the
federal court at Denver by Judge Rob
crt T.. Lewis on DIR. James Denslow Egg
les on, son OF President Eggleston OF
the Pacific Express Company. who was
convicted OF counterfeiting and max
ng Photographic negatives OF $40
LII.
T. S. McMurray OF Denver. vice pres
ident and general manager of the
Fort Collins Electric Street Railway
Company, and G. J. Hartman. superin-
t ndent of the electrical department OF
Fort Collins outlining plans for start
ing work on the Fort Collins street
railway.
A number of eastern physicians.
with ID. A. Garfield and Greeley bust
nj IS men. are planning to build a $780,
90 sanitarium on the hill south of
Greeley. If the project succeeds DR..
George Pogue of Greeley, who has had
ong and successful experience in the
reatment of tuberculosis, will have
charge of the institution.
Frank Miller, fifteen-year-old or
phan boy, living with II. L. Keller. on
a ranch three miles northwest of
Brighton, was found dead on the Sth
INST. He is believed to have swallowed
itrychnine because he feared he
would be arrested for stealing. as 1t
was alleged that he broke into a
atchel belonging to a workman and
= ob clothes.
Fifty Japanese arrived at the Pueblo
steel works a few days ago in charg
Il one Of the japanese employment
; cents who have been bringing AS at
, recently from Pacific coast points
-ost of these men are common labor
$, but few are skilled in certain
'ays and command fairly good wages
'-his makes n total OF nearly 600 Japs
IN the b ssemer colony.
David Babb. who is charged with the
murder of his wife's cousin, Bennett
,5uTle son. at Earl. thirty miles east of
Trinidad, was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Coney at Trinidad. where
he entered plea of not guilty and
waived preliminary hearing. He was
emovod back to the county Jail and
lis bond was fixed at $4,000. which he
was not able to furnish.
Word has been received of the es.
cape from the Jacl son, Missouri. jail
Kansas City. OF Henry Hurley. alias
Cd Foley, the notorious lone high
ayman" who terrorizCd scores Of drug
torres in Denver three years ago. and
Yho was sento need last spring by the
sansas City authorities to serve six
ears for highway robbery. A reward
Of 500 is offered for his arrest.
A few days ago what is known as
the w. L. Pabor house. on Seventh
street near Ninth avenue. one of the
Oldest landmarks in Greeley, was
-roved from where 1t had stood for
hirty-six years by the use of trac-
ion engine. The house. which is a
wo-story frame. was the handsomest
residence in Greeley VIII n built by w.
=. Pabor. secretary Of Union COLONY
row of Florida, in 1911. 1t has lately
been used as a blaci smith shop.
The Colorado-Yale Association will
hold its twenty-sixth annual meetin7
It the University Club in Denver, De-
cember 29'h. The officers of the club
re anxious to obtain the names and
Hddresses of all Yale men who have
ONE to Colorado recently AMI are no
ms mbers CT the club. as it was desired
% have all those who have attended
Vale present at the banquet. Theron
r. Field of the Colorado National Ban;
president of the club and Frederick
Il. Morley is secretary.
fhe Santa Fe Railway Company has
let n contract for the extension and i'm
provement of the depot and eating
house at La Junta. The depot will be
extended 100 feet. the lower portion
to be used for waiting rooms and of
ce. and the two upper stories by the
Harvey company as a hotel. The bag
gage shed will be built west of the de.
not The size of the employees read
ing room will be doubled. The Wells
Fargo Express Office building will be
doubled in size
In common with tho citizans NJ III,