The Lamar register., 1906-12-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

shops ana round houses in Denver and
enlarge its yards next year at cost
OF about 100000.
The Greeley Gas and Electric Com
pany has purchased a site and will
erect an extensive gas plant, with all
the latest improvements.
AT the Empson Canning Companys
plant in Longmont 600 tons of Colo
bridegroom pumpkins are piled up
awaiting the canning process.
The new federal building at Trinidad
is to be located on East Main street 1t
will contain the postofiice, federal Off
ces and federal court room and will
cost 100000.
The United States surveyor gen
erals department for Colorado in Den
yer has been moved to the fifth floor
of the new Empire building at Six
teenth and Glenarm streets.
President s. S. Bernard of the
Cripple Creek Drainage Tunnel Com.
pany has called meeting OF the direct
ors for December 18th. when definite
action will be taken with regard to the
tunnel.
Samuel Mcfarland. a miner at work
in the Specimen mine on Bull hill. in
the Cripple Creek district was caught
and instantly killed by falling rock on
the night Of December goth. He leaves
n widow and three children.
Will Eaton. the nineteen-year-old
boy bound over at Greeley to the May
term of the District Court on the
charge of attempting to kill his
mother. was allowed to plead guilty
and was sentenced to the State reform
atory.
At hearing in Denver December
21st, Judge Armour made an order ad-
hitting to bail in the sum of $1,000
each Geret J. and Wourtje Van Wyk.
pending new trial for murder. An
application for a change of venue has
also been made.
Nathan A. Baker. a Denver pioneer
and veteran of the Civil War, has just
sold tract of land in West Denver
for 100000. The tract was pre-empted
from the government by Mr.. Bakers
father at the time of the first settle
ment of Denver.
Plans are being arranged by which
the city hall of Denver. the downtown
fire stations, city shops. city street
cleaning department and city market
will all be supplied by the 100000
electric light plant that will be placed
in the new auditorium building.
A son born to DIR. and Mrs. Gerald
Webb at Colorado Springs few days
ago. is the only greatgrandson of JET
ferson Davis, president OF the
Southern ConfeIeracy. Mrs. Webb is
a daughter of Mrs. J. A. Hayes. and
granddaughter of the dead Southern
leader
The Cripple Creek Short Line will
next summer establish a system OF
wireless telegraphy in connection with
the train service between Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek. The appa.
ratus will be installed in each observa
tion car, the sender and receiver be
ing attuned to the same pitch as that
of the Forest wireless system at the
Springs.
The damage case for assault brought
by J. X. Mullen. the mill owner
against Lawyer Tyson S. Dimes al
Denver. has been settled out of court.
After plenty of time for reflection, Mr.,
Dimes concluded that he was in the
wrong and wrote an ample apology. He
also agreed to pay all costs incurred by
Mr.. Mullen, who Immediately Withdrew
his suit.
The Mountains Reservoir Company
which has incorporated with a capital
of $125,000. proposes to operate several
reservoirs in Clear Creek. Jefferson
and Arapahoe counties. known as Loeb
Lomond. Lake Caroline. Lake Stew
art. Gilman lake, Ice lake. Chinn'.'
lake and Fall River reservoir. Water
will be taken from Fall river. Clear
e * and the Agricultural ditch
The following letter was received By
the state treasurer at Denver n few
days ago: Dear Sir:-Having broken
the laws of the state of Colorado,
Ia, .,ls ,i,,ht l.,s
closing So Respectfully yours Nc
name was signed TO the letter. but the
money was enclosed. 1t is the first
conscience money ever turned into the
state trea jurer's office. No explana
ton was made regarding the manner OF
breaking the law.
Mrs. Jas. NJ. Lehman, eighty-three
years old and an invalid, who for sew.
eral years had been a county charge
was burned to death in her cabin in
the west end of Idaho Springs. on the
afternoon of December 21st. She had
been sufferer from paralysis. and it is
supposed that some rags hung up to
dry near the stovepipe, caught fire
and that when she tried to extinguish
the blaze the flames were communi
Gated to her clothing.
w. II. Pigg has imported twenty.
seven young elk from Rawlins. Wyom
ing, for his Stirrup ranch near Canon
City. He has a game preserve of roc
acres enclosed with an eight-foot wire
fence. For several years Mr. Pigg has
been breeding elk and deer and has
found it more profitable than the cattle
business. Already Mr. Pigg has about
thirty elk and a big herd of deer, ana
his experience is that they thrive in
captivity under the proper environ.
ment.
purse of twenty s5-sold pieces was
the handsome Christmas gift presented
to Mrs. Harriet b. Edgerton of the
Twenty-fourth Street school in Denver
at the closing exercises before the hol-
idays. Mrs. Edgerton. who has been
teaching in the district schools for
thirty years, resigned not long ago and
the anonymous giver wrote that
teacher who had spent thirty years in
the service should receive more sub
stantial testimonial than vote of
thanks
Twenty-seven tons of honey the
largest amount ever gathered by bees
belonging to any one person in Weld
county, was made this season by 500
colonies of Italian bees. owned by
Charles Adams who liyes five r,iI.s