The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-11-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

40 HohLAays thC ihots
The Denver branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will distribute
6.60O garments among unfortunate and
needy families in Denver this year
Thanksgiving day concerted effort
will be made at Colorado Springs to
raise fund for the proposed 100000
deaconess hospital. genera collec'
ton will be taken in all the churches
The Jewish Free Loan Society at
Denver. organized to lend money with
out interest to needy and worthy per
sons, has loaned over $4,000 during
the past three years without losing n
cent.
The Presbytery of Denver at re-
cent meeting adopted resolutions in
honor of the late Prof. Thomas Nelson
Haskell, the founder of Cutler Acad-
envy and Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
A movement is on foot to secure
the erection of a $4,000 Y. NJ. c. A
building in Canon City next summer
A bequest of $4,000 by the late F. A.
Reynolds will serve as nucleus for
the fund.
The Northern Colorado Poultry AS
scciation, which will give a show at
Boulder December 18th to 18th. in
elusive, has already secured the prom
Use of twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes.
The Denver G. Rio Grande railroad
will erect a handsome new depot at
Canon City next spring at cost OF
about $4,000. The present building
will be removed to another site and
used as freight depot.
Harrison Parks, town marshal OF La
fayette committed suicide on the TIN
inst. by shooting himself through the
head. Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause of his action
He was fifty-two years old and leaves
a wife and five children.
On the Sth inst Andrien Adamson.
driver in the mine at Tertio, near Trim
idad, was killed while going out with
train of cars. He fell off the driveway
and broke his neck. Andriccon Jar
milo, Mexican working in Tertlo
was killed the same day by fall or
rock.
According to n report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver. M. fakutomi'
the japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado.
and was spirited out of the United
States by his countrymen.~fel or.
Jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned.
Frank Job, night boss at the Hast
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad, was killed on the 81
inst. by lump of coal crushing MS
breast. He was standing fifty feet
from the explosion of shot, winch
Mas always been regarded safe DIS
lance. He was thirty eight years old
anG leaves a widow and two children
An Albuquerque. New Mexico, dis
pat cir of the. 7th inst says: A sheep
man named Charles w. Darneli, from
Windsor. Colorado, was run over ana
killed in the Santa Fe yards at Belen
New Mexico, this morning. He was
walking along the track with com
panion when he was knocked down by
train and ground to death under the
wheels.
Every Coloradan away from nome
in the state will be offered an oppor
tunity to go home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action OF the
Colorado Passenger Association.
which has arranged for holiday rates
varying from one fare for the round
trip on the mountain roads to n rare
and a third for the round trip on the
prairie fOauS.
Thomas Free1 of Eaton died at the
Greeley hospital on the 4th inst. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided in
Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one oil the
most daring cowboy riders OF the
range During the last ten wears or
his lifa he has been in the stock
business and owned n string OF valu-
able running horses.
A report was made to Governor Nc
Donald on the Sth inst. by the snecial
examining committee appointed u"
make regular examination oil IN"
state treasurer's books. The eXamina
ton extended over a period from May
LIST 10 October 18th. the present bal
ance on hand being S2,1o1.16S.3S. Tne
committee is composed of II. b. Mri-
nix. A. S. Wilson and Richard X. Kirk
The state fish and game department
has received notice Of one OF the biS-
gest payments of fine ever sent into
the office. The case was tried twice
in Meeker. the first jury dsaereeing
and the defendant, j. d. Clark. was
forced to pay $50 and costs, the latter
amounting to S176.90. He was con
victed by jury OF having Illegally in
his possession the parts of five deer
L. X. Smith and a number OF other
Fort Lupton capitals will build a
big reservoir costing $4,000 in the vi
entity of Fort Lupton, from which
some % 600 acres OF now non-irrigab,e
land will be brought under cultivation.
The reservoir is intended to conserve
the surplus over appropriated waters
Of the Fulton ditch and draw on t'lo
food and seepage water of the streams
in that vicinity.
The body of the man found dead on
the Union Pacific railway tracks near
tle depot at Evans has been Identified
as that of Adam Cock. potato picker.
who had worked for w. w. Fisher
Cocks head and upper part of his
body was crushed by freight Marks
or the legs, which were uninjured by
the cars, indicate that the man had
been stabbed with knife. and there
are indications that he was murdered
and thrown on the track to avoid sus
picion.
AS soon as Adjutant Albert NJ.
Southworth of the Denver division of
the Salvation Army is able TO collect
$500 he will establish in this city the
only Salvation Army industrial home