The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-04-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


surplus OF s150,3S5. an increase of sss,'
100.
The water bond election at Rocky
Ford April I'd resulted in the defeat OF
the proposition to issue bonds by a
majority OF IA.
George B. Walker. a well known min
eral surveyor, died suddenly of heart
disease at his home in Breckenridge
on the night OF April I'd
E L. Phillips of Lopgmont. has been
awarded the contract for grading the
new Colorado e. Southern branch from
Plummer's beet dump to Black Hollow.
nine miles.
Attorney James ID. Merwin. who was
a candidate for governor of Colorado
on the Popuiist ticket in 1904. died at
his residence in Denver April 5th, OF
acute pneuIponia.
The Las Animas County Bar Asso-
citation gave banquet March 31st to
Judge Jesse G. Northcutt, who has re-
signed TO his successor, Henry Hunter
of Walsenburg.
At a recent meeting at Colorado
Springs the executive committee of the
Pixies Peak Centennial celebration
elected Thomas F. Walsh director gen
eral of the celebration.
Lieutenant General Miles. formerly
COMMUNICATIVE of the United
States army, will make the commence
ment address at the University of Col
orado June 9th of commencement
week.
On the night of April LIST the safe in
the Union Pacific depot at Fort Lup-
ton was blown open by dynamite and
robbed of $50. Railway tickets and
other valuable papers were unmo
Tested.
Bills raised from the denomination
of 81 TO $40 have been circulated al
Trinidad and officers of the secret ser
vice in Denver were notified Many OF
these bills have also been circulated
in Las Vegas and Raton-
Five extraordinary candidate were
Initiated by the Florence aerie OF
Eagles one night recently. Each was
six feet or more in height. their aggre-
gate length being thirty-one feet one
inch, and their aggregate weight 1,10V
pounds
+. r. Harper of Gunnison county and
John Saxton of Pueblo have been con-
stitufed a commission to go into Cone
jos county and check up On behalf OF
the state the books of the defaultins
treasurer of the county, Charles Fl.
Brickenstein.
A record automobile run from Pu-
eblo and Colorado Springs to Denver is
one of the features planned by the au-
tomobile enthusiasts of these cities.
who will visit Denver for the annual
automobile show TO be held at Coli
scum hall April 18TH TO 2lst.
Congressman Bonynge has appointed
- ~ LII. ut
nix, of Denver, as a candidate for ad-
mission to the Annapolis naval acad-
envy. II young Mulnix passes the ex-
animation he win succeed Thomas
withers. who graduates this spring
Miss Maude Heinze of Creole com
mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the heart in a room at the
Windsor hotel in Del Norte, April I'd.
Miss Heinze, who was twenty-three
years Of age. was a somewhat noted
yiolinist. A broken marriage engage
ment and accompanying dependency
is believed to have been the cause OF
her suicide.
That hen can live twenty-five days
without food WAS proven by the iiber-
ating of two Plymouth Rock chickens
entombed in a big snowdrift in the
storm of March list. to which success
sive storms had added. When released
they Immediately began eating and
seemed none the worse for their i'm.
prisonmeut, save that they were re-
duced almost to skeletons.
A. d. Jones died at Colorado Springs
April Sd of paralysis. Mr.. Jones was
one of the locators of the famous Phar-
macist mine in Cripple Creek and was
prominent in its management until his
10 Gf rha hast known
Democratic politicians of Colorado
Su-fngs and WAS well known among
the Masons and Knights Templar, with
whorne he WIS affiliated.
Plans for the extension of the Union
depot at Denver for an increase of
trackage are now being completed by
the Union Pacifics chief engineer nj
Omaha. 1t is expected that hey will
be forwarded to Denver within thirty
days and contracts let for the enlarge
ment OF the terminal facilities. The
purchase of the Union Pacific of prop
erty on Nineteenth and Wewatta
streets for 100000 completes the nee
essary amount of ground needed for
the improvements.
The report of the United State Land
Office at Hugo for March shows that
the record was again broken for the
number oil nunpS. lneTe DtlnB tOtdl
of 252 as compared with 225 for Febrn-
airy, the greatest number in any pre-
vious month. For the first quarter 'of
1906 there was total Of G31 filings, as
compared with $50 at the Pueblo Land
Office. During the first five days OF
this month there were fifty-nine i'll
inss. which is a good Indication that
the record will be broken again this
month.
Patents have been issued 10 invep-
tors residing In Colorado as follows: s
F. and Will Card, Denver. lubricator
for slide gearings; Arthur X. Curtis,
Golden. igniter for internal combustion
engine; Ed T. Forester. Denver, rail
fastener; Richard c. Hills, Denver.
conveyor; Frederick C. knight and H
V. Pearce, Denver, assignor of one
third to Pearce, natural draft regener-
ator for furnace fiues; Jesse r. Moler.
Heinsley and S. l.. Phillips. Denver,
garbage can; William Squirer. Denver,
door holder.
Fourteen and fifteen-pound Canadian
geese are being brought into Cheyenne
by hunters from Pine Bluff and
Smeed, stations on the Union Pacific