The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-09-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

at Grand Junction September Goth &c
2Sth.
The fair at Hotchkiss, in Delta
| county, takes place September 2Gth &c
| 2Sth.
G. c. Bachelor, a pioneer of Bou!
der, died at his home in Boulder on the
| 9Th inst. at the great age of ninety
| three years.
Jacob Rush. father of State Senator
John A. Rush. died at his home in Den
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
II. w. Ward, prominent Canon
City contractor and builder, has been
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
The Flint Automobile Company, or
ganized by eastern capitalists, contem
plates building large factory in Del
yer at a cost of 100000.
While walking on the tracks of the
Colorado & Southern at Trinidad on
the 18th inst, Robert Wilson, aged fiji
ty-two years, was run over and killed.
He leaves n widow.
During the last twelve months in
Weld county 156 marriage licenses
were issued eleven divorces granted
and thirty-siX persons convicted, sew
enteen of whom were juvenile delin-
quents under sixteen years of age.
At Durango on the 9th inst. Sam
Nichols. aged fifty years, ranchman,
suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top of his head of in a liy-
cry stable with a revolver. He leaves
widow, son and two grown daugh-
tiers.
General Agent }. p. Hall of the
Santa Fe, on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water
melon Day at Rocky Ford, stated that
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended of the nineteen
that he has visited.
report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were sos marriages
and los divorces. The number of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one-half this year over last
While temporarily insane from men
tai and stomach trouble, James Fl
Arkush, a Denver insurance man. be.
longing to the firm of Lehman, Stew
art & Arkush, committed suicide on
the 18th inst. by shooting himself
through the head He is said to have
attempted suicide several times be-
fore.
The Greeley sugar factory began op
erations on the 18th inst. Eight thou
sand acres of beets were planted for
the Greeley factory and Will give an
average yield of twelve tons to the
acre. Eighty thousand tons of this
yield will be handled by the Greeley
factory and the remainder sent else
where.
In a quarrel over his refusal to pay
for l5-cent drink of whisky, Roy Has
kin, TWEEN. y-one-year-old vagrant, shot
and killed Andy Carlson. cripple,
who was porter in the saloon. at No
lans saloon in Denver. on the 18th
inst Haskin was arrested by Police
man Green and will be tried for the
crime.
Agent II. B. Kerr of the State Blu
reau of Child and Animal Protection
has fled complaint against Contractors
Orman & Crook. charging cruelty to
animals At camp No. 10, near Topo-
mas, Colorado. Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from sore should
ers. The animals were in charge OF
Foreman r. Davis.
The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce al
Colorado Springs. $500 for a stereopti-
con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
trict, to be delivered in the East. Grip
pie Creek and Victor, by their respect
i've City Councils. have each appropri
ated $3.50 for the same purpose.
Helen Thomas. daughter of Calvin
Thomas of Greeley, has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
cataloguing department of the library
of the state University of Michigan,
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas Is
a graduate of the Greeley High school.
State Normal School. Wellesley, and
Albany. New York. Library School.
Bert Mallen. sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary for embezzlemept
from the International Trust Company
at Denver. died of typhoid fever in the
prison hospital at Canon City on the
18th inst. A plea for his liberation was
made before the State Board OF Par
dons at its last meeting. but not acted
upon. reports seeming to indicate that
his illness was not dangerous.
Following are the newly elected Off
GERS of the Denver Live Stock Ex-
change: President, \. A. Blakely;
vice president. J. p. Adams; board of
directors for two years. Richard Brack-
enbury. c. j. Mann and Ben Kemper:
for one year. James Mckee and Clyde
B. Stevens; board of arbitration.
Henry Gerhard. ID. j. A. Richie and
NJ H. Mack; board of appeals, A. j.
Campion. A. Bosserman and Paul Hen.
derson.
The Christian Assembly Ranch
Company, an incorporation not for
profit, has been formed by members Cf
the Christian Assembly to establish
ranches near Denver for the purpose
of restoring fallen men and women
The leader of the Christian Assembly
in Denver is G. Frederick Fink. Last
summer. in Arlington park, at Denver,
the assembly camped out for several
! weeks Its members believe in healing
by faith. The directors of the Assem-.
by Ranch Company are Solomon w.
Hollenbeck. Layton S. Menich and
Lucky Hutchinson.
Crazed with whisky and believing
that he was going to be cheated in tn 2
division of wild plums which he had
helped pick. Ted Brown, twenty-three
years old. living at Ass Horn street,
Argo. fired two shots from .22-cal.
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