The Lamar register., 1906-01-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Union will meet at Colorado Springs
lin August. An immense gathering is
| expected.
In quarrel over a woman at Pue-
bio on the 10th inst, Gus Matthews, a
Ioolored man, shot and killed Frank
Smith, also co!ored. Matthews got
away.
The city physician of Victor has re-
Gently examined milk from fifty
dairies and reports that he found many
cans of watered milk and some bad
cases of adulteration.
Mason Weems has been sentenced to
the Buena Vista reformatory for eie Mt.
cen months by the County Court at
Golden. for stealing bicycles in Denver
and selling them in Golden.
William E. Sweet has donated $25,-
900 toward the erection of a 100000
~. NJ. C. A. building in Denver, pro-
vided the rest of the amount can be
raised by February 13, 1906.
Mrs. Gottesleben, wife of Peter
Gottesleben. pioneer and for many
years the leading jeweler in Denver,
died on the 18th inst. from injuries
received in getting off a street car.
Supervising Architect Taylor has
assigned Lee Ullery. superintendent
of construction of the Denver mint,
to take charge of the construction of
the federal building at Colorado
Springs.
A company of Cripple Creek men,
headed by F. j. Burk has closed long
term lease for 1G0 acres of state land
one mile south of Rockvale, in FIRE.
mont county, on which they will de-
velop the coal veins.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst. with
seventy-five charter members. John
G.. Mccoy was elected president; Rob
w. Taylor, historian.
John Meany, an employe at the
Workman mine. twelve miles from
Leadville, on the South Park line, fell
from a scaffolding sixty feet into the
shaft as he was going to work and only
received slight injuries.
The application of J. G. Forrest
]. A. Johnston, e. S. Duffy, George
II. Chessman and others to organize
the First National Bank of Ault with
S25,000 capital, has been approved by
the comptroller of the currency.
Governor Mcdonald has appoined
three delegates to the convention to
p' hNiu III w -. ~ CYL hhiy
18th for the drawing up of uniform di-
vorce laws. The delegates are Mrs.
C. C. Bradford, John DeWeese and r.
w. Bonynge.
The Longmont Electric Light and
Power Company has made arrange
ments with Lafayette coal fields to sup
ply its power, and the plant at Long
mont will be put out of commission as
soon as arrangements can be made
and the line built.
Gen. w. j. Palmer has granted a
lease for five years of block of
ground to be used for athletic pur-
poses by the Colorado Springs high
school. A club house, quarter-mile
cinder track and baseball diamond will
be built before spring.
w. Fl. Howard, retiring superintend-
ent of the Pueblo plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company
was presented with handsome gold
watch by the employees of the plant,
who also presented Mrs. Howard with
fine pair of opera glasses.
The state is now expenling $4,000
in building roads and bridges in the
southeastern counties. Charles w.
Wells of the state engineers office
recently started on an inspection tour
of the work in the vicinity of La
Junta, Las Animas, Lamar and Holly.
Mrs. Martha A. Hodges. widow of
James l.. Hodges, has been appointed
by Governor Mcdonald secretary of
the State Board of Arbitration. The
place carries n salary of 81 200 year.
The appointment is TO fill the unex-
pired term of Mr.. Hodges, who died
recently.
Sheriff o. p. Grimes of Ell Paso
county has announced the offer of
500 reward for the recovery of the
$3.50 Swiss repeater watch owned by
the late f. Crane Wilson, which was
not found upon the body of the sui
eide. Wilson's two sons want the
watch as remembrance of their
father.
The secretary of the interior is a1-
vertising for proposals for furnishing
10000 barrels of Portland cement on
cars at stations on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad between Cedar Creek
and Uncompahgre. Colorado, for uso
in connection with tba I!rccEirahsre
valley r-rdsIun project. Bids Will
be opened February 9th at Montrose.
The following government survey
ors are engaged in carrying out the
new survey III WtSltln Itoutl Iouhlg
William II. Clark. Benjamin +. Clar..,
James NJ. Clark, William S. Taylor. C.
c. Schrontz. Alonzo II. Adams, Albion
*. Vickery, William c. O'Brien,
Charles S. Booth. lie Roy Il. Young,
Frank L. Whitney. Fred C. Carstar-
phen and john +. Wilson.
The State Board of Equalization has
granted the county commissioners of
San Juan county authority to lower
the assessments on three railroads, the
Silverton railway, the Silverton North
ern railway and the Silverton, Glad
stone & Northerly railway. The
; ounty commissioners complained that
he assessments had always been too
high. being about $1,000 per mile in
comparison with s6.750 per mile paid
by the Denver & Rio Grande in the
same county.
The jury in the case of Joe Mattel
lt Trinidad returned verdict of mur
der in the second degree. Mattel was
accused of the murder of an old Mexi-
can sheep herder near Segundo four
years ago, this being the second time
he was tried, the jury disagreelng at
his former trial