The Lamar register., 1906-08-01
COLORADO NEWS HENS

dered a deposit of $4,000 in the First
National Bank of Alamosa.
Rural route No. l is ordered estab-
lisned October list at Olney, otero
county, Colorado, serving 800 people
and ninety-six houses.
The new Roman Catholic church of
st. John the Baptist was dedicated at
Longmont Sunday, July 22d. The
building is fine one and cost over
$4,000.
The Pixies Peak Press Club OF Colo
rado Springs will give dramatic en-
tertainment August 18th for the benefit
of the entertainment fund of the Inter
national League of Press Clubs.
The Western Stock Show Associa-
ton is preparing a program and pre-
1nium list for the next exhibition,
which will be held at Denver, January
Path next, lasting the entire week.
A new and gorgeous Chinese joss
house, or temple of worship. has been
opened on Market street between
Twentieth and Twenty-first in Denver.
1t is full of expensive images and dec
orations.
Lars Nelson, who died in Denver re-
Gently of pneumonia. was one of the
largest land owners and stock grow
ers of Park county. having lived on
the Cottage Grove ranch near Alma
since 1873.
Bids for new Denver postoffice
site will be opened at the office of the
secretary of the treasury, Leslie NJ.
Shaw. in Washington on August 18th.
All bids must come within the limit of
100000.
Escaping only with the clothes they
were wearing, David F. How, chief IL
cense inspector, and family, and
party of friends camping near Anto-
nito, suffered the loss of their entire
camp by fire.
G. p. Miller, employed on the Mer-
ritt lease of the Reno property on Gold
mill in the Cripple Creek district, was
killed by an explosion on the MOI ming
of July eth. The accident was due to
a missed shot.
From thirty-acre apple orchard
upon his farm. nine and one-half miles
west of Denver. c. L. Parfet will ship
this year 10000 boxes of apples, II the
present indications of ninetHtwo per
cent. crop are fulfilled.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of j. Fl.
Slater. J. w. Boiling. w. Bailey, George
w tiSDdu. SldllCS w NdISltu anu oAh'iS
to organize the First National bank OF
Eads. with $4,000 capital.
l.. S. Barnes, an old soldier and a
pioneer resident of Colorado. has been
appointed Superintendent of the state
fish hatchery at Durango to take the
place of w. f. Patrick. who recently
was removed by the state game and
fish commissioner.
Fortimo Naveretto, the Mexican
who shot the hat of another Mexican's
head at North Longmont, was bound
over to the District Court. Naveretto
is brother of the Naveretto who
stabbed to death Yenes Dais near the
Longmont cemetery year ago.
Because of the Mexican law which
prohibits the removal of BODY from
that country in less than three years,
Stanley Pearce, the metallurgical eN-
pert, of Denver. who died at Magda-
lena, Sonora, July 10th, will be buried
there.
BY a proclamation of Governor Nc
Donald Wednesday, August LIST, the
thirtieth anniversary of the admission
of Colorado into the Union, was de-
clared a half holiday, and the state Of
fees ordered closed during the after
noon.
The cornerstone of the new worIan's
pavilion of the National Jewish Hes
pital for Consumptives at Denver was
laid Sunday, July 22d, under the aus
pices of the Independent Order of Bnai
Birth, Rabbi Friedman delivering the
principal address.
The value of the peach crop of
Grand valley for the season of
1906 will exceed last years crop
l. 10. 10 h.,
servative estimate made by the most
experienced fruit growers in Grand
junction. Many assert that 1t will eN
ceed last years crop by 100000.
Private George S. Smith, Company
try, was drowned in the Pike View
reservoir. near Roswell. in FL Paso
county, July 21st. He was one of the
soldiers marching overland from Pu-
eblo to Cheyenne. and was taken with
cramps while in swimming.
The Grand Junction Chamber OF
Commerce has telegraphed the secre-
tary of the Colorado State Commercial
Association that 1t will take con-
siderable amount of space in the pro-
posed state exhibition car which will
be sent East this fall to exhibit the
products of Colorado at state fairs.
John F. Gamsby, in charge of the
Emerald lakes fish hatchery. in the
southwestern part of the state, has
taken large amount of spawn this
year. The season began June 29th and
ended July 21st, and they took 1881
coo eggs. The largest amount taken
in one day was 100000 on July 10th.
OF the eggs taken 4,524,0G0 go to fill
the state hatcheries at Durango, Den
yer, Gunnison and Emerald lakes.
J. R. De Remer. a noted civil en-
gineer, died at Denver, July 26th, from
stroke of paralysis. Mr.. De Remer
was in charge of the construction of
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
through the Royal Gorge and built the
remarkable swinging bridge. He was
also builder of the old De Remer opera
house in Pueblo. His work will long
be seen in many of the most important
pieces of engineering in Colorado.
The geological survey has made an
allotment of money for and will soon
commence the topographic survey of
the Fort Collins. Livermore and Love
land quadrangles in Colorado anu the
initial survey and triangulation of the