The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-11-07

The state convention of the Retail
Butchers and Grocers' Association
will be held at Pueblo January 18th
and 10th. 1t is expected that 200 dele
gates will be present and they will be
Hospitality entertained.
Charles E. Ward, prominent Den
Yer druggist, committed suicide in his
store on the morning of October 2Sth
He suffered from an abscess on the
brain and the pain had become I'M
bearable; so he took cyanide of potas
SUM to end it.
The cornerstone of the new Twenty
third Avenue Presbyterian church in
Denver, which is to replace the old,
historic, once removed building that
was burned six months ago. was laid
Sunday, October goth. The new build
ing Is to cost $4,000.
More than $500 people who came to
Colorado last summer with return
tickets, and left them at the Union
depot in Denver to be validated before
starting back, failed to call for the
tickets, having concluded to remain in
the state.
According to a report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver. NJ. Yakutomi.
the japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado.
and was spirited out of the United
States by his countrymen. fell or
jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama. and was drowned.
Because he thought his sweetheart
in Italy did not want to marry a
cripple, Tony Cancto, an Italian, COM
mi;ted suicide and was found dead at
his lodging house at Trinidad. He had
deformed leg. occasioned by an ac
cident two years ago.
While playing with a revolver that
he didn't know was loaded" Bert
Sutton, son of the mayor of Engle
wood. just south of Denver. shot and
Killed fourteen-year-old Frank RIFT
man while out hunting near Engle-
wood Sunday, October 2sth.
While on their way home on bi
cycles, Henry Roth and Philip Lauck.
car repairers for the Colorado &
Southern Railroad. living in Globe
Vile, were run down by Union Pa
cine switch engine mt Twenty-first and
Wcwatta streets in Denver and fa.ally
Injured.
As the result OF dispute over
pick and shovel at the farm OF Z. ii.
Day near Trinidad, Dominic Cesorio
IL alleged to have shot Raphael Ce-
sorio. his brother-in-law, through the
neck with n thirty eight caliber revol-
yer and also shot Raphael's wife
through the arm.
While engaged in switching cars at
the Burlington terminal in Denver,
Martin Phillips. thirty-three years old,
nephew of Thomas Phillips, super.
nf bn s.ff ctr ,la tvo
department. WIS knocked under the
wheels of car and instantly killed.
He leaves a widow and two children.
The annual report OF the Pueblo jul.
venile court, just issued, shows that
during the year fifty-four children
we're before the court, six being girls.
Fifteen boys were excused from fur
Their reporting to the court, they hav-
ing made good their promises. Six
teen boys were sent to the Industrial
school and three girls to the state in
sti;ution for girls.
While the family of ]. ]. Henry.
vice president of the Northern Colo.
Iadc Power Company. was at dinner
at his home in Denver Saturday night,
clever thief scaled the front porch
and looted three rooms upstairs of all
the valuables they contained. consist.
post box, jewels worth $1,000 and
bonds and stocks worth several hun
Gred thousand were taken, most of the
stocks and bonds being later found in
vacant house by two boys, who re-
turned them.
Kew. James Stanton, one of the old
est settlers in the vicinity OF Platte.
Vile, died October 31st of consump-
ton, aged fifty-nine. Mr.. Stanton
came to Platteville in the early seven
ties and was one of the .incorporators
of the town, where he lived for over
thirty years, with the exception of a
few years spent in Eaton as pastor of
the Congregational Church there. He
is survived by widow. two sons and
two daughters.
The October receipts of the Denver
postofice were SS,342.69, being the
largest in the history of the office for
any one month, and thirty-eight per
cent above those of September. The
postoffice sold during the thirty-one
days, 100000 1-cent stamps, 1000, 900
2-cent stamps and 100000 miscellan-
eous stamps. There were 100000 en-.
velopes and 100000 postal cards sold.
According to estimates made by the
| traffic department of the Colorado &
Southern and the Union Pacific. the
| potato crop of northern Colorado this
year will amount to about 10000 cars.
which will equal the big crop of last
year. Over the lines of the Colorado &
Southern 1900 cars have already been
shipped. which is more than had been
loaded by the LIST of November last
year. an. is the record breaker for this
early in the season.
Work is progressing on the founda
tions of the new Carnegie Library
building in Denver The site is be.
tween the mint building and the state
| house.
The recent big storm closed the
Pixies Peak cog road for a week. In
| clearing the road from timber line ia
the summit, the men had to shovel
| through snow from five to twenty-five
feet deep.
Elias Stefan and his wife, living
four miles east of Golden, had des.
Derate fight October 9th with George
| Shepherd, who stated that he was an
| escaped convict from the penitentiary
OF the state of Idaho. He threatened