The Lamar register., 1906-01-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Score one more for Colorado. JON
| Sanders, the six-months-old son o
Justice of the Peace John G. Sanders
of Florence, has cut both his ey'
teeth.
The place OF b. H. Freeman. com
missioner of Phillips county. who re
signed recently has been filled b.
Governor Mcdonald by the appoint
ment of Henry Mitchell.
The Colorado Springs Humane So
ciety has affiliated with the Stat,
Bureau of Child and Animal Protec
tion. DIR. w. +. Slocum is president
and w. F. Richards, secretary.
The Colorado Conference of Chari
ties and Corrections will be in session
at Pueblo January 21st to 23d. 1t viii
be an important gathering with many
delegates and prominent speakers.
Louis r. Smith, the timber warder
charged with carelessness and inelli
cheney in connection with the Gylles
ten land deal, has been discharged
from Office by the State Land Board.
The secretary of agriculture has au
thorized the issuance of permits for
the grazing of 10000 cattle on the
Colorado part of the Medicine Bow
forest reserve and 10000 in Wyoming
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst. with
seventy-five charter members. John
G. Mccoy was elected president; Rob
ert S. Feeder. secretary; and Mrs. w.
w. Taylor, historian.
The bell boys in the different Den
yer hotels propose to form a club and
endeavor to build hotel, 10 be known
as THE Bells for the use of bell
boys and other male hotel employees
exclusively.
The cases against forty-one saloon
keepers of Cripple Creek and Victor
were dismissed on agreement of the
defendants not to he open Sunday, to
pay all costs and to aid in the enforce
ment of saloon and gambling laws.
The weather bureau at Denver re-
ports that during the sixty-eight days
intervening between October Both anG
January 9Th, there was no precipita-
ton, and only four days during that
period when bright Colorado sunshine
did not prevail.
A verdict of suicide was rendered at
Colorado Springs by the jury in tne
case of L. Crane Wilson, the wealthy
Chicago shirt manufacturer who was
found dead with a bullet in his brain
on the Franceville road, eight miles
east of the city.
The law library of the late Senator
Z. o. Wolcott, consisting of 10000 vol
umes, has been purchased for the new
Symes block, now in course of con.
struction in Denver. 1t is considered
the best collection of law books in
Colorado.
Charles w. Martin. a former we'll
known Colorado hotel man. having
been manager of the Denver Club, as.
sistant manager of the Antlers at Colo
Tado Springs, and manager of Hotel
Colorado at Glenwood, died at Canton,
Ohio, January 9th.
The farmers in the Arkansas valley.
north and west of Lamar. and north of
Las Animas, are rejoicing in the pros
pect of new railroad, which will be
commenced this spring and pass
through the northern part of Prowers,
Bent and Otoro counties.
While skating on Hayden's lake near
Boulder on the night of the 5th inst,
Irvine Finpey, aged seventeen, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Young Finney's father was killed by
an explosion of giant powder at Neder-
land only about two weeks before.
Postmasters appointed: Edward u.
Wise, Cuatro, Las Animas county,
vice c. c. McWilliams. resigned;
Charles L. IIuggins, Pallas, Routt
county, vice b. G. Myers, resigned;
Ollie j. Wniford, Pearl, Larimer
county, vice NJ. Crawford, resigned.
January 10th has been set as the
date for the farewell reception to the
officers of the Second Infantry to be
given by the Denver Chamber of Com
mcrcc. The affair is to be rendered as
a testimonial TO the officers prior to
their departure for the Philippines.
Among the commissioners selected
to test and examine the weight and
fineness of the coins reserved to the
several mints during the calendar year
1905. pursuant to the provisions of sec
tion 3547 of the revised statutes, is
John l.. Mcneil, Durango, Colorado.
A conference of western colleges
will be held at Colorado Springs Feb
ruary 22d and 23d. Among the main
topics discussed in addition TO foot
ball and school discipline. will be the
support of colleges which are depend
ent upon neither church nor state
treasures, but rather upon individuals,
In the District Court at Greeley
Judge GarriSues handed down an i'm
portant opinion. He holds that sec
ton II of the revenue act. eXemptine
all notes secured by mort gage or trust
deeds from taxation unconstitutional
and that it is the duty of all assessors
in the state to list such property for
taxation. The case will probably be
taken to the Supreme Court.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Mrs. Helen NJ. Grenfcll as a member
of the board of control OF the State
Home for Neglected and Dependent
Children to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation OF Mrs. Louise l.. Ar
kins Mrs. Atkins wrote letter De
cember 18th resiening from the board
stating that she would be unable to al
tend any of its meetings for al leas
year as she is going out of Denver
in which the home is located.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection will endeavor to hav,
a bill passed by Congress, through tho
Offices of one ur more of the Colorado
members of ;hat body. compelling th'
railroads 10 give live stock shipment!
the right of way over dead freight an'
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