The Lamar register., 1906-10-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

As tHe result OIL carrying revolver
and dropping 1t, Walter Brundage o.;
Glllett, aged fourteen, suffers from a
bullet wound in his right knee cap.
w. b. Clifford, superintendent OF
schools at Aspen, has resigned on &C
count of i'll health and will be sue.
ceeded by E. W. Cox of Portland, In.
diana.
The First National Bank of lSads
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. J. II. Slater is
president, George WeisbroA. vice pres
idcnt, and E. NJ. Scheline cashier.
The liquor licenses of all Colorado
Springs druggists expired at mid
night october goth, with one excep-
ton. And there was not a quorum of
the Council in the city to grant re-
newals.
The recent big storm closed the
Pixies Peak cog road for a week. In
clearing the road from timber line to
the summit, the men had to shovel
through snow from five to twenty-five
feet deep.
Harry J. Macy, fruit grower at
Park Center, near Canon City. com
mitted suicide October 25th by taking
poison. The act Is attributed to the
destruction of his fruit crop by the
ilte StOTUl.
The Colorado Telephone Company
is building a line between Florence
ana Greenwood, fourteen miles south.
big farming section. 1t is the inten-
ton to make connections with farmers
houses later
BY examination of the records at
the office of the county clerk at Grip
pie Creek, it developed that 60.013 in
CT RIM In eli
l. 1899, the date that Teller county
was officially recognized.
Richard Ashton and Harry A. Clark
committed burglary and larceny in
Denver and were arrested, tried con-
vlcted and sentenced to the peniten-
t.ary all inside of two days. Ashton
got three to five and Clark two to
three years.
7 Thomas j. Brown was arrested n
few days ago in Denver for burglariz-
ing offices. He says that he isn't an
ordinary thief. but a bigliomaniac who
steals books for the love of them and
other things as a side line" TO keep
the pot boiling.
Mark G. Woodruff, register OF the
State Land Board. has resigned that
office to enter the government forestry
service as supervisor of the Pixies
Peak reserve. This is the most i'm
portant government reserve in the
state, as it reaches into Gilpin. Park,
Teller, Jefferson and FL Paso counties.
A million-dollar beet sugar factory
Is projected in the San Luis valley by
F.. X. Stark and associates of Colo
.rado Springs. with the cooperation OF
the San Luis valley farmers. An
las,, 10
CONSTRUCTED by s. S. Bernard. 1t is
said. that will irrigate 100000 acres
iof land.
The United Oil Company Is expend-
ing several thousand dollars remodel.
ing its refinery at Florence. Most OF
1.-The old frame buildings, erected
twenty years ago. will be torn down
land replaced with steel structures.
with the improvements the refinery
will be one of the most modern In the
West. and will nearly double its ca
pacity.
: Superintendent OF Schools L. C.
iGreenlee of Denver. has received let
ter from Presiden: Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University. and
: Superintendent Maxwell of the New
York City schools. saying that Denver
win be one of the cities to be visited
BY the Moseley party of British edu-
Gators who are coming to this country
in December.
The contract has been let for the
Durango city library to a Denver firm
for $1,000. In addition to this 1925
will be paid for two mantels. Andrew
Carnegie donated $12.5O0 for this Ii.
.hrary, and the site, two lots valued at
about $4,000. was donated by Gen. W.
j. Palmer of Colorado Springs. Du'
range has maintained public library
for more than year.
DIR. A. Bourquin. the French consul.
has filed a suit in the District Court at
Canon City against w. Fl. Smith and
others who are alleged to have sold to
DIR. Bourquin lands belonging to the
Canon City Land and Cattle Company,
together with horses and cattle on the
in consideration of $4,000
in cash and property in Denver and
'Arvada. DIR. Bourquin claims fraud
and Misrepresentation.
The Leadville police have been re.
.quested by Mrs. Bertha Shepherd of
1900 Champa street. Denver. to en-.
deavor TO locate her father, E. s
.Luntz In her letter Mrs. Shepherd
states that she does not know whether
her father, is dead or alive, but that
since he last wrote her. her brother
has died and she fears her father IL
ignorant Of his death. LuntZ is an old
soldier and draws a pension.
The fifteen-year-olh son of L. J.
Martin at Idaho Springs was killed by
a mine accident on the goth inst. The
young man was hoisting with within
and had a heavy bucket near the col
lar of the shaft when the beam broke,
tho swing of the sweep striking him
q. the base of the brain with great
force. The father. who was at work
at the bottom of the shaft, narrowly
escaped death by the fall of bucket
and rock.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
Is advertising the state in leading
commercial papers: In the October 18th
issue of the New York Commercial is
a full page advertisement setting
forth in an attractive manner Den
.yer's and Colorado's advantages. \
hirdseye view of Denver and one of
Colorado Springs are shown. There
are also photographs of the principal
hotels in both places. with their .oca-
lions and rates.