The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-05-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

the District Court docket at Pueblo.
The State Land Board has appointed
w. y. Fairfax OF Pueblo as timber COM
missioner.
The United Presbyterian church ded'
icated handsome new church build
ing at Loveland Sunday, April 29th.
The Helen Hunt school in Colorado
Springs won prize of s25 for the best
showing of any school in the city on
Arbor Day.
The Twin Lakes people think they
see good prospects of the building OF
an electric line from Ieadville to the
lakes.
J. J. Harbeck, now at Nice, France,
recently cabled subscription of $1,000
to the fund being raised for first-class
hotel at Boulder.
Delta is making a determined effort
TO secure the new Presbyterian Col
lege that is to be located somewhere
on the western slope.
All the principal stations on the
transcontinental railroad lines in Col
orado have done good work in feeding
san Francisco refugees.
The Colorado Chautauqun assembly
at Boulder will open July 18th and con
tinue for five weeks. A handsome cat
.alogue is sent free on application.
R. B. Hurst of the naval hospital
corps announces that May list pe,,lia-
inent recruiting station will he estab-
lished by the Navy Department at Pu-
eblo.
The works of the American Prcduc-
tion Company at Buena Vista are busy
turning out rubber from the rubber
scale.
The San Francisco relief committee
at Cripple Greek sent $4.4SO in five
dollar gold pieces to the stricken city
in one installment by express-and
then went on raising more money.
Mrs. Laura A Lane of Florence, who
was thought TO have persisted in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire.
writes that she had narrow escape
from death and lost all her household
effects.
The Union Pacific gasoline motor
car betwees Denver and Greeley has
been taken off. 1t is stated that IL was
only placed on the line for trial prr
poses AMI that the experiment WAS un-
successful.
w. B. Hough, one of the pioneer
members of the Boulder lodge of Ma
sons, pioneer school teacher of Bonl-
der county, and one of the oldest mem
bers of the Delta Phi Delta. died at
Boulder, April 18th, aged seventy
years. He had been resident of the
county for over twenty years.
Plans for the entertainment of the
Missouri Pacific immigration Bureau
in Denver in June provide for state
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State Commercial Association on June
18th, a trip over the Moffat road on the
following day and an automobile trip
through the city of Denver itself on
the morning of June 18th.
Perry Beeney George w. Ball sher-
if of Washington county. and Ezra
Stone appeared before Judge Robert f.
Lewis of the federal court at Denver.
May I'd. 10 answer to an Indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury
charging the two first with gross land
frauds. and the last with cutting tim
Der from government reserves.
On MAY 2d Lige Yoakum. a young
man of twenty-one years. working with
| gang OF lumber choppers at Carlisle,
| near Portland. in Fremont county,
where they are getting out ties for the
new electric railroad had his foot sew
cred from the ankle at the sawmill
used in the camp. He was taken to
Graves hospital in Canon City.
1t is reported at Boulder that the
Colorado 4 Southern company will
electrify its road between Denver and
Boulder and perhaps further north, and
will secure power from the Westing-
house company. which is backing the
Henry deal in the purchase of the Boul-
der Electric Light & Power COmpany's
plant. and which is to put up o $1,000
600 electric plant at or near Lafayette.
The following new patents have
been issued to Colorado inventors: AL
fred f. Johnson, Denver. assignor to
johnson Furnace & Engineering Com
pany, Colorado Springs. furnace; Pc
ter A Mortensen, Sanford. whistle;
Edwin A. Sperry. assignor. one-third to
w. G. Wilson. Denver ore operator:
Jean F. Webb and c. N. Frederickson.
Denver. electric signaling system.
The members of the Coloril o divis
ion of the Travelling Mems Protective
Association met in this city Saturday
and elected officers for the year MS fol
lows: T. E. Williams, Denver. state
president: X. X. Mayer, vice presl-
dent; Charles w Morris. secretary
and treasurer; Charles Kenkle of 1'n-
eblo. w H Tucker of Colorado
Springs, Charles Hatfield. F. a. Leahy.
Ralph w Rhodes of Denver, trustees.
Durango is to have another tele-
phone line to Denver. an improvement
/ which is much needed, as the present
line is overcrowtied with business
much of the time. The link necessary
to complete the short line lies between
Bayfield,, twenty miles east of Durango,
and Del Norte. The line will run
through Pagosa Springs. The survey
will begin as soon as II is possible to
cross the range and the line will be
constructed this summer.
Professor Cajori. dean of the engin-
eering school of Colorado College. has
recently been elected a member of the
Italian Mathematical Society. known
as the Circolo Mathematical di Pa
lermo. This society is composed of
mathematician of Italy and other
countries. and has membership of
3GG, of whom nearly one-half reside
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