The Lamar register., 1906-02-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

lots in Durango to the Durango Pub
lie Library.
The second monthly dinner of the
Colorado State Commercial Associa-
tion will be given at Colorado Spring.
February 18th.
The manager of the School of Nine
football eleven at Golden is trying L"
arrange a trip through the Northwes.
for his team next fall.
The State Land Boards receipts 70.
last month show an increase over Jan
uary, 1905. The figures are: January.
1906, s34 ,225.73; January, 1905, s31,-
295.77.
The Rev. Asa b. Whitten, forme.
publisher of the Rocky Mountain Bap
tist. died at Boulder on the 2nd inst.
of consumption. He leaves a wife and
two children.
Sheriff Florence of Weld county
turned over to the county clerk
81 1.O02.s6 surplus earnings of the Office
after all expenses had been deducted
for 1905.
G. l.. Oaks, aged rs years a
pioneer ranchman OF Fountain val
ley, died of heart failure while enter
ing the City drug store at Fountain
on the 3rd instant.
The framework has been erected for
the new shops of the Florence & Grip
pie Creek railroad at Canon City and
work is progressing rapidly. The cost
will be about 100000.
Mrs. Sarah Graham, one OF the olde,-
original Unionist colonists' pioneers,
died at Greeley on the 5th inst, at the
age of eighty years. She was for
long time proprietor of the Exchange
hotel at Greeley.
A. s. Boynton. member of the
Manitou Town Council, has received
word that his son, Charles A. Boynton
of Waco. Texas, has been appointei
United States district attorney for the
western district of that state.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the laying out of townsite at
Dacono. six miles northeast of Eric.
The new town came into existence
when the Consolidated Coal & Coke
Company began mining last fall.
Mrs. E Pearl Ebert, convicted OF
voluntary manslaughter in connection
with the death of Mrs. Sarah Ault.
December 24th. was sentenced by
Judge Seeds at Cripple Creek to seven
to eight years in the penitentiary.
John Clay & Co. of Chicago and
Clay. Robinson & Co. of Omaha. have
organized the First National Bank o.
Ault. with capital stock of s25,O0c.
Temporary quarters will be esta5-
lished until new $1,000 building ca,:
be erected.
Little fve-year-old Mary Zenola was
burned to death on the Bird inst, at the
home of her parents on the John Lee
ranch six miles east of Golden. Her
clothing caught fire from bonfire of
weeds and brush made by her little
brother, aged nine years.
A complimentary trip to Cripple
Creek over the Short Line is offered by
ID. c. MacWatters of that line to the
delegates TO the convention of the In
ternational League of Press Clubs,
who will visit Colorado Springs August
18th in connection with their conven-
tion al Denver.
Notice has been received in the Of
fee of the state game and fish COM
missioner of a shipment of 100000
eastern brook trout eggs from Ply
mouth, Massachusetts. The eggs will
be sent TO the Denver hatchery and
later will be distributed in various
streams in the state. A total of about
state from the Plymouth hatchery.
The State Land Board. at its meeting
on the eth inst, decided TO sell sixty
two acres of land leased by Thomas A.
Miles near Brighton at SIS per acre. A
section of land in Otero county be-
tween Rocky Ford and La Junta will.
be sold at $40 per acre. For this land
Beerbohm & Garwood have bid SC pc:
sur for In ID
in Otero county have been received by
the board.
A shoemaker at the Bessemer stee.
works. near Pueblo, says that nearly
5000 foreigners of the laboring clasr
pay out absolutely nothing for repairs
on their footwear. He states that
these men wear the coarsest kind OF
shoes and that in every house can be
found a crude outfit for repairing. This.
he says. does not apply TO the Japa
nese, who are among the best Gus
toners of regular shoemaker.
Work is progressing satisfactorily
and rapidly on the Gunnison tunnel.
The driving is being done from four
different headings and the total
length Is now over 5000 feet. At the
river portal. from which the tunnel is
ing, necessitating installing of large
pumps, which are now handling 40O,-
900 gallons per day. There are 500
men employed directly on the tunnel
and like number on the south canal.
State Oil Inspector John l.. Russell
has submitted his first official report
to Governor Mcdonald. 1t shows that
since July 18th last, when Mr.. Russell
took office. up to January 31st of this
year .971 ,54l gallons Of oil. were in
spected. The bulk of the oil, it is
stated, is sold through the Continental
OIL Company or It's agents. About 1000
gallons were refined at the refinery
near Boulder, and a large quantity of
the crude product was shipped from
Boulder to Florence, to be refined.
Otto Fehringer. who, as proprietor
OF four drug stores in Colorado
Springs, has during the past year
been arrested every few days for vio-
la'ing the liquor ordinance. has sold all
his four stores and announced his de-
termination to retire permanently
from the business.