The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-07-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


tltT week.
While digging a well near Kersey
recently vein of coal was discovered
The find is being investigated.
Colorado small fruit is plentiful or
the markets, and Texas and California
products must take back shelf.
Greeley proposes to build boy pal
ace as one of the attractions for thu
big exposition to be held there Angus
81. % and %.
Mrs. A. C. Morris, farmers wife
living near Durango. committed sui
eide by hanging herself. 1t is though
she was insane.
A crook from Denver turned up Ia
Boulder the other day, but before h
ooulu influence anyone lie was shipped
back to Denver.
W. II. Gribble, one of the state
builders who braved the universities
Of early days, died June 81 at his
home in Canon City.
William Allen White, the author
who became famous by writing
what's the Matter with Kansas" il
frustrating at Manitou.
Tho Presbyterian church at Florence
was robbed the other day of 81 and tin
trustees offer a remard for the cap
ture of the thief.
Annette. the two-year-old daughter
of MI. and Mrs. John Virhillon. was
drowned in an irrigation ditch at Fort
Collins one day last week.
The state bankers held their annual
meeting at Fort Collins last week, anc
icr few days Young City was the
richest spot in Colorado.
w. l.. Anderson, n printer from
Eagleyiile, Missouri. fell beneath the
wheels Of a moving train at Grand
junction and died shortly afterwards
from injuries.
Mrs. O. E. Hawkins. Denver
woman. believing her husband tc b,
untrue to her. poured coal oil on heI
clothes and set ;hem on fire. She was
rescued before serious results.
Pueblo.-Iohr Cook, son o. Con
gresham George w. Cook. oil Denver
died June 50 at private saaitariun
N Pueblo. where he mad been a pa
lent for several months.
A oristlng. iS-inch porcupinc was
recently captured By Ernest Shields
within the city limits of Colorado
Springs. Shields saw :hc animal rur
up tree. drove 1t down with = garden
hose, hit 1t on the head with boarc
and placed the stunned animal in 6
box.
A Boulder special OF June 30ti says:
Four carloads of tungsten ore were
brought to Boulder from the Boulder
county mine at Cardinal this morning
The ore in each car was worth $4,000
making $4,000 for the train. This il
the second shipment made by thai
mine this month
After suffering for over six months
with what he thought was rheuma
tism. Chief of Police J. r. Gregory OF
Colorado City secured relief by draw
ing from mis- left thigh needle more
than two inches long. An X-ray pilot
ograph will be taken of his leg in an
fort to trace the course of The
needle.
According 70 the Rev Earl Hicks
St. Louis. June 23d the weather is to IL.
warm and shower:. June cath warm
but the 25th To the 27th the weather
is to be exceptionally cold for summer
Whether or not this Is TO apply to 81
Louis and vicinity only is not stated
II II is 20 take in Colorado 1t might Ds
well Tor people to get out their wint.s,
clothes for few days.
The Colorado Veterans of the Civi
and Indian Wars Monument Society
is the name of an organization sooI
to be formed by Hon. j. b. Stephen
Judge John McCoach, W. p. Epper
son and other prominent Colorado City
residents. The primary object is Il
erect monument l. the memory o.
Col. ]. NJ. Ch.vington of the First Col
crado Volunteers, the hero of the bat
tie of Sand Creek.
The first section of the new Chris
tian church in Golden was dedicate,
Sunday. The congregation assembled
at the old church and after short ex
erciscs went in body to the new cdi
fee. where services were held prac-
tically all day. Rev. ]. w. Maddux
pastor of the church, was assisted by
Rev. William Bayard Craig of Denver
Rev. j. b. Hasten. Rev. T. L. Temp
son and Rev. J. E. Pickett
Prof. Adams. curator of the State
Normal School at Greeley, and Tyn
dali Snyder. son of Dr. Snyder, have
started on a trip to North Park. for
the purpose of collecting specimens
for the State Normal School museum
The men will pay special attention to
collecting birds. of which the museum,
already has many. Prof. Adnmr and
Mr.. Snyder will tramp most of the
way. going by way of Tie Siding.
About one-half of the fall grain ami
alfalfa crop in the vicinity of Brush
was damaged by fierce hail-storm
which visited that section recently.
The storm moved from the northwest
to the southeast The greatest damage
was suffered by a strip of country
three miles wide and ten miles long be
tween Brush and Fort Morgan. The
beet crop was only slightly damaged
The storm was preceded and followed
by heavy rain which will be bene-
heial to the district.
y Longmont special of the Goth
says Some of the farmers in this
section that We're hailed out last Tues
day are cutting their hay that was
left. one man getting ten tons on
lightly acres. Although it is not worth
the work it entails. this must be done
in order TO give the second growth OF
alfalfa a chance. Others are getting
ready to pillow where nothing was lex
by the hail. While to those farmers
whose crops were destroyed it was q
orr OF al