The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-12-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

December 18th to 14th.
The Coal Creek Lodge of Odd Eel
ows has decided to postpone the cree
ion CT lodge home and opera house.
The cases of Mason and Wander
reide for killing J. A. Walker. the gov
.rnment Inspector. have been set for
rial at Durango. February 10th.
The entire switchboard capacity OF
he Florence telephone office is now &C.
:upied and the company is planning to
.xpend $4,000 to enlarge the equip
nent.
The Platteville board of trade has ap-
pointed a committee to look into the
natter of providing a waterworks sys-
lem for the town using the same plant
% generate electricity for light.
The following postofice appoint
nents have been made for Colorado:
Arriba, Lincoln county. Bessie E.
Graves, vice c. 8. Graves, removed;
Larkspur. Douglas county, Philip Rue
Dol, vice F. A. Murphy, resigned.
The state board of health has ap-
pointed Charles l.. Walker of Pueblo as
food inspector of district that will tie
known as the Pueblo district, his in
cumbency dating from December list.
His territory will include all Of south
ern Colorado.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Medium.
who is charged with killing David
Lambert at the Tom Boy mine, after
the latter had fatally wounded Thomas
Sullivan, was given preliminary
hearing at Telluride Saturday and his
bond fixed at $500.
December usually shows the highest
shipments of potatoes Of the season
from Greeley, but this year they prom
ne TO be larger, say dealers. Texas.
the Southwest and near East are the
heaviest buyers. Farmers are now re-
ceiving sixty-five cents.
A large alfalfa sugar meal factory
will be built at Brush for the manu-
facture of alfalfa meal for feeding.
1t will handle the output of the Ster-
ling and Fort Morgan factories. The
Great Western Sugar Company is now
feeding 600 head of cattle at Brush.
H. e. Bald of Denver, who has been
drilling for artesian water near Ora
Junta. five miles north of Florence. re-
Gently struck a big flow at depth of
los feet. The well will pump 141a gal
Ions a minute. Mr.. Bald owns 100
acres which will he irrigated by 1t.
Three union meetings of all Loveland
churches have been held during the
Anti-Saloon League. At these meet
ings $4,000 has been pledged for the
work of the league and for the prosecu'
tions of illegal liquor selling.
According to a report from d. L.
Murphy, treasurer of the Woodmen's
National Home Building Association,
over 100000 has been contributed by
local camps for the national home In
Colorado Springs and 1t is expected
that this sum will be doubled when all
the camps are heard from.
Alphonse A. DeRome, conductor Of a
switch train on the Denver & Ric
Grande railroad, was killed at Walsen-
burg November 25th by rear end col
lision between his train and a freight
train, being thrown against the engine
Of the freight train and dreadfully
mangled. He was thirty-nine years OF
age and married leaving wife in
Pueblo.
The Colorado Agricultural College
held during the year ending Novem.
Der 10, 1907, 113 Farmers Institutes
with total attendance of 1890 per.
sons. Fifteen stops were made on the
Santa Fe Institute train with an at
tendance of 1,7O5. Through the Farm
ers' Institutes and the Institute train
the college force has met during the
year 81, 495 people.
Whort H. Pigg. owner of the Stirrup
ranch at Black Mountain, brought
three deer into Canon City from his
private game preserve, which were
placed on sale at the markets for the
Thanksgiving trade. Mr.. Pigg has ever
700 acres enclosed in an eight-foot Wire
fence, stocked with a large herd OF
deer and elk. He says that he finds the
raising of deer and elk more profitable
than cattle.
Game Warden Charles Purinton OF
Meeker has notified David Farr, state
game commissioner, that the Utes vino
found their way into the state in
search of game have been driven back
across the state line. No more trouble
with the Indians is anticipated and it
is said that this season they have
killed very little game; perhaps a
dozen deer, according to the state
game commissioner.
August Ricetti coal miner in the
Acme mine at Louisville, was instant
ly killed on the 26th ult. He was
carrying props to the mine and walked
into the open mouth of the shaft, fall
ing $50 feet His body was crushed
beyond recognition and so great was
the force of his fall that the hood of
the cage, which was in the bottom OF
the shaft, was broken in two, although
it was constructed of quarter-inch steel.
George Drummond, who has been
chief chemist at the Windsor sugar
factory, has been made chemist for the
factories at Greeley. Eaton and Wind.
sor. with headquarters at Greeley. The
Windsor factory recently ground 903
tons of beets in a day, breaking the
record of any factory of like capacity,
heretofore held by Eaton, which
ground $40 tons of beets in twenty.
four hours. Both factories have an
average capacity of 700 tons.
Captain David R. Sparks, who died
few days since at Alton, Illinois, is
credited with having set up the first
quartz mill in Colorado near the Bob
tail mine at Black Hawk. The engine
used in that mill is still in use on the
Bobtail. Mr.. Sparks afterward re-
turned to Illinois and became one OF
the leading flour millers of the state.
At the time of his death he was about
eighty-four years old. He was an uncle
OF Mrs George Fritz Of Black Hawk.