The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-04-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

dividend amounting to 100000.
Horse thieves are getting busy in
various localities over the state.
Half ton of ore from Revenge
mines near Eldora netted $4,000.
The Rio Grando will build from Trini-
dad to Santa Fc, SO reports have it.
Boulder had one-thousand dollar
fire in a lumber yard the other night.
Charles l.. Cunningham, of Colorado
| City, committed suicide owing to i'll
health.
Back to the stores, mines and
farms. The Sixteenth Assembly has
adjourned.
Palisades light plant went up in
smoke, and old-time candles have been
hauled out.
The usual batch of ruined fruit re-
ports are coming in, and it is all laid
TO the door of poor old Jack Frost.
A Greeley plumber climbed to the
roof of the tallest building in the place
trying to get away from imaginary
bugs.
The hazing students expelled from
the School of Mines at Golden, have
been causing the faculty all kinds of
anxiety.
William T. Jerome, district attorney
of New York, anticipates coming TO
Colorado for a rest as soon as he can
Thaw out.
Prosper McCulIoch was sentenced to
the penitantiary from Montrose for
stealing horses. Here is n Prosper
who didn't prosper.
DR.. /. Il. Newsome has resigned as
member of the Agricultural college fac
ulty to become state meat and slaugh-
ter house inspector.
John Girdler was elected leader of
the University of Colorado Glee club,
and Fred Castelucci reelected leader
of the Mandolin club.
The Better Boulder municipal
ticket won out. and the Boulder Herald
is justly growing over the victory. The
Herald made hard fight.
A Denver woman run down n plain
citizen with her automobile the other
day. Plain citizens will have to take
to the roofs or the subway.
A. A. johnson has been appointed to
the position of superintendent; of the
mineral department of the State Land
Board, at . salary of $4,000 year.
A supposed unknown crazy woman
| is creating CONSERVATION in the camp
at Morrison. She comes down out OF
the mountains and then runs back.
A worlimen returning from Panama
| says there is a great deal of unrest
| among the laborers down there, and
that there is liable to be a strike any
day.
Axel Swanson. of Denver, will draw
$1,000 year a1 deputy state labor
| commissioner 4 new office that came
out of the labors of the Sixteenth AS,
sembly.
DIR. William Edgar Cell, the author
and traveller. is lecturing in Colorado
| on "Cannibals-Before and After TAX
ing" But why should lie come to Colo |
| RADIO?
The little cabin that sheltered Presi- |
| dent Roosevelt hear the head waters of
Divide Creek. thirty miles southwest of
| Glenwood Springs, has been destroyed
by fire.
| II. II. Daniels, of Denver, drew the
position Of appraiser for the State
Land Board. AT $500 per. This is one
of the new berths created oy the late
| General Assembly.
| Victor citizens have consummated
arrangements with the railroads where
| by ample time between trains" will be
given for tourists to see the famous
| gold producing city.
| Ralph 1nman. a miner. fell 800 feet
down the shaft of Lucky Gus. the other
|
seriously injured. There must be
something in a name, after ALL
The Loveland Chamber of Com.
merce says to the Longmont Chamber
of Commerce. Come over and have a
hot bird with us; and the response
| came back, Don't care If we do"
Fire in TIE machine shop of McCarty
| & Moore of Leadville caused damage to
the amount of $1,000. The fire was
confined TO the machine shop and in
| jured large amount of machinery
and burned up many patterns.
John d. Lloyd of the Canon City
Labor club has brought suit against
the city for 81, 400 damages for the de-
| struction of a bar and saloon fixtures
used in the club rooms, which were
raided July LIST, last.
Some of the housewives of Denver
| are smarting under the cruel impos
| ton imposed upon them by horserad
ish manufacturers who are embalming
i their ground product in poisonous sui
| phuric acid instead of vinegar.
James A. Gilmour, candidate on the
| Democratic and Citizens tickets for
mayor. suffered a stroke of paralysis
| of the heart as the news of his over
| whelming election was told to him,
| and died almost Immediately. He was
making merry over his victory with
number of friends when attacked. A
| doctor, who was called, said excite
.nent killed him.
| An increase in the salaries of the
| teachers of the public schools of Colo
RADIO Springs which will cause the ad-
! ditional expenditure of about $4,000
year. was made at a special meeting of
the board of education. The maximum
salary of the grade teachers was in.
creased rom $3.50 TO $500. The new
schedule of salaries will go into effect
July LIST. Under the new schedule the
teachers here vii receive the highest
salaries paid to public school teachers
in Colorado or in any adjoining state.
The E,mpson Canning factory at
Longmont is putting in extensive i'm
provements in the way of machinery
and additional storage room, which
will cost $4,000. The factory will
employ between 800 and 400 people
this season. and will have over 1000
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