The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-03-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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the 26th for a new Congregational
church to cost $4,000.
| Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Barr of Long
mont were divorced on the 26th after
| thirty years of married life.
| The fifth annual dog show at Denver
| lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
dred and fifty visiting Masons as
| sisted.
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride. probably fatally injured, by
a cave-in at the Smuggler- Union mine
on the 26th.
Louis Padillo was killed in a head-on
collision On the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 26th. while riding brake beam.
He had SIT on his person.
Jerry Harmon, an old time restau-
| rant man and an early settler of Las
| Animas county, died on the Goth at
| Trinidad, of pneumonia, aged sixty
seven years.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Grippon
Turner, a negro, have been placed in
jail at Trinidad on the charge of the
murder of Manuel Charez. preferred
against them by the authorities of
Starkville.
The contract has ben let for the new
armory at Fort Collins. 1t will be 50x
100 feet in size and will cost $4,000.
The contract has also been let for the
new Y. NJ. c. A. building. to cost $751;
O00
The cornerstone of the new Chris
tian church at Canon City was laid Oh
the 26th. The building, which will
cost about $4,000. will be of Grecian
style of architecture, and is to be com
pleted by August list.
The Wa,se nburg and Western Rail
way Company was incorporated at Den
yer on the 9th; capital stock 100000;
E. w. Griffith, l.. Z. Rowland. F. f.
Guy, George C. Barnard, F. ]. Jackson,
incorporators; Denver.
John DeBaker, who died at Boulder
on the 26til. and who went to that city
in 1853, was the first man to erect a
quartz mill at Gold hill in Boulder
county. 1t proved a failure. He was
also the first man to erect a Touring
mill in that county, in 1862.
The locomotive of Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night of the
18th inst. struck and killed large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
a county bridge four miles north of
Salida collapsed and n. C. Laws, a
rapchman. who was driving over the
bridge with load, was precipitated
In, the Arkansas river and seriously
injured. The bridge was condemned
By the county commissioners several
years ago, but had never been closed
TO traffic.
William Berry and Charles Green
colored. aged ten and twelve years
respectively, are in jail at La Junta,
charged with the murder of Freeman
Henry Austin, aged six, by beating him
on the head with brick, during an al
tercation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school, on
the Goth.
One thousand acres of land living be-
tween Greeley and Loveland. above
the Greeley and. Loveland ditch. will
re plowed this spring and sowed to
fail wheat next September. This lane
belongs to DIR. J. 7. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson of London. and
will be cultivated by the dry-farming
method.
February proved a record breaker
in the building line at Denver. During
the month 233 permits were taken out,
the largest number on record. The
increase ever those issued during the
same period last year was so, while
the cost of the buildings erected was
$13.93O more than the aggregate
amount expended in January, being
| s427.70O.
The annual breakfas: and election
of officers of the Denver Press Cldb
has been arranged for Sunday morn
ing, March 10. at the Albany hotel in
Denver. Among the important mat
tiers to be discussed are the removal
of the headquarters of the club to n
more desirable location. the establish
II ent of a permanent building fund and
the securing of an extensive library.
he dates for the next livestock
show in Denver have been set, and 1t
has been decided to make 1t a national
She W. throwing the competition open
to the world. with special classified
tirn and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show. the short
grass country The executive commit.
tee of the Western Stock Show Asso-
citation yesterday set the dates for the
next show for the week of January
20th-25th, 1908.
w. Harold Stewart, twenty years
Olu, sun VI W. IL oltMdit-
and ranch owner. Ironton. Colorado.
killed himself al his lodgings in Den
yer at about 3 O'Clock Thursday
morning. Fighting of an imaginary
assailant while in his sleep. he turned
the muzzle of the weapon to his head
and fired. Circumstances that sur
round the affair show that he was be.
| ing tortured by wild visions of hiI
| sleep. and this alone was responsible.
The February business in the United
States lana office at Pueblo is record
| breaker showing 227 homestead en-
| tries, the largest number ever recorded
| in month, and thirty more than for
| January. In February, 1906. the cast
entries numbered fifteen, and this yea
wenty-seven. In February last yea
| there were forty-two. The number oil
| homestead entries in February, 1906,
was but ninety-three. The total
amount of land appropriated in Febru-
| airy. 1906 was 21.292 acres and thin
year 44,709, more than double that
taken IN wear ago,