The Lamar register., 1907-06-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Colorauo Springs turned out forty-
nine high school graduates.
| Arvada Commercial Club is still
.fter cent street car rate to Denver
| Every teacher employed in the
BOULDER graded schools has been reap
pointed for next term.
Cripple Creek will celebate the ma
| tional holiday with Il two-day jollifi-
cation July 4th and 9th.
Work has been started on the new
Santa Fe hospital at La Junta. The
building is to cost 100000.
A shaft is being sunk on the Rock
wall coal vein In the vicinity of Flor
ence by an Independent company.
Colorado has been trying
With all her might and main
To duplicate Ohio
with mud and slush and rain.
A horse( which ran away ON one OF
the main streets of Grand Junction the
other day. was badly injured by run
ming into bunch of tree stumps.
The infant son of Max c. Overholt
of Lovcland swallowed n safety pin.
and the child was taken to Denver to
insure the safety OF the child's life.
J. w. Kelly. passenger agent for the
Moffat road. and Miss Eselyn Brown,
society editor OF the Denver Post.
hitched up in double blessedness re-
Gently.
| Mrs. Cynthia NJ Marshall. wife of
the money order clerk at the post
office In Colorado Springs. died at the
family residence, il2 East Huerfano
street.
A ear containing bottled beer was
broken into at Eaton and 40 bottles
stolen. Today Sheriff Florence recov-
cred all but thirty bottles. Tramps are
suspected.
Major Otis Remick. n pioneer OF Col
orado Springs OF the West. died at
st. Francis hospital. He had been i'll
for several months. suffering from
general decline.
Louis II. Kephard of Holly shipped
. 900 sheep. which brought the highest
price In the Kansas City market ever
paid for sheep. Shorn lambs brought
cents. and the wool lambs 10 cents.
The ladies of Eaton now use fine
stationery with their monographs EN-
bossed ON II. When II comes to know
Ing how to do the proper thing Eaton
Isn't so very far behind New York,
after all.
John Peabody. halfbrother of ex-
Governor James IL. Peabody. died at
the Place sanitarium ut Boulder. He
had been resident there for three
years aud part OF that time was store
keeper.
The Pueblo City Council has side
tracked an ordinance which was re-
Gently introduced providing that deal
crs in Colorado Fuel and Iron and
smclter scrip take out II license for
$500 annually.
Acting upon the complaint of numer
Gus citizens of Grand junction. the
City Council instructed the chief OF
police and city attorney to arrest and
prosecute all druggists who are selling
liquor other than in original bottles or
packages.
Henry Stuart colored. who was ar
rested ut Trinidad, told the police that
he had recently killed Ben Harrison.
also colored ut Ration and had burned
the body in the fire box OF n locomo-
tive. The police are investigating the
story. but believe Stuart is not respon-
sible
Mrs. Xoa Gillespie. siNteen-year-old
bride of John Gillespie. ut Grand June
ton. was committed by a jury in the
Juvenile Court. Mrs. Rosetta Johnson
alleged that one OF her dresses had
been taken by the girl when she went
To Delta to get married. The girl said
She merely meant to borrow the gar
ment to be married in and then to re-
tuin IL.
Miss Flossie Moore. valedictorian OF
the 1907 class OF the Florence high
high school. graduates with a perfect
record. She stands highest in scolar
ship and during the entire four years
course has never been absent or tardy
She is eighteen wears old and is the
daughter Of former State Senator
Frank Moore. She was born and reared
in that section.
Two irrigation cases were settled AT
Fort Collins in Judge Garrisues'
Court. in which l.arimer Coun-
lty No. ditch is given the
right to take water from the
Poudre river through what is known
as the old city ditch. and the Arthur
ditch is allowed to change its point Of
diversion OF the river water. These
eases have been pending in the courts
here tor sixteen years.
The merchants OF Colorado Springs
are beginning an advertising campaign
to work up trade among the farmers.
Excursions will be run to towns along
IAAAt AAAAt u AAAAAN.AAS anu NhAA1A AAAt1-AS
will be employed to interest the rancn-
men living in the more isolated sec
tons. The repairing OF the roads. by
the county commissioners, will. it is
Expected. encourage the ranohmen 10
do their trading in Colorado Springs,
| Mario Gallina. an eisht-year-old
italian boy. was instantly killed AT the
IHuvrfano mine in Remy canon, near
Trinidad The boy was taking a short
|cut To his home and while on small
lhridCs was caught by string OF mine
Icars and frishtfully mansled. \ six.
IyearCld Sirl was the only witness to
the accident. The trip rider in charge
OF ,he cars knew nothing OF the acci-
dent until told by the little girl He
took the body TO the home of the boy 5
parents
There has been recorded at Canon
City the charter of the Great Western
Wool Growers Corporation. recently
organized under the laws OF Colorado
with capital stock of SSoo,0oo, In ad-
ditiou tn its wool growing interests in
New Mexico and Texas. the purpose OF
the company is said to be 10 own. buy,
] and hold tracts NJ land n irrica q