The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-01-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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commercial club has been organ
lied at Steamboat Springs, with NJ. r.
Houston for president and Archie
Withers, secretary.
Jeff Noonan. an old time prospector,
was found dead in front of his cabin
in Leadville on the 18th inst. His
death is attributed to heart disease.
new market has been opened to
Colorado for its onions Five thous-
and sacks, making total of eighteen
carloads. were shipped last week to
New York
A gang of convicts at the Colorado
State Penitentiary is cutting and stor-
ing 400 tons of ice from the lakes in
Grape creek canon, three miles from
the prison.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company will expend si5o,OOo In re-
building and equipping its coach shops
and wood working mill in Denver
which were burned last year.
Representative Bonynge has recon-
mended the appointment OF Mrs. Car
rie James as postmistress at Loveland.
She is the widow OF the former incum-
bent of the Office David Jones.
The Pixies Peak Cog road has aban-
doned its project OF using oil instead
of coal for fuel, and will continue the
present methods. oil burning tests
have proven decidedly unsuccessful
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin-
| tendent OF public instruction. Will al
dress the state superintendent de-
partment of the National Educational
Association, which meets IN ChicaSo'
February 26th TO 2Sth.
A parrot. two squirrels and guinea
/ nn1 a ~
key so badly injured that it Will die,
as a result of a fire which destroyed
a monkey house belonging TO DR.. A.
Blackman at Colorado Springs.
Within the next few weeks the
Santa Fe railroad company will begin
opening coal mines on several large
veins in different parts of Fremont
county. The company has decided. 1t
is said. to supply its entire system
with coal from Fremont county
Mayor Speer Of Denver was thrown
/ from his carriage on the l4th inst,
and received some bad. but not dan
/ gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
( Speer. who was with him. escaped
/ without serious injury. The mayors
/ spirited horses were frightened by an
automobile.
ST. Marv's Academy. one of the old
est schools in Denver. conducted by
the Sisters of Loretto, is TO be re
moved from its site At Fourteenth and
/ California streets to Fourteenth ay-
| enue and Pennsylvania. where six lots
have been purchased on which to erect
/ a handsome new building
The Santa Fe railroad is completing
plans to transform its present passen-
ger DEPOT in Colorado Springs, at the
/ intersection of Pixies Peak avenue
with the tracks. into a freight depot,
and 10 build a $4,000 hotel and depot
/ two blocks further south. between Gu
/ charas and Vermiio streets
1t is stated that Pueblo's japanese
/ colony will be depleted considerably
/ before spring. sixty employed at the
/ Ellers smelter a7s said TO have quit
/ saving they were obliged TO pay COM
l missions to couuc-ymen and that the
cost OF living vas higher than ex-
/ pected. leaving them little At the end
/ of the month
The Colorado City Chansper OF Com
/ merce will CO Cperars with the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber CT Commerce in
constructing sugar palace in Colo
| rado Springs The plan IS to call on
/ The sugar factories OF the state to
| contribute about twenty tons Of beet
sugar and coat the blocks with :
waterproof mineral veneer
/ II is expected that BoSrs Flat. I
I large arid section Of land about ten
/ miles southeast OF Florence will Be-
brought under irrigation by system
Of arreSiau Eells which are % be
l drilled AZ various depths within the
I next few we1ks The plans for the
I eanpaiEn have been finished and der
/ ricks and drilling machinery ordered
/ srrance-snts have been completed
| for the 1sth annual bench show OF Tie
| Colorado Kennel Club. TO he held ~
/ Coliseum hall in Denver 81 February
l asth. s1th AID 9S1h- About 5000 in
I cash prizes Kill Be given away. and
| James Mortimer will otaciate as judge
I Of ali brez5s The entries % the show
I will close OF February ISM H c
I Bryan OF 80 Seventeenth street. Den
I yer. is secretary o. the club
| The members OF both houses OF the
l General Asa biy az Denver have &C
csptsd thz invitation Of Governor
I Henry ! B-chtel to q good fellow
| ship dinner Il the SAVOY hotel on the
I uiSht OF January 3isr- The invitation
I also irct-5ss the justices Of the So
I pre-is Conf and the state officers. and
Y thz heads os the various institutions
I il the STATE. and Of some Of the com
/ uerrtal Organizations Of Denver
/ Charles Warren Dake. founder o.
l Pine Grove COLORADO. and author Of
| the state -z-e Law. died OF the 11th
/ inst Al his rznch near Pine Grove a.
I the age g sirty-eieht years Mr. Dase
I zas formerly q member Of the state
I LEGISLATURE icing elected member OF
7 the lozs- ho-se from jefferson county
in rSsz While in the Legislature he
/ frane,i Tie state game lax. zni did
I much for t1s state School Of Mines AZ
/ Colder
l Al las, ths water has been turned
/ into The rev c 2 and / canal rear
I Asob-s station thirty miles EeSt OF.
I Pueblo his Is the canal vhich cost
about s. l.1 %. and -zs built for the
/ pu-poSs O.. furnishing the Ninlslua
/ s-ssl EurEs With water Owned By
l the cuuuanv in the A-S11sas river
l z-d T-rc-ozs-s Lake. uzar LsatviIls
I The za-sr ill - tur-si into rs<s--
I votr No > Which i coGeis the size