The Lamar register., 1908-03-25
COLORADO NEWS

A company is Deine organized 10
build a $4,000 hospital at Fort Nor
gan
Fraternities and sororities will here
after be barred by the South Side
school board of Pueblo
Out of forty-hve applicants to take
the Weld county teachers spring e1-
animation. only five were men
Some OF the young men of Greeley
are organizing a golf club and will lay
out links on the Country club grounds
The automobile show =, Denver viii
be held April 9Th. eth and sth in the
Mammoth skating rink on Clarkson
street
the public building al Colorado Springs
has been awarder to J. H. Wiesse of
Omaha, al $lso.944-
New postoffices have been estab-
lished in Colorado as follows: Hart
man, Prowers county. James F.
Moore. postmaster; Plains, Prowers
county, Jesse y. Sheets. postmaster
The following Colorado rural routes
have been ordered established June
LIST: Austin. Delta county. route l.
population 500. families 100; La Sale,
Weld county. route 2. population 800.
families e.
a contract for a sewer system for
Sterling was let or the 18th inst to
c. c. Shelley of Denver for $4,000 II
is to be completed in six months and
will be nine and a half miles long. COW
ering the entire town
The Rio Grande has laid about two
miles of its double track between
Adobe and Canon City Another month
will finish the work The object Is 10
relieve the congestion of traffic and
avoid holding trains
In the suit of j. A. Eddy against Ben
iamin Kobey in the District Court at
Aspen for sS5.000 damages for de-
famation of character. the jury re-
turned a verdict for $1,000 Kobey
filed a motion for a new trial
Buena Vista is to have new theateI
to cost $4,000 1t will be constructed
of concrete by Edward Kruger, now
with the Pyle theater: will be half
block long. facing on Railroad street.
and will be completed August 1st-
The new city hall at Greeley, costing
$780, 900, is just finished Ii has two
stories with a basement in which is
located the Jail The other floors will
be occupied by officials. In the rear
are quarters for the fire department
On the night of March 18th at Colo
RADIO Springs. Charles Rosenthal, an
election judge at the Republican pri-
maries. dropped dead of heart disease
in Republican headquarters after deliv-
ering the returns from his precinct
Sterling is going in for amusements.
One skating rink is in process of con-
struction and another planned An
electric theatorium has been opened
and Glacomini brothers are erecting
an opera house at cost off $4,000
A spiral fire escape was tested at
the new Central high school in Pu-
eblo. A large number of children from
other school were present and the
building was emptied SO quickly that
there would be no danger of any one
being hurt in case of fire.
Denver capitalists are starting fish
hatcheries in Craig park. Jefferson
county. They will have three lakes and
build a fine driveway to the park on a
ridge of mountains between Brookside
and Grousemont- Their first deposit
of brook trout fry, 10000, has been
made.
The four high schools of Routt
county have recently completed an in
teresting spelling contest. Each
school was given list of fifty words
by the county superintendent, and the
result was: Craig, S4 14-l5 per cent.
Hayden. SO no: Yampa, s3is; Steam
boat Springs. So 81
Joseph Murphy. who slugged and
robbed Sylvester Howell November
/ 2Sth. and was convicted in the District
I Court at Fort Collins. has been SEN
fenced to five TO seven years in the
penitentiary- The robbery was shown
to have been coolly planned and a
brutal one Howell is built like pugil-
/ list.
The Model Land and Irrigation Com
pany has filed at Trinidad a map of
/ its reservoir to be constructed four
miles north of Hoehne, Las Animas
county. The reservoir will cost $780,
900, and cover two square miles of
territory. 1t will irrigate 20,4sO acres
of land. In the project are interested
thirty of the leading business men of
Trinidad.
While blowing his garden at Fort
Collins George W. Dilts found an old
I fashioned two-hole brass bullet mould
which had lain in the ground nobody
knows how long. One of the holes
contained lead bullet. 1t is probably
a relic of old Indian times, or may have
1 been dropped by an early day hunter.
I Il is almost half a century since
| moulds were used for casting bullets
/ At a meeting Of the Loveland Cham
/ Der of Commerce the date of the annual
[ Loveland corn roast was changed from
l September to August 18th. and the
dates of the annual races and live stock
| show were changed from September
/ eth. sth and 9th to August 18th, Goth
and 2lst. These changes were mad.
/ so as not to conflict with the dates of
I the Interstate fair to be held in Den
yer.
| Caught in the act of robbing a Colo
RADIO & Southern refrigerator car of a
| sack of meat, presumably for his fam
| lily. Philip H. Foley. aged thirty-eight.
a Rio Grande switchman. was shot and
I killed at O'Clock on the morning off
I the 10th inst by Ira Wiedman, aged
I thirty-five, special officer for the C. &
s.. in the c. & s. switching yards.
/ Fourteenth and Delgany streets, in
Denver.
Adolph Fehringer. brother of Otto
; Fehringer, the Colorado Springs drug
] gist who was shot by holdup. has
i been appointed administrator of the
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