The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-04-22

have been appointed: Redstone, Pit
kin county. Joseph II. Wilson. vice
Joseph j. Smith. resigned: Cameron.
Teller county. Helen Rhodes, vice B.
Chadomy. resigned.
According to Albert Ross. architect
for the Denver public library, Turkey
Creek sandstone quarried thirty miles
west of Pueblo. is the best he has ever
found. being superior to the product
that is imported to New York at high
expense.
The dates for eight farmers insti-
tutes in the Pueblo district have been
fixed by the State Agricultural College.
The first will be held at Rye, July 18th.
and the last one of the eight July 21st.
Plans are being made to give farmers
picnics at each Of the points where
the professors will deliver lectures.
Tonight. says Greeley dispatch of
the 18th inst. to q Denver paper. 1855
carloads of sheep left the Northern
Colorado district for market. There
are neariy $4,000 head. OF these seven
carlosds are from the Greeley district.
and the remainder from points south
and west. Wednesday and Saturday
other sheep trains will follow from
this locality. making over 300 carloads
or $4,000 head to leave this district
for market With these cars $50 men
will go to look after the sheep.
State Auditor George d. Statler has
announced that the $4,000 appropriated
by the last Legislature to buy a silver
service for the cruiser Colorado is now
on hand for immediate use. Former
Governor Jesse +. Mcdonald Is chair
man of the committee which is to pur-
chase the service. The money has new
er been available before. 1t will be
turned over to Goernor Mcdonald as
soon as he requests 1t.
Herbert Delaney, who was convicted
of an assault to commit murder and
sentenced In the Hueffano county Dis
trict Court to three to five years in the
penitentiary. dating from October z,
1905. was given a conditional pardon
In celebration OF Arbor day and Good
Friday. Under the terms of his dis
charge. Delaney must leave the state
at once. go directly to the home of his
parents In West Virginia and remain
there until the completion Of his full
maximum sentence. otherwise the par
don is revoked. II, at any time before
the expiration of the term for which
he was imprisoned. he should return
to Colorado. he will be liable to arrest
and Imprisonment.
Reports made at a recent meeting of
the Colorado Prison Association show
that during the year 1904, eighty appli-
cants for relief were taken care Of In
1905. LOG were cared for and during the
first quarter of 1908 the association
has received applications from lis. The
association secured employment for
eighty of the lis applicants, there be-
ing many of the others who did not
need to apply for work. Since the first
OF the present year the association has
furnished SIT meals, 251 lodgings and
forty-three lots of clothing and bedding.
Transportation has been procured for
twenty applicants, money has been
loaned to nine. two have been provided
with tools. medical attention has been
rendered three others and two families
have been supplied with coal.
At meeting in Denver details were
completed for the formation of new
Colorado organization to be known as
the Merchants association. The Colo
RADIO Manufacturers association Is be-
hind the new organization. which
is formed to make war on
the mail order houses which
are constantly invading the ru-
raj districts to the detriment Of small
merchants. Every merchant in Colo
RADIO will be eligible for membership
and the aim Of the association will
be to cut out the catalogue houses OF
the East from Colorado. A committee
was appointed to arrange for perma-
nent organization. consisting Of C. ID.
Grinith. A. ID. Lewis. l.. d. Bridaham.
X. Hardesty, Fritz Thies of Denver and
c. J. Haines of Pueblo.
Because the Colorado Humane So
ciety failed to use up all its appropria-
ton from the Fifteenth general as
sembly before the Sixteenth assembly
made an appropriation, State Auditor
George ID. Statler refused to pay the
unused balance of $1.750 and the HUI
name Society secured writ OF man
damus before Judge Bliss of the Dis
trict Court at Denver requiring him to
transfer the money. The Fifteenth As
sembly appropriated $4,000 for the Hu-
name Society for the years 1905-1906.
the last year ending in December, 1906.
In his petition for a writ of mandamns
Secretary Whitehead alleged that he
has vouchers for the balance unspent
when the Sixteenth Assembly made its
appropriation of SO. 900 for 1907-0S and
that this balance was all contracted for
before the Sixteenth Assemblys ap-
preparation became available.
Contracts have been let by the An
tero & Lost Park Company for the
building of the Antero reservoir and
dam in South park. d. A. Camf1eld
Of Greeley. and s. II. Shields of Fort
Morgan, will do the work at cost
of something over $125.00O. Operations
will be started within ten days and the
contractors are under bonds to finish
the job by November list. The reser-
voir and dam will be among the largest
in the state. The former will have a
capacity of $4,000 acres. 1t will cover
5000 acres in South park seven miles
west of Hartzell and about 100 miles
southwest of Denver. The dam will
be forty-six feet high. sixteen feet
wide on top and about a mile long.
The land to be irrigated by the waters
stored in the reservoir will be under
the high line ditch. AS soon as the
reservoir is completed, work will be
begun on the Lost Park reservoir
which will irrigate 10000 acres Of land.
The two reservoirs will bring thou
sands to COLOMBO the land made fer.
tile by their waters. The land sur
rounding them is now practically
worthless.
Ora Haley of Routt county and J. I