The Lamar register., 1908-12-16
COLORADO ITEMS

ated to conduct a vaudeville theater
at Greeley.
Excavation has been commenced for
the new county court house at Pueblo.
The contractors expect to be ready to
lay the cornerstone January list.
1t IS stated that Mayor Speer is plan
ming for municipal news weekly in
Denver to contain reports of the va
rious departments of the city govern
ment.
On January 2sth Leadville will cele-
brate It's thirtieth anniversary by
home coming" OF Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times'-about
two miles high.
Manager A. b. Hulit of the Kansas
Colorado Power and Transmission
Company, expects the road to be COM
pleted from Pueblo to the top Of the
Royal Gorge by May LIST next.
Tho Grand Junction city council has
by unanimous vote instructed the chief
Of police to wipe out every house OF
ill-fame within the city and see that
they remain closed.
The Denver school board has called a
special election to be held on January
lutu lOT Tue uipOSe VI Noth6 vi
bond issue of 100000 to provide for
the erection of new schools.
On the night of the Sth inst. fire
destroyed the shaft house and build
ings Of the Mesa Mining G Milling
Company at Unaweep, entailing loss
of $4,000. There was no insurance.
Another per cent. dividend has
been declared by Richard H. Malone.
receiver of the defunct Fidelity Saw
ings Association OF Denver. This divi-
dend means the disbursing of $4,000.
and makes total of 40 per cent. paid
to depositors.
Stephen N. Bennett, a pioneer
nearly eighty-three years old, and
Brush. died at Greeley on the 10th
inst. of disease incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
Railway mail service to Walden,
Colo. from Laramie. Wyo.. will soon be
turned over to Laramie, Hahn's Peak
& Pacific railway. going by train to
within thirty-five miles of Walden and
then by star route. At present seventy
miles is covered by stage.
The scientific students and members
of the University Scientific Society
Of the State University are cooperat-
ing with the office Of state dairy COM
missioner for the purpose Of purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced in Boulder county.
Calvin Phillips. who killed his faith
oxr-in-law. George cambridge. July 4th.
/ and who was found guilty of murder in
the second degree, was sentenced by
/ Judge Garrigues in the District Court
at Greeley on the 9th Inst. to not less
than 10 nor more than Is years in the
penitcntiary.
There Is still talk at Fort Collins of
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
becoming president of Colorado Agri-
cultural college. While 1t has not been
definitely decided who will succeed DR..
b. o. Aylesworth, and probably will not
for several weeks, there are rumors
that Mr.. Wilson will be chosen.
At Cripple Creek on the 9th inst.
Charles Hathaway, head timberman
at the indicator main shaft, was
drawn into the shave wheel at the
head Of the gallows frame and seri-
Il
Cripple Creek District Pioneers Asso-
citation.
| Weld county claims to lead the
state IN the increase OF votes cast at
/ the last election. In 1906 the county
I cast 500 votes, and this year 10.70O.
Estimating from the vote of two years
ago, Weld county people claim that
the population was then 10000 in that
1 county, and according to the vote
this year. $4,000.
Work on the Riverside reservoir in
Larimer county has been completed
and 525 cubic feet of water a second
| is now being run into this, the largest
reservoir in the county. The Riverside
Irrigation Company has completed fill
ings on the reservoir site of Wildcat
creek and will commence construction
as soon as possible.
At Cripple Creek Tuesday William
] Campion, n brother of Andy ]. Cam
| pion, commission man of Denver, sat
down in a chair in the lobby of the Ma
tional hotel and went to sleep. A few
minutes later porter discovered that
Campion was dead. The coroner's au-
topsy disclosed the fact that death was
due to a blod clot near the heart.
Campion was a butcher. thirty-four
years old. He leaves a widow.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has just let contract for the
completion of the Stanley Lake dam,
| one of the chief works of the project,
five miles north Of the city limits of
Denver Kenefick & Quigley. of kan
sas CITY, have undertaken the work
for $4,000. To date on dams, canals
and tunnels for the system, the irriga-
ton 3mpany has let contracts calling
for an expen 1iture Of about $1,620,0 900.
At recent election Colorado
Springs decided by an overwhelming
majority to have charter. Twenty
one taxpayers will be elected on Janu-
airy 18th as delegates to charter con-
vention and within sixty days they will
submit. draft of the proposed charter.
The commission form of government
is being Investigated.
A Colorado Springs millionaire