The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-09
COLORADO ITEMS

lied at $4,000, has been organized
with b. p. Brooks president and ID. M.
Decamp cashier.
By the will of the late Andy Nc
Millen. the pioneer stockman of
Evans, his estate, valued at $4,000,
is left to his widow and five children.
Practically the entire crop of onion
| seed grown in northern Colorado has
been harvested. Robert Boyd, near
Greeley, harvested an eighty-five-acre
field.
A COW belonging to ]. w. Anderson
was Kill I'd at Greeley few days since
by veterinarians because they be-
lieve the animal was suffering from
hydrophobia.
Thomas Conway. aged fifty-fve, one
or the oldest and most popular pas
senger conductors on the Rio Grande
railroad. died at his home in Grand
Junction on the 3rd inst. after long
illness.
The State Beard of Health has de-
cided that hereafter all persons who
deal in food stuffs liable to contamina-
ton BY dust and flies. must screen
whatever they display to the public
and keep it screened.
Dolores county must pay Bird S.
Coler, former comptroller of New
York City. and, his business partner,
Leonard II. Fowler, $65.137.O5 as the
| result of a decree entered by Judge
| Lewis of the Federal Court. The
amount Is due on funding floating in
debtedness bonds issued by the county
| in 1885 and 1886, which the county has
left unsettled.
The State Railroad Commission has
| sent an order to all of the railroads
operating in Colorado urging them to
| give more attention to the handling
of shipments by freight. Many com
| plants have come to the commission
| from various parts of the state of late
in regard to trouble about securing
cars for transportation of fruit and
| perishable goods.
Harry G. Browne, superintendent of
the Rocky Ford Electric Company. was
| instantly killed on the night Of the I'd
inst. by coming in contact with the
| large lily wheel. His skull was split
| open and death was instantaneous. He
| is survived by widow, and his mother
resides in Cripple Creek, while half
brother, Frank Glenn, is paymaster of
| the Portland mine at Victor. Browne
was thir;y-eight years old.
Thomas Luxen, a wealthy Rio Blanco
cattleman living four miles north of
Rifle, Colorado, is defendant in dam
age suit filed in the Federal Court at
Denver. charging him with having al
| lowed cattle and horses to Craze upon
the Battlement national forest reserve.
| Mr.. I.uxen is said to have taken
chances in the hope that a favorable
decision will be reached in the United
| States Supreme Court.
The county commissioners of Pitldn
county have instructed the county
| treasurer to accept the certified check
| for 81, 151.3S and the personal check for
S227.oS given by ex-County Treasurer
William II. McNichols to cover the al
legged shortage created during his term
of office and his half of the expenses
| for the recent accounting of the coun-
ty books. and have also instructed that
the civil suit against McNicho.s be
dismissed.
Colorado's peculiar advantages as a
place of recuperation for persons suf-
fering from pulmonary tubercular
troubles are to be set before the medi-
cal fraternity of the world most forci-
bly, at the International Congress on
Tuberculosis. which will take place in
Washington. ID. c., September 21st to
| October 18th. The state will be rep
resented by large and able delega-
! ton of prominent medical practition-
| ers.
The official call for Colorado Min
ing convention, to be held in Denver
Sept. 10th and 18th, has been taken
cognizance of by the majority of the
mining men throughout the state. Let
tiers are being received at Denver by
Secretary James F. Callbreath, Jr.,
stating that the miners are organizing
in the numerous camps and mining cen
ters of the state, for the purpose of
naming members to attend the conven-
ton.
The formal opening of the Sanitary
company's canning plant at Brighton
took place September list. This COM
| pany is the successor of the Wilmore
| Canning Company late of Denver. The
company has just completed a plant
costing about $4,000 to can tomatoes
and other garden produce. There
were several hundred people present
| at the opening. Refreshments were
| served and music was furnished by the
| management.
AT Fort Collins on the End inst. S. H.
| Atwater of Canon City, for eleven sue
cessive years president of the State
Sunday School Association. was again
elected to that office. In addition to
the erection of Mr.. Atwater president
| the convention chose the following Off
| CtiS vice H. " JOunSOn vi
Fort Collins; vice president of the
western slope, F. F. Frazier OF Mont
rose: secretary, w. r. Hardy of Rocky
Ford: treasurer, c. S. Watson of Den
| yer.
At Leadville on the End inst, after
| celebrating for two hours the jury in
the case of Sherman w. Morris, alias
Frank Sherliffe of Des Moines, Ia, re-
turned verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree. Morris was tried
for the killing of John w. Walsh. a
Leadville saloonkeeper. June %, 1893
| His conviction was obtained wholly
upon circumstantial evidence, it being
brought out at the trial that at various
times he had confessed to acuuaint
ances the killing of Walsh and that on
certain occasions he had boosted of
the crime.
State Dairy Commissioner Bishopp
has received letter from the Utah
Condensed Milk Company asking him
to submit to the company the names of
Colorado breeders of Tristan II olstein
| cattle. The firm stated in the commun-