The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-17
COLORADO NEWS


alton every night
A postoffice has been established at
Brandon, kiowa county, with Charles
d. Blanchard as postmaster
Fifty-one students were graduated at
Colorado College. Colorado Springs on
commencement day. June 10th
The Colorado Springs High school
has just graduated siSty-six pupils, of
whom fortyfour are girls and twenty
two boys.
The Camp Bird mine. near Ouray. re
ported net profit OF s11s.70O for the
month of April. Who wouldn't call
that ''bird?"
The American Bankers Association
will hold its convention at Denver Sep
TENDER 9th and an attendance of
1000 is expected.
The State Bank of Gilcrest has been
organized and is capitalized for 5000.
NJ A Selby president, W. H Gilcrest
vice president and H. L. Keasey cash
Ter.
Bourke Cochran. the celebrated New
York politician and orator. has EN-
gagged rooms at the Albany hotel in
Denver during the Democratic conven.
ton.
J. McGahen will build the McGahen
reservoir 80 miles east OF Ault. II will
be filled from South Pawree and
Crabb creeks and have a capacity OF
100000 cubic feet Of water
The Fort Morgan chamber of com
merce wants the city to purchase
siNty-fiye acre tract one mile out for
park. IL has natural reservoir site and
with lake will make fire resort
John Blaizen, a Russian, was cleo
trocuted at the western entrance of
the Gunnison tunnel on the 18th inst
He was pushing motor car into the
tunnel when the accident happened
The forest service announces the fol-
lowing appointments on national for
ests in Colorado: John Story, guard.
White River: Joseph W Palmer. guard.
Pixies Peak. c. T. Burroughs, guard,
San Juan.
Judge Gamble is too i'll to preside
over the postponed session of the May
term of District Court at Greeley and
Judge Hubert Shattuck of Denver will
hold court and probably be assisted by
Judge Burke of the Thirteenth dis
trict.
The Ell Paso county baseball team.
composed OF county officials. has is
sued challenge to the court house
Tigers of Pueblo for match game
of bali to be played in the near future
for charity. The Tigers will accept
the challenge.
A petition to organize an irrigation
district south of Virgins has been
granted by the county commissioners
of Morgan county. IL embraces about
10000 acres of land known as the Up
Der Bijou. The company will begin
active work soon.
nu,-sz,. lxror,h 49, ,k1 a..
sane asylum, escaped Tuesday morn
ing at 1880 o'clock and created con
siderable excitement as he ran
through the business section of Pueblo
attempting to evade his pursuers. One
of the men in pursuit stopped him by
hitting him on the head with a stone,
after which he was returned to the
asylum.
The present faculty of the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden has been
reelected for another year. although
1t is probable that after the opening of
the fall term there will be several ad-
ditions to meet the demands of the new
post graduate courses. At the regular
meeting Of the trustees resolutions
were passed thanking Hon. Thomas F.
Walsh for his donation of 81 900 to the
students loan fund.
Senator Henry NJ. Teller and Mrs.
Teller have returned from the session
Of Congress just concluded, and the
senator will remain in Denver
now until July 18th. or after the Dem
ooratic national convention. He will
go East July 18th to attend the meet
ings of the national currency commits.
sion, of which he was appointed a
member after the passage of the new
| currency law.
The new interurban electric road be-
tween Denver and Boulder will make
a seventy-five cent rate between the
two cities and SIPS for the round trip
The service will be hourly. one hour
via the university and Marshall. the
other via the ~" and Louisville. The
steam train which leaves Boulder for
Denver at 1925 p. m. and returning
reaches Boulder at 3:35 p. m. will be
abandoned after June 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T West. both
81 years old, Union Colony pioneers
who have resided at Greeley continh.
uously for thirty-eight years. cele-
brated the sixty-third anniversary of
their marriage on the 10th inst. They
hal expected to spend the day quietly
at the home of their son. George West,
but IS pioneers and friends and
members of the W. C. T. u surprised
the sons home and spending the after
noon with them.
On his way to the Republican ma
tional convention in Chicago, II. G.
Koch, of Grand Valley, left at the Den
yer city ticket office of the Colorado
Midland a fine display of branches
from the fruit trees, showing the ex-
cellent condition of the crop at the
present time. The branches displayed
include plums, peaches. apricots, pears.
apples and cherries and are from
the orchards of Mr.. Koch. J. Conneil
and James Brennan Mr. Koch esti-
mates that there will be sixty-five per
cent of full fruit crop.
Operating officials of the Union Pa
cific railway will hold their third an
nual meeting at the Brown Palace no.
tel in Denver June 22nd At the eve
ing session Charles Hansel of New
York City will lecture on the subject
of Signaling and Interlocking."
AT the annual meeting of the Pixies