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

"A CIVIL service examination VIII W
held in Denver May 18th to fill the po-
sition Of fireman of the Denver mint,
paying $75 month
There are forty female prisoners In
the county Jail at Denver. This large
number OF owing to the war against the
habttues of the Market street slums.
The great electric fountain in the
City park at Denver is nearly COM
pleted and the screens for the coiored
lights have been placed. 1t will be a
gorgeous spectacle.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have offered a reward OF $50 for
the capture of Castano Senaf0re, the
Italian who, It is charged. shot and
killed his wife on the 18th inst. and
escaped.
The work Of double tracking the
Rio Grande between Florence and
Canon City will be completerd by the
end of this month All bridges along
the line are finished and the rails are
being laid rapidly.
The Grand Junction board OF edu-
cation has authorized an Increase OF 70
q month in the salary OF every SCHOOL
teacher in the city. The total increase
will require $1,000 year and fOrty-nine
teachers are affected.
Three thousand men were paid <200.-
900 April 18th at the Pueblo steel
works. This is 900 more men than re-
ceived money on the last pay day. and
1t is expected that COO more will be add
ed before the next one.
Two shifts are now working on the
Denver auditorium. One begins at
O'Clock in the morning and works until
noon. when 1t Is relieved by the sec
ond. which works an equal number OF
hours. stopping at o'clock in the ev-
lenfnE. by
J. M. Van Deren, former resident
Of Boulder and also OF Denver. died
at Paonia on the 18th inst. In his
seventy-f1fth year. Mr.. Van Deren
came to Colorado in 1853 and made
three trips across the plains by OK
team.
A new grading camp has been estab-
iished on the line OF the Moffat road
twelve miles south OF Steamboat
Springs. Rails have been been laid
Into Routt county and 1t is expect
ed that by May LIST the terminal OF the
road will he Mccoy Siding.
The City Council of Florence has
i passed resolution declaring the fallen
women Gf the city nuisance and or
dering that their places be vacated
May LIST. The resolution reads that
the women will not be tolerated within
the city limits.
Five hundred thousand seedlings
from the government nurseries at
Bear creek and Monument will be
planted within the next year or two
in the adjoining region. and a shipment
of 10000 trees will be planted near the
Monument nursery at once.
The Rock Island has made arrange
ments to enlarge Its repair shops in
Pueblo and will employ about twenty
more men. For some time the Rock
Island has maintained a small force
and will now increase It SO that heavy
repairs can be made when necessary.
The Daughters of the American Rev.
olution are planning to raise fund of
SIS 900 with which to purchase a man.
moth organ for the Denver auditorium.
Mrs. ]. b. Grant. regent Of the Colorado
chapter. has the matter in charge. and
Ii planning lev = kirmess to be given
at the auditorium next fall.
State Auditor Statler has paid to
the Pioneers Monument Association
the $4,000 appropriated at the last
session Of the Legislature for the
pioneers monument designed by Fred
erick Macmonnies. The association has
now. In addition to the states gift,
500 900 subscribed to the fund, and is
working TO raise $1,000 more.
A fiual dividend of IA per cent was
allowed the depositors of the defunct
Denver Savings bank by District
Judge Riddle April 18th. making a total
dividend of 77% per cent. The Inter
national Trust Company. as receiver
was allowed fee of $5,021.52. Cloudy
& Twitchell. attorneys for the trust
company. were allowed $1,000 and At.
torney E. II. Park was allowed $3.50.
The Greeley starch factory closed
April nth for the season. having made
500 tons OF starch from 12,000.00O
pounds of potatoes. None OF the starch
has been sold. as many cotton mills
; which used 1t for sizing are idle. but
they will be running soon and buying
the product at higher prices. The nor
NAL price is to 4 cents a pound. The
stock on hand is worth about 100000
Mrs. Ray Middlesworth. daughter OF
James Cowie. former secretary Of state,
died at Boulder on the 18th inst. For
the last two years OF her fathers in
cumbency as secretary of state. she
was one of his stenographers. She was
also stenographer under the present
secretary of state, Timothy O'Connor
from the time Of his Inauguration un.
til she was married. few months ago.
She was twenty-one years old.
The Colorado Prison Association had
as many applicants for relief during
January and February of this year as it
did during the entire year of 1904
when the organization was founded
Furthermore there were as many appli
cants during the first three months OF
the year as there were during the en-
tire year of 1908. A large per cent. of
those who applied to the association
had to be clothed. fed and housed
sometimes for weeks. before they could
be put in the way of honest employ
ment The panic of last fall has made
work hard to get. and on that account
the society comes as an added boon TO
the jailbird
Governor Buchtel has addressed a
letter to Attorney General William H
Dickson instructlng that official to
prosecute any men who may be guilty
of selling liquor or gambling in
open defiance of the law. es