The Lamar register., 1908-01-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

j. f. Mayield, F. B. Easterly and C.
B Wade ar, the incorporators of the
new Bank of Ami,y, which is capt
talized at 100000.
The court house of Arapahoe county
at Littleton will be formally opened
January 18th at which time there will
be a public gathering, speeches, mu-
sic and dancing.
A club for the study of the inter
rational language. Esperanto, has
been formed at Fort Collins. 1t has
ten members. DR.. Scoiield being presi-
dent and instructor.
According to the annual report of
the sidewalk inspector. BIZ miles of
walk were laid in Denver during the
last year at a total cost of $90.670.03.
This is exclusive of the work done by
contractors for the sidewalk districts.
Mrs. Joseph Moss. an original Union
colonist and a resident of Greeley for
over thirty-seven years, died December
Both at the home of her son-in-law,
Mayor Thomas Daley of Eaton, at the
age of eighty years.
The report of the Pueblo land office
for December, 1907, shows that en-
27,779 acres, including: Homesteads,
1O9; desert. "a; final homesteads, So;
state selections, s; coal lands, l.
The Ban, of Del Norte, which has
heretofore reen a private institution
has reorganized as a state bank with
a capital Of 100000. Asa F. Middaugh
is president, Arthur NJ. Johnson. vice
president, and Charles NJ. France,
cashier.
The double tracking of the main line
of the Rio Grande between Florence
and Canon City will be completed in
six weeks, when the company hopes to
facilitate the har ding of both freight
an dpassenger service on the Pueblo
division.
December goth the Lincoln State
bank of Arriba, Lincoln county, filed
Its incorpori lion papers with the sec
rotary of stste at Denver. 1t has been
organized b. Samuel F. Boyden, John
Boyden and George w. Jarvis, with &
capital of $4,000.
Fully 10000 sacks of flour were man
ufactured by the two Fort Collins
Touring mills in 1907. requiring the
milling of 225,000 bushels of wheat
Fort Collins flour finds ready sale
at home and in the Southern states.
Hundreds of carloads are shipped
yearly to Texas, Virginia and Georgia
Steve Adams, the self-confessed as
sassin Of Arthur l.. Collins, former
general manager of the Smuggler-
Union Mining Company, at the Of
fees of the company at Pandora,
November 10, 1902, arrived at Tellu.
ride on the 31st ult., from Idaho in the
custody of Sheriff Fitzpatrick and C.
C. Hicks. Adams is held in the county
jail.
/ Mrs. Mollie Lissner. aged 100 years,
died at the home of her son, Aaron
Lissner, in Pueblo December 18th. She
served as a nurse during the Franco
Prussian war and resided in the very
heart of the hostile country in the Ger
man rebellion of 1S4S. She was born
in Posen, Germany, in 1907, and came
to this country twenty-five years ago
She resided in Denver many years.
An examination will be held at the
state house in Denver, Friday, Janu
airy Gath, for the office Of secretary and
chief examiner of the Civil Service
Commission of the state of Colorado.
The duties of the successful applicant
will be 20 look after the routine work
of the commission and conduct its eX
aminations. The salary will be $500
year.
At the regular monthly sale of the
State Land Board at Denver, January
I'd, 1,340 acres of land were sold to
homesteaders. They were in four
tracts, situated in Logan, Kiowa and
Larimer counties. One tract calls for
500 an acre and the others ranged from
$3.50 to $10.75 an acre. On each tract
the state made the usual reservation
of mineral rights.
The following Colorado patents have
been granted: Detlef j. Joehnck,
Rocky Ford, apparatus for handling
beets; Henry V. Johnson. Denver.
liquid measuring device; Edward E.
Schacner, Denver, fireproof stair struc
ture; Lewis b. Skinner, Denver, puri
flying hydrochloric acid; Edward A
Smith. Loyeland beet puller; John
C. Vanslicke. Fort Collins. electric
time switch; George E. Williamson.
Durango, trace buckle.
Fifteen million pounds of sugar and
over half million dollars distributed
among the growers and employers, is
the 1907 record of the Grand Junction
plant of the Western Sugar & Land
Company, according to statement
given out by the general manager
These figures show that for the 1907
crop the beet growers will receive
1896, 900. This with $4,000 paid to
the $50 factory employees and s16s,0OO
to the 500 field laborers, makes a to
tai of $4,000.
Executors of the Stratton estate
have been notified that the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, sit
ting in st. Louis, has decided the suit
of c. w. Franklin VS.. the MGtoa Gold
Mining Company, owned by the estate,
in favor of the defendant. There are
four more suits to be settled before
work on the home for the poor can be
started. 1t is expected that these will
all be out of the way by April or May
and that construction work on the
Stratton homo can be started some
time during the summer. The home it
self will cost about 81 100000, and will
have an endowment fund of close to
$5,O00,000.
Floundering around in four feet of
snow at Idylwilde in Poudre canon
west of Greeley, a monster elk. the
first seen in that vicinity for twenty
years, was captured by Blair Rush OF
Greeley and Norman Fry, on tn
Goth nit Early in the morning