The Lamar register., 1908-08-26
COLORADO ITEMS


ty will place full ticket in the field
this fall.
The boat and launch races at Grand
Lake have drawn good crowds this
year and have been well worth seeing.
Indications are that Labor Day,
September 7th, will be celebrated in
all the larger towns of the state on a
generous scale.
1t has been decided to hold the an
nual tri-county fair of Garfield, Eagle
and Pitkin counties in Glenwood
Springs this year.
The semi-annual meeting OF the Col
orado Osteopathic Association will
convene at Colorado Springs, Friday
and Saturday, August 2Sth and 18th.
The contract for the erection of the
Fremont county Jail has been let to
Alderman u. S. Okey of Canon City for
$17.176 and work will soon be COM
menced.
A committee of Pueblo business men,
after investigation, has reported favor
ably on the Allison Tennessee Pass
water project as source of water sup
ply for the city.
Mrs. Carolyn Kirchoff was instantly
killed and her son-in-law. J. H. Han
ming, seriously injured in a boiler ex-
plosion at Hustled, Ell Paso county on
Thursday. the goth inst.
The Colorado City council has passed
the ordinance requiring all saloon
keepers to remove screens from in
front of the bars. and to keep the win
dows transparent.
Because of indiscriminate shooting by
dove hunters about Florence. farmers
are placarding their premises against
hunting. Several cattle have been
killed by the hunters.
The abstract of assessment of JEFF
ferson county shows the total net val
uation fo.' 1908 to be $5,250,176, an in
crease of $110,502 over last year. The
increase is mostly on improvements.
City Engineer r. H. Ashworth esti
mates that ten miles of new sidewalk
has been laid in Colorado City this
summer. The city is advertising two
and one-half miles of additional side
walk.
The picnic of the Denver Retail
Grocers' Association at Glacier lake on
the 18th inst. was attended by nearly
5000 persons. Nearly every grocery
in Denver was locked up for the en-.
tire day.
Colorado Springs club women will
tender a luncheon in the Antlers hotel
next month to the officers and mem
bers of the executive board of the Ma
tional Federation of Women's clubs,
who will meet at Colorado Springs
September Sth to 18th, inclusive.
For the third time. and the second
this summer the Denver & Rio Grande
safe in the Manitou depot was blown
open on the night of the 18th inst. by
RI
cash for their work. Many valuable
express packages in the office were un.
disturbed.
Pure Food Commissioner Cannon has
received notice that the Department 81
Agriculture at Washington has de.
cided to allow state food commission.
ers to aid in enforcing the national food
laws in their respective states by act.
ing as federal inspectors with power
to collect and analyze samples and re.
port violations of the law to the resi-.
dent United States district attorney.
Since the resignation of John +
Myers as manager of the Colorado work
shop for the blind in Denver. Foreman
l.. C. johnson of the broom depart
ment and his assistants have been run.
ming the factory of the school, A COM
mittee has been appointed to name
manager and is looking for the right
man. Meantime, everything is re-
ported to be running smoothly.
The annual rifle matches of the Col
orado State Rifle Association will be
held Sept. 10th and 18th at the state
rifle range near Golden. A number of
prizes have been offered to competi-
tors and special merchants prizes
which have been offered to induce the
store keepers to enter the matches are
among the trophies. Pistol and rifle
matches will be held by the Colorado
national guard Sept. 18th and 18th at
the same range.
At Boulder on the 10th inst. an or
der was issued in the County Court
permitting the distribution of SCI 900
to the legatees of the Macky estate,
conditioned that they waive all right
to contest the legacy of $4,000 be-
queathed the city or county for a hos
pital for sick and INDECENT widows and
orphans. Notice was given that the
attorney general would appear to ASK
for partial distribution of the be-
quest to the state university for an
auditorium building.
The Colorado & Southern will make
one-half fare rates from Denver Gree
ley and intermediate points to the
northern Colorado State Fair and Race
htet at Toit SoiilHS, SeplelnDeT ISL 10
4th. Tickets will be on sale Septem-
Der LIST. End. 3rd and 4th. final limit
September 5th. Tickets good on all
regular trains. Special train will be
run returning from Fort Collins to Den
yer daily September End. Bird and 4th.
leaving Fort Collins at p. m. and
stopping at all points.
Committees of the Denver Conven-
ton League have started in to raise
$4,000 for the entertainment of four
conventions which will be in Denver
within the next two months. The Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
union, which meets in October, will
need the largest amount ST 900. The
| Odd Fellows have been guaranteed S.
900. the American Bankers Associa-
| ton, which meets next month, $1,000,
and the Interstate Trap Shooters AS
ISOLATION. $1,000.
By far the most ambitious effort to
water a large area by underground
streams will be that made by J. C.
Dodd of Grover, in Weld county. He
will sink n well twenty feet in diameter
on his land, which will pierce de-