The Lamar register., 1908-05-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS

INFO Colorado.
The twenty second annual council
of the Episcopal diocese of Colorado
will convene in Denver June Sd and
4th.
The President has appointed Ella
New postmistress at Delta upon the
recommendations of Representative
Haggott.
BY the action of Congress the fish
hatchery near Leadville will get $500
to be used IN paying for the erection
of boiler houses and cottages.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the
dance given by the Pixies Peak Press
club at Stratton Park pavilion, Colo
RADIO Springs. Monday night.
The Elks club at Canon City has
signed an agreement to quit the sale of
liquor to its members or others pend
ing decision by the state Supreme
Court.
The Rev. ]. Thomas Grove. for ten
years rector of St Lukes Episcopal
church at Fort Collins has resigned to
take effect July LIST. He will accept a
West Virginia pastorate.
Paddy Mullaney, former president of
the Free Coinage union, w. F. NJ, was
taken in custody at Florrissant and
taken to Jail at Cripple Creek to be
examined as to his sanity.
The damage by 4 fire that destroyed
the four large ice houses of the Den
Yer & Rio Grande railroad at Palmer
Lake on the 18th inst, is estimated at
upwards of $4,000.
The financial committee of the Flor
ence City Council has just made a re-
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-five per
cent. in the last five years.
Joe Cozzi. fifteen-year-old Italian
boy of Aguilar has been sentenced to
term i'll the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. He was the leader of an
organized gang of boy thieves.
The ruins OF an aboriginal burial
ground have been found ten miles
east of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered with rocks forming the out
lines of horses, deer. men and women.
Slot machines seized in raids re-
Gently made on orders of the district
attorney at Cripple Creek were burned
by order of Judge Owen on the 18th
inst. The machines were valued at
$500.
The Fruit Belt Power Company, an
auxiliary of the Central Colorado Pow
err Company. has announced that work
will be started on the Grand juno
ton street car system about October
lst
The school board of district No. l,
Pueblo. will employ physical director
to conduct athletics. 1t has arranged
for an athletic field in one of the
parks and for the use of the Mineral
Palace.
Nearly all the foreigners of Euro
pean origin who come to the Greeley
district and other agricultural sections
of northern Colorado are anxious to be
come American citizens as soon as pos
sibe.
Tony Capanetti. convicted at Trini-
dad of attempting to blow up Superin-
tendent A. Alexander of the Frederick
mine at Segundo. has been sentenced
to term of ten to twelve years in the
penitentiary.
Walter F. DAILY, chief of the Colora-
do department of the naturalization bu-
reau. has left Denver to make a tour
of the courts in Nebraska, Utah and
Colorado to attend hearings in the nat
uraliZation cases.
The tri-county fair board held a meet
ing at Aspen and elected w. S. Cope
land president and Charles Daley sec
rotary. 1t was decided TO have a straw.
berry shortcake day. probably to be
held June goth.
Hal Coulson. at Boulder. has made a
successful color plate negative. He
took photograph of corner of a
room in his residence and every color,
yellow. green, bright red, etc, shows
up plainly in the negative.
The school census of Greeley. just
.l,s1 a OF
school age, gain of 1893 over last year.
The compilers estimate that popula-
ton of the city at S,S1S. not including
the 500 Normal School students.
Farmers in Weld county have prac-
tically finished planting their beets. 1t
is estimated that there are 5000 acres
planted Tor the Greeley factory. and g.
500 each for the Windsor and Eaton
factories.
The summer season on the Moffat
road was inaugurated Friday the 10 tn
inst. with the first of the seasons
tourist trains. The regular excursion
season opens June IS. when the West
side Denver Tramway employees take
their outing.
Frank Ives, who pleaded guilty to
the charge of dynamiting the home of
Superintendent a. Alexander of the
Frederick mine at Segundo. last jan
uary 30th, was sentenced in the Dis
trict Court at Trinidad to a term of five
TO fourteen years in the penitentiary.
Anton Caponetti was previously SEN
fenced for the same crime.
II. F. Bushnell of Lake City has
been appointed an examiner of home
stead lands in Colorado. There are $50
homestead claims now pending. To-
Gated in the national forest reserves:
certain meadow, mesa and bottom
lands in the reserves are allowed for
homestead entry. but on account of
the snow may only be examined dur
ing the summer months. For this rea-
son the force of examiners is largely
increased in May and June.
The dome of the Capitol building in
Denver. which was recently gilded. will
be surmoun;ed by a globe of white
glass. four and one-half feet in diane
ter. containing forty incandescent cleo
trio lights. each of fifty candle-power.
1t will be a conspicuous object in APP
preaching the city at night,
Hermann Pfeiffer. a former Denver