The Lamar register., 1909-09-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS

County Treasurer Simmons, of Colo
RADIO Springs, says the tax payments
Tor this year are already 100000
above the entire amount paid in last
year.
Twenty-nine carloads of fruit were
shipped from Grand Junction on Sat
urday. according to statement issued
by the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Five families have been quaran-
tined in Louisville owing to an cpl
demic of smallpox, which has had
pronounced run in the mining town
for the last two weeks.
The noted 3-R ranch. embracing
1895 acres and twenty-six cubic feet
of water right. located near Beulah.
was sold by r. F. Weitbrec to former
Senator Hume Lewis for $125.000.
The opinion of farmers of Logan
county and others fully competent to
Judge OF agricultural conditions, is
that that section of the state will
yield the greatest crops ever known.
The coroner's Jury which investi-
gated the shooting near Westcliff in
which Walter Lombard killed his
father-in-law, S. w. Simeral. returned
able homicide.
Thirty thousand acres of land were
disposed of at public auction in Den
yer. by the State Land oBard. for
100000. This is the largest sale ever
held by the board. but another to be
held next month will equal it.
At recent meeting of the Colorado
Poultry Farmers Assn. held in Den
yer, the support of this organization
was pledged to the second annual Colo
RADIO Interstate Fair and Exposition.
which will be held at Overland Park
the third week in September.
President John W. Springer. of tho
Colorado Interstate Fair and Expo
sition. to be held at Overland Park.
Denver. commencing September IL,
has personally invited President Taft
to open and attend the exposition.
The president will be in the West
about fair time.
Reports from the threshing ma
chimes which have been running in the
Berthoud district for about three
weeks, confirm the most optimistic
forecasts made concerning prospective
yields of wheat and local elevators
have been taxed to the limit to handle
the grain coming from all directions.
Albert Noack of Mount Douglas.
about twelve miles east OF Black
Hawk. shot and killed golden eagle.
II is evidently young one. but has
spread of seven feet from tip to tip
of its wings and was flying about 100
feet above the ground when shot.
The golden eagle is rarely found in
this section.
An exhibit OF pottery. drawings and
other art objects made by students OF
the State Normal School is beins
shown at the teachers institute at
Cheyenne. The work OF both the
training school and mature students
is included. Prof. Richard Ernest.
head of the art department. is giving
a course OF lectures.
There is $4,000 worth OF buildings
being erected in Eaton at the present
time. including a $4,000 high school
building, a new building for the Eaton
National Bank. the Sandberg & Pier
son implement house and a new laun.
dry which is being put up by J. A.
Warren. Six miles OF sidewalk have
been laid.
At the new town OF Gill the con-
struction gang OF the Union Pacific
arrived and broke ground for the new
station of the road at that point In
conjunction with a gang OF working
men which began installing the big
scales for a commission house. The
switch tracks OF the branch line have
been completed and work on the
depot will be rushed.
Henry Horst of Loveiand. in com
pany with Weld county officer. has
been securing the country between
Loveland and Grover in an effort to
catch the man who is alleged to have
stolen horse from Horst's pasture
last Thursday. A party of Loveland
people stated that they met the man
and horse. which they recognized.
near Grover.
Leandro Martinez. charged with be
ing the leader of the gang which at.
tempted to steal the payroll OF the
Victor American Fuel Company, Aug
ust IA. was held to the next term of
the District Court at Trinidad under
five separate charges. Two OF the
charges are for the larceny of live
stock. one growing out Of the fact that
he took the horse of Senator Casamira
Barela on the day OF the hold-up. and
another that he took the horse Of Leo
Lente. a herd boy. who was at work
not far from the scene OF the attempt
ed robbery. third charge is that of
conspiracy to rob and the fourth of
assault to kill Deputy Raphael Martin
ez. who was shot from his horse by
the bandits.
A considerable number of the mem.
bers OF the Twenty-first regular in
fantry. which left Fort Logan to go to
the Philippines have no desire for ser.
vice In the Islands. According to a
non-commissioned officer there were
twenty assertions from the regiment
a.. f.rt