The Lamar register., 1909-02-03
COLORADO ITEMS

Boulder county reports winter
wheat in perfect condition.
Fort Collins will ask for the next
years Y. NJ. c. A. state convention.
The dead body of A. Johnson was
found in a ditch near Firestone We'd
nesday.
F.. w. Schroeder, a druggist at Wind
sor, was fined 5000 and costs for sell
liquor without license. And he paid
it, too.
The Bobbie Burns anniversary was
appropriately observed by the Scots of
Denver. Leadville and Colorado
Springs on Monday.
Kansas day was observed at Pueblo
January 29th by native Kansans with
big banquet. This will probably be
made an annual affair.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
annex of the Centennial high school
at Pueblo was laid with appropriate
ceremonies Monday.
On Wednesday Congressman Bon
ynge recommended to the President
the appointment of Marshall Moore
as postmaster at Fort Collins.
The State University Young Wom-
ems Christian Association Is making
plans to erect a handsome association
house on or near the university CAM
pus at Boulder.
The Colorado Springs & Interurban
Railroad Company will build a 100000
extension to the Union Printers Home
and new Protestant hospital in the
same vicinity.
The Eastern Colorado Power Com
pany is continuing to add from 10 to
so men daily to its forces engaged in
building its big conduit on Middle
Boulder creek.
Olathe citizens were surprised We'd
nesday by seeing deer chase through
the streets of the town. The dogs fol-
lowing the animal, n young doe, were
beaten off and it was rescued alive.
The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com
merce will try to secure the location
in that city by the Legislature of the
proposed new home for the feeble
minded.
To make the state bear the expense
of political campaigns and stop private
contributions to campaign funds is the
purpose of bill drafted by Gov. John
F. Shafroth in person, which will be
introduced in the Senate by Senator
| Campbell.
The snowslides have greatly disar-
ranged the long distance lines of the
| Colorado Telephone Company in the
mountain districts, especially between
Carbonate and Basalt. Silverton and
Ouray and Denver and Grand Junction.
The company is rushing repairs.
Carnation day was well observed In
Pueblo January 18th. Almost every
person in the downtown section wore
one of McKinley's favorite flowers. So
ciety ladies' and girls sold carnations
on the street for the benefit of the Nc
Clelland orphanage. About $500 was
realized.
John b. Driskell, well-known resi-
dent of Black Hawk for forty-three
years. died on the 10Th ult of dropsy.
aged sixty-eight. He was a member of
the First Virginia cavalry and claimed
to have been paroled in the Shenan-
doah valley when General Lee surrend-
cred, and that he was never released
from parole. He had rich relatives in
Virginia.
At a meeting in Pueblo the Elks'
Reunion Association of Colorado Sc
lected as the date for the annual
gathering next October 18th, 18th and
18th, In Pueblo. The committee
changed a custom which has hither-
to been followed in having the state
gatherings before the national conven-
lions of the lodge and the one this
year will be in the fall some time
after the meeting at Los Angeles.
Deputy Sheriff Carlos Sandoval. who
has been on trial at Trinidad charged
with the murder of Max Romero, No
vember 'Sth, while celebration Incl
dent to a wedding at San Miguel, in
the eastern part of this county, was ac-
quilted in District Court, the jury be-
ing out only fifteen minutes. Sando-
walls defense was that the shooting was
an accident and occurred while he was
trying to quell a disturbance at the
dance.
At Pueblo Sunday Clarence J. Stet-
son, aged fifty-seven years, promi-
nent Democrat and president of the
Arkansas Valley club, was found dead
in bed at 6 o'clock in the morning by
his little son, with whom he was sleep
ing. Mr.. Stetson was employed for
years as chief engineer Of the Pueblo
water works, having come to Pueblo
in 1874. He was formerly chairman OF
the Democratic county central COM
mittee and was active in politics.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, re-
tired, known all over the country as
Fighting Bob" will give lecture at
Colorado Springs probably March 10th,
under the auspices of an Eastern Ly-
ceum bureau, on From Hampton
Roads to San Francisco, in Command
of the Atlantic Fleet" Mrs. Nina Il.
Zevely of Colorado Springs is sister
of Admiral Evans. The Admiral Is
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