The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-12-29
AN EPiToME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Utah is to hold a Good Roads con-
senticn at Salt Lake on January 26th.
9th and 2Sth.
The fifth annual exhibition OF the
National Western Stock Show will be
held at Denver January Sth to 18th
next.
Governor Donaghey has declined to
call the Legislature of Arkansas in
special session to consider the Ques-
ton of statutory prohibition
Minneapolis high schools are con-
sidering the advisability of abandon
ing baseball and substituting lacrosse
as the spring scholastic sport.
The Colorado National Apple Expo
sition will be held at the great ,Au-
dItorium in Denver. January Bird to
sth. 1t will he one of the greatest
events of the New Year in the West.
Governor Curry of New Mexico has
called a meeting Of district attorneys
at Santa Fe ON january 6. 1910. to con-
s.der and discuss the collection OF
taxes, and means and measures to en-
force the payment OF delinquent taxes,
Of which over a million dollars are al
-eady due
with OF without the sanction OF the
Aero Club of America. the aviation
meet announced for this city January
1920, will be held" is the gist of e
statement issued by the Merchants &
Manufacturers Association OF Los An
geles. under whose auspices the event
Is scheduled.
The coroner's jury at Winona. Ari'
zona. Investigating the Santa Fe col.
iision in which Mrs. Alice Bennett was
killed and fifty passengers injured. re-
turned n verdict after a four days ses
sion, that lie wreck was caused by
criminal carelessness on the part OF
the SANTA Fe Railroad Company. and
recommended that II be taken up by
the next Ersnd jury.
The St. Joseph. Mo-. baseball asso
citation has set aside January 6. 1910
in which TO complete the campaign tc
raise $500 to assist in securing a
first-class ball team for st. JOSEPH
next season. The Pueblo franchise
which has been purchased by John
Holland of Wichita. will be trans
ferred to st. Joseph.
The Colorado Midland railroad has
new president in George ID. Harris
who is also president of the Chicago
Burlington e. Quincy and of the Colo
RADIO * Southern. 1t Is not expected
that any change in the operation oil
management of the Midland will re
suit, owing to Harris accession to the
presidency of the road. George Val
lery. general manager. is an old Bur
lihgton man. the Midland having beef
controlled by the Burlington for q
number of years.
After battling six weeks with death
Reed Crews. young .lineman at Wal
In walla. Wash. terribly burned b,
falling across power wires. finally sue
cumbed to his injuries. So great was
the public sympathy in his case thai
355 persons submitted to skin graft
ing operations that the youths tor
tured body might be relieved
Among those who gave up .cuticl'
we're 100 school children. SO students
from Whitman college and 25 soldier
from Fort walla Walla. Approximate
ly 1000 square inches of human ski
were grated upon Crews body.
The Denver City Tramway Compan!
that operates the street car system o
Denver. carried $4,000. 900 fare-payinl
passengers during 1909. This is 4
OOO, 900 more fares than the compan.
collected in 1908. The increase in busi
ness has been paralleled by an In
crease in expenditures for improve
ments. as S1.o0o.00O has been spen
this year for Improvement. an increas
of 100000 over last year. An aver
age of 265 cars was run daily durin
the present year. an increase Of twer
ty-five over the average daily servic
of last year.