The Lamar register., 1909-04-28
COLORADO NEWS

banker, 0leQ at MS nome III fueDlO on
the 18th inst. at the age of 55 years.
The state fair directors at n recent
meeting in Pueblo elected Robert Hig
gins president and s. F. Reno secre-
tary.
Company H, Colorado National guard
has organized baseball team at Brush
and will play series of games with
other teams of eastern Colorado.
A pie company in Denver has In
stalled an expensive motor-driven de-
livery wagon, dispensing with the serv-
ices of six horses.
M. Craffey has begun the erection in
Denver Of the largest broom factory
west Of the Missouri river, represent
ing an investment of 100000.
R. X. Ingledow, employed in the Clio
rietta shaft Of the indicator No. z
mine at Victor, was caught In a cavein
on April 23rd and sustained very Sc
rious injuries.
Vernon McKelvey. a ranchman, has
begun the construction of small
reservoir to cost $1,000 on his ranch
near Lucerne. The water will be used
to irrigate 600 acres of land.
George X. Hart, a Rio Grande engi
neer, has brought suit at Pueblo for
$4,000 damages against the road FOR
injuries he alleges he received in Au
gust. 1907. on the Celtic branch.
Former Adjutant General Buckley
Wells has been given recognition of
his services to the state by being
placed on the retired list, with the
rank of brigadier general.
At a special election April goth Hugo
voted for incorporation by a majority
OF 81. Hugo will be the first and only
incorporated town in Lincoln county
since its organization, twenty years
ago.
Fighting Bob" Evans. retired admi-
raj and one of the most popular Of the
nations retired fighters, will reach
Denver on May 10th to deliver an ad-
dress in the Auditorium on From
Hampton Roads to San Francisco in
Command of the Atlantic Fleet"
Unless their demands are met IA
vorably the Brewery Workers of Den
yer will walk out on May LIST. They
expect the Bottlers. Wagon Drivers
and other brewery employees to accom-
pany them. thus making a complete
tie-up In that line Of business.
A memorial has been received from
the Democrats and citizens OF La
Plata county by Governor Shafroth.
deploring and regretting the failure Of
the last Legislative Assembly to pass
the Democratic platform measures and
petitioning him to call an extra ses-
sion.
A walkout on May LIST of the Denver
Amalgamated Carpenters. who are af-
filiated with the Building Trades Coun-
Gil, Is threatened. This probably will
tie up all building in Denver, for 1t is
expected that all crafts Of the Trades
Council will refuse to work with Broth
erhOod carpenters.
State Printing Commissioner George
Hosmer announces that the bill for
printing during the last legislative SEES
sion amounted to $29.133.27. It cost
1862 to print the report of the Bar
ela-Beshoar contest. The largest item
in the bill was $500. for 1000 ready
reference files.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars will be
offered for prizes by the Chamber OF
Commerce of Denver and other COM
mercial bodies for the Colorado Ma
tional Apple Exhibition to be held in
the Auditorium from December 9th to
18th, according to Secretary Clinton
l.. Oliver of the Colorado State Horti-
cultural Society.
The executors of the Stratton es-
tate have turned over to the trustees
for the Myron Stratton home about
a rArf1 ~ oil n
the estate except 100000, which is re-
tanned in view of the litigation still
pending. The action thus taken in
court means that the Myron Stratton
home will soon be built A site for the
home is now being selected.
Two appointments have been made
and five retirements ordered In high
places in the Colorado National Guard.
Adjutant General John Chase, with
the approval Of Governor Shafroth,
named Charles B. Carlisle, son of
James Carlisle, former state treasurer
to be inspector general. and DR.. T. E.
Carmody to be surgeon general. The
appointments take effect at once.
Never in the history OF northern
Colorado was there as much snow in
the foothills as now. Irrigationists
who have been investigating the depth
say streams will run bank-full by carly
summer. and fill every reservoir in the
entire region. In Estes Park and at
the headwaters of the Poudre snow is
banked five to ten feet deep in the
foothills and farther back it is twenty
to thirty feet deep.
The State Land Board at its meet
ing April 21st declined to donate 300
acres of state land to the Toltec Canal
Company, which had been appropri-
ated by the company's predecessor,
the old Taos Valley Irrigation Com
pany. The board informed Mr.. Clark.
attorney for the company, that his
company would probably have to pay
at least $40 an acre for the land. and
in addition guarantee water to settlers
on state land at fixed low charge.
Beginning this spring the Humane
society is to carry on active work in
the education of children regarding the
treatment of dumb animals. and w. r.
Callicotte of Glenwood Springs has
| boen oppoiuted an agent of the society