The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-06-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


cost s3S.741.
The Bugle is a new newspaper Just
launched at Silt.
Sterling Elks are trying to organize
a lodge there.
Uncle Joe" Roberts of Telluride Is
dead at the age of "a.
Bonds will be issued for new
school building at Genoa.
Mrs. NJ. e. Garrish of Williams Fork
lost fine team by lightning.
The San Luis Southern's bridge
across the Culebra is nearly complet-
ed.
Mrs. Ulrike Luehe, a pioneer of HUI
go, died last week at the age of eighty
three.
Half a mile of box cars were burned
at Pueblo Friday with loss of about
$4,000.
Holly reports the outlook good for
record-breaking crop OF sugar beets
this year.
The Farmers and Stockmen's Fair
Association at Burlington has been In
corporated.
C. A. woodmansee is the new Sec
rotary of the Loveland Chamber OF
Commerce.
A baby was born at the Esquimau
village in one of the Denver summer
gardens Friday.
An interviewing switch is being in
stalled at Sterling where the Burling-
ton and Union Pacific cross.
A Saloon license was refused for
Chemung because the citizens protest
ed to the county commissioners.
w. |. Hall of Berthoud was fined
5000 for his second offense at boot
Logging, and the costs amounted to 500
more.
John Coloom. who built the Mala-
chite smelter in Golden in 1873. died
at National City. Calf. at the age of
n.
The siege OF measles at Livermore
having been lifted. church services
and other gatherings have been re-
sumed.
The Montrose electric light system
will be so extended as to supply many
ranchers with light several miles out
from town.
Mrs. Martha A. b. Conine. well
known in the social and political life
of the state, died at her home In Den
yer Friday morning.
On June 18th the d. & II. G. will be-
gin running Its trains Nos. Is and 16
through between Denver and Grand
Junction. as last summer.
The contract has been let for new
bridge across the South Platte be-
tween Merino and Atwood. The struc-
ture will be 1000 feet long.
Miss Othelia Austin of Colorado
Springs was awarded $1,000 In
breach OF promise suit against Carl
Kristensen. n chauffeur. Friday.
Rev. w. F. Pitner. pastor of the
Methodist church at Trinidad. has
hustled up $4,000 of the $4,000 need
ed for his new church building.
A citizen OF Two Buttes captured a
young antelope on the plains the
other day and 1t is being domesticated
by one OF the ladies' of the town.
Eleven carloads of machinery have
arrived at Newcastle for the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company. which will
begin operations In that district.
Col. James Pope. assistant quarter
master general in charge at Denver
Of the Department Of the Colorado.
has been retired on account Of age.
Supervisor A. b. McGaffey has Sc
cured permission from Washington to
open a supplemental book and keep the
Denver census open until July /.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has bought a controlling interest in
| tn I'd Mt
Wray. and will assume management.
Sunday baseball will be eliminated
at Fruita by the merchants closing
their places OF business on Thursday
afternoon during the season and the
team furnishing a good game once a
week worth closing up for.
Mrs. Sarah Heathman of Fort Lup-
ton. against whom a complaint as to
her sanity had been filed. stood off Of
ficers and a score Of men until she had
to be handcuffed. before being taken
to Greeley to the county hospital.
Supervisor A. l.. Stroup of the Rio
Grande national forest. with headquar-
tiers at Monte Vista, has resigned from
the forestry service and will be sue
ceeded by Prof. w J. Morrill, late OF
Colorado College.
General Manager Clark Of the Den
yer & Rio Grande has addressed let
ter to the Salida Chamber Of Com
merce denying the recent report that
passenger service between Salida and
Alamosa would be abandoned and the
old mixed service restored.
The celebration at Greeley last
week of the fortieth anniversary Of
the founding Of the Union colony
marked an epoch in the annals Of
northern Colorado and the spud metro
polls entertained many visitors lavish
ly.
Idaho Springs has put on another
metropolitan air by placing cans for
the reception Of waste paper. banana
peels. ct al. on the street corners.
The Continental Oil Company lost
Its tanks and buildings at Fort Nor
| pan nv fire Frfday entailfpR loss OF