The Lamar register., 1910-10-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

hc negroes VI DENVER are pidhhih5
a theater of their own in that city.
Colorado will sweeten the country
with 150,000,000 pounds of sugar this
year.
Canon City Elks are about to build
$4,000 clubhouse. They have 500
members.
Magpies are killing off Chinese
pheasants around Greeley. The
Chinese must go.
Ten cars of potatoes were sent out
of Greeley by one firm Wednesday at
SO. cents a hundred.
Montrose is raising a fund to have
the valley represented at the Chicago
Land Show in November.
Clarence B. Watkins of the High
lands postoffice has been appointed
postoffice Inspector.
There is no longer doubt of Colora-
dos ample representation at the big
Pittsburg land show, Oct 1923.
Several deer have been bagged near
Canon City although the dry. warm
weather is detrimental to hunting.
The thirty-third annual convention
OF the Womans Temperance Union CT
Colorado will be held in Denver Oct.
12-14
La Sale has substituted n chain
gang in place of the proverbial latch
string for impecunious visitors Of the
hobo variety.
The body of an unknown man was
found Wednesday on the south side
of Longs peak in Boulder county. No
Identification.
Denver automobiles must not ap-
proach closer than four feet to street
cars. and stern and forward lights
must be provided. -.,
The President has signed a procla-
nation eliminating 1851 acres from
the Arapahoe national forest in the
state of Colorado.
The community kitchen" and din
ing room to accommodate about fifty
families planned by the women of
Greeley is progressing.
DIR. w. w. Ranney. pastor OF the
First Congregational church. has been
elected president of the Colorado
Springs Ministerial Association.
The skeleton of a man was found
in the mountains several miles west
OF Hustled Wednesday and Coroner
David Law is investigating.
Colorado Springs physicians are
active in making arrangements for the
annual convention of the State Medi-
cal Society in this city October lib.
Olin Thoilson. postmaster at Glen
wood Springs, Colo. and Elmus Beltz..
postmaster at Laramie. Wyo.. have
filed applications for authority to open
postal savings banks.
The Pueblo Canning Company has
made one shipment of IL carloads OF
Pueblo county picked cucuDibers to
Tacoma, Wash. the largest cucumber
shipment on record from this county.
The enormous crop OF fall and win
ter apples which the Manzanola dis
trict has raised this year. which ex-
ceeds by 100 per cent any crop eves
before produced In this district, Is
moving.
Local postoffice receipts for the
quarter ending Sept. 30. at Colorado
Springs. shows an increase OF S1,1O0
over the corresponding quarter of 1909.
being s37.5s5 this year and s36.47i
last year.
A Denver man. Andrew Brott. Just
as a flyer. has designed and built and
successfully made two flights in an
aeroplane INDUCING in all the dips.
turns. spurs and angles common to a
mining section.
Surveyors are in the field between
Pueblo and La Junta and II is rumored
that line will be built between La
Junta and Pueblo. following the recent
purchase of the Junta Electric Com
pany plant by John S. Vail, general
manager of the Pueblo Traction Com
pany.
The Colorado Realty Dealers Asso-
citation. in session at Trinidad, have
Endorsed the proposed landlord lien
law and praise the work of the Board
OF Immigration.
A billdog killed porcupine at Col
orado Springs the other day; no.. how
ever. until enough of the victim out
er covering had been transferred 10
make it question as to which was
anu "aS uobs
After an ownership of twenty-three
years. George n. and S. w. Raymond.
Tuesday sold the Evening Herald to
William A. Bartlett, newspaper man
OF Denver and Cheyenne. who will con-
tinue the paper as Republican. George
n. Raymond, editor and business man
ager and for five years postmaster,
will remain in Durango.
A Denver man has leased the ex-
elusive privilege OF hunting frogs on
several large reservoirs in Weld coun-
ty, believing there is fortune in It
from the jump.
Larkspur, aconite. loco weed and
other poisonous growths, common to
some sections CT Colorado are being
experimental with by government ex-
perts with the primal object of saving
stock.
Owing to the large number of big
timber wolves infesting western Mont
rose county the stockmen of the Para
dox valley have formed an association
to rid the country of them. The wolves