The Lamar register., 1910-01-26
COLORADO ITEMS

Walter A. Peterson has been ap-
pointed Swedish vice consul at Den
yer to succeed H. r. Salgaard. re-
signed.
The sale of Red Cross tuberculosis
stamps in Colorado during the holiday
season amounted to 100000 at l cent
stamp, or $4,000.
The tax roll of Routt county for
1909 shows an assessed valuation Of
$4,O26.49O. an increase over the pre-
ceding year of half a million.
]. W.Austin. one of the pioneer placer
miners of Georgetown and the first
park commissioner of Denver, died at
the home of his son in Denver on the
18th inst.
A Milwaukee dispatch says that
Deacon" Koehler. coach at the Uni
versity of Denver, has matriculated
at Marquette University as medical
student
Services were held in St. Johns
chapter house in Denver January 21st
in commemoration of the founding of
the Episcopal church in Colorado fifty
years ago.
The Union Pacific has begun in
junction proceedings in the United
States Court at Denver to enforce its
claim to 4O0-foot right of way
through the city of Greeley.
A national park 100000 acres in ex-
tent and including Estes Park is pro-
vided for in bill prepared for intro
duction by Sentor Hughes and Con-
gresham Taylor.
Addison X. Ladue, former clerk OF
Lincoln county. having held that Of
flee for eighteen years, died at his
home in Hugo on the 18th INST, of
Bright's disease.
| ]. Z. Maloney of Littleton has been
appointed secretary of the state high
way commission. The salary is $1,000
a year and the law requires that the
appointee shall hold certificate of
qualified civil engineer.
Claiming that one beaver has done
$1,000 damage by flooding the public
roads. the commissioners of Larimer
county have written to State Game
Commissioner T. ]. Holland requesting
permission to kill the animal.
Deputy Custodian Price of the Fed
eral building at Denver has been no.
titled that the date for receiving bids
for the construction of the new post
office has been postponed from Feb
ruary 18th to March 18th. No reason
was given for the postponement. 1t
it thought that the architects plans
are not yet quite completed.
Owing to q strike of the pressmen.
Denver was without its big daily news
papers for day and a half. Friday
and Saturday. the 14th and 18th. The
two evening papers. the Post and
Times. missed both days and neither
the News nor Republican were print
ed Saturday morning. The strike was
adjusted in time to get out the usual
Sunday papers.
The people OF Delta already have be-
gun to perfect an organization to take
charge of exhibits for the apple show
at Denver next year. The new organ
ization which is being formed will be
entirely independent of all existing as
sociations, and will work entirely in
getting exhibits and stimulating the
yrowers to save their best fruit for
this purpose.
Glasses are to be established during
Association for the Prevention and
Control of tuberculosis, where patients
may meet physicians and nurses and
have their condition noted, and where
the nurses may become acquainted
with them. and thus make their way
into homes and give proper instruc-
ton and care. The association will
also establish dispensary.
Several parties of Union Pacific
engineers who have been working on
surveys for a new line from Denver
to Fort Morgan are reported to have
completed their labors and to have
finally selected the route. This line
will cut thirty-eight miles from the
distance from Denver to Chicago via
Union Pacific and will serve an unde-
veloped country in Colorado immedi-
ately to the northwest of Denver.
At the meeting of the Retail Mer-
chants Association of Colorado at
Fort Collins. w. r. Cherrier of Den
yer was elected president. The other
officers are: First vice president. s..
ID. Carlton. Pueblo; second vice presi.
dent. John b. Thomas, Gold Hill;
third vice president, C. w. Zepp. Fort
Collins; fourth vice president. A. E..
Wadsworth. Grand Junction. Greeley
was selected as the next place of
meeting.
In order to ascertain what Greeley
needs in the way of new postoffice.
Senator Guggenheim has asked the
supervising architect of the treasury
to make report upon conditions and
has also written to Attorney H. E.
Churchill at Greeley for a statement
showing the need of the building and
for statistics showing the amount of
business done. Mr.. Guggenheim will
ask an appropriation of $15O,00O for
the building. The site has been Sc
cured.
Philadelphia capitalists propose to
purchase tract of 1000 acres of land
three miles northwest of Pueblo. under
the Canon City. Florence and Pueblo
Water Company's proposed ditch.
They will pay $4,000 for the tract,
which could have been purchased for
one-third that amount two years ago.
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