The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-05-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Apex is asking for a hotel.

CRAWFORD.
Ranch hands are reported scarce
around Parker.
Work has begun on Buena Vista's
new opera house.
The First National Bank of Eaton
will double its capital.
A Greeley man Las asked for a gas
franchise at Fort Morgan.
Four hundred men are employed at
the marble quarries at Marble.
Winter wheat around Wiley is said
to be looking extremely fine.
Hudson will soon be reveling in the
joys of a local telephone exchange.
The proposed railroad from Dillon
to Argentine is being surveyed.
Work on Fort Lupton's new water
works was commenced Tuesday.
The Garfield county grand jury re-
turned nearly hundred indictments.
German Luterans at Stratton have
called a meeting to organize church.
Abner. s. Boggs. pioneer and be-
loved citizen of Wray, died at the age
of 70.
The school election in Wray re-
suited in tie and another has been
called.
Fifteen thousand trees and shrubs
we're received at Fountain one day
last week.
The government oil survey of the
western slope is to be started within
a few weeks.
A team. frightened by a passing
auto. started through a $50 window Of
Penrose store.
The capacity of the cement plant a:
Concrete will be enlarged to 1900 bar
rels Der day.
The Colorado City Board OF Educa
ton has raised the salaries Of all
teachers for the coming year.
Greeleys automobile census shows
the number OF honk hacks in the spud
metropolis to be 2s2.
The Manitou library board has been
advised that Mr.. Carnegie's contribu-
ton of $4,000 is now available.
Material has arrived for the connec-
ton of Pagosa Springs by telephone
with the outside world.
The contract has been let for the
new State Normal school at Gunnison
and work will begin at once.
The vote in Garfield county Monday
for a county high school was largely
in favor of the proposition.
B. s. Lee. a student at Colorado col
lege. Colorado Springs. killed a fifty
pound porcupine near Manitou.
Five school teachers in Adams coun-
ty have been married during the pres
ent year-all OF the gentler variety.
At its first election since incorpora-
ton, the town of Hartman elected
Frank II. Puntenney mayor last week.
The four-year-old son OF Mrs. Bud
Lee OF Chrome was severely burned by
tumbling backward into tub Of boil
ing water.
Storage reservoirs will be built in
the Sangre de Cristos. near Crestone.
this summer. to irrigate several thou
sand acres Of land.
The new automobile road to the top
of the cliffs overlooking the Royal
Gorge at Canon City will be ready for
use Dy July ISL rHty CouNiCts arc
employed on the Job.
Lippincott & Harrison will seed
1000 acres to alfalfa on the Baca
grant. and will establish a hog ranch.
They have provided a large traction
blowing outfit to break the ground.
The Colorado Springs Park Commits
sion has issued letter to the public.
urging the citizens to vote for the Is
suing Of bonds for the purchase of
South Cheyenne canon for park pur-
poses. The amount involved is 3217,-
600.
Mrs. Burtis, near Akron. experienced
n peculiar accident the other day. As
she was reaching up to prune a tree.
the knife she held dropped and struck
her wrist. severing an artery. She
was hurried to town and the wound
stitched together by surgeon.
Sam Senter. an Italian Of western
Adams county. in discussion with
George Jorgensen, road boss. about
culvert which had been removed.
chewed about a third Of Mr.. Jorgen-
Gems ear off. for which he was arrest
for trial.
The Chaffee County Good Roads AS
ISOLATION was organized in Salida the
other night and auxiliary associations
are expected to be formed in other
towns of the county. The dues for
auto owners will be 81 per month. and
for horsemen and ranchers 81 per
month. The association will at once
place a man at work removing rocks
and stones from the highways and his
compensation will be borne by the as
ISOLATION.
Rufus De Barneure. resident of
Summit county for thirty years and of
Colorado for fifty. was adjudged in
sane at Breckenridge last Wednesday.
Florence has a couple, Mr.. and Mrs.
Francisco Espor. aged ITO and 107, re-
spectively. who have been married
ninety years, they having been mar
ried in 1920 in Santa Fe.
A company has been organized at
Golden to manufacture blazed or en-
ameled brick from the fine clays
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