The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

About 1,4O0 acres has been pledged
by Greeley farmers to crops for the
cannery, including LOO of peas, 200
each of tomatoes and beans, and about
100 of cabbage.
A number of Hungarian cartridges
have been received by the state game
and fish commissioner and will be lib
Grated in the different parts OF the
state this spring.
By its decision in the case of w. H.
Murray and H. Putnam VS. Katherine
Aull, the State Supreme Court has
upheld the law which says that a gam
bling debt cannot legally be collected.
Members of the faculty of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural college will make ad-
dresses before the thirteen normal in
stitutes to be held throughout the
state during the summer school vacar
ton.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the United States Portland Cement
Company at Florence. it was voted to
issue bonds for 100000 to make i'm
provements on the company's plant at
Concrete.
ne NdtlOudl JtWlsh G1OSDltdl lOI
Consumptives at Denver is a benefi-
ciary In the sum of $1,000 by the pro-
Visions of the will of Ascher SLIDER
stein. a wealthy Jew Of Dallas, Texas.
who died recently. .,
An aviation meet for Denver is
planned to take place about May 2sth.
The main feature will be an endurance
hu In which fuh Inro1 no a..
loonists are expected to take part e.
forts will also be made to secure an
exhibition of aeroplanes.
Louis Reiter, stenographer to Mayor
Robert W. Speer of Denver. has been
awarded damages Of $4,000 by the
State Supreme Court for the loss Of
one OF his legs while he was an EN-.
ploye of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad five years ago.
Philadelphia capitalists are backing
the Coal and Operating Company. which
has been Incorporated at Denver with
capitalization Of s2.500.00O. The in
terests represented in the company
have acquired l 800 acres of coal land
near Como, and will begin extensive
development work on II at once.
Denver.-Steps will be taken by a
joint committee from the Public Ser
vice League. the Ministerial Alliance
and the Christian Citizenship Union to
stop the showing OF obscene and i'm
moral pictures. and those portrayins
deeds OF violence from the picture
show houses of Denver.
The various railroads in Colorado
accept and handle shipments of freight
at an actual loss in order to build up
the community from which the ship
ment is received. was declared before
the State Railroad Commission In the
hearing in which the Colorado Con
sumers' league seeks to secure lower
freight rates between Denver and Lit
Teton.
A complete model OF the proposed
Denver postoffice in Colorado marble
will be shown the authorities in Wash.
inston as an argument in fa3or OF the
use OF Colorado materials In the con-
struction of the building. Such a mod
ell has been prepared by the Colorado
Yule Marble Company at its works
and quarries at Marble. and is being
taken to Washington by c. +. Meek,
general manager Of the company.
T. J. Holland. state game and fish
commissioner. wants the open season
on doves abolished. He says: when
a man goes out dove hunting. with his
license in his pocket. and quail flies
up in front OF him. he blazes away at
1t and II he gets II he sticks It in his
bag. We can't go out to every hunter
we see in the field and ask him to
show us the birds he has shot. Dove
shooting is a bad thing for the quail
and the pheasants."
Cadet Midshipman A. ID. Connors Of
Colorado Springs. has resigned and
the vacancy in the naval academy
caused by his resignation will be filled
by a selection to be m.de by Senator
Guggenheim, who is arranging to hold
an examination for the purl.ose. A
general examination of principals and
alternates for the academy nominated
by Senator Hughes and Representa-
tives Taylor, Rucker and Martin will
be held at various Colorado cities
April 18th.
IL Is expected that WoIk OF constfuct-
ing large plant for the Common
wealth Power and Electric Company.
incorporated a year ago with a capital
ization of $4,000. 900. will be begun dur
ing the coming summer and carried to
early completion. 1t is said that by
dro-electric plant will be built nine
miles below Kremmling. on the Moffat
road. This is at the entrance to the
Gore canon, which was in dispute by
the Mofiat road and the Central Colo
RADIO Power Company. A dam seventy
feet high and $50 feet long will be
built at this point. and 1t is said 5000
horsepower will be developed by the
first installation.
Because of lack of a sufficient ap-
preparation to carry on the work OF in
vestigating reported illegal homestead
entries and land frauds in Colorado,
NJ. ID. McEniry. chief of the field d.
vision of the general land office. has
temporarily dismissed twelve men en-
ployed in his department.
1t is stated that the Denver. Laramie
& Northwestern will run trains into
Eaton. which lays three miles east of
the proposed route, over the Great