The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-11-02
LITTLE coLonADo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth T.IIino,


gregation is threatened.
Colorado City is about to inaugurate
proceedings against any tagless dog
which is delinquent in his taxes.
Charles A. Chase has been appointed
postmaster at Hebron, Jackson coun-
ty. Colorado. vice A. j. Monroe, re-
signed.
Fearing an epidemic of scarlet fever
and typhoid. of which 1t has several
cases. Evans has closed the public
schools indefinitely.
j. NJ. Machney, a driver, was struck
by switch engine and the wheels of
a wagon passed over him at Windsor.
A mule kicked him and he is injured
internally.
Colorado postmasters appointed:
Masters. Weld county. Mary Callihan.
vice ]. w. Day. resigned; Resolis. FL
bert county, Sarah J. Allen, vice, w.
II. Wells. removed.
II rattlesnakes are as numerous at
Platteville next season as this. COM
pany will be formed to undertake
snake killing for profit and sell the
skins for belts. etc.
Contractors and force of so men
have begun the first work on the state
highway between Grand Junction and
Delta. The road will have a maximum
grade OF four per cent.
Not only is the saccharing content
of the 1910 sugar beet in Colorado
higher by one per cent than that of
last years product. but the yield by
the acre in tons is higher.
William NJ Stricken has been aD-
pointed rural carrier on route No. 3
at Montrose: Grant Kitchen was ap-
pointed postmaster at Masonville, Lai-
inner county. vice p. F. Thompson, re-
signed.
Fred Lowry, head chemist of the
Windsor Sugar factory, is in a critical
condition from burns on his feet and
legs. A valve blew out of tank and
he was covered from his knees down
with boiling hot syrup.
T. II. Kibby. a pioneer ranchman of
Johnstown. has the banner beet crop
OF that locality. His 100 acres is
yielding twenty-four tons per acre and
the beets are testing eighteen per
cent sugar. selling for Sc per ton.
Trinidad's fight for freight rates
from Chicago and st. Louis as low as
the rates from those points to Denver
and intermediate points. made by the
interstate commerce commission, Is
over and the Trinidad shippers have
won.
The county commissioners have APP
pointed II. w. Cooper, manager of the
Morgan County Herald. as representa-
tive OF the county to the United States
Land and Irrigation exposition. which
opens In the Coliseum in Chicago No
vember 10.
At Fort Lupton following an opera
ton in which the entire under portion
OF his right Jaw was removed and two
thirds of the left one cut out in an
effort to cure an unusual disease
known as big Jaw p. NJ. Ramsdell.
aged As. pioneer butcher. died Fri
day of the maiady.
One of the best beet crops reported
In Greeley this season is that of The
odore Kibby. farmer living meas
Johnstown, who has 100 acres which
are yielding an average of "a tons per
acre. His income from beets at 100
tons per day nets him 5000 everv
twelve hours. as they are testing Sc a
ton In sugar.
c. y. Hartman. manager of the
Greeley and Denver railroad COM
pany, and J. F. Farmer have invented
an automatic switch. which Is being
insSalled on the company's tracks.
Another new DEVICE invented by local
men Is an automatic lubricator. which
is designed to eliminate the sreasing
OF curves by hand.
Land which he secured from Uncle
Sam for $1,000 five years ago is val
ued by James +. Graham at $32
He has Just made final proofs on his
$50 acres. eight miles northeast of
Greeley. Graham secured that lani
by paying rs cents an acre down and
81 an acre every year. He estimates
his crop profits at $4,000 a year.
Miss S. w. woodford. grand
opera singer of New York City and a
grand niece OF Dom Paul and Gen.
Dewitt of Boer war fame. has pur-
chased land and built bungalow at
Briggsdale. east of Greeley. Her
mother. Mrs. S. Dewitt Smith. has a
large ranch at Briggsdale. which she
chose after looking over the entire
West, because the Briggsdale country
reminded her of Africa.
The Mount Pisgah reservoir of the
Garden Park Land & Irrigation Com
pany is completed. after nearly two
years of continuous work. 1t is locat-
ed on what was formerly the old
Faulkner ranch, seven miles west OF
Cripple Creek and is one of the great
est enterprises of the kind ever under
taken in Southern Colorado. The dam
is built across Four Mile Creek and
will impound four thousand acre feet
Of water at its maximum capacity.
Gus Miller of Fort Collins, a farm
laborer. was run over by an automo-
bile Friday. The machine passed over
his chest and crushed in several ribs.