The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-12-21

Fort Lupton get $4,000 year from
the milk from about 1000 COWS.
In the Steamboat Springs vicinity
more than 100 acres of strawberries
will be planted in the spring.
Workmen are now tearing down the
old stage house Just outside of Salida
that has been standing since 1865.
A 5OO-barrel flour mill to cost $780,
900, is proposed for Milliken by local
business men and Kansas capitalists.
J. s. Johnson, farmer, near Rocky
Ford. recently sold two wagon loads
of cantaloupe seed. for which he re-
ceived $1,000.
Wanted in Salt Lake City on
charge of robbing a diamond broker Of
100000 worth of gems. Walter Parish
is in jail in Pueblo.
Not content with stealing a ton of
coal from Orville Harsh of Greeley
thieves carried off Harsh's deg,
placed to guard 1t.
The case against Mrs. Mike Flynn.
charged with the killing OF Gordon
Wilson, in Browns park at Steamboat
Springs. has been dismissed.
The report OF the State Board of
Health for the quarter ending Septem-
Der shows that 2.77s people died in
the state during that period.
Col. Miles W. Brand is no more and
in his passing Ouray loses one of the
most picturesque. respected and prom
inent OF its old time OF pioneer resi-
dents.
The monthly dividend OF the Gran
lite Gold Mining Company. Colorado
Springs, one cent a share. amounting
to s1G.500. has been paid to stock
holders.
The Commercial Club and Associa-
tion OF Retail Merchants OF Greeley
are making arrangements to entertain
the retail merchants of the state Jan.
Is. 1G and II.
In the matter OF the bill OF excep-
tons on the confirmation OF the bonds
of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation dis
I trict. no decision has been rendered
by Judge Garrigues.
Governor Shafroth received a check
from Washington for s50.30G.10 as Col
orado's proportion OF the amount OF
money collected from the forestry
reserves in the state.
The Rocky Mountain Limited of the
Rock Island line. running out Of Den
yer for Chicago and other Eastern
points will not be discontinued. as was
unofficially announced.
|. A Colorado product dinner" will be
given to the visiting horse and cattle
men in January. when they meet at
Denver. from all over the country. to
attend the January horse show.
A bill sure TO be introduced ut the
coming session OF the Legislature will
be to change the method of assess
ment and make II on the actual mar
ket value of the property.
II will cost the city OF Greeley Just
an even s10s.0O0 to keep house Curing
| 1911. according to the estimate of the
experts and the council passed the an
nual appropriation bill calling for that
amount.
W. A. Groom OF Boulder was elected
| president of the Northern Colorado
Poultry Association at its meeting a.
| the poultry show in Fort Collins. Boul-
der was selected as the next place for
I the show.
Cattle owners OF the Williams coun-
| try Fork. near Steamboat Springs. are
\ iubilant over. the open fall and the
mildness OF the season. II saves hay
and means a larger profit than usual
on stock.
Frank Van Amburgh. who robbed
I the safe of the St. James hotel In
Georgetown Sept. &c of $40. pleaded
/ guilty in District Court and was sen
fenced to two to three years in the
penitentiary.
a pair of white rats purchased bv
c. W. Beer of Greeley for pets fifteen
years ago. but which soon disair
peared, returned recently With large
| family. overran Beers chicken yard
and killed his poultry.
At meeting of the seventeen del
egates chosen TO represent Boulder
County at the Apple Congress in Dea-
yer. plans were laid for a fruit show
in that place next year under the au-
spices of the Boulder Fruit Growers
Association.
Attention of railroad interests
throughout the country is being called
to the movement inaugurated by five
railroads, the Burlington. Southern Pa
ellie. Missouri Pacific. Atchison AMI
Rock Island. to reduce their differen-
tials into Colorado territory.
The Forestry Service is making
preparations to aid prospective wool
pulp enterprises in the state by provid-
ing the necessary chemical laboratory