The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-01-19
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. poihes, ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERlNos. HoPEs
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Inc principal mine owners IN tne
Black Hills have declared their inten-
ton to inaugurate the card system and
permanently shut out union labor.
An exhibition of flying machines
will be held at Denver soon, accord
Ing to the statement Of DR.. F. L. Bart
lett. president OF the Denver Chamber
Of Commerce at Los Angeles.
Jesse II. Tourville. who recently
wrote to the common council of Lon
don on a method to dispel the fogs by
psychic waves, shot himself at St.
Louis few days since while on a
downtown business street. He prob
ably will die
H. N. Savage. chief engineer of the
United States reclamation service. has
made filings OF water rights for more
than $4,000 acres OF land on the Flat
which will be opened to settlement
next spring.
II is reported that Denver will short
ly be connected with Wichita, Kas..
and other points east by line of rail-
road to be built from Sharon Springs.
lust across the Kansas line. on the
Kansas Pacific division of the Union
Pacific. to Wichita.
Professor William Robertson. aged
fifty. head of the Minnesota Agricul-
tural branch school at Crookston. and
recognized as an authority in agricul-
tural affairs. was found dead in his
berth on a Great Northern train at
st. Paul. Heart disease was given as
the cause of death.
The graders who are building the
Burlington roadbed across the state
hot springs reserve. near Thermopolis.
Wyo.. have opened many new flows OF
hot water. the greater number OF them
heavily mineralized. So copious are
some Of the springs that they have In
terfered with grading. although not
seriously.
Central Wyoming sheepmen. who
faced determination OF their flocks be-
cause Of the difficulty in getting feed
to the starving animals. have succeed.
cd In securing enough grain and hay
and great caches of feed have been
made on the range. While losses have
teen staggering. II is not thought that
they will be nearly SO severe as had
been anticipated.
More than 5000 soldiers will partic-
ipate in encampment maneuvers at
Fort Russell. Cheyenne. next August
Notice has been received that twenty
seven troops of cavalry. thirty compa-
MES of infantry. six batteries of artil-
lery. hospital and signal corps details
from the regular army will participate
In addition to the militia from several
neighboring states.
State Game Warden ID. c. No~lin Of
Wyoming has been informed by ranch
men of the Jackson Hole country
south Of the Yellowstone park. thai
$4,000 elk and deer in that district are
beginning to suffer from short feed
and that 1t is probable many will
starve before the spring thaw sets in
The elk and deer have been driven b,
the weather and snow from the uppei
ranges. and are now finding II hare
picking on the lower ranges. which
were fed over by cattle last fall.
Doubling that Thomas II. Swope
the millionaire philanthropist whit
died at Kansas City October 3rd. cam,
to his death by natural causes. rela
tives have started an investigation Il
determine the exact cause of his de
mise. Attorneys representing tn
Swope estate say they are convinced
a deep laid plot existed to kill. frs
Colonel Swope and then other mem
bers of his family. A person VIII
hoped to become sole beneficiary o
the Swope millions plotted the deaths
they assert.