The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Nallery IN Morgan county, Win /. E.
Edwards as postmaster.
Work on the Union Pacific line be.
tween Dent and Fort Collins has been
commenced. Two camps have been es-
tablished and sum-contracts let
Gov John F. Shafroth has received
word that his son, Morrison Shafroth.
has been elected class orator for the
senior class of the University OF Mich
igan.
1t is announced that the new federal
building at Colorado Springs will be
occupied by the postoffice and for
mally opened for business Monday,
March 18th.
Owing to insufficient foundations the
walls SO far constructed of st. Johns
new Episcopal cathedral in Denver
will have to be torn down and rebuilt
at cost of $4,000.
1t is announced at Denver & Rio
Grande headquarters that H. C. Stew
ems has been appointed master mechan-
ic of the fourth division of the road
with headquarters at Alamosa, sue
ceeding j. H. Farmer.
Orders have been received at Fort
Logan, Denver. that no more recruits
shall be enlisted anywhere in the
United States until further orders. The
army is now up to its maximum. The
naval recruiting office was also closed
about two weeks ago.
After a conference with the board Of
trustees of the State Normal school.
Governor Shafroth advised them that
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tice building to cost s123.000, when
the appropriation for building, para
phernalia and furnishings amounted
only to 100000. The board agreed to
readvertise.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell. formerly stats
superintendent of public instruction.
has been secured by the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Association TO lecture
for their cause in the twelve Eastern
colleges, among them the University
of Chicago. University of Cincinnati.
University of Michigan. Olivet college
and Oberlin.
In view of the fact that there were
113 persons killed and 1I6 injured on
railroads in Colorado during the year
ending December 81. 1909, the mem
bers OF the state railroad commission.
in a report submitted to Gov John F.
Shafroth. strongly urge the establish
ment of the block signal system on
all railroads within the state.
Following the convention of the su-
perintendent's department of the Ma
tional Education Association, which
she went from Colorado to attend. at
nh u nd I've To
state superintendent OF public instruc-
ton. is to tour the East, visiting
schools with view of gaining infor-
nation to be utilized in Colorado.
Professero w. II. Olin. formerly a
member of the faculty of the State Ag-
ricultural college at Fort Collins, has
been commissioned by the Colorado
Midland Railway Company to write
book which will be entitled Soil and
Products" pertaining priciapally to
the magnificent potato raising country
in the neighborhood OF Carbonate.
The United States government has
paid 81 900 to each of the six widows
who lost their husbands in the Gunni-
son tunnel disaster a few weeks ago
In the event a person is killed while
in the employment of the government.
who has no wife. the amount of his
salary for one year will be paid to
anyone dependent upon the deceased.
With all the previous records bro
ken. there have been more than 100
land entries filed in Weld county since
the beginning OF the year and in one
day forty-two filings were made by as
many different persons. More than
half the entries have been on half sec.
tons. and three-fourths OF them ara
on land in northeastern and southeast
ern Weld county.
According to the tariffs now being
distributed the homeseekers' rate from
Chicago to Denver. Colorado Springs,
Pueblo and Trinidad will be $50, and
this rate will apply at various stated
intervals during the spring and sum
mer. From st. Louis to Colorado com
mon points the homeseekers' fare will
be $3.50. while from Omaha. Kansas
City and st. Joseph it will be $40.
Marcus S. Meade. one of the first
conductors to take a train out of Den.
yer. died on the 18th inst at St. Luke's
hospital in Denver. He was one of the
lOuT tOhuuCtOTS VIM ran Oh tHe Olu
Denver Pacific and was in charge of
the first. train to run from Denver to
Boulder. Mr.. Meade was for ove-
thirty years a conductor on Colorado
roads and was well known over the
state.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea have submitted to their president.
T. A. Lewis, a scathing report de-
nouncing the Colorado Fuel G. Iron
Company and holding it responsible |
for the seventy-five lives lost in the |
Primero mine disaster on January |
31st. The committee appointed for |
the investigation accuses State Coal |
Mine Inspector John ID. Jones. and his |
deputy. ID. II. Griffiths. of allowing the |
company to violate the law.
The city of Greeley won a sweeping
victory in the opinion of Federal |
Judge Lewis. which upholds the city
in the suit against it by the Greeley
& Northern Railway & Utility Com
pany to test the validity of the fran