The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-07-20
LITTLE
COLORADO
r & N s

Five buildings at Deer Trail were
burned Thursday night
Iowa residents of Palisade are ar.
ranging for an Iowa day August 3d.
The hotel at Copperfield was de-
stroyed by fire with loss of $4,000.
Dining cars on the Moffat road have
discontinued the custom of serving lq-
uors.
The roof of the Trinidad high school
burned off Friday with a damage OF
5000.
La veta Methodis,s have Just or
dered plans for a new church TO cost
5000.
The dog poisoner has made away
with sever1 valuable CANNES at
Longmont City Council has granted
, franchise for piping natural gas to
the city
A quarter section of state land at
Ramah has been purchased for park
purposes
Irrigation enterprises around Rifle
contemplate the watering of 10000
acres of land
Crook. Logan county. has voted to
issue bonds for the building of $780,
zoo school house
The two-year-old daughter of Wal
ter Barnett al Greeley crawled onto
a railroad track and was killed.
The new school building at Windsor
l. -
600 1t is modern in every detail.
On the Goth Cheyenne Wells will
vote on the question of issuing sl2 1000
1. improve and enlarge the city water
system.
Trinidad business men have started
mine rescue station established in
that vicinity.
DR.. ard Mrs. W. II. Allen have Just
celebrated their golden wedding ami
yersary at Boulder. They came to
Colorado in 1864.
Montrose Odd Fellows have secured
an option on a site for the state Odd
Fellows home. which they hope TO
have located there.
One merchant at Greeley has sold
10000 pounds of paris green this year
10 be used as breakfast food for potato
tugs and grasshoppers.
Palisade has started off well with
its early peaches. During the week
ending July 9th there were sent out
1896 crates-about six and half car
loads.
The Central City & Pactolus Rail
way Company. with a capital stock of
1880. 900. filed articles of incorpor-
alton with the secretary OF state Fri
day.
An ordinance has been passed by the
City Council OF La veta submitting the
question of issuing $4,000 additional
bonds for the betterment of the water
system.
A movement is on foot In Denver to
revive the Festival of Mountain and
Plain which in years agone drew such
crowds to Denver. The last festival
was held in 1901.
The Sylvan Lake Power Company
has been organized by II. NJ. Hogg and
associates with $500, 900 capital, to de-
velop power in the San Juan country.
The site OF the works will be on Fall
creek.
Boulder expects to get the $3.50, 900
home to be established by the Forest
ers of America. and is preparing to
entertain the grand officers of the or
der who are coming out from the East
on tour of investigation.
A little child OF Mr.. and Mrs Henry
Hoff. living east of Loveland. man
aged to crawl to cistern. the cover
Of which was not securely fastened.
and fell in. A search was Instituted
and the baby found drowned.
Jackson Cary of De Beque was held
up. slugged. robbed of SIS and thrown
into the river. Cary. who is old, man.
aged to crawl up the bank and make
his way to assistance. and two sus-
poets were arrested for the deed.
A skeleton found between Hardin
and Masters by Burlington engineers
recently has been identified. 1t is be-
lieved. as that OF Mrs. c. A. White of
Elder in June. 1850. After the find had
been made known Greeley parties be-
San an investigation which resulted
III pretty well establishing its identity.
Timothy O'Connor. United States
surveyor general for Colorado: Arthur
d. Kidder. United States supervising
for Colorado and UTAH, and
Frank Johnson, holding the same posi-
ton for Wyoming and Montana. have
been in conference at the Denver Of
flee for several days making plans for
surveying and re-surveying public
lands in the Western states under the
lines laid down by recent enactment
of Congress.
The Colorado Supreme Court has
taken original Jurisdiction in the mat.
ter of the consolidation of the City
and County of Denver, and granted a
quo warranto writ made returnable
August list. in the suit to GUST the
county commissioners.
Conditions in the national forests in
Colorado are to be examined and the
mooted question regarding the amount
of agricultural land living in the ma.