The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-01-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

'eA'Si ,-HlteheT TdllrOau Is now III prog
ress.
Attorney General Barnett advocates
four-year term for state officials,
with recall feature.
The first successful attempt at
business directory for Alamosa las
been made by F. A. Mckinney.
While skating on Calkins' lake at
Longmont, Carl Wilhelm broke
through the ice and was drowned.
/ Nick Wearne, a miner of Nevada
vile. fell forty feet down the shaft of
the California mine on Quartz hill.
The cowboys of southeastern Colo
RADIO gave grand ball in La Sale,
December 2sth. followed by supper.
Makis Kakis. aged %, was fatally
crushed betwene the cage and the
stump at the Puritan mine at Freder-
lex.
Assistant Superintendent Russell of
the Rio Grande died in Pueblo from in
juries received in wreck near Wal
senburg.
The Arkansas valley section OF the
National Reform Congress held two
day session in Lamar, all valley towns
being represented.
After remaining in jail two weeks in
Pueblo. Walter Perry, wanted in Salt
Lake for diamond robbery. has been
taken there by Sheriff Mcmillan.
With common pin lodged cross
ways in his throat. Carl Voris, aged
five. son of Fred Voris of Greeley. had
oh a..
death.
The recommendation from the army
engineer board to Congress for ST.
100000 for completion of the Gunnison
tunnel project has caused rejoicing
at Montrose.
An oil refinery, using an absolutely
new process and having a capacity OF
5000 gallons day. will be erected in
| the Boulder oil field in 80 days at a
cost of $4,000
G. w. Custer. aged forty. in whose
pocket a card OF membership in Grip
pie Creek Lodge. ZOE. was. found.
committed suicide in Seattle by leap
ing into the bay.
The directors of the Grand VALLEY
Meeker and Salt Lake Railway Com
pany met in Denver recently and Is
sued sI5.O0O.OOO in, gold bonds to build
and equip the road.
The University of Denver football
team is planning trip East the latter
part of next October. They will play
Marquette and some other team, eth
er going or on the return.
L. J. Smith. cashier in the Rocky
4 Ford State Bank. who was sentenced
10 the penitentiary for receiving de-
posits in an insolvent bank. has been
denied pardon by the state board OF
pardons.
Congress will be asked. through the
medium OF the Dry Farming Congress.
for an appropriation of 100000 for
use in a systematic campaign of agri-
cultural education in the state OF
Colorado.
A determined war upon tobacco
dealers who sch their wares tcschil-
dren was begun in Denver in the Ju-
venIle Court. when three indi- iduals
were fined for non-observance Of the
laws in such cases.
A marriage celebration of grea. in
terest to the German-Russian popula-
ton of Montrose and vicinity ended
otter three-day feast and dancing.
participated in by about fifty members
Of these nationalities-
Mrs. Rosa Rubenstein. who last
| August shot and killed her husband.
| William Rubenstein in Denver. and
/ later was pronounced insane and sent
. a.
mitted suicide.
The Midway coal mine. one OF the
] largest producers in southern Colo
RADIO. and the largest producer In Las
Animas county. has been sold by the
Chicosa Fuel Company to the Colo
RADIO Fuel nd Iron Company.
State Game Commissioner T. J. Hol-
land has dispatched several game
wardens to eastern Colorado. where
It is reported hunters are shooting
antelope. Four animals are said to
have been killed at Aroya-
Headquarters OF the national Irriga-
ton Congress, recently held at Pueblo.
have been removed to Chicago. pre-
paratory to conducting a campaign
for the nineteenth irrigation congress.
to be held I'm Chicago in 1911.
A large section of territory hereto
fore without telephone connection
with the outside world has been con-
nected by the completion of the toll
line of the Colorado Telephone Com
pany from Telluride to Norwood.
To provide Montrose county With
an excellent country road at prac-
iically no cost is the object OF the
Road Drag Club. which has been or
ganized there by c. II. Nickel, assist
ant cashier of the Home State bank.
To add new fame to her hundreds
of acres of deep green alfalfa fields.
IL has been given that Rifle proposed
to christen her new alfalfa meal mill.
" hich is practically an assured fact at
this time. with an alfalfa banquet"
The Colorado Agricultural College
will again keep open house at For.
Collins, for one week, beginning Jan
uary 9th and closing January 18th.