The Lamar register., 1911-02-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

president of the Durango board Oh
Trafe.
The demands for farms to rent IN
the Platteville vicinity exceeds the
supply.
Walter Cheney Of Leadville, with
his bare hands captured bobcat and
Gagged 1t.
The first banquet of the Ault Com
mercial Club was attended by seventy
| five members.
A banquet and dance will be given
by the New York Society Of Colorado
February 10th, in Denver.
Much interest is being manifested
in the proposed automobile road IN
Boulder canon to Nederland.
An examination for clerk and car
rier will be held at the postoffice in
Sterling on February IL. 1911.
Trinidad will perhaps receive rec
ognition from the Santa Fe in. being
made Colorado common point.
Fire Of mysterious origin destroyed
eleven empty freight cars in the yards
at Ludlow. The loss is about $4,000.
Mayor Fugard and Chief of Police
Young of Pueblo. have issued strict
orders to every patrolman to stop
gambling.
Donald Pen, two years old. fell in.
parents home in Wellington and was
to a bucket of scalding water at his
fatally burned.
James White, a veteran Of the Civil
War, pioneer of Georgetown and a
resident of Clear Caeek county since
1872, is dead.
Greeley is to have an official market
place. where sellers of hay. horses.
farm produce and the like may gather
to await buyers.
The sixth annual banquet of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Dem
yer was held at the Brown Palace no.
rel January Both.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers Will be established in the
Grow Creek district. east of Greeley.
next spring.
Raising of hogs is an important in.
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu,.
in packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management of the Celtic Club in Flo
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
Work on the new House of the
Good Shepherd on Myrtle hill in Dem
YER. has been stopped, pending street
car arrangements.
Fire In the New York store in Cen
trail City caused heavy damage to the
lars on the building.
Recently 1.2oo head OF cattle were
sold for 10000 by the Pueblo Livs
Stock & Commission Company. for de-
livery in Pueblo in May.
Strong Denver financial interests
are behind the new State bank at Ho
r1eo. in Conejos county. which has
been opened for business.
As result OF drinking several
ounces of gasoline by mistake. II. r.
Chalfant. a member of the City Coun-
Gil of Evans. is violently ILL.,
District Judge Rizer OF La Junta
rendered a decision quashing the in
dictment against John +. Godding.
president Of the defunct Rocky Ford
bank.
For the first time in thirty-six years
Judge Hart of Ault has heard from
bis brother by a letter written by the
supposed lost man. w. W. Hart of
Corning. Cal.
After three days session at the Al
bany hotel in Denver. the annual con
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard
to close.
AS the result of an alteration over
mining matters, c. b. Baker shot and
1t is believed fatally wounded David
Parks. at Copperfield. In the western
part Of Fremont county.
NJ. d. Thatcher. president OF the
Capitol National bank OF Denver and
of the First National bank OF Pueblo.
has purchased control OF the Ameri-
can National bank OF Alamosa.
| Official notification has been re-
ceived by Superintendent Burkin of
the Teller Indian Institute at Grand
Junction that the school will be closed
June both as a government school
A train leaving Durango for Silver.
ton crushed the skull OF William
House when about a mile from She
city. He was lying on the track at
sharp curve. where he had fallen
asleep.
By decision Of District Judge Ora
ham Of Greeley the first given by him
since his appointment. James b. Jack.
son of Denver will not lose title to
land in the vicinity of Grover valued
at $4,000.
The Western Sugar & Land Com
Iany, controlled by ]. r. McKinnie
and associates of Colorado Sprin. 8,
will either build new sugar factory
at Delta. or remove the Grand juno
ton factory to Delta for the 1912
season.
The woman representatives in the
House will try to have passed at the
present session of the legislature a
law requiring physical examination