The Lamar register., 1911-03-01

uoorS VI residences In Monte NlSta.
Virgil w. Stoddard. pioneer of
Loveland. died suddenly at his home.
1t is probable Denver will get the
National Republican convention in
1912.
Local option will be an issue at the
municipal election next spring in
Platteville.
VIM. H. Madden. a railroad man of
Salida, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself.
An effort Is being made to have each
county make separate annual report
on crops.
The Denver police are endeavoring
to put stop to gambling among
Greek residents.
Work on the new elevator at Wat
tenburg. capacity 10000 bushels. will
be commenced.
Mayor Ogden Whitlock. pioneer
and veteran of Civil War, is dead at
Colorado Springs.
In the Telluride mining section
there is from eight to thirty feet of
snow on the level.
The last work on the Orchard Mesa
irrigation system, Grand Junction. has
been completed.
A branch Of the American Breeders
Association has been organized by
stockmen of Colorado.
Freeman Butler. aged 76. a pioneer
of that section. died at his home near
Windsor. of paralysis.
The Boulder Booster Association
will attempt to double its presen;
membership Of 175.
The Wellington section is enjoying
the novelty of sleighing for the first
time in several years.
The Northern Colorado Teachers
Association will meet in Greeley on
March Bird and 4th. 1911.
Walter Starbird. who lives near Gil
crest. has lost fifteen hogs with chol-
era within the past few days.
Drillers at the oil well, a mile east
OF Lamar. have penetrated the oil
sand and will shoot the well in a few
days.
Two thoroughbred Llewellyn set
tiers. valued at $4,000 and belonging to
Chas. Woodford of Pueblo, have been
stolen.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Plate
Vile and Fort Lupton are being urged
to plant more early cabbage than eve-
before.
The Denver Glee Club will hold
series OF entertainments in Cheyenne.
Wyo.. extending over a period Of three
weeks.
Mrs. Eta Smart. cashier in a dr.,
goods store in Colorado Springs, has
been arrested charged with theft OF
$4,000.
A bill has passed Congress length.
ening the time allowed homesteaders
for making entry and establishing res.
idence.
The smallest baby ever born in
Mesa county is that OF Mrs. C. Bower
of Creston. The girl weighs 2ls
pounds.
Encouraging developments continue
at the oil well near Lamar and there
is every evidence of an extensive
flow OF oil.
Grover West. a machinist, aged
nineteen. had his life crushed out al
most instantly at Salida while oilins
an elevator at the smelter.
A new organization. the Greeley
Commercial band. has been organized
and will work in conjunction with the
Greeley Commercial club.
Work on excavation has begun on
the new armory for the Windsor
militia company. The building will
cost about $1,000.
To replace the schoolhouse burned
at Bracewell recently, the district has
voted to erect a $4,000 building and
the contract has been let.
Many Montrose farmers and ranch
men are either using the road drag
or arranging to accomplish similar
results this spring.
With the recent heavy SHOWS the
mountains and plateaus of western
Colorado are covered with more snow
than at any time for many years.
Thirty-eight new members have
been elected to the Denver Chamber
of Commerce. making the total mem
bership to date 1900. A campaign is
being waged to make the total mem
bership 1.500 by March Is.
In the Fuller crosscut from the
Roosevelt drainage tunnel at Cripple
Creek. a crevice encountered is flow
ing 500 gallons of water a minute
This is the first watercourse met in
the crosscut.
The Trinidad baseball season was
given its starter when a number of
the business men and interested fans
met for the purpose Of organization.
The first day of the booster cam
paign of the Boulder Commercial As.
sociation resulted in the acquisition of
eighty new members, three being
women.
Clifford Pinchot will come to Colo
RADIO TO help the citizens to properly
celebrate the new state holiday-Colo-
RADIO day, August /. That is, he will
commemorative