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There is a great crowd at Manitou. The farmers about Rocky Ford are agitating the subject of building a large grain elevator. The La Plata County Treasurer paid out $140 in bounties for bear scalps during the month of May. A young man named William Starr was thrown from a bucking broncho at Boulder last Saturday and died from his injuries. A Leadville fireman was seriously hurt last Friday,by being thrown violent ly from the hook and ladder truck while on his way to a fire A choir of 1,000 voices is being trained to participate in the exercises at the laying of the corner stone for the cap itol at Denver on the Fourth. Florence can boast of something that few towns—if any other—can. That is a livery stable conducted by a handsome young lady who has complete charge of the stable. A Denver man recently sued his dentist for $1,000 damages for having pulled the wrong tooth. The judge failed to be convinced that the dentist was guilty and he let him off. The Nicaragua Canal Company, which is chartered under the laws of Colo rado, met for the election of officers at Denver on the 20th. Several well-known eastern capitalists compose the company. The joint-trackage arrangement heretofore existing between the Santa Fe and Midland roads has been broken, as a consequence of the Midland having turned its express business over to the Rio Grande. The Salida Call says that the sa loons are to be barred by the new manage ment of the Poncha Springs townsite. The proprietors intend to make it similar to Colorado Springs, as far as saloons are concerned. The Eighth Annual Convention of the Travelers’ Protective Association met in session at Denver on the 24th, and the streets swarmed with genial plug-hatted drummers of assorted sizes from all parts of the Union. J. Wagner, an old and well-to-do farmer living eight miles east of Holyoke, was gored to death last Friday in the presence of his aged wife, who in the at tempt to lend him aid in getting away from the infuriated beast almost lost her life. Fort Collins people are somewhat excited by the fact that the widow of W. H. Avery who died on June 2nd is married again. Serious rumors have been set afloat regarding the cause of Mr. Avery's death, but no irregularity has been proved. Up to the 20th inst, the total num ber of quarts of strawberries shipped by express from Canon City this year was 46,848. The shipments yet to be made will bring the total for the season to about 50,000. Last year the shipment was 77,400 quarts. Senator Wolcott has reintroduced the well known bill to establish and main tain a national park in Colorado. The bill was referred to the committee on public lands. It provides for the purchase of the lands lying near the headwaters of the White and Grand Rivers. The compensa tion to be paid the owners of the land is to be determined by a commission appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. Remarkably rich specimens of cop per ore are being shown in Fort Collins. Mr. Frank Routt, son of ex-Governor Routt, is the discoverer of the lead from which the ore was taken. The exact lo cation of the discovery is not known, but is somewhere up the Poudre Canon. The specimens are absolutely pure copper, and can be beaten out with a hammer. Mr. Rout will take immediate steps to develop the claim. Coal land matters are very brisk at present, says the Trinidad News. Every day capitalists are inspecting the lands around Trinidad and investing. Several new fields are being opened; one about twelve miles up the Purgatoire, another between Wootton and the Robinson divide and others nearer the city. About 1,900 acres just below Engleville changed hands a few days ago, and it looks like many persons were expecting that large quanti ties will ere long be consumed by the fac tories at Trinidad, Coorado is to have a cowboy band of its own. The charter and complete par aphernalia of the former famous Cowboy band of Dodge City, Kansas, has just been transferred to the Rainbow band of Silverton. Most of the former prominent members of the Cowboy band, as well as its former band master, Sinclair, have been members of the original organization of the Rainbow band, which will be known hereafter as the Cowboy band of Colorado, with headquarters at Silverton. The re organized Cowboy band, after playing the several engagements they have just con tracted, will probably visit Pueblo on the occasion of the opening of the Minera Palace and at the same time pay Denver a visit They are now negotiating wit San Francisco parties for a three or four months’ concert tour to the Pacific coast The band numbers thirty well-trained and expert musicians, with fine and complex equipment, and their performances ran well with those of the best in the United States. Silverton will celebrate the glorious Fourth in a fitting manner, for which pur pose the Jockey Club has raised nearly $3,000, which will be expended in pre miums for horse racing,base ball and rock drilling 2natches. The celebration will last two days, the Rainbow corner ban having been engaged, and the P. O. S. A., the fire department, the civic socie ties and commercial and mining enter prises will be represented in the turnout. The adjoining townspeople will swell the columns, unique delegations from Durango, Fort Lewis, Ironton and Red Mountain having signified their intention to be pres ent.
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Lamar Register
Lamar, Colorado, US
Sat, Jun 28, 1890
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