The Lamar register. [volume], April 12, 1905, Image 1

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VOLUME XIX.
County Notes.
I From the Holly t'hioftian I
A. N. Parrish, one of Lamar’s
most enterprising business men, was
a Holly visitor Monday..
• • •
The latest report from St. Lake’s
hospital, Denver, brings the cheer
ful news that Dr. R. D. Wilson is so
recovered that he will be able to re
turn home next week.
• ••
Thirty eight men are at work in
the Santa Fe yards building new
aide tracks and grading up the old
ones. Ii looks as if the Santa Fe
intends to keep up with the other
improvements goiug on in Holly.
• • •
A movement is on fpot to re-or
ganize the Holly band. A number
of additional instruments have been
ordeied and when they arrive the
boys will get down to business.
• • •
County Treasurer Adkins came
down from Lamar Wednesday after
noon and attended the I. O. O. F.
This is John’s first trip back home
since he took charge of the treasui
er’s office, and his friends were glad
to see him.
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[ From the Granada Times. ]
Three freightcars were detailed on
the siding here, last week, by the
spreading of the rails. Two of the
cars were soon put on the track
again, but the third, loaded with
borax, was thrown to one side so far
and so badly damaged that it was
not made ready to move until the
first of the week.
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A man was found wandering
around east of town, yesterday morn
ing, in a demented condition. He
had evidently fallen from or had got
ten off a train as he had a ticket
from Trinidad to Chicago issued
April 4. From wbat could be learn
ed about him, he seems to be J. E.
White, of Belvidere, Illinois. Mr.
Bell, of the XY ranch, found the
man’s grip east of Mr. Hinton’s resi
dence, and brought it to town. The
county commissioners instructed
Deputy Sheriff Walter Creek to take
charge of the man.
• * •
E. house has been appointed state
brand inspector in order that he may
have the power to stop the unlawful
skinning of dead cattle aud the sale
of hides. He has three cases pend
ing in Baca county which will be
heard soon. One of his cases took
him to Syracuse, Kansas, where he
had to get out a search warrant be
ure he was allowed to see the hides
in the possession of a suspect. He
made his case, securing possession of
the hides and arrested the man who
had them as soon as he returned to
Colorado. Hon. Granby Hillyer,
the cattle association attorney, was
called to Syracuse to manage the
cases there. Mr. House knows his
business and those who have been
causing the trouble will know more
about such matters when he gets
through with them.
• • •
[From tho Amity Optimist.]
S. Dyer, foreman of stone work st
tne new Amity depot, has secured a
contract for tearing down and re
building the south wall of the Odd
Fellows’ block at Granada. It will
require about three weeks to com
plete to job.
• • •
Amity was visited last week by a
very heavy rainfall. The storm held
on in greater or less severity until
Monday when we were treated to a
heavy rain and hail storm, the ground
being oovered and remaining white
for some time. The hail stones were
soft and we have heard of no dam
age being done.
The Arkansas Valley
The Rocky Ford farmers have or
ganized a cooperatiye creamery com
pany to run their creamery plant.
They expect better results than they
have been obtaining.
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Las Animas and Garden City were
the only towns in the valley that ran
their city elections on politics. It
sounds queer that the republicans
should win in mossback contests of
that kind.
The Lamar Register
W— E—T—P O T W K.
What do the above letters stand for?
Figure it out and you will have, in one sentence, the complete explanation of our
wonderful success in the drug business in Lamar.
In the drug business especially, you cannot keep people away from a store where they
are convinced that they are always getting exactly what they call for.
MEDICINES ARE SERIOUS THINGS, and no one realizes the responsibility more
than we do.
We Always Uphold Quality
We believe in quality and we live up to our belief. No drug or chemical is used in
our Prescription Work until it is tested by us and we are satisfied that it is of the highest
purity and fit in every way to bear our name.
Are these precautions of any value to you ? If so come to us. If not, we
have no more to say.
THE UP-TO-DATE DRUG COMPANY
The largest institution of its kind in the Arkansas valley. Postoffice Building, Lamar, Colo.
Rocky Ford went dry once more
but by a majority so reduced as not
to be much of an endorsement of
the present administration. It is
evidently an open question yet as to
whether it is possible to permanently
continue the prohibition policy there.
• • •
The La Junta papers all support
ed the same candidate for mayor
and he only appeared in the also ran
class, the other candidate being far
in the lead. Tho papers have not
explained the matter yet.
• • .
Municipal ownership was badly
defeated in the La Junta city elec
tion. The issue may be good
enough for a jimerow town like Chi
cago, but an up-to-date city like
La Junta wou’t stand for it.
* * *
Having failed to land the water
commissionership Brother Bowman
is again in charge of the Rocky
Ford Tribune, and hastens to an
nounce that the joke of a democratic
paper supporting the prohibition
ticket was not any of his doings and
nothing but “real” democracy goes
now.
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A Grand Junction man committed
suicide last week because of poor
train service. If this habit should
strike the Arkansas valley it would
all be a cemetery in a week.
On election day an American citi
zen who said he lived half way be
tween La Junta and Rocky Ford was
measuring the walks of the city. He
remarked iu a somewhat stammering
manner that there were lots of Rocky
Ford people came here to trade, be
cause they could get wet goods here,
but that the La Juntans did not go
to Rocky Ford to trade bocauße they
could get dry goods at home. —Otero
County Republican.
Fort Lyon Canal Meeting.
The board of directors of the Fort
Lyon Canal company met in the of
fice of the secretary Monday and
transacted the regular monthly rou
tine of business. The report of the
committee appointed to investigate
the Horse creek reservoir was re
ceived and accepted. The report is
as follows:
“Your committee visited the Horse
creek dam, canal and reseryoir, and
on the whole find the scheme meri
torious, valuable and worthy of con
tinued development. We found the
dykes, so tar as built, the outlet
gates and the canal in good order.
“The headgate and dam are not in
good order, because the headgate
waß improperly designed, in that it
caught the drift which obstructed
the flow of water; that the dam was
built too high and obstructed with
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LAMAR. PROWERS COUNTY. COLORADO, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12, 1905.
wastegates which would not open,
resulting in the stoppage of more
water than could be taken care of,
aud the partial failure of the dam.
Should money for the purpose be
available your committee would
recommend very substantial improve
moots, but under the circumstances
we do reccotnmend the following:
“Ist. Lower the crest of the dain
about two feet, driving the sheet
piling to a new bedding and cutting
off any excess at the top. Apply
bay and brush weighted with rock
iu front of the dam in order to seal
the joints between the sheet piling
and shale.
“2d. Remove the waste gates
which now form part of the dam and
make that part conform to the rest
of the dam in heighth and general
construction.
“3d. Remove the present head -
gate to the floor level.
“4th. Widen the canal from
headgate to station 40, four thou
sand feet, nsing all the material to
reinforce the embankment on the
lower side of the canal which is
weak and should be stiengtbened.
“sth. Build a waste and sand
gate at a certain low point about 3,-
400 feet from headgate, usiug Htich
material as is possible from the
headgates and wastegates taken ont.
This wastegate to be 50 feet in
width and built in a safe and sub
stantial manner.
“Oth. Extend the dam westward
and in line with the present dam by
building four lines of fence heavily
covered with barb wire and filled be
tween with thistles, hay, brush or
roots.
“7tb. Plant willow cuttings to
protect banks wherever there is suffi
cient moisture to make it worth
while.
“Bth. Remove the present bulk
head at east end of dam which ia
now practically useless, except for
old material, and replace with au
extension of dam and build a new
V shaped protection of sheet piling
supported on rails set in shale in
much the same manner as the dam
is built, and fill in with brush or
hay and rock instead of earth, which
has always washed out. This means
an increased water way over dam of
100 feet. It ia not thought to be
certain that anything less than a
concrete dam aud bulkheads will
hold, but in view of the great cost of
same it is thought that an expendit
ure of $450 would not be excessive
in an effort to make the dam tight.”
It was also ordered that Prince
reservoir north of Lamar be put in
condition to hold water.
The next monthly meeting of the
company will be held at Lamar. —
Bent County Democrat.
The Work of the Legislature.
Yellow journals of the state, par
ticularly the Patterson papers of
Denver, devoted almost unlimited
space during the session of the Fif
teeuth General Assembly to con
demning nearly .every act of that
body, for the r soa, evidently, that
it was iu the control of the republi
can party. Scurrillous attacks upon
members were made without provo
cation and every effort was put forth
to imbue the public mind with the
idea that both houses were composed (
largely of boodlers aud grafters, bent
apon robbing the state whenever op
portunity presented itself.
But the good accomplished passed (
unnoticed. Tho hard work of the
legislature was not made a subject
of comment. Valuable and long
needed legislation was scoffed at and
the motives of honest men were im—
pugned. There was a concerted at
tempt to convince the public that no
act of the assembly savored of hon
esty and fair dealing. Little was
said of the fact that consideration of |
“freak” bills was wholly eliminated;
that many laws were passed that are
essential to tho welfare of the state;
that no unnecessary laws will burden
the people as a result of the session
and that the executive aud judicial
departments of the state government
wore all provided for in an efficient
and business-like manner.
The Fifteenth General Assembly
did not waste its time. First, it had
to dispose of the Gubernatorial con
test. Tho history of that litigation
is well known. To settle it quickly
and properly it was necessary for
the House and Senate to hold morn
ing sessions and give the afternoons
and nights to the coutest committee
of twenty-seven. The contest con
tinued more than six weeks, making
necessary after ita conclusion the
holding of many night sessions to
conclude the business.
During tho session of the legislat
ure 142 laws were enacted, out of
the 780 bills introduced. The most
important of these are the following:
Eight-hour law: establishing voting
machines; distiict registration law;
regulating itinerant vendors; district
irrigation bill; authorizing loan of
school funds in aid of irrigation;
modified law prohibiting boycotts;
forbidding the use of trading stamps;
appropriating SO,OOO for the preser
vation of the cliff dwellings; exempt
ing railroad, telephone, telegraph,
county and judicial officers and ac
tive newspapermen, from jury work;
forbidding desecration of flag; es
tablishing board of examiners of
professional nurses; railroad con
solidation bill; monument to Civil
war veterans on capitol grounds.
There are several worthy meaaurea
that failed to get through, but it can
not be expected that all of the good
bills will survive the debates of one
term. On the whole, the people of
Colorado have no reason to complain
of the work of the Fifteeu General
Assembly. —Colorado Springs Ga
zette.
His Pride Was Humbled.
A youug Baltimorean who attend
od the inauguration of President
Roosevelt found two or three straug
ers matching dollars in a Washing
ton hotel. Ho looked on for a time
and, thinking it easy, asked if he
could get in the game. Permission
was readily granted and within a
abort time his stranger friends had
won his last dollar. Then they un
ceremoniously departed, saying they
wanted to see the parade.
When they had gone the young
man told his woes to the barkeeper
and asked for a drink. That indi
vidual provided him with all he
needed aud informed him that the
game was a swindling one. When
the barkeeper suggested that the
young man go outside and view the
parade, he replied.
“Not on your life. I am too easy.
If I go out there I might bo run
over by a baby carriage aud killed.”
Baltimore San.
The people of Lamar will have an
apportunity on Friday ntght, April,
15, to witness one or the moat
unique and entirely ont of the or
dinary entertaimnknta ever given in
this city. Mr. Lee has secured
Prison Guard Geo. W. Ellis and his
Famous Trip Through the Penitent
iaries. The newspapers of Kansas
aud Missouri have been loud in their
praise of this prison guard aud his
work. Only the other day the Jop
lin daily papers gave this entertain
ment the best write up ever given an
entertainment there. It is said that
this man Ellis is a wonder in hia
way. His audiences are held spell
bound as be takes them through the
various departments of the great
prisons. Hia description of a con
vict’s death and burial leaves au im
pression never forgotten. The great
scene of the convict coal mine show
ing the convicts at work iu the mine,
is true to life and the sensational
truths this man is telling of this ter
rible place will startle bis audience.
Every father and mother in Lamar
should bring their sons and daught
ers to this great educational enter
tainment. Tickets now on sale at
Lee’s. Prison Guard Elba will no
doubt be greeted by a house tilled
with the best people of our town.
Prices 10. 15, 25 and 35 cents.
$20,000 just received for farm loans.
No delays.
i L*. Wikt Makkiiam.
Epoch,-Making
SHOE
If you condense the lastl;ten ' years into paragraphs
describing woman’s progress, one of these would be
‘Queen Quality Shoes.”
They are worn today by thousands of women who
find in them the Exact Duplicate of a Custom-Built Shoe,—
the same materials, fit and style, only at less cost. The best
expert cannot tell the difference. To all appearances it is a
custom shoe to ordered measurements. Try it once
Boots $3.00 Oxfords $2.50
Special Styles 50c extra Past (Solar Eyelets used exclusively
Our Queensware Department
Is complete and up-to-date. You can find just what
you were looking for. Come and see for yourself.
Our Prices Hre Right
♦
CHURCH BROS. & EVERETT
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D. E3. COOPER
Real Estate, Loan
Insurance Agent
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