The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-06-04
STATE NEWS.
Track laying has been commenced
N the Denyer & Western railroad

Track laying has been commenced
on the Denver & Western railroad.
A new post Office called vicksburg
has been established in Chaffee coun,
ty.
The d. & r. G. company are put.
ting two new engines upon their road
daily.
Decoration dag was observed to
some extent in nearly every town in
the state.
A terrible hail storm visited Greeley
last week. Hail stones fell as large
as walnuts.
j. w. Grosebeets has been appoint.
ed superintendent of schools in Pit.
kin county.
A hunter on the creek near Breck
enridge captured three bears in trap'
not long since,sss
The jury in the Bush murder tria
at Buena Vista could not agree ano
were discharged.
The government has determined tc
build telegraph line betw cen Lake
City and Los Pinos agency.
The name "Silver Greek" !" terminus
of the ID. II r. q. towards the Gun
nison country, has been changed &c
"Shirley."
Merrick Rosencrantz aud Frank
Gilbert, murderers, have been sen
tenced to be hung in Leadyille on
June 18th.
The D. & r. 6. are surveying a
fork of the Gunnison. The distance
is about thirty-five miles.
An old prospector named Geo. W,
Lynch. shot aud killed Chas. Lyle, in
Big Union Gulch, about seventeen
miles from Leadviile, on Tuesday.
4 TheUte commissioners and attache s
arrived at Los Pinos agency last FRI
day. They were met by large num-
Der of Indians all in paint and armed
to the teeth.
Mr.. s. A. Sutton was accidently
-sho: and killed by Thos. Wobler last
week, while they both were hunting
grouse on the Blue river, about ten
miles from Frisco.
Four companies of U. S. infantry
and five of cavalry passed through
Saguache last week en- route to the
Uucompabgre agency. They num-
bered abou. 400 men.
The western bound stage from
Pagosa Springs, was robbed by high
waymen ON May 27th, and between
$500 and 81 900 with five gold wstch-
es were taken from the passengers.
The Durango Record reports that
Mariana and Ignacio. chiefs of the
southern Utes, with all of the squaws
and old people, have gone in the
agency while the young men are on
the warpath.
Julius May, a bartender in the
Little Chief salooDs.. Isesdvilla- WAS
murdered in the most cold blooded
manner by drunken scOundrel last
week while he (May) was attempting
10 protect negro from violence.
Several families, who lived about
sixty miles below Animas City. were
driven from their homes by the In
dians last week. Four hundred war
riors of the Pah Ute pribe are report
ed on the war path.
Four highwaymen held up Barlow
& San6erson's stage one day last
week between Armargo and Duran
go. The ten passengers aboard
were robbed of about $500 aud their
watches and jewelry. They then en-
tered the store of smsll settlement
and relieved the store-keepcr of Si5QJ
4 terrible accident occurred on the
y. & r. G. Friday ef last week. A
freight train ran into construction
train near Granite and three men lost
their lives. The cause was disobe-
dicmce of orders by the conductor of
the freight, Brooks, who was run
niua ahead of schpIulp time The
conductor aud engineer have been ar
yested charged with mausiaughter.J
Frank Matthias, civil engineer of
the ID. & r. G.. railroad, who was
surveying a route along the Grand
river, arrived in Leadyille on NOn-
day after terrible experience of
starvation and danger of death at
the hands of the Utes. Himself and
4 small party were surrounded by
Indians at the mouth of Roaring
Forks with nothing to cat for several
days. The river was very Ligh and
they were unable to cross. y party
from Leadville finally released them
4 On Tuesday evening last a man
named Chas. W. Stickuey, n school
teacher by profession, shot and killed
Montgomery. .Campau, a well known
real estate dealer in Denver,at the lat
tCr's boarding house, for alleged adul-
terry with the formers wife. One shot,
however, fired at Campau, entered
the heart of q woman Just married
three mouths, named Devereux, kill
ing her instantly. Stickney was ar
rested and locked up in the Jail but
was threatened with lynching.