The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-07-30
STATE NEWS.

be built at Buena lsta.
The ID. Il r. G. is surveying line
between Denver and Golden.
There are about 5000 people living
in tents in Denver and about 1000 in
Pueblo.
The supposed murderer of Romaro
Duran, near the Ration pass. is in Jail
at Trinidad.
During the hot term the mercury
indicated as high as 100 in the shade
at Silverton.
Fort Collins has granted right of
way through the town to the Greeley,
Salt Lake Il Pacific.
| The d. & r. G.. expect to have their
third rail down between Denver and
Pueblo by September.
A small grain crop on the divide
| wiz be almost a total failure owing
to the extreme drouth.
| The state tournament of the fire.
men is to be held in Colorado Springs
on The 9th of August.
The work of building the D. & r.
&. from Del Norte and Wagon Wheel
gap is progressing rapidly.
There are eighty coke ovens in
operation at FL Moro. One hundred
are idle for want of men TO run them.
The d. Il Il. G.. COMPANY have let
contract for grading railroad
through Ute pass from Manitou west
ward.
Ii The trotting and running races in
| Leadville last week were very well
attended and some fair time was
made
A bee tree was recently chopped
down in Boulder canon i'll the gum of
which was seventy-five pounds OF
honey.
The mercury registered from 81 to
| So degrees in the shade at Fairplay
last week which was very hot for
that altitude,
The commissioners of Coneios
| county increased the valuation of
/ property in that county from $780,
600 to S2,0o0,000.
Twenty-Five thousand tons of loco
weed were destroyed in CostiIla
county in june The premiums
amounted to SS32.4 .46.
a man named Chapen was shot
dead by Del Ingies near St@newall in
I Conejos county last week. 1t was
I the result of an old feud.
| Heavy rains on Friday last badly
| washed the ID. & Il. G. on its south
ern division. For two miles along
/ Salt creek the track was completely
washed awaye A slight washout also
/ occurred at Pinou station, sixteen
ipiles north of Pueblo.
I Martin Osburn. proprietor of the
| HALFWAY house on the Cottonwood
pass toll road was murdered by Joe
! TurnDutl on Ine 1sur- ne truuUIc
grew out of the fact that Turnbull
had been refused the hand in mar
riage of Dolly OsbHrn, the murdered
mans stcp-daughter. Mrs. Osburn
has offered a reward of SI5U and
| Governor Pitkin $500 for the arrest
| of the murderer.
An attempt was made on Sunday of
last week to wreck the ID. Il X. G.
train on the western slope of Mar
shall pass by placing spikes, fish
plates, etc, and q telegraph pole on
the track. Ii was the job of two boys
who had been hired by i've men TO
do the dastardly work. The men
had been tic choppers and some of
their ties had been burned by sparks
from engines. They were all arrest
| ed.
II George O'Connor was Justice of
the peace in Autonito until Thursday
night of last week. He had been the
leader of a gang OF robbers and this
is what became OF him, as stated in u
special to the Denver Tribune
Last evening O'Connor came frola
| Alamosa- After leaving there he fell
| asleep, and because the brakeman
| awokc him at his destination he had
the brakeman arrested. He then
went to the Raymond house, and
| covered the proprietap with two re-
volvers, which he drew from his
| pocket, and after satisfying himself
/ by abusing the proprietor went home.
This evening the ong-pent-up feeling
reached its limit, when O'Connor
rode through the town on horseback
! with 4 Winchester rifle and two re-
| volvers, and threatened everybody.
! The vigilance committee caught him
\ in his saloon about s o'clock and
hung him in an old slaughter house
just out of town. He had wife in
Conejos, and was about forty years
old" His body was not cut down
/ until 0 80 the next morning. The
I rest of the gang were notified to leave
1 the town at once.
I In answer to q letter from Governor
Pitkin containing the eQuestions; first,
HWhere the official bonds of county
commissioners were mailed TO the
district Judge for approval more than
week before the time fixed for ill
ing said bonds and GU account OF the
absence of the judge from his district
they were not approved until after
the time prescribed by law for filing
them had expired, is the filing of said
bonds, properly approved. at sub
scluent period, sufficient compli-
ance with the law; and second.
Where no steps were taken by the
commissioners within the time fixed
by the statute, and they subsequently,
file bonds properly approved before
their successors are appointed, does
| this constitute sufficient compli-
ance with the law to prevent a yacan-
uy which should be iilled by cNeca-
tive appointment" Attorney GEN.
eral Toll gives the following opinion
after discussing the main points in
the law: Il anu therefore OF the
/ opinion that "a commissioner holding
the Office at tue tine OF the passage
of tho act, who failed to lille the pre-
serihed bond within thirty days after