The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-07-23
CITY AND VICINITY.

DR.. Blake's residence is being plastered
and Will soon be ready to live in.
Mr.. j. F. Campbell is preparing to erect
handsome residence in this city for his
own use.
Ayoung married lady remarked the other
day. "Our band is improving rapidly, the
bass drum man is no longer the leader.''
The last semi-annual apportionment of
the state school fund by the state superin-
tendent of public instruction gives this
county S303.oS.
| There are few mild cases of scarlet
fever in town. Be liberal with disinfect.
ants and the disease can be kept in hand
and from becoming epidemic.
Milt Yarberry, whom many of our readers
remember as a variety theater proprietor
in this city, is in Jail in Albuquerque in de-
| fault of $4,000 bail for numbering Chas.
Campbell.
Mr.. James H. Peabody and family have
| moved into their new residence over Hon.
James Clelland's new store. DR.. Dawson
and family are occupying the house vacated
by MIR. j. H. Peabody.
Over hundred extra copies of the
|
the report of the laying of the corner stones
and as many more could have been sold II
they had been printed.
j. Cameron, recently discharged from a
two years term in the penitentiary, is now
serving thirty days term in the county
Jail for stealing tools from the stone quarry
back of that Institution.
Photographs of the convicts in the peni-
tentiary are being taken by Mr.. Dennis,
who has fixed up gallery within the walls
of that institution. These photos will be
used only in case of escape.
The seed has been sown for next falps
harvest of candidates in this county. There
is some tare seed among the good wheat
which should be carefully weeded out or
the harvest may not all be upon one side.
The d. & r. G. express train, which
| vent west on Tuesday evening, was drawn
| by two engines from this city on account
of its heavy load, there being three cars
filled with democrats going to work on
the Eagle river extension.
Geo. Allen, of wife beating notoriety,
| after serving his term in the county Jail
here, went up to Denver and there induced
the woman, who had procured divorce
from him, to remarry. He soon beat hel
again, which served her right, and was
sent to Jail there for three months. She
has the second time applied for divorce.
| g. G. Warman & Co. have purchased
Seth Silsby's saloon and moved the X 10 U 8
into that room, billiard table and all. o.
G. w, says he has good poles and plenty OF
\ limo which with s1Jt1iciept foraiUn inAu
ence, makes it as easy matter to rampse
and beat the house in the new place as it
| did in the old.
The monotony OF Sunday evening at the
soda springs was most agreeably broken
last Sunday by the appearance of the band
which discoursed sweet music for about an
| hour, much to the delight of the very large
| number of people present. We understand
the town board will build platform for tn e
use of the band at the springs and they will
play there twice a week.
"Crooked-heel Sam" alias Robt. Tabor,
who made himself SO notorious some
| months ago by running away with another
mans wife from this city, was captured in
Red Cliff the other day and brought back
by deputy sheriff of this county charged
with obtaining n revolver under false pre-
| lenses from MIR. j. G. Agard. The revolver
was only valued at SIG yet it cost the coun-
| ty the sum of $40 to bring Tabor here fol
| trial.
Arrangements haye been made to open a
| first-class kindergarten school in Canon
City during next September. The lady
who will take charge of the class is one
nm for Int ,,.;l1
doubt make a success of the undertaking
Canon has long needed such school for
the little children, some Of whom now run
the streets and learn only bad manners and
wickedness.
Among the numerous firms in Canon
which are engaged in the wholesale trade,
| few are better known than the Transfer
company, of whose business Capt. S. T.
Ferrier is manager. They constantly han.
| die large quantities ofhay and grain at such
prices that dealers west can well af
ford to buy of them. The shipments of this
firm are principally to Silver Cliff and tc
the terminus of the Gunnison branch of the
ID. d II. G.. while many lesser up-rivel
places are supplied by them.
| The sheriff of Lake county brought dowr
| " tuc oaUuTuay OttO Bal
laseaux, convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced or a term of one year. He kill
ed mal some months ago at the sodf
springs near Leadville. The same day {
deputy sheriff of Summit county brought
in AL. Fl. Higgins, sentenced for ten year,
for attempted murder at Kokomo. Higgins
got drunk and when an officer tried to ar
rest him he shot the officer causing wound
from which he will always suffer.
One of the most common promenades in
town is to the soda springs, in fact, it is al
most the only resort hereabouts to which
people can go. There is a stumbling place
however, which ought to be attended to
and that is the sidewalk in front of MIR. b
f. Rockafellow's place. The people living
down that way kept at the town board un
til they got good walk across secono
street but they forgot to repair their owr
sidewalks. Turn about is fair play and i
is the boards turn to play the trump.
| There is nothing SO successful in business
as prompt collecting. A jcweler of Pueblo
who was supposed to be abundantly abls
to pay his debts sent us an advertisement
to be inserted in the RECORD. As the