The Fremont County record., 1881-03-12
STATE NEWS.

A pig snow storm VISITED Denver
and vicinity on Sunday last.
A fire in Poncho Springs last week
destroyed six buildings causing
loss of about $4,000.
The A., T. & S. F. railroad has built
the largest depot building west of
Topeka at La Junta.
Governor Pitkin has appointed
Henry A. Day judge of the criminal
court of Lake county.
A Chinaman was hung by mob in
Gothic last Saturday because he re-
fused to leave the town.
One of the highwaymen, who re-
Gently robbed the stage between Ala
mosa and Del Norte, has been cap
tured.
= The governor has appointed the
ex-aniiior, Eugene K Stimson. 10
the newly created office OF statee
gineer.
Arthur Pond, alias Leroy, the stage
robber, has been sentenced to ten
years in the Michigan house of cor
rection.
Deputy Sheriff Harlan, of Gunni-
son county, accidently and probably
fatally shot himself at Parlan's last
Saturday.
7 A gentleman near Fort Collins will
set out 200 fruit trees this spring.
He has already 10000 trees growing
on his farm.
Charlie Jones, one of the editors of
the Dolores News, was stabbed and
seriously wounded by a man named
Davis last week.
BY the fall of building in Denver
on the Sth, Thos. Crowley and Pat
Smith were killed and three other
men were injured.
Work on the railroad from Pueblo
to Silver Cliff will be commenced on
the 22ad inst, so says telegram
from the former city.
n The Conejos County Times is a
new experiment in Southern Colora-
do newspapers. 1t is published at
Antonito by Tibbetts Bros.
The locomotive engineers Of the D.
& r. G. have organized a Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, called
Grand Canon Division No. %.
The Ouray Muldoon says one hum
dred citizens on the Dallas river and
vicinity have organized company
for the purpose OF fighting Indians.
The gross earnings of the D. & r.
G.. for the month of February, 1881,
were S317 7,6S1.59. For the same
month in 1899 they were $l2s, ,29l.l9.
Seth Wilbur Payne, a journalist
we'll known in the west and connect
ed with the Denver News as travel
ing correspondent, died suddenly in
Leadvillc last week of pnuemonia.
Governor Pitkin has appointed
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district and c. W. Burris, of Silver
ton. Judge of the seventh judicial dis
ptrict.
Y On the 25th of February Ute In
dians raided horse camp near the
Los Pinos agency and destroyed
everything they could lay their hands
upon. The man IN charge of the
camp was away.
A dispatch from Pueblo. dated the
Sth, says: A man named George Al
len, charged with cruelty beating
aud maltreating his wife, had hear
| ing in Justice Shrock's court yester-
day, and in default of ST 900 bail he
was sent to Jail to await the sitting
of the district court i'll April next.
The county commissioners of Lake
county have assumed that Governor
Pitkin had no authority to appoint &
| Judge of the criminal court of that
county, therefore they made an ap-
pointment themselves in the person
of A. W. Rucker. The case will
probably be contested in the supreme
court.
The officers of the newly created
county of Dolores have been appoint
ed by Governor Pitkin as follows :
+. w. Raymond, clerk and recorder ;
Jacob Summa, sheriff; l.. n. Rosser,
county Judge; Sam1 w. BurShardt
and A. X. Prescott, county commits
sioners E. B. Gushing, treasurer ;
j. Z. Norton, assessor; F. w. Cove.
surveyor; a. P. Mundee, coroner ;
S. W. Miller, superintendent OF
schools.