The Fremont County record., 1881-06-25
STATE NEWS.

A mad dog was killed in Denver
Monday night.
The bricklayers in Denver are on Il
strike for an advance in wages.
A telephone line from Del Norte to
Summitville is about completed.
siBrickn Pomcroy is to deliver the
Fourth of July oration at Maysville.
The pines on a mountain east of
Pitkin were destroyed by fire last
week.
The D. s. R. G. company is laying
one mile of track day towards Del
Norte.
Comargo is now posiofIice in Gus
ter county, with w. A. Smith as
postmaster.
Mrs. J. T. fszard. OF Leadyiile. was
robbed of about 5000 worth of jew.
Jelry last week.
JEFF. Anderson, who was shot by
j. L. Hurt, at Alamesa, last week,
died of his wounds.
The Hull Bros. have sold the Pu-
eblo Democrat to Judge a. Royal, of
St. Joseph, Missouri.
a burglar was captured in the res
idence of Mr.. Chas. Matre, in Lead
PVlUe, on MOnCay mSnt.
4 The corner stone of the Arapahoe
court house was laid with appropri-
ate ceremonies yesterday.
Barnum, in Gunnison county, and
Tetons, in Saguache county, post Of
fees, have been discontinued.
DR.. Rhymus, who murdered his
wife, near Denver not long ago, has
been sent to the insane asylum.
The Lake county jury found Geo.
Lynch guilty of murder and he was
sentenced to the penitentiary for
life.
A dividend of one and one-balt
per cent. will be paid to the stock
holders of the d. & r. G. on July
Ilth.
v On Tuesday right the old Coils
cum building and two others in Lead
vile were, destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
Chas. a. Dana, editor of the New
York sun, is in Colorado Springs,
where he will probably remain all
summer.
Clay Wilson, for killing Jim Moon,
has been bound over in the sum of
So 600 to await the action of the
grand jury.
The property of the Colorado Fire
Insurance Company has been levied
upon by sheriff. The company was
total failure.
Lieutenant Schwatka, the Arctic
explorer, who discovered Sir John
Franklin's remains, lectured in Boul-
der on Tuesday.
G. q o,a Oh
ing preparations TO build coke ovens
at Crested Butte, with a capacity OF
200 tons per day.
The Denver Republican was sold
on Monday to Kemp @. Cooper for
$50, 900. 1t will be continued as q
republican paper.
Frank Gilberts, who was to have
been hung in Leadville last Satur-
day, has been reprieved by the gov
ernor until July 29th.
Thomas Francy and j. B. Gala
CHER, convicted of larceny in Lake
county, have been sent to the peni-
tcntiary for two years each.
On Sunday the wife of Col. A. IL.
Jones in Denver, fired four shots at a
burglar whom she discovered in the
house, frightening him away.
A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. c. Hughes, who live near Boulder,
was poisoned to death last week by
accidently taking strychnine.
4 boy II years old was killed and
two men severely injured by runa-
way ear in the incline of the Little
Chief mine at Red Cliff last week.
Edward Fitzpatrick, convicted of
assault with intent to Kill Julius
Mays, in Lesdville, has been SEN
tenceo to the penitentiary for three
years.
W. ii. Canty was hung in Colorado o
Springs at three O'Clock OH Friday of
last week. The rope broke, but the
fall broke his neck. He asserted his
innocence TO the last.
The body of a dead man was found
in Tennessee park last week with a
bullet hole in his head. y revolver
was lying near, and it is supposed he
committed suicide.
On the nth inst. eS-Alderman Nc
Combe, of Leadville, fired into bug
gy containing Jim Mcdonald and sew
eral little children, one of the two
shots wounding Mcdonald severely
in the head.
George Merchel has been sent to
the penitentiary from Lake county
for two years, convicted of assault
with intent to murder S. III. Gordon
and with assault with intent to rob
Martin Kelley.
The State Press Association will
meet in Denver on the second Tues
day of July. Major Henry Ward
viii deliver the annual address, and
MIR. Stanley Wood, of the Colorado
Springs Gazette, will read an origi-
nal poem.
Mondays Fire.
AT 1889 p. m. on Monday the alarm was
rung TO call the boys to a fire in MIR. j. I.