The daily gazette., 1882-10-28
AFFAIRS IN COLORADO.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM Mr..
BERToLETTE.
CENTENNIAL STATE POLITICS.
Distinguished Visitors Matters of General
Interest - Notes of Our Wilmington
Friends.
Especial correspondence of the Gazette. :,

1 us
Centennial State was admitted has there
been such hot contest for State offices, and
never before have the chances of Demo-
cratic success been SO hattering. The bosses
| are being opposed here almost as strenu-
ously as in New York and Pennsylvania
and there seems TO be more bitterness. The
Tribune declares that the Republican party
intends to purge itself of those unclcan
things, the Stalwart machine bosses, and
courts defeat rather than the success OF
Chairman ChafIec ind Secretary Teller. The
Repnblicdn took the same view up to the
past week, but is now mildly supporting the
ticket. The Times is the staunchest sup
porter of the nominees in the city, and 1t Is
about the only straightout daily of
influence In Denver which does not
kick. Mr.. Belford made a speech here
about a week ago, which was suppressed by
all three OF the morning papers, each an
nouncing that 1t was unit for publication,
and the Tribune adding that 1t was
drunken harangue. The latter paper has
been formally read out of the party by some
Of the political Clubs OF the State. You
will therefore see that the Republican politi-
cal family is having serious discord and the
Democrats seem To have good reason TO hopo
for success, even In this stronghold, which
| would mean one Congressman aud one
| Senator gained. Brick Pomeroy, who has
of late years been an apostle of Grcenback-
| ism, has come out for Grant In his paper and
Is now stumping the State for the Demo
4 cratic ticket.
| DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Colorado his received some OF the best
known men of the land during the present
\ month, principally railroad magnstes. The
| first party, which arrived here on the 11th,
was composed OF William II. Vanderbilt,
his son William X, his nephew Frederick
| W., Captain j. II. Vanderbilt, Augustus
schell and others. They came on the Bur
| llngton, saw the different points of interest
in the State on the Rio Grande, and returned
east on the Santa Fe. They were here only
three days altogether. Their trip to Color
ado was purely one Of pleasure and the
railroad king expressed his surprise at find
| ing Denver what 1t is.
This party was followed at an interval of
about week by Sydney Dillon,
Frederick Ames of Boston and Charles
Francis Adams, Jr. Mr.. Dillon is
president of the Union Pacific and is max
| fig his annual inspection. Mr.. Ames holds
more U. P. stock than any other individual,
and Mr.. Adams Is railroad pool CON-
missioner. From Denver these gentlemen
proceeded to Salt Lake City and thence over
| the Oregon Short Line to Oregon.
Ex-senator Platt Of New York was here
during the first week of tho month, as was
| also Senator Jones of Nevada. Governor
| Thomas T. CrIttenden OF Missouri was also
| here ON u pleasure vacation, and among our
| visitors was w. r. Balch, the newspaper
| man who was the means of capturing the
negro murderer Chastine Cox, In Boston,
several years ago. Bishop Hurst Of the
Methodist Church addressed all the Meth
odist soeitics in the city on the 18th inst.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
You folks in the East don't make it any
| too pleasant for the distinguished Westerner
| when he visits you, not even exeinpting our
Lieutenant Governor, the great Tabor. The
I Governor denies that he was arrested In
Philadelphia because the writ was made out
| for Henry A. w. Tabor, whereas his name
| is Horace. He arrived home on the 9th.
| The attempted arrest was for alleged CON-
plicity in what was called the "Scooper
steal" but it is said here that the Governor
| had nothing to do with the transaction. In
considerable difficulty in sustaining
the charge of crimnality in the
sale against any of the parties In interest.
| The mine when sold had produced largely,
| aud there was sufficient amount of ore in
| sight TO warrant the presumption that 1t
would continue to do so. The mine was
| sold to tho Philadelphia parties, who paid
| the purchase money only after they had
sent experts to examine and report upon the
condition and prospects of the mine. At
| the time of the sale the mine was considered
| one of the best properties in Leadville. One
man is supposed to see as far into the ground
| as another, and no further, and therefore 1t
noes not look as though there was any
swlndle in the matter. 1t was one OF those
ireauent eases of striking "pocket" in
stead of vein.
Considerable interest was excited here by
the shooting of Colonel A. W. Slayback by
CoIol ell John A. Cockrill In st. Louis, from
the tacs that Colonel Siayback had visited
| Denver last spring, when lie had addressed
| the Bar Association of Colorado. He had
great many acquaintanccs and friends here,
and brother who Is one of the leading
business men OF Denver.
see a story going the rounds of the press
concerning au astounding duel between the
cowboys IN the employ of John Kelly and
George Howard, six on side, in which
four were killed in the first round. The
light Is said to have taken place In Southern
{. .olorado. / have no special sources OF in
ion nation, but you can set that down as u
warn. out of the Imaginative brain OF some
STORYTELLING plainsman, or from the pencil
of some Culled tender-ioot reporter So,
also, can YOU, as we'll, the story OF Bonanza
Mackcy's recent escape from the cowboy
bripands down In New Mexico. The west
ern newspaper men arc sufficiently enter
prisipg. One of them got up report that
Vanderbilt won 100000 from Schcll at
poker the night that party arrived here.
! The reporter knew all about 1t because he
i ad his ear to the key hole at the Windsor
| Hotel. The stuff was published in the
| Tribune. Put the story down with the
| others.
We have had the honor of visit from ono
of the Philadelphia Almshouse rogucs,
Prince A. Smell. He was arrested at Buena
Vista, aud Detective Harry Wolfe Of Phila-
delphia got y requisition for hin from the
Governor on the nth.
The hunting season Is in full operation,
and lovers of sport and those who make
] business Of 1t are having glorious time in
! .'hunters' paradise''-North and Middle
| Park. Much OF the game Is sent to Denver,
the citizens of which are regaling themselves
ON antelope, venison, bear and jack rabbits.
| IL sounds like u paradox to hear of Wild
duck shooting out here so far from water,
but this game Is plentiful in the spring ana
all Many of them perish from nying lnto
l. ,e electric lights about the towns outskirts.
II lndretls arc killed on the natural ana arti-
dci Il bodies of water about the town.
We had the first real snow of the season
ou tue 18th, the ground being covered to
| the dlpth of about two inches ana Ihe tem-
\ neratl re being cold and wintry. The snow
I'M mo, mtains ami plains made beautiful
,ipht. ard the atmosphere ON the morning
4 uttrr the storm was SO clear that 1t abso-
lutely looked as though the mountains were