The Fremont County record., 1882-09-23

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i "A rosnfre reP1bfican ratification meeting
took place At Gunnison City Monday night
j The name Of the Denver Light ARTILLERY
4 has been changed to the Campbell guards
n Four Hersiics and harness, costing $1,000
i were sold at auction in Pueblo this week
4 M $252.
The Utah extension of the Denver & Rio
Grande is being pushed at the rate Of two
miles per day.
Sam Long. of Las Vegas, fatally NOR
/ phined at albuquerque, last Sunday
/ domestic trouble. gSa
Hiahwaymen infest the road between
South Pueblo and the steel works, holding
| up fiush employees.
Ice formed in Denver Monday night
Much damage was done to growing yege-
| tables in that vicinity.
Mrs Governor Rourr has gone with her
/ two daughters to Massachusetts, where the
hitter will enter school.
n Twenty-Five years ago the total wheat
fcTnp OF Colorado was less than 100 bushels
this year the yield will exceed 1000, geo.
l Governor Campbell was rendered q cor
dial welcome and grand ovation. on his ar
4 rival ut Leadvillc on the evening of the
18th.
Red Cliff was almost totally destroyed BY
Mre Monday night, fifteen buildings being
burned II is estimated the loss will foot
David Cispin, Of Pueblo, engaged in
sinking an artesian well at Golden, New
Mexico, was killed by nm empioye named
/ John Lucas.
i A ciay-pigeon tournament will be held
4 in Denver during the last week in Septem-
ber. All the gun clubs in the state are in
/ vitcd to take part.
i A bet OF $3.50 was made at Denver the
other day, and tho money put mp, that the
4 Denver Tribune will be q democratic organ
4 within fortnight.
AID. Jones, Of Chicago, president of the
EJersey Iron works was in Pueblo this
fweek, hooking mp site for the erection ol
! nm extensive iron mAnufactory.
The rock Qasrries on So Vrain are in diff.
j dcnlty. Ois Of ths4 hzs suspended opera.
Il tiuas for want of fusi1a, and another one i
kS1tached TO pay the cnaapanys debfs
INA Cn1a1n1e pe1fe kir VIII open Octc.
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Il Govs I sSor m thru1f -.
N tAEA IKE OF ms lccAuLtItk =
jsSesines1xy, sustaliring soSne sssexe
He has now gone to visit his Mexico mines
Henry Henson, former member Of ths
4 Colorado legislature and well known citi
zen of Southern Colorado and New Mexico
died Last Thursday 1T Los Angeles, Cali.
fornia
/ The number Of children of school age in
Arapahoe county is 2,0io; l0,9+2 in the cit,
districts and ,09s in the county. The gen
cfal school fund this year amounts to 102,
600, or $3.50 per capita
Madame Rose De DoriczI a French
| teacher in the Denver University, was rur
over, in that city, ON Monday, by reckles.
driver, her collar-5one was broken, and
other injuries inflicted.
| The National Mining association decided
on Wednesday last, 10 close the Denver ex-
position September 30. Twenty-iour mem
| hers then ssccded, aud the association ad-
iourned subject TO call of the president.
When the new station on Pixies Peak
was nearly completed, the inspector dis
covered that the mortar used WAS defective,
and had the entire building n,zed. It is
now well under way again. and being prol
crly put up.
From the Gunnison Eeview-Prcss, We
learn that the South Park railroad track
has reached the crossing of the Gunnison
river, two miles north of the town. where
the largest bridge west of the range is now
being built.
An excursion, covering 1000 miles ard
occupying seven days, will be given by the
Denver 4 Rio Grandc, from Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo, TO Silvcrton and
return, leaving Denver at 5 p. M, on the
Soth instant. Fare for round trip, includ-
ing a berth in a sleeper, S35; in a reclining
chair car, $50.
Horace Beach, the artesian well commits
sioner, this week contracted for the boring
of two more wells in this state-one near
Cheyenne Wells and the other at Akron.
This is hut the Inauguration of n system
of irrigation that viii, at no distant day,
1 open up millions of acres of land in North
ern Colorado, now n barren waste, to- the
scythe and sickle of the huslandman.
A trio Of negro thugs tried to blackmail
Paul Wilson, of the Pueblo finn of Wilson
& Barnard, the other right, by going to his
house and threatening murder IL he didn't
leave them 5000 on his front porch. He
didn't comply, and an emissary was sent to
his store. next day, four different times. de-
creasing the demand to 500, $50, 81 and
then $40, when he was arrested, and the
i poliec got on the track of the other two,
Charles Robinson, the second one caught,
on being confronted, boldly confessed his
| crime, and demanded $50. The gang will
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