The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-04-07
STATE NEWS.
Mountain wild flowers are blooming.
Colorado now has thirty-nipe counties.

Colorado now has thirty mine counties
Denver demands an increased postal de-
livery service.
One half Of Colorado's wheat crop is now
in tho ground.
A branch railrcad line is to be built from
Del Norte to Tucson.
Frank E Melon, an old timer of Laka
City, died last Tuesday.
Coal Greek is about to lose her harness
shop. 1t is going to Pueblo.
There src 100000 head Of cattle on the
old White river reservation.
Fort Collins is threatened with another
newspaper So is Idaho Springs
L DR.. Af. Beshoar has severed his cannsc-
ton with the Trinidad Advertiser
The San Carina indiana are reported ta
be secretly leaving their reservation.
A sanitarium, to cost 500, 600. Is tho
latest suggestion for Colorado Springs.
The Pueblo street railway will soon be
extended to the Bessemer steel works.
,, Carver and Bogardus, the champion wing
| shots, may give an exhibition in Denver.
The Arapahoe county treasurer collected
$214, ,6s913 during the month of March.
Buena Vista is much pleased with her
new Methodist preacher-Rev. Mr.. Hale.
1t is said that Governor Grant is rapidly
The printing of the laws of the last leg
islative session will be finished BY April 10,
The Womans Guild (Episcopal) Of Bu-
enaVista gave phantom party last evening.
The clerical force in the Denver postofice
has increased 200 per cent. in the past four
years.
Hay sells for $50 ton at Lake City,
Two years ago it was 500. Corn is $3.50
Per 100 pounds
The Catholics contemplate the erection
of fine school building on the brow of tho
mess, South Pueblo.
Miss Hattie H. Field, of the Denver
high school, won the Wolcott medal for tlls
best reader, last weeks
The Union Pacific is about to begin run.
ming through train from Pueblo over tho
Denver and New Orleans.
| The Denver and Rio Grande company
has begun excavating for the erection of
large, new depot at Coal Creek.
| Buena Vista elected democratic mayor,
recorder and three aldermen. The treas
urer and one alderman are republicans.
| The Pueblo board of trade has appointed
standing committee to receive strangers
and show them around when visiting their
city.
James D. Barnett, formerly bookkeeper
| IL TIC SiAu Juan DanK at SlIveftOn, ana
Charles Booth, were arrested for embezzling
Win r. Stivers, :s.Alv connected with
the press of Saguache, has re.aoved to To-
peka, Kansas, where he viii remain per-
.nanently.
Pueblo claims to have the finest sand in
the world for the manufacture of glass,
and her people want works for that pur-
pose erected.
! Withaup. the Denver forger and editor
Of the late obscene Rustler, was sentenced
to thirteen years in the penitentiary by
Judge Rodgers.
A. ]. Downing, an extensive hardware
dealer of Colorado Springs, has removed
his business to Pueblo, The txiune city ia
certainly looming mp.
Y A fire at Evans, Colorado, Saturday night,
originating in Peter Hughes saloon, on
Main street, destroyed property valued at
$6oOO. Partly insured.
Professor Parkinson, principal of the
South Pueblo schools, has resigned and
Professor Gault, of Iowa, will take hia
place as eminent educator.
Salida is to lose her water service until
the city makes definite arrangements with
the company. The average citizen il con>
sequently on the ragged edge.
| The first through passenger train over
L eitV AShNCA sAlu niO 1Klnuc railway u
Utah was a train load of Mormons, who
left Pueblo Saturday evening for Zion.
| The receiver Of the Exchange Bank. Dem
yer, has filed a settlement in the superior
court in which he says the liabilities are
S3o4 ,os2 96 and the assets $50, ,941 q.
| Pueblo still booms. The latest prospects,
OF that place are the contemplated erec-
tion of hxiviation works by the Moffett
company and . smelter by Ingerson d
Horne.
Il Half q million trout have been placed in
tColorado streams during the past two
years. The state hatchery will produce
100000 spawn of various kinds of fish
next fall
! Mr.. and Mrs. D, D, Miller, of Rosita,
were injured, the latter severely, by their
team becoming frightened and backing Off
the grade, between their home and Querida,
| the other day.
Clara Baker, bright young girl of Is
years, was stolen from her home, about
| twelve miles from Montrose, on Saturday,
during the absence of her father and
mother, by unknown parties.
The Academy of music, a very handsome
theater, on the corner of Sixteenth and
Holiaday streets, Denver, will be opened on
the 26th Instant, by the Madison Square
company, in Young AIRS. Uisthrop.
| The Welch block, in Fort Collins burned
Saturday morning. Total loss, $4,000, The
principal sufferers are Barkly & Tindall,
Jacob Welch, James Conroy, Weaver &
Co., ]. NJ. Dewey aud Peter Zwick. Incep-
diarism is feared,
| Mr.. A. T. Wlkias. . prominent business
man of Laramie, wyoming. and for many
years clerk for the Union Pacific master
mechanic ut that place, has been promoted
to similar position with tho master me-
ehanic Mt Denver
The material Of Tho Del Norts Cactus,
recently purchased by the San Juan Pros
pector proprietors, has been shipped 10 Sill
yerton, to bs used in the publication Of .
| democratic organ. A. N. Read, Of Del
Norte, will be the editor Of the new Jour-
pal,
James A. Burnett, the book keoper Of
the San Juan hank. who was arrested last
week and taken to New York, n charged.
in company with Charles Booth. another
smpfoye of the aAms drm, with smbssr
sling $13 3es0. The proaf u aid 70 - pasas
tive