The Fremont County record., 1883-01-27
STATE NEWS.
Diphtheria is prevalent at Denver.

Diphtheria is prevalent at Denver.
Trinidad is to have an afternoon paper.
Fort Collins is to be lighted by cleo
tricity.
| Las Animas county ranks third in school
population in the state.
Puebloites are talking of organizing a
local dramatic company.
Minnie Palmer has been dclighting Dem
yer audiences this week.
The Denver and Rio Grande hotel at
salida is nearly completed.
The reform school at Golden has now
ninety-eight boys in its care.
Denver policemen have been slaughter
ing unlicensed dogs at a fearful rate.
Durango is to have street railroad at
an early day. A company has been organ
lied.
scheme is on foot to build a tramway
from Mount Sneffels to Ouray, by Chicago
capitalists.
C. c. Davis, of the Leadville Chronicle,
will probably succeed DIR. Smith, as post
master of that city.
The Pueblo Smelling and Refining COM
pany has increased its capital stock from
S500,0 to S150,0O0.
Several persons were badly frozen while
Iilc near
the late unpleasantness."
Many of the state papers are protesting
against the eNtortionate charges made by
the Pullman Car company.
4 movement is under way for temper
ance mass meeting and demonstration at
Greeley next Fourth of July.
A number of Denver citizens are taking
steps to form an association of " Pioneer
Soldiers - of rho loft .ivi1
A Leadville grand jury has found indict-
ments against five prominent citizens of
that place for murder and arson
Denver's new and handsome court house
is completed and occupied. 1t is a credit
to Arapahoe county and our state
Saturdays Chieftain went into ecstacies
over the first Chinese female who ever
came into that city. She arrived Saturday.
The Bush murder case, at Buena Vista,
was continued for the term, to await the
decision Of the supreme court in the Gar
yey case.
The iron bridge over Deer Creek, on the
South Park railroad, went down last week,
precipitating twenty-eight freight cars into
the chasm-
business that will give employment to
three thousand persons will be established
in that city next summer.
A miner named Charles G. Peterson shot
and killed another, named Thomas Has
kins, at Leadville, last week. Both were
rival suitors for the same hand.
The town of Poncho Springs voted bonds
to the amount of $4,000 to build hotel
and water works at that place and bring
hot water from the spring into the city.
The Denver news wants every room in
Denver, above the first floor, supplied with
strong rope, reaching to the ground, to
be used in case of fire. Not bad sugges-
tion.
The ball and banquet of Pixies Peak
commandery, Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, at Colorado Springs, last Thursday
evening was the grandest affair of the
season.
As the Leadville city Jail is frequently
inhabited by female prisoners, the jailer
thinks of making a speck by starting a
laundry and putting the fair but frail ones
to work.
The authorities of Denver have made a
thorough examination of all the hotels and
leading lodging houses of that city, 10 as
certain if they We're provided with sufi,
cient fire escapes
Y At Trinidad, meadow hay is selling at
ABOUT Sl0 per Ton. anu SOou tllAONuNs usiltu
at about S22 per ton. fPotatoes are whole
sailing at from S1-25 to s. 80 per 100 pounds
and the market is full.
The attempt of the Denver and Rio
Grande to build through the Black cafon
below the Cimaron, to avoid the steep
grade on Squaw hill, has proved futile
| The gorge j. impossible.
According to the autobiography oi
Brick = Pomeroy, published in the Demo
crat, all that old red-headed rooster needs
to become an angel is an illusion under
shirt and a pair of wings.
Gunnison can count on cheap grain and
vegetables the coming summer. The I'm
compahgre and Grand Valleys are very
favorable for growing nearly everything in
the cereal and vegetable line.
The land Office is preparing a decision
which will enable persons to enter lands in
the recently ceded Ute reservation upon
the same conditions rs those who settled
thereon prior TO the act of July 2S, 1SS2.-
A. T. Ryan's livery stable, at Salida,
burned on Thursday night oflast week. Six
horses, three buggies and some wagons
were consumed. Loss on building and
contents, probably $4,000. No insurance.
The manufacture of hoops for nail kegs
! from native timber is grand success at
the Bessemer works, near Pueblo. Machin-
cry is now running in the nail department,
saving out all the hoops that are used in
the manufacture of nail kegs.