The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-03-17
STATE NEWS.

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Denver and Rio Grande stock is rising in
New York.
A reformatory hospital is being talked
of in Denver.
Pueblo VIII celebrateSt. Patrick's anni-
versary to-day.
The Barker house, Manitou, will be
opened April 2.
| Joe Suits garden, Leadville, was burned
Tuesday morning.
Senator Bowen will return to Del Norte
the latter part of this weclS
Trinidad is engaged in removing an old
graveyard 70 a new cemetery. -
The title TO the Tabor postoffice site,
Denver, has been declared good.
Buena Vista is about to start match
factory. Aspen timber win be used.
The Fort Collins grand jury indicted the
gamblers and prostitutes of that place.
Farm hands in Colorado receive $50 per
month, and find plenty of employment
Dr. J. T. Craven, well-known physician
of Pueblo, died Tuesday, of consumption.
A total eclipse OF the sun will occur on
the 9th of next May, lasting for six min
utes.
A new brass band, consisting of twelve
pieces, was organized at Coal Creek last
week
The citizens of Colorado Springs and
Nanitou are raising money to boom those
places.
Rev. Gibson Suits, Southern Methodist
minister, died suddenly, near Denver, on
Monday.
The water of the South Arkansas at its
confluence with the main river is the color
Of blood.
Mr.. B. W. Steele, managing editor of the
Colorado Springs Gazette, we are sorry to
learn, is seriously i'll
Methodis,s, Baptists and Presbytcrians
have each effected organizations at Grand
Junction the past week.
About forty brick yards viii be in oper-
alton in Denver this summer, which will
tprn out 10000, 900 brick.
" Postofices have bean established at Dome
Rock. Jefferson county; and at Fortifica-
ton, Routt county, Colorado.
w. Il. stivcrs has withdrawn from the
tripod Of the Saguache Chronicle. C. f.
stivc< assumes the editorship.
VILLA Grove wants church The ladies
arc giving n series Of entertainments TO
procure fSnds for this purpose.
There were but eiChty-six deaths in
Denver during the month of February, of
which sixteen were consumptives-
There arc siill about twenty smallpox
cases on hand nt Beadville, several new
ones having come to light this week.
Charles NJ. Huson has constructed, Mt
Pueblo. an endless wire-rope tramway, and
will exhibit it at the Denver exposition.
Z Thomas Shcehan killed Israel Pouquett,
near Central City, on Monday last. An
old fcud. Both men worked on ranches.
Y Patrick Bsrnvell fell down seventy
two-foot sbaft, at the Besscmer works,
South Pueblo, on Sunday, and was killed.
Thieves have grown so bold in Denver
| that they now follow ladies ont of dry
goods stores and rob them on the public
streets.
Iron for the Denver and Rio Grande OK
tension is being taken TO the front as
fast as the engine capacity can take it over
the road.
II Rcd Cliff has had threc destructive fires
l'during the past four weeks, and her inhab-
itan,s are taking measures TO secure a Wa
ter system.
Powerful new engines arc being man
ufactured for the Denver and Rio Grandc
road, when it is opened for through traffic
to Salt Lake.
Gunni.on News Democrat: The First
brick building this spring in the rear of the
bank building.
Tho Bank of South Arkansas. Mt Nathrop,
will he discontinued. the proprietor. W. T.
Carpenter, being about to start ono Mt
Grand Junction.
The North Denver artcsian well con-
tinucs to flow sparkling stream, and may
result in favorable solution of the Dem
yer water question.
Saguache Chronicle: The prospects for
an early spring are flat,ering. The grass
has started from the effects of our recent
| beautiful weather
With fair freight tariffs the farmers of
Northern Colorado say they could send their
wheat TO Chicago, and compete with any
section Of the Union.
There will soon he splendid market for
the anthracite coal OF Gunnison, when the
Denver and Rio Grande is opened for
through traffic TO Salt Lake.
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Jcffries,
Of South Pueblo, was drowned in pond
on Tuesday. Two men saw il fall into tho
water, and coolly walked away.
Guunson Revicw-Prcss: Before the close
of 1888 VIC believe there will be from $50
to 500 coke ovens, somewhere in Gunnison
county, on the line of the South Park rail-
way.
Mrs. Frank Matthews sent her husband
down town nj Loveland TO buy somo meat,
but he spent the money for whisky His
wife then found him, and marched him
home.
lew France, who lived near Salida. shot
himself in the leg. He was taken to Bu-
ona Vista. where his leg was amputatsd.
The patient did not rally from the shock,
and died.
| A party Of students from the Colorado
School of Mines this week made scientific
investigation of the Bcxsemer works, South
Pueblo, accompanied by Professors Morse
and Lake.
Fifty-five converts to the Baptist faith
have been made during the protracted
meeting which has been in progress at Den
| Yer for the past month, conducted by Rcvs.
| Jeflrics and Brown.
| The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have decided to erect at once nm
| iron bridge over the Arkansas, on Union
avenue. II will 10 forty-four feet wide,
with eight-foot sidewalks.
| John and Joseph Briggs went into their
mine, the Midnight, near Qucrida, ono day
last week, after having set-of two blasts