The Fremont County record., 1883-02-10
STATE NEWS.

The Trinidad Methodists are having
revival.
The Pueblo News has cut down its size
materially.
Love1and will have farmers institute,
to open on the 14th.
Governor Grant gave a grand reception
on Tuesday evening.
Salida will have the finest railroad eat
ing station in the state
Governor Grant has reappointed w. E
Sisty fish commissioner.
! Moody is rebuilding his office, which was
IdcstroFei By the late Galidn fr&sss--e-
Denverites celebrated Mardi Gras with
| three Masquerade balls, on Tuesday even
ing.
Denver came near having coal famine
during the latter part of last and the fore
part of this week.
The carnival at East Turner hail. by the
Denver Turn Vercin, on Tuesday evening,
was grand affair.
Charles Burbridge was benighted be-
tween Imogene Basin and Ouray last week
and nearly lost his life.
The Robinson mine war still goes on
The owners are guarding every entrance,
armed with Winchesters.
Three miners, named Doty, Williams
lNand Booth, were killed by a, ,snowslide in
Middle park, last Monday.
Mr.. Brown, the revivalist, still keeps up
lively religious interest at Denver. His
meetings are largely attended.
An organized gang of thugs and thieves
run on the trains between Denver and Pu-
eblo, for the purpose of working" the pas
| sengers.
The late snow is God-send to the
I r..
the ground in splendid condition for plow-
| ing and planting.
During the recent storm thousands of
cattle drifted in around Lupton, and farm
ers were watching their fields to keep
| them from breaking in.
The telegraph office at Saguache has
been closed until better times. 1t was
private office, and the operator seldom so
Der. So says Father Cline
Father Conway, of ST. Patrick's church,
North Denver, died on Sunday, of con-
sumption. The remains were sent to
Troy, New York, for interment.
Tom Mulqueen, well-known billiard
saloon keeper at Denver, brutally assaulted
a man named Stuart on Sunday morning
last, and the latter is about to die.
There has been much suffering among
the destitute of Denver during the late
unpleasantncss.h The relief societies are
doing all they can to relieve distress.
While the ouray friends of Tom Bowen
were celebrating his election to the senate
| by firing anvils, one of them buTst. A
number of windows were demolished.
The Oasis billiard hall, at Greeley, con-
tains four elegant billiard tables, but not
drop of whisky, beer, cider or cigar, is
in sight, is why tine whole ''shcbangn looks
so odd
Dug Hill, a noted Kansas outlaw, was
arrested Wednesday, at La Junta- His
capture may lead to the breaking up of a
very bad gang, operating along down the
Santa Fe road.
Denver is to have new music hall and
theater, TO be known rs the Academy OF
Music, and to be located on the corner of
Sixteenth and Holladay streets. Seating
capacity, 1000.
A pOstoffice has been established at Red
Mountain, ouray county, and NJ. Z. Leslie
appointed postmaster. The telephone line
between that place and Silyerton viii be
completed to-day.
Colorado viii derive great benefit from
trade with Old Mexico. The extension OF
several railroads into that country will
make Mexico "our next neighborn in
broader sense than ever before.
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gotten their feet into it by practically play
ing Esmerdlda, a drama belonging eSclu-
sivsly TO the Madison Square Company. A
prosecution will doubtless follow.
A chimney in the Tabor Grand opera
house, Denver, fell down Monday, causing
sensational scare, and rumors were rife
that the whole building was coming down
A bricklayer soon fixed the chimney.
a cattle herder, named Sweetser now
under treatment at Denver, was lost for
seventy-two hours during the terrible
storm of last week, in Weld county. He
may lose both feet and one of his ears.
The shipments from the branch mint of
Denver to the mint of Philadelphia, for the
month of January, amounted to Sl06,35o,
being the largest winter shipment sent
from the Denver mint for many years.
Cattle men say there will not be much
damage TO stock in the valleys in the south
ern part OF the state, where the fall of
snow has been comparatively light, but
considerable damage is apprehended on the
northern ranges
Martin Huber was killed by an ava
lsnche at Red Mountain last week, and
three men who went 10 his relief were
caught in another avalanche and only
saved themselves by climbing trees losing
their snow shoes
The contract TO supply Durango, Colo
orado, with water works has been let to
the Pueblo Machinery Company. The sys-
tenn adopted will be pumps, driven by wa
ter wheels, storing the water in y reservoir
ON the mesa. The work will begin next
week, and the works completed in August.
A snow avalanche on Red mountain last
week buried James Barr, Thomas Brannon
and thirteen mules. Brannon and eleven
of the mules were killed. Burr WAS COW
cred in six feet of snow for twenty min
utcs before rescued. One of the rescucrs
was caught in another slide, and saved
himself by cltpging to tree, losing his
snow shoes
Governor Grant ordered o. l.. Hale, in
New Mexieo, arrested on requisition
from the governor OF Iowa, for murder, bnt
who was taken from the Iowa officer, While
passing through Trinidad, by sheriff aiix,
of Chaffee county, u. once returned to the
custody of the Iowa sheriff. Hale is the
man who shot Church at Poncho Springs
two years ago, under the name OFF. ii. Con-
way.
1t is rumored that Tommy Gallagher,
the young man killed at Pueblo by the
negro, Charles Ford, the other day, was a