The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-02-03
STATE NEWS.
.hteen inches of snow at Denver.

Eighteen inches of snow at Denver
Trinidad is to have an afternoon paper
Horse thieves are operating at Colorado
Springs.
The Nethodists have organized church
at Grand Junction.
Fred PlsIst was killed by snow slide, on
Saturday, near Frisco.
good many Iowa farmers are going
into the Uneompaghre.
Chaffee has as good public schools as
any county in the state
The telegraph Office in Saguache has been
closed until better times.
The democrats of Grand Junction have
formed county organization.
telephone system will 'be established
between Montrose and Ouray.
Before March 1, Red Mountain and Sill
verton VIII be connected by telephone.
The wind even blew jack rabbits out of
their holes, up in Wyoming, the other day
The Silver State is defunct, and its edi-
tor, Ralph Clute, has gone back to Kala-
mazoo.
The Leadville postoffice paid net profit
OF sly ,552, to the government during the
year 1882
Leadvillians are wading through about
four feet of snow, and the children cannot
go to school.
Georgetown had a terrible wind storm
on TUESDAY, doing immense damage to
roofs of houses. ~
Attempss were made by incendiaries to
burn the town of Fort Collins on Friday
night of last week.
Over $4,000 was wagered on the result
OF the late senatorial contest The pools
have all been paid.
The snowfall of Wednesday will prove
OF great benefit to stock and stockmen, by
starting grass early.
The roughs who insulted some members
of the Merry War; company, at Pueblo,
the other day, belonged to Denver, and not
Pueblo
The state auditors office was closed on
Tuesday, out of respect to the memory of
the father of State Auditor Abbott, who
died Monday.
couple of Fort Collins women are re-
ported to have fought street fight last
week. Man in the case. Awfully handsome
men in that town.
A number of men have been killed by
snow-slides and frozen to death, in the
mountains south and west of us, during
the past week or two.
The artesan well at Akron, east of Dem
yer, is now down 500 feet, having passed
three veins of water, which is 600 feet deep
in the well. A success.
Nevlin, The man shot at Leadville, by
Mike Connors, died on Sunday night.
Conners is jail, but will probably get off
on the pleaiof justifiable homicide.
The city of Salida has been allowed by
the assignee something over 5000 as the
first dividend on the $9,OO5 claim filled by
the city against the Hartzell Brothers.
In raiding one of the houses of ill-fame.
at Denver, this week, the police found in
one two girls, aged respectively Is and 16
years. They were sent to the reform school
A new wagon road is to be opened from
Montrose to San Miguel, shortening the
present distance 1t will run across large
mesa, and a railroad may be built over it
next summer.
4 man at Colorado Springs went to the
depot, the other night, to steal some coal.
He secured a gunny sack of what he sup
posed to he that article, carried it several
blocks up into town, and discovered it was
Stag.
Alexander Barton and man named
Gates, both miners, were found dead in
their cabin, in Chapman gulch, near Ophir,
last Monday. The face of one had the ap-
pearance of having been beaten. Mystery
surrounds the affair.
L Three terrific snow-slides occurred in the
southwestern part of the state on Tuesday
night. Frank Rolando, Of Crested Butte,
was killed. The engine houses and ma
chinery Of the Ruby Chief and Durango
mines were carried away.
Tho newspaper war between the Jesuits
and other Catholics in Pueblo goes on 1t
arose from an effort on the part of the
Catholics to'retain their Irish priest, who
had been ordered away, and an Italian
Jesuit put in his place. Their efforts
were uuayajlinp