The Fremont County record., 1883-07-14
STATE NEWS.

Inc assessed valuation OF Ourny COUNTY
is 100000.
! Salida will soon have post Of Crane
Army veterans.
The assessed valuation of Boulder county
this year is 81 100000.
A Acolored Baptist society has Just bee,
organized at Leadville.
Salida base ballists got badly beaten a
Ies.taville last Saturday.
Rumor has it that the South Pueblo
News il to be resurrected.
In Plata county will not make any ex
/ hibit al DenYer this year.
| Geuna Yista's hose team v'oa the priz,
at FsiEfslay, on the Fourth.
Mr.. s. b. Morrison, Colorado pioneer
died at Denver on Saturday.
The Denver and Rio Grande company i.
building stock yards at Salida.
A large number of Ice trees hare been
found IN the foothills near Denver.
San Juan county covers 600 square
miles, and has 10000 mining claims.
A Santa Fe brakeman fell under his
train at Pueblo, on Monday, and lost a
foot.
William Lewis has been acquitted on the
charge Of killing " Indian Bill y at Parrott
City.
Professor Hale has rendered his resigna-
tion as president of the School of Mines
faculty.
The assessed valuation of San Juan
county this year is 81, 100000, against $780,
GEO last wear.
A new process crusher and snelter is be-
ing completed at Denver, By Messrs- Smith,
Hibbard & Co.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the dis
covery of gold in Colorado will be celebrat-
ed next September.
Dave Day has been arrested for contempt
of the county court Of Ouray county, or one
of the judges thereof
o. II. Rothaker, editor of the Denver
Tribune, has returned from Chicago, ac-
companfed by his wife.
y The Rio Grande company is erecting a
handsome passenger depot at the Bessener
steel works, South Pueblo
Captain Dean, who was shot in the
Grand Lake frSe1s, still survives. He is
very sanguine That he will recover.
One W. H. Sutcliffe, who seems 10 be n
sort of religious crank, has been exciting
spme notice in the Denver press this week.
Will s. Young, late mineral clerk OF the
United States land Office, Denver, has been
discovered in the embezzlement of 5000.
During the past quarter Leadville pro-
i'd. now eS5fag ,6out f5r d l5oattIafs. siit.. siit..
congrstulates herself that she not has
cemetery.
The projected Leadville, Fairphy and
Mount Sterling Short Line Railway scheme
has burst like bubble, the bonholders
being :" left"
A new ditch company is being organized
az Salida, to bring water on the entire park,
east side of the river, between Saiids and
Brown. cahon.
Town Marshal Rowan. of Pitkin, was
stabbed on the night of the 4th by George
Mckinley, a saloon keeper. The marshal
received four cuts.
Robert Pitkin, son of our esteemed en-
governor, has made quite a favorable re
cord at Yale. He is now spending his va
cation in Colorado.
The killing of the Grand county commits
sioners aud county clerk on the Fourth is
already creating sentiment that the coun-
ty should he abolished.
The Leadyille Chronicle predicts that the
value of the output of the carbonate camp
for the year ending June so, 1884, viii be
in excess of S23, ,00o,0 600.
A Pueblo lady went to Colorado Springs
on the Fourth, locking her children up in
the house, and was prevented by the wash
out from getting home until the night of
the 5th.
Officers of the law have been having
high old time with cattle thieves in the
vicinity of st. Elmo and Tin Cup lately
and quite a number of thieves have been
arrested.
Colorado Springs was visited on the
Fourth by $500 people from Pueblo. A
washout on the Denver and New Orleans
detained about 400 OF them at that place
until the 5th.
The Ladies' Auxiliary society will form
national organization during the session
of the Denver national encampmeut, and
the Academy of Music has been secured for
their meeting.
The ]. B. 0rman hose company, OF
Pueblo. won the straightaway race, of 200
ieet, at the Santa Fe tertio-millennial, on
Wednesday, in PSI seconds Thus beating
the best time on record.
The national flag Of the glorious old Mas
sachusetts First, borne through the rebel
lion. will be feature of the national en-
caiupment at Denver. The flag is in n
very good state Of preservation.
A washout on the Denver and Rio
Grande. south of Colorado Springs, on Fri
day of last week, detained several trains at
that place over night. All was repaired
and trains were moving again on Saturday
The Brunswick & Bake billiard table
manufacturing company is preparing for $
grand tournament at Denver during the
Grand Army encampment, the contestants
to be Seh9tfer, Sexton, Wallace aud Morris
! The Gospel Temperance Society, of Den
yer, has changed its name 10 that of the
Denver Temperance Union" Its presi
dent, Mr.. Behymer, will soon make a toul
of the state, lecruriug in the larger towns
| In Buena Vista there are seven candi
dates for sheriff, five for clerk and recorder
t,yn tor treasurer, two for coroner, four TO
county judge, two for assessor, three iol
county commissioner, and four for count,
superintendent.
/ The Denver and Rio Grande Railway i
now completed 10 Wagon Wheel Gap, ant
trains ars running regularly. The compile
tien of the read to the Gap opens to tn
public what is sure to become the mos
popular watering place in the west.
Mr.. NJ. f. Post, of the firm of Stebbine
Post & Co, bankers of Cheyenne, Wyoming
and Silver Clf, Colorado, having purchases
the interest OF Mr., Stebbins, the firm nam
has been changed TO NJ. f. Post & Co, un
der which business will be continued