The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-04-21
STATE NEWS.

| Pueblo is already complaining of mos
quitoes.
The Durango Herald will soon be issued
as a daily.
Jimtown's dance houses have closed
their doors.
Bcssemer now has fuIl-hedged temper
ance society.
One or two smallpox cases have broken
out near Rosita.
The Sisters of Charity will shortly build
a hospital at Pueblo
Pueblo had a severe snowstorm on FRI
day night of last week.
General E. X. Stimson win crate at Lead
vile on Memorial Day.
Six inches of snow fell north of the Di-
| vide on Saturday night.
Lawrence Barrett has been delighting
Denver audiences this week.
Ex-Mayor Robert Morris took charge of
the Denver postoffice on Saturday.
A big rush is being inaugurated for the
carbonate fields of Garfield county.
Arapahoe county's new and handsome
| courthouse was occupied on Tuedsay.
The Fort Collins council has raised the
liquor license from $500 to 81 200 per year
Salt Lake mail service, over the Denver
| and Rio Grande, viii go into effect May Is.
| The Denver and Rio Grande is said to
have spent 100000 on advertising last
| year.
Packer, the murderer and man-eater, was
! convicted and sentenced to be hanged on
| May 10.
Three hundred and twenty-five cases of
smallpox have thus far been reported at
Leadville
General Fred Walsen. our state treasurer,
has paid $4,000 for n valuable business site
at Las Vegas.
In one house, between Malta and Lead
vile, there are seven persons down with
| the smallpox.
James Hoyle and ]. L. Moorhead have
assumed the ownership of the Boulder
News and Courier.
The town of Ironton, Red Mountain dig
| trict, promises to be the most populous
town in Ouray county.
Colorado Springs veterans of the Grand
| Army ot the Republic will celebrate Mem
orial Day in Grand style.
Colorado parties have imported some
| 10000 head of cattle, valued at S225O00
| through Brownsville, Texas.
" Fifty-six railroad trains run in and out
of Denver every twenty-four hours-l Three
years ago there were but twenty.
| The stationer's and cashiers offices of the
Denver and Rio Grande were moved this
week iroE Colorado Springs to Denver.
The Denver police has captured the band
of thieves and shopliffers-mena and women
which has for sometime infested that city.
George NJ Sloan the noted Chicago dyua-
| mite agitator, was in Denver this week,
working up an organization of supporters.
Denver people are called upon to contrib
ute 10000 toward entertaining the Wis
itors at the approaching Grand Encamp-
ment-
Ex-Postmaster Dsrid r. Mcnamara, of
Robinson, has been arrested and bound
over on a charge of embezzling government
| funds.
No wheat grown in the world equals that
of Colorado, making rs it does, the whitest.
sweetest and most nutritious bread and
pastry.
Colorado had more suicides last year, ac-
cortiing to population, than any other state
in the Union, the total number being
twenty-three.
4 new railroad company. called the Den
yer and California Short Line, has filed ar
tieles of incorporation with stock capital
of S1o,0o0,000,
The Salida brass hand will give grand
masquerade ball on the 9th instant, which
will be attended by visitors from all sur
rounding towns.
The Indians on the San Carlos agency
have been granted permission to defend
themselves against any band of armed citi-
.cns who attack them.
Fifteen men have been killed in Hins-
dale county in the past seven years, and
Packer is the only murderer who has re-
ccived a sentence of death.
Hereafter no single piece of luggage in
excess of $50 pounds will be checked be-
tween the Missouri river and Colorado
points. This order was issued on Tuesday.
The old Summit house, Just cast of the
Chieftain Office, Pueblo, together with one
OF two other buildings, was burned on Fri-
day of last week. Loss, $4,000; incendiar-
ISM
Greeley men who patronize houses of
prostitution get the benefit of the law in
that matter. In most cities the girls are
the ones who are punished, the men es-
Gaping.
The project of building a trs,mway from
Colorado Springs to the summit OF Pixies
peak has assumed tangible shape The FL
Paso pioneers are identified with the en-
terprise.
Coloraao's coal output for the past year
is estimated Mt S4,I60, 600, counting the coal
worth 81 per ton at the mines. This in
cludes 10000 tons of Crested Butte anthra-
cite product.
OF the thirty-six persons who have died
from smallpox in Leadville within the
last three months it is reported in the DEM
ocrat that thirty-four of them had never
been vaccinated.
The Rio Gr,nte claims to have made n
contract amounting to about S6o,000 for
transporting the Knights Tcmplar from
Denver to Ogden, on the way to San Fran
cisco, this summer.
n Sergeant Joseph Lyon shot and killed
private John Howard, at Fort Lyon, on the
18th. Lyon had been intimate with How
arts wife. Both are oql0red' and belonged
Evidence has been found at Denver Ia
hotel rcgisterl which proves that Reerdcll,
the star-route intormer, has lied again by
swearing he was in Washington at time
when he was really IN Denver.
Joe Hackctt, the insane man released
from the pcnitentiary short time since,
while being walked about the streets of
Denver by party Of friends. on Satur-
day night, assaulted policeman, and was
severely clnbbcd before being recognized.
The Colorado Springs Investment and