The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-02-17
NO. Z
STATE NEWS.

Red Mountain City now has a popula-
| ton of 500.
Ouray county viii hereafter be known as
! San Miguel.
Grand junction went into ecstasies over
the new county of Mesa.
Ernest L. Foster, of Clear Creek county,
| is the new state geologist-
Ford, the Pueblo negro murderer, was
held for court without bail.
| Denver and other northern towns had q
| heavy snowstorm yesterday.
The telegraph line is nearly finished
from Breckenridge to Dillon.
Senator bowen Yrs terdered q reception
ut Pueblo Wednesday evening
There are several cases of smallpox at
| Starkville, Las Animas county.
The public schools at Rosita are credita--
BILE to the people and their teachers.
Internal dissensions have wrecked the
| colored Presbyterian church of Denver.
Pueblo has q local opera company that
is preparing for the production of Patience.
Denverites are about to abolish the
steam-whistle. 1t distuFbs their wonted
quietude.
The Salida Mail wants the town council
to issue call for the election of a city
treasurer.
The telephone hne between Silverton
and Red Mountain City will be in opera
ton the coming week
Alfred Moore was frozen to death on
Thursday while going from Nederland to
the Boulder County mine.
Ex-Postmaster Smith, on Sunday last,
turned over the Le2dyille P0stoffice to the
new appointtee, C. C. Davis.
| The farmers of San Luis valley are
making extensive improvements, and VIII
try for larger crops this season.
Caleb NJ. Hughes, a very ugly darkey,
| was sentenced to eight years in the peni-
tentiary, last Saturday, at Denver.
Work on Denver's new postofice build
ing, corner of Sixteenth and Arapahoe
streets, viii be commenced IN May.
Kittlcman, the Colorado runner, has chal-
| lenged the world for Z race OF 100 yard
for any amount from $1,000 upward.
| St. Patrick's dav will be celebrated in
Pueblo in royal style. and the proceeds
will be donated to st. Mary's hospital.
The Daily Reporter, Trinidad, appeared
in inverted column-rules on the 10th, the
day succeeding the hanging of Yarberry.
| Treasurer Roller, was tried at Buena
(; Vista this week, for embezzling city funds.
On motion of defendant the case was non
suited.
Frank Farrell, an old conductor and
fbrakemen on the Colorado Central WAS
crushed between two cars at Louisville,
Colorado.
Cors,0s, Ealdlhaaser & CO., the largest
| dealers in carpets, curtains, etc, in the
state, have sold their Pueblo branch store
TO D. Miller.
| Sweetser, the cattle herder of Weld
county, who was out three days in the late
storm, and got badly frozen, died at Den
yer ON Sunday
The committee clerks and employees of
the house presented Judge Royal, of Pu
eblo, with splendid silver service, last
Monday evening.
! Last Friday, the New York and San
Juan smelter, at Durango, took fire, and
narrowly escaped destruction, rs the water
I pipes were frozen.
The Silver World says that Lake City ex-
! pcIds $50 a month for dancing, while the
ministers go TO bed hungry. Rather a sad
commentary on that lively city.
The criminal court of Pueblo county
will hold its first session in March, at
which time Hon. T. t. Player will assume
his duties rs judge of said court
The Denver Republican accuses Thorn
ton Chase of Pueblo, the author of " Tom
Bowen's Ride" Of printing EsncrGlda, and
thinks the AIallorys will prosecute him to
the extent of the law for the theft.
/ : mountain lion attacked George War
rem and A. Condor, on the night of the sf,
/ while they were travelling from Gold park
to Holy Cross. The animal was beaten
off, but Condon had his throat badly laeer-
ated in the Rght.
Thomas Jewett and Peter Smith were
sentenced to the pe,litentiary on Monday,
| by Judge Elliott. mt Denver. The former
got six years for grand larceny, and the
| latter one and one-half years for assault
with intent to kill.
/ The Pueblo party who purchased the
gold bricks at the :" dead horse express
rs predicted by the News special telegram
at the time filed with saw filings and
other valueless matter.
| Mr. f. B. Heath, who is an employe at
/ Bsssick mine met with an accident in tho
mine, last Sunday, which resulted in his
having three ribs broken, besides being bad
| ly bruised. His injuries were occasioned
by some loose rock failing ON him.
For its size, Red Cliff contains rs many
children as any town in the state, and tho
youngsters look the picture of health and
strength. Their bodily culture is all that
can he desired, but it viii scarcely be
credited that, as tar rs scholastic tuition
goes, those olive branches are entirely
neglected.
I jena G. Switzer, n Denver painter, shot
and killed Theodore +. Jones, u bridge ear
penter, employed ON the Colorado Central,
at Golden, on Monday last. Jones had
alienated Switzer's wifas affections, and
been crimnally intimate with her. The
shootist was examined and committed
without bail.
/ : =
7 The Northern Colorado Telegraph Com
tpany, formed to construct telegraph line
from Lovoland and Fort Collins TO North
and Middle parks, filed its incorporation
papers with the secretary OF state to-day.
Its capital stock is $4,000, and the direct
ors named in the papers aro Thomas j.
Montgomery, A. L. Apnis and +. J. Annis.