The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-01-27
STATE NEWS.

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The snowfall in the mountains is light
compared to last winter:
| Salida, Buena Vista and Poncho Springs
each wants the normal school:
Prospects for heavy crops in Northern
Colorado next year are excellent.
Jake Quackenbush was convicted of
larceny, at Leadville on Monday.
The coolest weather on Pixies peak this
season has been twenty-siI below zero.
The Leadville postoffice paid net prof,
of 81, ,552 to the government during 1882
Colorado is said to import s6,000,O0f
worth of cereals from other states annually
| Trinidad cattle men prophesy that cattle
will not bring $40 per head by the close OF
1884.
| The wheat market in Northern Colorado
is very dull. Elevators pay S120 per 100
pounds.
Peter Cobb, German bachelor, living
| near Silver Cliff, hung himself in his cellar
| last week
new smelling corporation, with cap
| ital of S500,000, is about to be organized,
| to operate at Pueblo.
The Durango Herald denies the reports
circulated over the state that the small
pox is prevailing there.
The paper manufactory soon to be estab-
lished in Pueblo will open q wholesale
paper warehouse also.
In and around Denver they are using
the unlicensed dogs shot by the police as
fertilizers for vineyards, etc.
Y Mr.. A. J. Patrick has been busy all week,
Nunpacking the material for his new paper,
the Central Pueblo Chronicle.
Father Haugh, who has long and faith
fully labored in charge of the diocese OF
Pueblo, has resigned, and gone east.
The Arkansas Hot Springs company has
purchased the Poncho Springs property,
and viii spend 100000 on it next season.
The Republican says, now that the Pal
ace theater has closed for repairs, the leg
islature will probably hold night sessions.
Mr.. John Hughes, an old and well-known
citizen of Denver, died last Sunday. He
came to the Queen City over twenty years
ago.
The wife of Ex-Mayor Hyde, of Pueblo,
died at that city last Monday. She was a
member of the Order of Rebecca, Odd Fel-
| lows.
Several of the students Of the school of
mines froze their ears, and one professor his
nose, Thursday night and morning of last
| week.
Chicken thieves have been making ex-
tensive raids at Central City. One man
Yish{E Mas Eohhed -nf sixtx -ehietena the other
} Bush beat Glow on a foul, ut Denver,
Saturday evening last, for the middle
weight champion belt, presented by Richard
X. Fox.
The Denver policemen began killing all
unlicensed dogs on Wednesday. During
that day $50 dogs were shot at, of which
$40 were killed
Grand Junction is to be made the end of
division of the Denver and Rio Grande.
A ronnd-house and machine shops will be
| erected there at once.
Deacon Samuel Roberts, one of Weld
county's most prominent farmers, dropped
dead in Mead & Co.'S office Saturday after
noon, of heart disease.
Salida's new waterworks are pronounced
excellent. Efforts will be made to stop the
Columbus stamp mill from dumping its
tailings into the river.
The people of Red Cliff. Holy Cross, Tay-
lor Hill, and of all the Eagle river eoun-
try, for that matter, are clamoring for di-
vision of Summit county.
The Pueblo board of trade has appointed
a committee of nine to wait on the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe officials, and ask
NASaNNeAtA VI
Sunday night Salida had another fire
The Mining Ledger Office, Moodys lumber
yards and offices and Gabys carpenter shop
yere destroyed. Los, quite heavy.
y The Pioneer Soldiers association, COM
posed of those veterans only who enlisted
in 1861, and served through the war, was
organized at Denver last Saturday evening,
The present legislature is composed of
tyyelya lnyyyarS rwanty-nne pr,e
druggist, seven merchants, one editor, three
hotel keepers, twenty-five farmers and
stockmen, two physicians, one barber and
one hveryman-
james Lee and James Wilder, settled IN
old quarrel in saw mill, near Trinidad. on
| Tuesday. Lee shot Wilder, then ran
but was followed by wilder's men, and shot
dead. Wilder will probably recover, but
will lose one foot.
The Colorado lines have established the
rate of $40 for delegates to the Grand
Army encampinent at Denver next sum-
mer. The point from which this rate reads
is not stated, but it is supposed TO be from
Chicago and return.
Mayor Cole, of Bueua Vista, has aiver-
tised that scaled proposals for building
Chaffec county, Colorado will be received
at the office of the mayor until Il o'clock N.
of the 18th day of February, 1855.
The fight for the lightweight champion
ship and Fox medal, at Pueblo, last Satnr-
day night, between Murphy, of Coal Creek,
and o'Brien, of Pueblo,wns decided draw,
Murphy WAS badly punished, but held out
game. Eighteen rounds were fought.
4 The bank of Rico has been compelled to
| discontinue business in consequence of the
peculasious of dishonest cashier named
Richard Pohl, who got away with several
thousand dollars OF deposits, but was cap
tured at Cumbrcs, ON n suow-bound train,
\ Many of the ranchmen in the valley OF
the Grand Will have water ON their ranches
in time for this seasons planting, and u
considerable crop may be expected from
that region this year. II seems pity that
they were not able 10 raise anything before
being brought into direct competition with
| Utah.
" Colonel James NJ. Seiover, Of New York,
tsucd Ex-senator Chailcc, of this stste,
for 81 SOC, 900 damages for alleged breach
OF contract Selovcr claimed he acquired
An interest in the Robert T. Ice silver usirse.
1T Leadvillc, conditional ON making certain
payments before = date named for an inter-
eat Of i16; and . simihr interest for SEN
asor Joaes, of Nevada that senator Chat
fec agreed to furnish the required sam aulk