The Fremont County record., 1883-05-12
STATE NEWS.

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agony.
Gunnison has caught it, and will have q
spelling bee.n
cyclone further east.
T The Antlers, Colorado Springs' hnc hotel,
was opened this week.
The snow Is rapidly disappearing In the
vicinity of Crested Butte.
Leadville and Idaho Springs had heavy
snow storms on Tuesday.
The Inter- Ocean demands lower rents as
an aid to Denver's prosperity.
Grand junction is shipping pressed brick
to Salt Lake in Large quantities.
Gunnison viii soon have . street railway,
aad otherwise pat sa aetzopeaitaa sim
More tourists ara coming TO Colorado
this season to camp out than ever before.
A bursting lamp set fire to the Grand
hotel at Leadville on Monday. Damage
light
A number of Denver Germans are pre-
pairing to emigrate to California and
Oregon
The Trinidad people are urging the ne
cessity of railroad between that city and
El Moro.
"Brick = Tomeroy is getting up baby
show, to take place at Denver during the
exposition.
Smallpox p-vails at Silverton and Du-
rango Sc says the Muldoon-take it for
what it is worth.
Mr.. Eugene Bertrand has succeeded Mr.
J. W. Wallace as business manager of the
Leadville Herald.
Central saloonist are agitated. lady
has notified them that they must not sell her
husband any liquor.
John Wall is to run line of six horse
stages from Red Cliff to Carbonate, to COM
mence in few days.
A Thurmond dry concentration is being
erected at Exchequer, in Kerber Creek
district, Saguache county.
Albert A. Selak, the party who had his
throat cut at Lawson few days ago, died
at Georgetown on Sunday.
Laboring men are now having all they can
do in Colorado. All branches of industry
are pushing rapidly to the front
Smallpox is almost completely wiped
out of Leadville, only few cases of the
disease in a mild form remaining.
While digging a well in North Denver a
laborer named James Meskew struck a
vein of gold and silver bearing ore.
Twenty-three years ago this spring there
| were but ten acres planted to wheat in
Colorado; this year there will be $4,000.
General Palmer president of the Denver
and Rio Grande, returned to Colorado
Springs from the City of Mexico, last week.
Colonel Myers, one of the finest archi-
tects in the country, has arrived at Denver,
| with plans for the projected capitol build
ing.
Louis Jelinck was found dead in the
reading room of the Manitou House, at
Manitou- His death was caused by apo
plexy.
Crystal mountain, twenty-three miles
northwest from Del Norte, claims a car
Donate belt two miles wide and ten miles
in length.
On Sunday last William p Taylor
shot and killed EI-City Marshal Jamisop,
at Tin Cup, and escaped. A reward is
offered for him.
The Black Hawk firemen are jubilant
over the result of their tournament and
they have good reason to be, for they won
the first prize in every race
The Larimer county irrigatiug ditch is
nearly completed. 1t is twenty-five feet
wide, thirty miles in length, and will ir-
rigate "a 900 acres of land.
Saguache county comes to the front with
new carbonate field, about ten miles
south of Saguache, on Willow creek. Some
rich discoveries arc reported.
H. NJ. Woods, editor of the Tombstone
Epitaph, has been stricken with blindness.
He was the founder of the Lake City Silver
World, and at one time well known in
Colorado.
The neighborhood of Del Norte is excit-
ed over the discovery of bed of rich man
ganese and also of gold float, three miles
south of Carnera creek, fifteen miles north
Of that city.
Steve Mansfield the man who killed his
wife at the Red Cliff toll-eate, some time
ago, and attempted suicide, died in the
Lcadville Jail Tuesday last, from self-in-
fiicted injuries
OF the leaders who took part in the
White river massacre Chief Douglas is
insane, Ute Jack was blown to pieces by
the explosion of cafYon, and Chief john
son. the medicine man, died a short time
ago.
Louisville, in the northern part of the
state, had heavy rain on Tuesday,
flooding the town and soaking the ground
in the vicinity to such degree that farm
crs will not be able to resume plowing
for week or ten days yet
The city council of Idaho Springs has
decided 10 limit the saloons to one to every
$50 voters, if possible, and to raise the Ii
censc fee to $500 per annum, or $500 for
six months Wholesale dealers are to pay
500 per annun, and the druggists are to
be watched.
Dick Morrison, the pal of the notorious
cattle thief George Howard, was arrested
by Deputy United States Marshal Harlow
and Major Horn, of the secret service,
while at his home near Ouray. He is
wanted at Grand Junction for passing
counterfeit money.
The stately First Baptist church, Dem
Scr was dedicated on Tuesday evening
This is one of the finest cdiiccs in the
west. The society which worships in it was
organixcd in "dug-out,n corner of Six
teenth and Curtis streets. in 1864. The
ceremony Of ordination of, . pastor took
place Thursday evening.
Alfred Owenby, charcoal burner of
Lake City, who not long since transferred
his property to his brother. and skipped
out, leaving his creditors in the iurch for
8, 900, returned the other day, to find the
transfer void, and his property attached.
Angcrcd vt this, he attacked n man named
Friend, with shovel, and severely injured
q daughter Of his victim.