Crystal River current., 1886-11-20
COLORADO CONDENSED.

LOUISVILLE nau u S0,OUo Ifc lHc otHef
day.
Colorado has 10000 miles of wire
| fence.
There are ninety pupils enrolled in
| the Evans schools.
The reelection of Mr.. Symes to Con-
| gress is now conceded.
Spelling schools are becoming cpl
demic in the rural districts.
A couple of convicts escaped from
the penitentiary few days ago.
An experiment is being made in Dem
yer of Stag as building material.
Some of the fashionable ladies of
Denver have formed cooking club.
Colorado is yearly becoming more
and more of hog raising country
Lake county deposited over 100000
in gold with the Denver mint last month.
| The Denver Unitarans laid the cor
ner stone of new church editice last Sun
day.
The Harvard graduates of Denver
had banquet at the Albany Hotel Monday
| night.
Boulder boasts of an 1S-ycar old boy
| who can eat thirty-one pancakes at one sit
ting.
| The new mill at Longmont is being
rushed to completion, some fifty men being
employed.
| The Leadville papers are making an
energetic attempt to drive the many crooks
out of that town.
A pelican was shot near Sterling the
other day which measured $ feet and 6
inches from tip to tip.
The Prohibition vote throughout the
| State shows a considerable increase over
| that of two years ago.
| A new town company has been or
ganized at Hugo which intends pushing
! that town to the front.
| The Democrats had big blowout
| in Pueblo last Saturday night in honor of
the election of Mr.. Adams.
| The Chicago Times thinks that the
Midland road is part of the Ogden extern
sion of the Missouri Pacific.
An Agricultural and Industrial En-
position company has been organized in Pu-
cblo with a capital of $4,000.
The Douglas County Teachers Insti-
| tute will meet at Castle Rock on "Wednesday
and Thursday, Nov. "a and %.
| The Percheron-Norman Horse Com
pany have !, ,OOOhorses ranging on tributaries
| of the South Platte north of Denver.
The next meeting Of the Boulder
County Teachers Association will be held
at Longmont commencing November Goth.
The Midland is surveying a line to
the marble mines on Yule and Rock creeks,
and also line from GlenwOod Springs
through to Salt Lake.
Over 5000 pounds of oleomargarine
have been stamped by United States Col
| lector Wolfe in Denver since the law went
into effect on the first of October.
The Pacific Mutual Telegraph Com
pany have made propositions to extend
their wires to Denver which have been ap-
proved by the Chamber of Commerce of that
city.
Between three and four hundred
| coal llllHeFS are ouI VII IL StIlhc III Doulucis
Larimer and Weld counties. The cause of
the strike is a reduction of wages from
81. .121z to s1.00 per ton.
While two boys named Virten and
Park were hunting near Grand Junction,
Virden accidentally shot Park with a rifle.
The shot went entirely through his body,
and will probably prove fatal.
| The Midland offices, besides occupy
ing all the rooms in the Opera House at Col
OradO Springs, have three additional rooms;
one of which is devoted to the stationery de-
partment. and the other two are devoted to
the machinery department.
| Father Halton, of Ouray, has col
lected nearly 5000 for the erection and sup
port of miners hospital in Ouray. The
building will be of stone, 30X50 feet, and two
stories high. The hospital will be under the
direction and supervision of the Sisters of
Charity.
The apex question at Aspen is fur
nishing employment to large number of
mining engineers. The case will be very
hOtly contested. 1t will be called at Lead
vile Oh the 18th and should the apex people
lose the suit Aspen will have one of the big
gest celebrations ever seen in Colorado.
George +. Richardson, clerk of A..
=. Arbuckle. one of the sub-contractors on
the Midland, was killed by his employer in
a quarrel last Wednesday. Arbuckle was ar
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