Crystal River current., 1886-12-18
STATE NEWS.

The Leadville Daily journal has
changed owners.
Idaho Springs churches raise money
by peanut Socals
Denver uses about one hundred and
fifty car loads of coal day.
The State School of Mines is entirely
out of debt and has over 81, 800 in the treas
ury.
1t has been reported that the Colora-
do Midland railroad will locate its shops at
Pueblo.
Weldon Booker, tried at Pueblo for
the murder of Abelino Atencio, was ac-
quilted
The Grand County Messenger" is a
new journalistic enterprise at Hot Sulphur
Springs.
A wild Texas steer created consid-
cradle excitement in the streets of Denver
the other day.
Ed. Noble, Il d. & r. G. fireman, re-
Gently shot himself accidently at Salida, in
hicting severe wound.
Mr., E. p. Bryant, night yardmaster
at Salida, was badly beaten about the head
by a brakeman few days since.
The various mining companies of
Lcadvile are likely to pay out over half
million in dividends this MONTH
A man named Donahue, sheep
herder, was recently found dead on the
plains fifteen miles from Fort Collins.
An assembly of the Knights of
Labor was recently organized at George
town, with forty-six charter members.
The McCaull Opera Company will be
at the Tabor Grand Opera House in Denver
for week commencing Monday, Dec. Is.
The Durango Electric Light system
will be in operation by January to Is. 1t
will start with 600 lights, and power for L.
500.
The weather has been so pleasant
lately that farmers in the eastern part of
the State are enabled to do great deal of
plOwing.
Patents have been awarded to James
W. Shryock of Trinidad for telegraph
transmitter, and Albert c. Hall of Denver
for wagon wheel.
The Santa Fe Railroad company have
purchased large tract of land near Pueblo
for the purpose of erecting extensive ma
chine and repair shops.
Patrick Riley was killed on the south
side of California Gulch, few days since,
by the explosion of stick of giant powder
which he was warming.
William Bond, cook for the Col
orado Springs Live Stock Company, fell
into a camp fire the other day, while in fit,
and was burned to death.
Mr.. E. L. Neve Foster, County Com
missioner elect of Clear Creek county, was
recently severely hurt by his horse falling
down the side of hill with him.
There is great excitement over min
ing stocks, both at San Francisco and New
York. Colorado mines furnish the mate
rial for speculation in the latter city.
There are at the present time 700
hands employed at the steel works at Pueb-
To- The nail factory has orders enough
ahead to keep the men busy all winter.
Effie Ellsler drew crowded houses at
the Tabor Grand Opera House in Denver,
and her successor is the McCaull Opera
Comique Co., for the week beginning on
the 18th.
The Midland contractors are import
ing laborers from Manitoba. They are ac-
customed to cold weather, and the noun
tain SHOWS and frosts have no terrors for
them.
The cold wave of last week, which
hit Colorado at some points with consider
able force, extended from the upper lakes to
the Gulf and from the Rocky Mountains to
the Atlantic.
Leadville mines pay over $4,000, 900
year to the railroads of Colorado, Kansas
and the eastern states for freight on ma
chinery, bullion, coke, coal and supplies for
their workmen.
The Supreme Court has ordered the
names of Thomas A. Green and Horace b.
johnson to be stricken from the roll of at
torneys thus disbarring them from practice
before that tribunal.
The Aspen mining suits now on trial
before Judge Hallett, in Denver, are at
tracting the attention of mining men all
over the State on account of the mOmentous
principles and interests involved.
The survivors of the battle of Ala
toona, Georgia, now in Denver, held meet
ing recently. They request all survivors of
that battle, in the State to send address to
S. E. Jones, 142O Glenarm Street, Denver.
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