Crystal River current., 1886-12-11
STATE NEWS.

eugmont College this term.
The total vote cast for Congressman
i'll the late election was 5s,s5s.
The corner stone of IS, 1000 school
house was laid in Fruita a few days ago.
The Denver bank clearings show
gratifying increase over those Of last year.
5airand Army posts throughout the
State are having their annual election of
officers.
Over thousand people were out
last week.
Mr. Joseph Brinkcr, well-known
educator in this State, died in Denvera few
days ago.
The Tabor National Guards, of Den
vea-, @ave grand ball at the new music hall
on the Sd.
New postofices have been established
al Downing in Las Animas county and at
Gilman, Eagle county.
The articles of incorporation of the
is,iehlo e Eastern railroad have been filed
with the Secretary of State.
Surveyor General Dawson had
stroke ef paralysis last week while visiting
st his fathers home in Kentucky.
1t is proposed by the Ell Paso county
Hunt 50 have a run on the 3rd of December,
so wind up with hop at the Antlers.
Surveyor General Dawson, who has
been dangerously i'll at his former home in
kentucky, is reported to be improving.
The Colorado Telephone Company
have established exchanges at Canon City,
Florence, Coal Greek, Eockvae and Beaver
Creek.
The STATE Teachers Association will
meet at Colorado Springs December sssth
2atll and 80th, and Il large attendance is an
ticipated
Prof Fowler. the phrcnologist, is lee
turing in Colorado, and every man who
thinks he is genius may now have assur-
ance OF the TACT.
IN a quarrel between +. f. Wood and
Allan Whitman, at Colorado Springs, pis-
tai was discharged severely wounding r.
w Abbey, a bystander.
The strike at the mines of the Mar
shall Coal Company, is at an end the old
rates having been restored. This is vic
iorv for tie Knights of Labor
The Colorado Springs bachelors had Il
ball at the Antlers last week. and as the la
dies were ont in full force there will doubt
rss be fewer bachelors shortly.
The cold wave of last week, which
hit Colorado al some points with consider
able force, extended from the upper lakes to
Che Gulf, and from the Rocky Mountains to
slIe Atlantic.
The houses in Denver are being all
re-numbeTed on the plan of a hundred to a
l,iock, and many of the streets have been
renamed Tho confusion for the next few
months will be awful.
Last week 4 man named Tobin. ar
rested at Sterling on the charge OF running
4 gambling house. jumped from the Jules
burg train, but was captured by Officer
Kendell who fred several shots at him.
a fine gray team which drew the
Denver patrol wagon escaped from the
station recently and ran so fast and far that
they were not found for several days-in
fart they were still missing at last accounts.
The following scale of wages has
Seen agreed upon at the Marshall coal
MINES: Sixty-onc cents, filling all coal and
furnish tools, powder oil. etc, S. room
turning; s2.25, face entry; $40, butt entry;
sas5, butt entry, double shift
Geo F. Emblem has had twelve citi-
xcns of Yuma arrested on the charge of con-
spirscy to defTaud him of his right to take
NJ government land. The citizens are said
tssallege that he was driven from the town
because OF his oItragcOuslyb bad character.
The State Canvassing Board have
completed the examination of the vote on
Congressman in the recent election. and
tind that Nj. Symes received a majority of
sos -Four OF the seven constitutional
Amendments were found to have carried.
In the trial ut Omaha of Messrs.
s,windler and Wells, the Denver surveyors,
" no were accused of attempting to defraud
the Government out of certain lands in Ne
hraska, tle jnry stood eleven for acquittal
xn'the first ballot, and on the third rendered
a verdict OF not guilty.
The Echo and Advocate is jubilant
over the promising future of Glenwood
Springs and expresses its JOY in the follow
fpG hopeful assertion: ''Neyer were indi-
cations so favorable for boom of prosperi-
fv in any city as they are for this place in
gI,s suriup (,ipnwooI will bloom i'll the