Crystal River current., 1886-12-04
COLORADO CONDENSED.

j. j. Bonner,a brakeman, was fatally
injured at Deer Trail few days ago.
A Grand Army camp fire at Long
mont last week netted the post $4,000.
A Pueblo jeweler was robbed of *5,-
900 in money and goods the other day.
CharlesC G. Windon committed suicide
at the Tabor Grand Hotel in Leadville few
days ago.
"Ten Nights in Bar Room" is soon
to be given by an amateur company at
Georgetown.
1t is estimated that it will take $475,-
OOO to run the city government of Denver
for the next year.
The residence of Mr.. Porter Plumb,
of Aspen, was destroyed by fire few days
ago. Loss 5000.
The Northern Colorado horticultural
society will hold its annual meeting in
Boulder next MONTH
The 5-horsc-power engine at the
Farmers Mill, Fort Collins, is the largest in
Northern Colorado.
Nearly $4,000 head of cattle have
been shipped from Lamar to eastern mar
kets the past season.
The Farmers Elevator at Fort Collins
has taken in 5000 bushels of wheat of the
crop of 1886 thus far.
The Treasurer of Larimer county re-
ports collecting 9s per cent. OF the county
taxes for the year 1885.
The Catholics of Denver propose
building $4,000 hall to be used by all their
various societies in common.
A festival was given by the ladies of
the Georgetown Presbyterian church last
week which netted them $500.
The Northern Colorado Horticultural
Society will hold its annual meeting in
Boulder beginning Wednesday, December
Sth, and continuing until the 18th.
Leadville has city ordinance pro-
hibiting bands from playing on Sunday.
The Carbonate city is getting high up
where thunder sleeps and angels sing.
A Colorado base ball league is talked
of for the coming season, if sufficient
number of towns outside of Denver can be
prevailed upon TO embark in the enterprise.
The Inauguration of Gov. Adams will
occur January 11th. A grand ball under
the auspices of the Greysto and Arapahoe
clubs will be given in the Opera House in
the evening.
The Executive Committee of the State
Editorial Association have decided to hold
a midwinter session on January 12 and Is.
Professor Shattuck, Dean of the Denver
University, will deliver the address.
A large company Of colonists left
DeiNer last Friday for Sinaloa, spot on
the Gulf of California which is believed to
possess all of the attractions and none of
the drawbacks of the Garden of Eden.
While out hunting cattle one day last
week, T. II. Robbins, of Park county came
upon three mountain lions. He succeeded
in shooting one, medium sized ANIMAL
while a large one and small one got away.
Butter at retail in Denver now goes
at forty and forty-five cents. This is a
good fair price for those farmers who sell
direct to the consumers. At those prices it
pays the farmer to have warm quarters and
abundant feed for his cows.
The prospective new metropolis in
the Montezuma valley will be known as Cor |
teZ. 1t would have been called MonteZuma |
except for the fact for that there is post |
Office in Summit county by that name and |
the law fOrbids calling two post-offices in
the same State by the same name.
The Del Norte Flouring Mill Com
pany are now buying wheat in that South |
ern metropolis and paying one dollar and
cents per hundred weight. |
They have built and have nearly completed |
a fine Touring establishment fitted with the |
rollers and all the modern ini- |
provemenst.
The creamery at Brighton has been
and is the heaviest factor in building up
and sustaining that thriving village. 1t
helps to make it the local business point for
a large radius of country, and keeps the
farmers round about supplied with ready
money. A creamery in IA town is an evil
dence of local prosperity.
A letter from Glcnwood Springs says
''The Rio Grande has just commenced work
on fourteen hundred foot tunnel about a
mile up the Grande canon. They will work
from both ends. About half mile of the
grade near town is completed. The line
runs on the left and south bank of the river.
On the opposite side the b. d NJ. is blasting
out the cliffs, and thirty feet above it runs