The Lamar register., 1890-09-13
STATE NEWS.

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A number of prisoners escaped from
the Leadville Jail last week.
The first shipment OF Greeley pota-
toes sold at 81. 20 per hundred.
Denver's bank clearings amounted
to 1--WE million dollars last week.
The total attendance at Grand juno
ton schools on opening day was 2s9-
The Grand Junction Star urges the
erection of canning factory at tnat
point.
The Aspen Times asserts that great
many fish in the streams about that citS-
are being slaughtered with giant powder
The Rio Grande Company are re-
ported to be agitatiug anew the plan to
build a shorter line from Denver to Lead
Vile
Water froze on the depot platform
at Grand junction early Saturday morn
lug and snow fell at Cimarron Sunday
morning.
There was collision on the hio
| Grande last Saturday near Florence by
which eight men were killed and a large
number injured.
Two men have been arrested Tor
passing one dollar bill on a firm in Glen
wood, which they had raised to a five, by
erasIug ard stamping it anew.
4 man named Baltimore was shot
and killed by Jim Beckwith last week
near Rye. A quarrel about some cattle
precipitated the catastrophe, but nm old
feud is thought to have been the founda-
ton for the trouble.
The Rio Graude railways equip
meut Of new rolling stock will be received
before October LIST. The total cost Will De
8, 3s4. 1883. and will include fifty engines
twenty-nine passenger cars, 200 coal cars
100 stock cars, 200 fat cars, besides mail
and baggage cars and cabooses.
| 1t is reported that the Utes are get
ting very restless and want to go to ltah.
Agent Bartholomew has hard WORK 10
keep them quiet. They are tired with pc
| ing trified with and they are going to their
new home this fall, even through they do
not obtain the consent of the government
| OF the candidates examined at Dem
yer for admission to West Point the ioI-
lowing received appointments; D. ii.
Dickenson, of Wilde, Prowers County,and
| Delos Holden, of Pueblo, as alternate
| The committee of examination consisted
OF Judge Rising, DIR. Bancroft and super
inteudent Dick.
| Charles Sweet, OF Buena Vista, was
run down and injured by stallion last
Sunday. He was attempting to bride the
animal when it became Infatuated and
jumped upon him and stamped him into
| insensibility. On examination he was
| found to be badly bruised about the head
| and shoulders He is in a terrible conui-
ton, but It is thought he will recover.
Mr. Thompson, a prospector from
Littleton, has discovered twenty-five
foot vein of asphalt in the Nermillion
Canon, in the western end of Routt Coun-
ty. The asphalt is overlaid by forty foot
| vein of coal An assay shows that the
vein carries forty per cent. OF pure asphalt.
A load has been taken to Denver for a
mere thorough test. Preparations are
under way to thoroughly develop the
mine.
Laborers on the street car tracks in
Pueblo struck the other day because forty
Italians were employed. A meeting Of
the directors was held and they offered as
a compromise to keep the Italians on that
Job and employ the strikers in another part
Of town. To this the strikers consented,
but after working an hour or so they
| -b. It.lia ho,, cod
| from all work, and as a result they them
selves were let out.
Washington Daley, sheep herder
working for Reef & Nuckois, was brought
to leadvilIe Friday evening in a very
critical condition. He was driving a team
of spirited horses attached 10 a wagon
J over the road at Tennessee Pass, when in
turning curve the wagon was upset and
he was thrown down the embankment q
distance of 100 feet His right leg was
crushed to Jelly, and he was internally
injured He will probably die. The
horses were uniniured.
The State institute for the deaf and
blind in Colorado Springs opened its six
teenth school year last Wednesday. There
was a large number of scholars present FOR
the first day, and it is expected the at
tendance this year will greatly exceed that
of any former year. During the past va
cation the old building has been largely
remodeled and the former recitation rooms
have been changed into dormitories and
living rooms The new building is prac-
tically finished and will be used this
term. A conservatory is now being built
on the grounds which will keep the win
dows of all the school rooms supplied with
plants. Another addition is two large
plunge baths which have been put into the
basement of the old building, ore for each
sex. They are about four feet deep and
supplied with both hot and cold water