The state herald., 1890-02-28
STATE NEWS.
De Beque wants n Touring mill.
Gilman is TO have an opera house.

in session at Golden.
Unknown incendiaries are trying Il
burn up Buena Vista
Delta wants to dispense with the
presence Of the gamblers.
Three more men were killed in AS
pen mines last Wednesday.
The mayor Of Idaho Springs orders
the saloons closed on Sunday.
Emery C. Humphrey has been con-
firmcd MS Surveyor of Colorado.
Three hundred men are employed
upon the State Capitol at Denver.
A new superintendent OF the State
Reform School has been appointed.
Tho Colorado Jersey Breeders As
socistion met in Denver on the 10Th.
The coal mines Of the State are
working light forces in view Of the mild
weather.
The patent has been issued for the
site OF Grand Junction, and the people OF
that town feel iubilant.
Denver saloon keepers are trying to
evado the Sunday law by opening club
houses, and BY serving liquors AZ tables.
A large meeting was held in Lead
willie last Monday to further the scheme for
procuring government building for that
city.
AS the result of n ole quarrel, &. T.
Hughes of Julesburg, shot Alonzo johnson
last Monday, and the victim will probably
de.
A Denver law firm sued Mrs. Gil
pin for 5000 for conducting her side OF n
divorce case. The jury awarded them
s3T2s5.
II is claimed that the State Land
Board recently sold tract Of land near
Denver at very low rate, due to insuni-
cicnt advertising.
The Denver aldermen are dodging
the officers to avoid being called upon to
answer for contempt of court, in granting
n franchise TO water company.
There was an immense gathering
under the auspices of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union, at the opera house
at Denver last Sunday, to rejoice over the
closing of saloons on Sunday.
A lion hunter named Louis Mater,
hunting in the vicinity of Debcque, made
quite killing last week. His dogs had
five lions freed at one time, two OF them In
one tree. He succeeded in killing them ALL
A young man and women near Delta
elopcd the other day, but before they could
get married the girls parents caught them
aud the would-be groom went to jail for
l, is said that live frog was found
nj Louisville a few days ago imbeddcd in
n rock which was dug up sixty fee, from
the surface The frog was Of blush
co,or and had no eyes.
AT Colorado Springs two sani,ar-
iums have been opcncd-thc Bellevue and
Glockncr% erected by philanthropic people
Both sanitarlums ure intended TO furnish
. home with good nursing and medical at
tendance for poor class of people who go
bic price. Both sanitariums have mum
Der OF patients enrolled, and arc destined
10 do great good.
Mr.. McCori OF Wisconsin. chairman
Of the sub committee on the bin TO ratify
the agreement with the Southern Ut $,
made his report TO the House committee
on Indian affairs nj the meeting this morn.
Ing, The report, us expected, was favor.
able. II was at once taken up for consid
Grafton by the full committee and adopted
hy unanimous vote. The report OF the
will be called up In the House
nj an early date.
A company has been organized in
Denver 10 bore for oil. Acdyc
operations will shortly be begun near
Morrison, Colorado, on Bear and Tur
scy Creeks. The company holds
leases on over G,OJo acres OF land in that
vicinity which will run for twenty five
years. Three thousand acres more are
also controlled by IL, securing possession OF
the key to the oil fields In this section Of
the State.
The Grand Iaiiey star says; The
experiments to be made this summer ia
San Luis Valley In the line OF farm irriga
'ion By art, sian wells will be watched with
Interest by all engaged In soil culture.
Water is found from 100 to 100 feet deep.
aud three Inch casing Is expected 10
throw column Of water sufficient to irri.
gate thirty acres. II Is claimed that no
where In tho United States are there such
strong flows within similar area.
James Basshap, n young man about
!. years of age VINO has been for over two
years cmployc OF the rsnch OF Thomas J. 4.
Elnhnrt near ccntcrvillc, eighteen miles
sonth OF Buena Vista, committed suicide u
few days nro. lie had recently nsacd n
Young lady To marry him but rho refused,
aud II is probable that til, circumstance
70 depressed him ~ 10 effect his mind, for
At Einbnrts rnn,h the mex, day after
swallowing n quantity Of s,rychninc he
went 10 log stable. There he piaccd n
table In tho center OF the apartment,
II, fastened ono end Of u baling
wire TO the top beam, with tho other cnd
noesed around his neck, he jumped Into
eternity. He was known TO everyone In
the ccn,crrIllc country ns n model young
man, and his rash act Is a,,riou,od TO u
insane mind.
Al llidnlgo. Mexico, the city officials
m Is claimed, have been In sympathy with
tho lawloss c'rmcn, OF tho place, 40 tn,
law abiding party called In tho federal
authorities on the eve OF an election, and
having rp, nil the city officials and police
In jail ran the election to sui, themselves.