The state herald., 1890-03-07
STATE NEWS.

boulucT lS tO nave now FlU,Uul
school house.
Meeker is TO have library and
free sading room.
Sixty wealthy Boston men visited
Denver Inst Monday.
The railroads are cutting rates De-
tween Denver and Chicago.
Denvers rival water companies are
wnging war Of injunctions.
Patti was sick whilc in Denver and
only sang in one opera--"Martha,"
The loss OF cattle in the South Park
is said to have been very great this winter.
1t is rumored that un English syndi-
cate want to buy nil the smclters in our
State.
Two freight trains on tho U. p. ncai
Julcsburg colidcd the other day, and two
cars were burnt.
The cable lines in Denver are now
doing the work tina. would require 1000
horses, II horses We're to be the propelling
power
Pat Desmond, the noted bad man
who was formerly marshal OF Pueblo, was
shot and killed In Salt Lake City saloon
the other day.
The Supreme Court decides that n
newspaper man may publish rumors with
out fear Of libel suits, ,hc it does so without
displaying malice.
The last issue OF the Denver Com.
,nCiuccnlti contains very able and read
able article from the pen OF G. Z. Goodwin
OF Salt Lake City on "Thc Status of Sill
vcr.m
Eighteen saloonkecpers arrested
for keeping their saloons open in Denver
last Sunday were discharged because nc
evidence was produced TO show that they
sold liquor.
Last Sunday the Denver saloons
were closed TO such an extent that only one
drunken man was arrested in place OF tho
thirty or forty who were formerly run In
on Sunday.
A Denver Judge has denied the mo.
ton of Treasurers Breene and Brisbane to
quash the Indictment OF the grand jury
against them for loaning State money tt
the banks and nppropriating the interest.
During the last week fifteen carloads
of seed wheat were received al Lamar, in
Prowcrs County. The most Of this wheat
will be planted under the Henry ditch an d
IN the neighborhood OF Lamar. II was
bought in Kansas.
The last Assembly passed law
levying fine of twenty-five dollars upon
all who have not paid their legal poll taS
of one dollar by the first Of March, and
making the district attorneys and county
trcasurcrs liable to fine II they do moi
take steps to recover the same.
There is II great deal OF opposition
throughout the State to paying the SIS iino
assessed by the last legislature againsi
those who failed TO pay the military pol
tax before March lst. In some countie.
the commissio toner's have not levied the tax
in others the attorneys declare that they
wiz not prosecute, and lawyers generally
believe the law to be unconstitutional.
The United States Supreme Cour,
has decided that Mcdlay and Savage, tive
Colorado murdercrs under sentence to be
hanged shall be liberated. The Court
makes this decision on the ground that
the new law under which the men were to
be executed is more severe than the one
In force when they committed the crime
In that II provides for solitary confinement
previous to hanging.
There is plenty OF evidence that irri.
cation in America was pracdccd first in
colorado. Among the Aztec ruins in tn,
southwest corner Of the State, In Monte
yuma county, are ruins OF ancient bitches
older than history. This fact Is apparent
that those people who constructed the sur.
face bitches had some mode OF raising
water from the deep river beds TO ell thcs.
bitches that VIC at the present day know
not Of.
Trinidad has n novel booming scheme.
A committee has been nj work during the
past two months securing options on Trim
dad real estate. and they now report tha,
they have secured 100000 worth OF
choice vacant lots, business property, acre
age, etc, on an option which will hold good
for the balance Of this year A company
will now he organized with capital OF
0,c0o TO advertise Trinidad and cnhanc,
the value Of these options. Shrcwd specu.
lators see large profit in this scheme. and
II Is thought that the stock will readily be
taken by Denver, Kansas City and Trini
dad capitalists.
When Colorado was admitted into
the Union, Congress granted her certain
sal, lands 10 be selected by the State with.
In two years, The list was noS filed until
/, isss, rejected the list on the ground that
the selections were not made within tive
years after the admission OF the State into
the Union, and the State appealed. IN
this case the secretary finds that the sclcc
tim could not have been made within the
specified two years, for the reason tha,
the survey OF the land was not completed
until lssa-six years after the admission
OF tho State The dcci-isn appealed from
is reversed and the State is accordingly
authorized TO make Its selection.
A skull has been found In Rome In o
omb OF tho fourth century before Christ,
.ho lower Jaw OF which contains case OF
fold with four false teeth In Il,
Mark Twain worxs only ihrcs months