The Lamar register., 1890-11-08
STATE NEWS.

the value of Sls5,co0 on the 9Th.
There was another big fire in Dem
yer wednesday night. A lumber yard
was burned with a loss Of $4,000,
Mayor Henkel, of Pueblo, refuses
to sign warrants in excess of the amount
of money now in the city treasury.
Mart Powers was convicted at Mont
rose on the 2nd of murder in the first de
gree. He killed Charles Bear last summer
in dispute about an irrigating ditch.
Joseph Holt,a hod carrier employed
at the capitol building in Denver, fell a
distance of ffty-six feet the other day and
was killed. This is the third fatal acci-
dent at the capitol.
Peter McCourt of Denver has Sc
cured five years. lease on the Pueblo
opera house. This is the fourteenth
house on the Silver Circuit under the
control OF Mr.. McCourt
A large tract of Asphaltum beds
have been discovered in Garfield County,
which are said to be more than sufficient
to supply all the paving material required
terri orles for many years TO come. Ex-
perts have sampled the rock and pronounce
it to be OF excellent material, and the con-
tractors who have experimental with it
say that it is very easily worked, and
seems TO have all the elements Of durabil-
ity. The asphalt field is about twelve
miles from the railroad line, and covers an
area of Go acres. The VEN is seven feet
thick
A meeting OF the stockholders OF the
Midland was held at Colorado Springs on
the End. Only j. J. Hagerman and H. T.
Rogers were present. They held proxies
for the other stockholders. The following
board Of directors was elected; Thomas
Barring, George C. Nagoun, John ]. Nc
Cook, all of the Santa Fe, the latter gen
eral solicitor; ]. J. Hagerman, of Colorado
SpriuFs; ]. r. Bush, James Davis, S. 5.
Sands, e f. Thompson, Thomas E. Je-
vons, Gordon Norries, of New York. The
meeting then adjourned to meet in New
York, November IL.
Lieutenant johnson, who was sent
to Routt County to compel the Utes to re
turn to their reservation has sent the fol-
lowing dispatch from Glenwood Springs:
Just returned from Routt County. All
Utes have left that section of the country
for their reservation. No depredations of
any kind have been committed so far as l
could ascertain. Settlers have been very
uneasy, and trouble would have ensued
on the least provocatiou. At least 5000
deer have been slaughtered for their hides
alone, leaving the earcasses on the hill
sides"
The October edition OF the expert
ment station Record, published by the ac-
ricultural department, says of sugar beet
raising in Colorado; ''In Colorado, where
irrigation is practiced, the conditions of
soil and climate make it easy to raise large
crops of beets. Not only is the total yield
heavy, but single specimens often grow to
wonderful size. The dry and clear wealth
er which prevails in this State in the
autumn also fayors the formation OF sugar
in the beets. Comparison of climate and
other conditions IN Colorado with those of
beet-growing regions in Europe is favor
able for beet-growing in Colorado.
The State Treasurer has received
two drafts from Washington. They were
SO long over due that they could almost be
looked on as windfall The first draft,
amounting to S6s, ,iS3.2i, was for the per
cent allowed by the government for the
public lands sold in the State from July /,
1856, TO June 30, 1889, inclusive. The sec
ond, amounting to sl5,sT4.Ss, was for the
percentage on public lands within the
limit of the State heretofore embraced in
the Ute reservation, from July |, 1879, to
June 80. 1sSs. The payments have been
withheld as there was no appropriation.
The deficiency act, providing for the pay
ment of the above named sums was passed
September sOth last.
Fred Dodge, a young man of 20
years, was prosecuted in Pueblo court
the other day under rather queer clrcum-
stances for burglary. On Monday even
ing the man pulled couple OF boards on
the side of the Salvation Army barracks.
but did not enter the place. In the course
Of an hour he returned, found the army en-.
gagged in religious service and Joined in
the devotions. He became deeply i'm
pressed, and WREN penitents were called
for he walked to the front and asked for
salvation, eonfessing to various petty sins
and also to the damage he had done earlier
iu the evening. Some men sitting in the
back part OF the building heard Dod-e's
statement and at once swore out a warrant
against him for burglary. They received
their witness fees but the defendant was
discharged.
Argument in the case of the United
States, appellant, vs.. The Trinidad Coal
and Cokiug Company of Trinidad, Colora-
do, was concluded before the United States
Supreme Court Friday. The case was ar
gued by Assistant Attorney General
Maury on behalf of the government and
by Charles e. Cast of Colorado and A. b
Brown of Washington on behalf of appel
lee. The case came up on appeal by the
government from the Circuit Court of the
United States for the district Of Colorado.
The bill was fled by the United States to
cancel six patents issued pursuant to al
legged pretended and fraudulent entries of
coal lands in Las Animas County, made
by Robert Savage, w. II. Lefiingwell. NJ.
n Wells, Alexander Craigmyle, G. F.
Sherman and Thomas Winshemer. each
tract containing about lCO acres for which