The Lamar register., 1890-10-18
STATE NEWS.


a synagogue.
The grand jury of Larimer County
has found an indictment against the three
Millingtons for the murder of Avery
Ben Butler is visiting the State to
look after some placer mines in San Mi
guel County in which he is interested
On last Friday the people OF Monu-
ment treated all comers to bountiful
feast of which potatoes formed the basis
A large crowd of visitors attended.
Two miners who were examining
an old mine near Carbondale, encountered
a 40o-pound cinnamon bear who had taken
up his abode there The bear escaped, as
did the miners.
o. P. McMains, the man who has
so persistently resisted the company who
bought up the Maxwell land grant, has
been convicted in the United States court
of resisting the United States marshal
Judge Goddard, of Leadville, re-
Gently rendered an opinion in reference to
damages TO be awarded for stock killed by
locomotives. He held that the present
law is unconstitutional, in that it denies
the railroad the right to jury trial
The people about Larkspur are
very much exercised over the action OF the
Rio Grande railway officials in sending
large number Of men to cut timber on the
mountains in that vicinity for railway
construction. They claim that it will In
lure the country.
The Pueblo '.EllSs" have taken pos
session of their club-rooms in the t1tch
building. They occupy the entire second
floor which is divided into a reception
reading, billiard and card-rooms. AL are
elegantly fitted up. There are about
eighty members in the lodge,
A very sad death occurred at Har-
din, forty miles east of Greeley on
Wednesday. Adam Liver, a 15-year-old
boy in the employ of A. E. Morrison,
ranchman, was riding a horse and 1t is
supposed tried to perform some equestrian
trick, to which he was much given, as he
fel- from the animal and was dragged by
the lariat until dead. The boy was form
erly bootblack here, and had been with
MIR Morrison for some time.
Judge Helm of the Supreme Court
has rendered very important decision
bearing upon the effect Of indictments re-
turned by grand iuries. A petition came
before HIM for the release of Genaro Tas-
asso, on habeas corpus, on the ground that
the indictment under which he is held to
await trial for murder is not founded upon
lot InA al
that the District Court must listen to a
plea for habess corpus and ascertain if the
indictment is well founded.
After having been shut down for a
few weeks, the steel department of the
Bessemer works resumed operations on
the 18th Numerous orders are on hand,
and there is yet Il, 900 tons of 15-pound
rails for the Union Pacific railway to be
made With the completion of the third
blast furnace next week, 220 tons of iron
per day of twenty-four hours will be
turned out The general prosperity of the
works is shown by the fact that excava-
tions will be commenced on Monday for
| two more furnaces, each of $50 tons ca
pacity, that will give employment to 800
men
A terrible accident terminating
| with awful results occurred at the Busk-
Ivanhoe tunnel on the 14th, and was the
result of an explosion IN which William
Hines and John Hemphill were instantly
killed. AS they were about to put in a
blast Hines took out stick of giant from
a box and commenced thawing it. 1t is
| the general opinion that while thawing
the stick of giant it exploded in Hines
hand, killing him instantly. The explo-
sion caused the entire box, containing IS
pounds of giant, to explode with tie rrible
force, instantly killing Hemphil and pep
pering the faces with gravel of six of the
workmen in the immediate vicinity. The
| terrific force of the explosion shook up the
| entire camp, while the report was heard
miles around and dense clouds of smoke
came from the scene of the disaster.
Telluride is ablaze with excitement
| Flags are flying, men cheering and every
body is off for a grand holiday. The great
| Sheridan tunnel struck the vein Wednes-
day and developed a large body of ore of
very high grade. The tunnel was com
| menced in November, 1887, and has run
| $500 feet at cost of nearly $500, 900.
Manager Waters says that, calculating on
a basis of what the mine has done in the
past, this strike puts SIS, 100000 in sight
The ore struck by the tunnel carries brit
tie silver, copper, and runs high in gold
Over thousand feet is gained in depth
| 1t means for Telluride scores of new min
ers, doubling of population and business
interests Immediately. The vein is owned
| by the Sheridan company for 5000 feel
linear On the surface, has been developed
the entire distance and has produced nine
tenths of the output of San Miguel County
for the past eight years.
Charles A. Bartholomew, the agent
of the Southern Ute Indians, in his annual
report to the Secretary of the Interior,
says that the tribe numbers 9s5 souls.
Most of those who have taken to farming,
have, during the past year, shown com
mendable degree of industry. They have
generally carefully irrigated aud gathered
their crops, and the result is very encour-
aging. They have had under cultivation
about 600 acres of land, their crops con-
sisting chiefly of oats, wheat, barley, and