The Lamar register., 1890-10-04
STATE NEWS.

Of Germans.
The men who attempted to rob u
Santa Fe train near Trinidad have been
convicted of attempting to kill the en-
Gineer and fireman.
The ladies of Delta gave the Delta
hose team banquet Monday night to
show their great esteem of the boys who
have won the championship of Western
Colorado.
In the hose contest at the Montrose
fair Saturday, Delta hose team won the
50o-foot race, and had the water running
in 90 lis seconds This is the third time
Delta has won in contests Ut Montrose.
A woman was fearfully burned in
Eastonville the other day by the explosion
of gallon can Of coal oil which she was
using in kindling fire. She may survive
but her hands will be badly crippled.
\ bold, bad man with Winchester
rifle held up an electric street car in Den
yer last Monday night. He was rather
green at the business and only secured one
dollar from fifteen frightened passengers
A divorce ci.se was settled quickly
in Denver last Friday. The wife wanted
separation on the ground of ''infelicity''
but an hour before the time set for trial
her husband was thrown from a carriage
and had his head bruised, which caused
his wife TO repent, and dismiss the case
Grand Junction will celebrate the
completion of the Midland road in royal
manner By banquet Invitations will be
sent to the Colorado State officials, Utah
territorial officials, Colorado and Utah
city officials, boards of trade and cham
bers of commerce, railway officials OF roads
centering in Grand Junction, and press
representatives from both Colorado and
Utah.
Never before in its history has the
Denver & Rio Graade enjoyed such an era
of prosperity as during the past summer.
The business has increased at all points
and 10 such al extent that the company
found it necessary to expend over Sl,o0O,-
0CO in new equipment. The earnings of
the road for the month of August were
S79S, 600 against S596,5OO for the CORE
spouding month last year, leaving an in
crease Of SOL, 500.
Isaac Hoyer, brakeman on the
Rio Grande for the past seven years, was
instantly killed at Mitchell, Monday.
Hover left Leadville breaking on an extra
Of eleven cars that was going west. Near
Mitchell, as the train was descending 4
all, one of the wheels came off the caboose
and Royer, who was ut the time Just
stepping from that car, was thrown vio-
.euSy to the ground and the car fell on
top Of him He was entanglcd with some
Of the IRON connections and rolled with the
caboose down the hill distance of fifty
feet.
James Ahren. of Leadville, the
champion roek.driller of Colorado, de-
feated William Page, OF Butte, Montana,
in a contest last Saturday. The terms of
tho content were that each man was to
drill fifteen minutes and the man drilling
the deepest hole in that time was to win.
Ahren went to work on rock plscel on n
platform about the level Of his head, which
produces what is called back hold in
miners parlauce. In fifteen minutes he
had drilled a hole "A ZIG inches. Page is
a shorter man than Ahren, and the stag
ing had to be lowered to give him the
same advantage. He then went to work,
and when time was called had drilled his
bit into the stone fourteen inches even
W. P. Caruthers, of Denver, is in
attendance upon the International Con-
Z of Iron and Steel Manufacturers at
New York bearing a cordial invitation
from the governor of Colorado, in behalf
of the people of that State, for the mem
bers of the congress to visit Colorado
while on their proposed tour of inspection
of the iron districts of the United States
1t was presented to-day. The invitation
calls special attention to the resources of
that State IN coal aud iron, as attracting
the attention of capital and which have
heretofore been somewhat oversnadowcd
by the more precious ores, gold and silver.
The invitation of the governor is supple
mented by an invitation from the mayor
of Trinidad to visit that city
Joe Courtney, of Durango, met with
a terrible accident the other day while
experimenting the dumping of some matte.
aproduct of copper, iron, lead and sulphur.
This matte is highly combustible, es-
pecially when brought in contact with
water One of the men rolled up his little
cart and dumped its contents of matte on
top of a little pool of water, but as the out
side of the burning liquid had cooled, no
explosion took place until Courtney came
up and struck the dump with his hammer
This broke the thick crust that had
formed on the outside and allowed the
seething stuff to run into the little pool Of
water Then an awful explosion followed
The moulten metal few in all directions
the greater portion of it, however strik-
ing Courtney fun in the face and
in The region of the eyes. burning
him frightfully II he lives he will be
totally blind.
Acting Commissioner Stone of the
general land office has rendered an inlpor.
tant decision in the case of Samuel J. Gil
more against William II. Malone, involv-
ing the right 10 the north half of the north
west quarter of section Z, township south,
range 81 west, in the Denver land district
The land in question is stated to be very
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