The Lamar register., 1890-10-25
STATE NEWS.

Two men were badly cut up in a
drunken row at'Arsins Tuesday.
Captain Cutler. hate editor. of the
Field and Farm, died on theisth.
\ scheme is on foot to build a new
union depot in Denver for the use of sew
eral roads.
l 4 committee OF 1O0lsi TO watch the
polls ~ Leadvil1e on election-day TO see
that there is no stunning.
"A Leadvil s&itchnIan named Peter
Il Ryan caught his foot in a frog and was
run over by the cars and killed.
Denver has eleven National banks
with an aggregate capital of s5,sio, leS.
| They hold deposits to the amount of SO
29l, ,6sS. ..... ....-
| A colored man representing himself
| as a minister who was trying TO raise
| funds for church work has been arrested
| at Leadville as a fraud.
Two Italians have been arrested at
| Pueblo for the murder of teamster,
| whose body they afterwards placed on the
railroad track, to remove suspicion
A jury at Glenwood Springs has
| convicted Herman c. Babcock Of the muir
| der of James NJ Ryland, and he Will prob
ably go to'the penitentiary for voluntary
manslaughter.
The Presbyterian synod of Colorado
| met in Pueblo on the alst Routine busi-
| ness and the annual reports Of the ofncers
of the synod constituted most of the work
| In connection with the synod the Woman's
| Synodical Society of Foreign Missions held
their annual meeting. r...-.
The Rio Graude officials have issued
| a circular as follows: "By an arrange
ment made with the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, all tickets from points west OF Grand
Junction and reading via Missouri Pacinc
railway from Pueblo, to Great Bend, Kan
| sas, and points beyond, will be good for
| side trip from Pueblo 10 Denver and re
| turn.
| Thomas Gallagher, of Colorado
Springs, who has been for several weeks
very. sick with typhoid fever, committed
suicide about noon Wednesday at the resi-
dence of his brother iu-law, T, Carence, by
cutting his throat For several days MIR
| Gallagher had been in critical condition.
and during good deal of the time delir-
ious, and his friends had been appreh en-
sive OF his recovery. He had at no time,
however, been in dangerous condition
mentally, never manifesting any violence
At regular meeting of the Lead
vile city council Tuesday evening clean
sweep was made in the police department,
and only two of the old force retained.
| They were officers Wilder and Mcdonnell.
\ The former has been promoted to the posi-
ton of captain. Mr. Patrick Kennedy
was elected marshal. in place of .. NJ.
| White, who was hold over, In fact all
the officers have been hold overs Tor the
past eighteen months on account OF the
council being stand of, six Republicans
and six Democrats.
R. j. Spaulding. of Rosita, has in
Evented a flying machine that he thinks
| will prove more successful than that OIL
Darius Green. He. does not claim to re-
sist the attraction of gravity with his
| winged machine. This will, be overcome
| by the attachment of balloon, which Will
| be Joined to the waist of the man wearing
| the invention. BY the use of the wings,
however, the inventor claims that he can
4 guide the balloon in any direction, or
jumping from height descend ae any
point.
J: B. Dodge, the. statistician of the
department of agriculture, has.iresented
to Secretary Rusk the results of the oeto-
ber returns of department correspondents,
which gives the final- report of the condi-
ton of corn, cotton, etc, and the rate OF
yield per acre of the leading grains. The
average yield per acre of. these, in bush
els, in the State of Colorado, is given as
follows: Wheat, Is. 5; rye, l4.5; oats, 2i.s :
barley, a4.5. The average condition of
corn and potatoes on Oct. is given as -
and So respectively. The average yield OF
these crops for the whole country is
stated as follows: Wheat, Ill; rye, lis;
oats, 1875; barley, 81; corn, .O.6, and pota-
| toes, 6l.1.
Two wild freight trains on the Dem
yer Pacific railroad collided at Nantes, a
station SIX miles south OF La Sale on the
| Denver Pacific, at 10 o'clock Wednesday
night A brakeman named Anderson was
| caught in the wreck and very seriously, il
not fatally, crushed. The trains were
passing. each other, having had orders &c
run OF. the side track and main line, re-
spectively, at Nantes. A switch was left
open and from the main track the south
bound train rushed in upon the side
tracked train The engineers and firemeu
of both trains jumped in time, but the head
brakeman on the moving train was caught
between the cars as they crashed together.
Both engines were damaged somewhat,
and six cars were broken up.
The White River Ute Indians have
again strayed from their government res
ervation in Utah and are causing grave
uneasiness among the white inhabitants
| of Routt County. The Indians are divided
up into several bands. They are commit
ting depredations of various characters
and are very insolent- These redskins
are from Uintah and Ouray reservations,
and are reported to be conducting them
selves with a high hand. No violence, as
yet, has been inflicted upon the whites
further than soaring women ann children,
bat the great fear is that they may become
! so emboldened as to commit some serious