The state herald., 1891-11-27
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.

Tho Colorado Normal School has
l54 pupils In attendance.
A seven-year-old Leadville boy gets
Intoxicated by inhaling the fumes oil
gasoline.
There is n lively war In progress at
Telluride between rival electric light
companies.
A large meeting was held In Denver
on the 10th TO support the movement
Tor q park in northern Colorado.
The Mining Congress in Denver was
q great success. The enthusiasm for
the free coinage OF silver was un-
bounded.
Hunters in Green Mountain Falls
and vicinity are having the opportun-
ity OF trying their skill on deer, which
are often seen in the vicinity of that
village.
The district court that has been in
session at Las Vegas for three weeks
finds that all Its work is useless as the
jurics were not called In the manner
prescribed by law.
Five Mexican women and three mon,
convicted at Las Vegas OF violating the
Edmunds act, were taken to Santa Fe
by United States marshal and placed
In the penitentiary to serve sentences
varying from three to twelve months.
Two OF the women carried young
babies with them.
Four thousand dollars worth OF lots
Of the Fremont townsite, Cripple
Creek, have been sold In Denver. A
Denver paper says that the plating
OF 1000 acres adjoining is contem-
plated, and Pueblo capitalists are talk
ing OF railroad from that city to tho
camp. Land for placer claims is
worth $500 per acre.
A man down on Rifle Creek set Il
big bear trap the other day, and later
on found large bald eagle caught in
1t by The leg. He had dragged tho
immense trap, which was secured by
chain TO heavy log, into some brush
more than twenty feet from the spot
where trapped and was quite dead.
So large ard strong was his leg that
1t was not broken. 1t was twelve feet
from tip to tip Of Its outstretched
wings.
Denver Markets. Eggs-29@27c;
Bntter-Jersey creamery 26@33; dairy
92c; Hay-new upland SlS(d$l4, Sec
ond bottom 5000; alfalfa $500:
Wheat-$l.30 Z 100 fts; Oa,s-$l. .03
asl 10; New potatoes-65c "a zoe
& 100 TBS; Cattle-choice steers 81. 80
.dS2.75, good to choice cows $l.75(G
1900, native feeders. $l.90(G$2. Is;
Hogs-choice 81. .75G1 50 .s5; Sheep
choice muttons shorn So. 25(d$3 so,
common and feeders e. .25(af2.5O.
The railroad commissioners OF
South Dakota are in Chicago, deter
mined that sufficient cars shall be sent
them TO carry away the surplus grain,
which in many cases has only tar
paulin coverings in the fields. Much
Is also unthreshed because OF lack
OF storage room. The Chicago lines
have promised all the cars they can
possibly send, but they are met by
equally imperative requests from al
most every Western state.
Hunters and guides have often re.
ported seeing white elk while out In
the mountains aud an old-timer who
calls himself "Conundrum Joe" told
our reporter that while out on hunt.
Ing expedition TO the Flat Tops ho
saw band OF about thirty elk and
among them was one OF perfectly
white color. He said 1t was n noble
specimen OF its race and hc took
shot nj ii, but missed. II II could be
captured what price II would bring
In the East-Gicnpood Springs In II.
Articles OF incorporation OF tho
Lendville Cooperative Savings Bank
Company, capital stock s25, 900, have
been filed with the county clerk and
recorder. The stock is divided into
$500 shares Of $40 each. The incor.
porators are Edward jackson. John
Hipp and c. l.. Groesbeck. All de.
posits will be made for u term OF three
months or over. upon which interest
at the rate OF six per cent. will be al.
lowed. The bank will begin opera.
tions US soon AS u suitable building
can be obtained.