The Lamar register., 1891-09-12
STATE NEWS.

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Shipments of cotton from Texas are
coming into Denver for use in the new
cotton mill.
Trinidad and Pueblo joined in the
latter city on the 9th in honoring King
Coal to whom they erected statue.
The Republican State convention
of Colorado will convene at Glenwood
Springs on Tuesday, September 90.
The designations OF Messrs. Moffatt
and Smith from the management of the
Rio Grande road have been accepted.
1t seems probable now that the Rio
Grande train robbers will escape in spite
of the great efforts made to capture them
Two Routt County hunters took
thirty five bear hides to Steamboat
Springs last week. They received $3.50
in bountes from the county.
The Peoples party of the State met
in convention on the 9th at Denver, and
nominated Judge ]. H. Croxtou of Denver
for justice of the Supreme Court.
Denver was the scene OF an Indian
war on the 18th. A band Of Ogallala Sioux
who are exhibiting themselves at beer
garden there got into drunken fight on
that occasion, and one of them shot and
mortally wounded companion.
Henry Sehaeffer, of Silverton, was
seriously injured in the Nevada mine by
the explosion of shot. He was eudeav-
oring to FIRE seven shots at once, and be
fore he had lighted the last the first one
exploded His face and right arm were
badly cut but the doctors think that he
will recover.
A state reservoir will be located
thirteen miles west of Apishapa, in
Apishapa creek. A dam 500 feet long will
be required. One hundred acres will be
covered by the reservoir, which viii be
!. forty feet deep. \ ditch one mile long
will conduct the water from TruiiLo
creek into the reservoir.
Another gas well has been struck
seven miles northeast CT Alamosa, in
Costilla county. The flow of gas is
greater than in any case heretofore. This
well is regular geyser. 1t stops flowing
| for several hours at a time, then suddenly
bursts out with force enough to send
water and sand ten feet into the air, and
again slowly settles back to very weak
dow
A servant girl in the employ OF w.
]. Hammond of Grand Junction, after be-
ing out for walk, returned in time to
catch young man gong through the
house with burglarious intent He had
secured pocketbook containing small
amount of money and some iewelry, but
the girl made the thief disgorge and then
fred him out of the house.
An important decision was rendered
in the district court at Durango last week
Two weeks ago the city council preferred
| charges of incompetency against all the
| city officers elected by the council, with
the exception of police magistrate, again st
whom specific charges were made. The
council then, by resolution, suspended the
officers and proceeded to fill the vacancies
with other men. The old officers contested
the matter in the courts but the city coun-
ell was sustained.
On Thursday evening A. j. II. Nc
Donald, miner employed on the Silver
| Age property, welded Mrs. Dora Judkins
in ellison Gulch, Clear Creek County. a
unique feature of the celebration was the
participation in the festivities by the en-
tire night shift, numbering over thirty
men. At midnight the men came out of
the mine each one with lighted candle and
carrying his hammer and drill. They
| marched in pairs to the scene of the wed
ding, keeping step to the chimes produced
| by striking the drills with the hammers.
After enjoying the feast and wishing the
| contracting parties the best of luck, the
sturdy drill thumpers took up their line
of march for the mine to finish their
shift
watermelon Day." September 3rd,
at Rocky Ford was great success, and
several thousand visitors focked into the
town from all parts of the state to sample
its free lunch of melons. There were over
10, 600 melons piled in pyramidal form and
encircled by tables beneath the shade of
a large cottonwood grove that skirts the
north end of the town. Around these the
crowd gathered, while corps of promi-
nent citizens of the town cut and carve6
melons for their visitors. In addition to
the melons the farmers had gotten up a
general exhibit of agricultural products.
There were specimens of vegetables,
cereals and fruit, of which any farming
community might be proud. Governor
Routt felicitated the citizens upon the size
and quality of their melons, and other
prominent visitors delivered addresses
Commissioner Carter of the general
land office has telegraphed the register
and receiver a. Pueblo directing them to
withhold from all forms of entry particu
larly described tract of land near that city
with view to its being ultimately set
apart as a public timber reservation under
the act of March 3, 1891. This action is
taken upon the recommendation of the
register and receiver at Pueblo and Spe-
cial Agent Wells, who state that the tract
is mountainous and is covered with tim
ber, and is the source of the ST. Charles
river and adjacent streams The city of
Pueblo and the adjacent country, they
say, are now to some extent and must be
in the future to a far greater extent de