The Lamar register., 1892-03-19
NEWS ITEMS FROM FAR AND
NEAR.
western News Notes.
: Hugo is to have creamery.

Hugo Is to have creamery.
There Is quite real estate boom at Copper
Rock, in Boulder county.
The Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne give
employment to over 400 men.
The new state road has been completed
through the canon to Hot Sulpher Springs.
Several stores at Julcsburg were entered by
robbers the other night and 80 worth of
goods stolen
j. P. Lipscum, a switchman in the Rock
Island yard at Colorado Springs, was run
over and instantly killed on the llth.
Ieadville miner who keeps his tobacco
and caps in the same pocket of his coat was
surprised the other day by having his pipe
blow up.
The county superintendent of schools at
Santa Fe, has set apart the first day of April
for the planting of trees by school children,
the same to be school holiday.
Nearly all the women of Grand Junction
signed petition to the council asking TO have
the saloons closed on Sunday, and the mar
shal was ordered TO close them.
Some miscreant shut the water Off from the
fish hatchery at Laramie few days ago and
the large number OF young fish nearly died
before their condition was found.
~ P Glasspie, the postmaster at Rock
Creek, Wyoming, assaulted and fatally
wounded C. D. Griffin, because the latter com
planned that his mail was not given to him.
James Mcbride of Denver whose cruelty to
his wife resulted in her death on the 3lst of
last December has been convicted of murder
In the second degree and sentenced to prison
for life.
A large piece of meteoric stone fen on
Thursday last in field about twelve miles
below Meeker. II is of a very soft nature al
most like lead, and can be cut into with a
sharp knife. 1t is almost round in form and
weighs between thirteen and fourteen pounds.
Saturday night at 10 o'clock premature
explosion took place from blast being made
in the breast OF the revenue tunnel being cut
through Mount Sneflles, ten miles southwest
of Ouray, to intersect the VirglnIus vein. Two
miners were instantly killed and one fatally
injured.
An unknown Irishman was killed on the
Denver, Texas Il Fit. Worth road few days
ago, about two miles from Fountain. He paid
no attention TO the whistle of the engineer
and just before the train reached him stepped
into the middle of the track, showing Lin to
have been either deaf or deliberate suicide.
C. H. Dane, president of the defunct Silver
City and Deming National banks, and H.
Leobold, cashier at Deming, and Cashier
Chase at Silver City, have been arrested
charged with embezzling and misappropria-
ton of the funds Of the banks. The charges
are preferred before United States Commits
sioner A L. Christy at Las Cruces.
Denver Markets-Eggs, ranch 1sc, state
Ice; butter, best creamery 27633c, dairy zoe;
hay, upland baled s11@s12, second bottom
ss@s9, alfalfa $50; wheat sl.35; corn, bulk
6sc, sacked 73e; oats, s1.OS, sacked s1.I5;
potatoes 5O96Oc; cattle, choice steers S2.S0Co
s365, COWS S1.9Oasa.6 .65, native feeders 81 90
@S2.65; hogs, choice S4.60@4I5; sheep,
choice shorn Si0O9S4.5O, common and feed
ers 81. 2.5OGS300.
A dispatch from Salt Lake says: The
greatest gas strike ever recorded in America
was made in we'll No. of the American
Natural Gas Company Monday at a depth of
rs feet. When the great body was tapped
the force of escaping gas raised drills and
machinery high into the air and threw mud
and stones for a radius OF 100 yards. The
pressure is not yet measured but is said to be
the biggest ever known.