The state herald., 1892-03-18
NEWS ITEMS FROM FAR AND
NEAR.
western Nows Notes.

Fire In Pueblo livery stable on the 9Th
destroyed twenty horses
There Is quito real estate boom at Copper
Rock, In Boulder county.
The Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne give
employment to over 400 men.
John Smith has been fined $50 for killing q
Rocky Mountain sheep near Montrose
The new state road has been completed
through the canon to Hot sulpher Springs.
J. p. Lipscum, switchman In the Rock
Island yard at Colorado Springs, was run
over and instantly Killed on the llth.
Tho county superintendent of schools nj
Santa Fc, has set apart the first day of April
for the planting Of trees by school children,
the same to bc n school holiday.
Nearly all the women of Grand Junction
signed 4 petition to the council asking to have
the saloons closed on Sunday, and the mar
shhl wns ordered TO close them.
Some miscrcant shut the water of from the
fish hatchery ut Laramie u few days ago and
the large number Of young fish nearly died
before their condition was found.
A Crecdc train was wrecked the other day
near Del Norte, and several passengers were
injured. A car was dltched by broken rail,
and caught fire but tho fire was put out
A. p. Glasspic, the postmaster ut Rock
Creek, Wyoming, assaulted and fatally
wounded G. d. Griffin, because the latter com.
planned that his mall was not given to him.
Miss Sarah LEVER Of Coal Creek, while mp
parcntly dcrangcd, got up the other night and
strayed away Into the hills where she was
found after time utterly exhausted buI
otherwise unharmcd.
The Senate has passed bills to pay to r. NJ
Hubbard, Longmont; II. A. w. Tabor, Lead
vile, d. +. Rockafellow, Canon City, ant
W. NJ. Kittlcby, various sums expended b,
them while postmastcrs ut these places.
A large piece Of meteoric stone fell OF
Thursday last In field about twelve mile
below Mccker. 1t is OF n very soft nature al
most like lead, and can be cut into with
sharp knife. 1t is almost round In form ant
weighs between thirteen and fourteen pounds
Saturday night at 10 o'clock premature
explosion took place from n blast being mad,
IN the breast Of the revenue tunnel being Gu
through Mount Snetlics, ten miles southwcs
OF 0uray, to intcrscct the virginius vein. Tw,
miners were instantly killed and one fatal,
injured.
An unknown Irishman was killed on tn,
Denver, Texas 4 Ft. Worth road few day
ago, about two miles from Fountain. lie pait
no attention TO the whistle Of the cnginee
and just before the train reached him steppe,
into the middle Of the track, showing Lin Z,
have been either deaf or a deliberate suicide.
Judge Zane of Salt Lake has decided tina
the label used by the Cigarmakers' Union 4
rot trade mark, and he discharged maj
charged with counterfcitlng II. The decision
leaves the Union without the protection
which the label gave 1t. A copy Of the de
cislon Is TO be sent to the International Unior
and request made that the case be taken I,
the United States Supreme Court.
Denver Markets-Eggs, ranch lsc, stat,
I6c; butter, best creamery 25@33c, dairy zoe
hay, upland baicd sil@sia, second bottom
ss@s9, alfalfa $3.50; wheat sl.35; corn, bull
Csc, sacked 73c; oats, si.0s, sacked Sl.l5
potatoes JodG0c; cattle, choice steers 81 500
s365, COWS sl.9o@sa.65, native feeders 81.
@s2.65; hogs, choice si.60@4.15; sheep
choice shorn si.Oo@si.Jo, common and feed
ers &. 50td $500.
A dispatch from Salt Lake says; Til,
greatest gas strike ever recorded In Amcrlc;
was made In well No. 3 OF the American
Natural Gas Company Monday at depth oi
rs feet. When the great body was tapped
the force Of escaping gas raised drills and
machinery high into the air and threw mud
..ssa -s..ss- hoe s~nsu- .-.a-- -'Es,
| pressure Is not yet measured but Is said to b,
the biggest ever known