The state herald., 1892-02-26
INTERESTING ITEMS OF LOCAL
AND GENERAL INTEREST,
Western News Notes.
Crcede has a telephone system.

The high school at Fairplay has
been presented with an encyclopedia of thirty
two volumes.
The Baptist and Episcopalian
new pipe organs.
John and Frank Price, who have
been on trial at Denver for completely in the
Texas Creek train robbery, have been acqu! \
ted.
John Archibald, who made crimi-
nal assault on n little girl Mt Denver n few
weeks ago, has been sent to the penitentiary
for fourteen years.
There was land slide on the Den
yer ~ Rio Grandc narrow gauge at Deer Run
station west of Delta, by which about 500
yards of track was carried into the Gunnison
river. About 900 yards of earth loosened
and came down on the road below.
Monuments of Colorado stone will
likely be erected Mt the Worlds Fair instead
OF using that material for the erection of n
Colorado building. That is the proposition of
the board, MS the erection of building OF
ssehS 70 Soho"'Asu wv
Commissioner Carpenter has issued
nm order temporarily rcserving from settle
mcnt and entry about 35, 900 acres OF land
twenty-five miles northwest Of Sundancc, with
view to It's being ultimately set apart by cx-
ccutive proclamation us q forest reservation.
A reception was rendered the new
president, Dr. Alstoh Ellis, by the faculty and
students Mt the State Agricultural College at
Fort Collins on the Goth. The formal exer-
ciscs were conducted in the lecture hall which
was prettily decorated for the occasion with
flowers and bunting.
The stubbornly fought contest be-
tween Aztec and junction City, involving the
location Of the county seat Of San Juan
county, terminated in the district court at
Santa Fc, when Judge Seeds filed his opinion,
deciding the case in favor of the town of
Aztec, the former county seat.
Colonel r. G. Head has shipped
over 100 ears Of cattle from his New Mexico
range to Kansas, where they will be fed for
the market. He says feed is very low in Kan
sas and cattle can be fed as low as one dollar
per month. This effects great saving over
former years.
In several districts in Wyoming the
coal deposits have been on fire for years, and
the generating of gas has caused some ire
mcndous underground explosions One of
them occurred on the Swcctwuter cattle range
last week. More that one hundred acres of
surfncc was displaced, and the report was
heard for thirty miles. Coal and earth were
thrown into the air hundreds of feet.
Last Saturday morning at an early
hour young man named win De Witt, who
was trying to steal ride, was thrown of the
train near Prowers by the trainmcn and had
the left leg broken in two places. De Witt
was discovered shortly aftcrward by the sec
tion men Mt Prowers, who brought him To his
home in Lamar, where he received medical
attention. 1t Is though he will recover.
Work on the toll road between
Canon City and Cripple Creek Is being push
cd by 100 worllmcn. It will be completed by
March /. David Wood, the veteran San Juan
irclghtcr, who will put the line of Concord
stages on the road, has made trip over It,
and says it has not an equal In the state 1t
VIII be nm easy pull for freight and n COM
Portable road for the stage riders. Some Of
the vehicles are here already, and another
shipment Is expected soon. by this road the
ground from Canon 10 Cripple Creek can be
covered within from three to four hours. The
distance is but twcnty-three miles.