The Bessemer indicator., 1893-07-22
Colorado.

There are Eve National banks out of eleven
still running In Denver.
A ". Kellogg, u mining engineer, has been
appointed chief Of police Of Denver.
The Silver Cord mill at Leadvine was
burned on the l1th. Loss Sl5,000.
The Denver Chamber Of Commerce has en-
dOr.el the address adopted By the silver CON
veutlOn,
The striking swltchmen at Pueblo have
agreed to 90 10 work, but some of them Will
lose their position, it is thought
The big merchants OF Denver have started
a movement to induce their landlords to lower
rents, which are too high for the hard times.
The cOroner's Jury has decided that How
ard, who was murdered near Pueblo recently,
came To his death at the hands OF Indian joe
a tough men who has bad record. He Is un-
der arrest
Bush X Tabor. who run the Brown Palace
aud MctropOie hotels mt Denver have
signed. The total amount Of assets involved
IN these assignments Is - 4442 80, while
the liabilities Of all the firms involved amount
to sell ,33i65.
The Peoples Savings Bank, the Rocky
Mountain Dime and Dollar Savings Bank and
the Colorado Savings Bank of Denver failed
On the lIth. There had been n steady with
lrawal Of deposits and the banks could not
realize on their securities Their deposits
amounted To about s2,O00000.
At an early hour saturday morning the
Aspen house at Aspen, owned by !. r, Ne
Jarthr, WAS burned TO the ground with all It's
Furnishings Several bonrders were forced to
Jump from the windows in their night clothes
Loss 5000 Insurance 5000 An explosion
If O lamp in the hall i supposed TO bc the
1rigiu.
Denver Markets-Eggs, ranch lGc state
lie, butter, best creamery 2}l2Ic, dairy lie;
hay, upland bnled Sl2msli. second bottom
tlugSi2 alfalfa 500; wheat s5e; corn, bulk
s5c, suekcd SEE; oats, si.ls, sacked 81 l.2f;
potatoes i2Ii cattle, choice steers s3 90
$3.50, cows e.. l5t9S2. -, native feeders 81 %
as255; Logf, eho.ce tj70; spring chickens
:3.50U SIC0pcr doz; hens. l2c
state Engineer Kramer has been called
upon by the farmers Of Larlmer county To de
side o knotly question, Il. Q. Tcnny, the
water commissioner has Issued an order clos
Ing the hcadEates and shutting of the water
from the diohes The question comes under
he law Of priority. which It Is laid will cause
I trouble before the water supply eau I've prop
erly distributed
In compliance with petition presented to
the commissioners Of Pueblo county hy over
! 1000 citizens. that body decided to have the
| grading and tilling necessary for the compile
| tion Of the Fourth street bridge over the Ar
/ kansas river done by dag lahorers under
| Erection Of the county road ovefsecr, instead
/ Of letting It ont on contract. There Is a
! large amount Of work to he done and labor
crs are delighted with the action of the com
mlssioners.
| The Western Colorado Investment Com
| Dany, which is to put down two wells In the
| vicinity of Grand junction. ha, been sending
| out leases to all the ranch owners for sigma
\ turos The returns have begun to come in,
| and leases for more than 900 acres of land
! have teen fled with Colonel Grout. As soon
/ as the percentage Of land under lease becomes
; efficiently large the machinery will tc
| brought here aud tile work Of boring for wa
I ter will be begun.
| perlntendcnt Of insurance, has issued his re-
| port for the year ending Dec 1SE2. The re-
| port SHOWS tnat during the year Of 1889 fire
insurance risk- were written TO the anolnt of
FOB l6s, i03GJ, as compared with So 3l9, I66-
| l6. the previous year. The premium receipts
were al l72l ,4s31i. The losses paid Increased
from s5I3, I39 AZ in 1901 to $500, ,iSl "a In 1892
| The business Of the life insurance companies
| lnereasedsfrom sI6015,ii0.25 to sls,59s, ssl.-
| IS The premium receipts decreased from
| 81, ,422, f22 66 to Sl,212 ,023O9
The investigation into the disappearance Of
| Henry Howard at Baxter station, near Pueblo
| revealed the fact that he bad been murdered
| After making n close examination Of the
| premises the work of eScavatlns the well be-
| gan. This was laborious task the well
was twelve feet deep, and after the body of
| the murdered man had been thrown In II had
| bttH uIltu WAN pp7l0s ilAbht-H uNi
| The body was found at the bottom in much
| decomposed state, but was readily identified
as that of Henry Howard The upper part of
| the head was crushed, that part of the skull
| hcing broken into small pieces. Indicating
that several blows had been inflicted to COM
| petc the work of murder. The body had on
no clothing except shirt and drawers, and 1t
| ia believed the man was attacked at night
| while asleep. a horse, cart. harness and dog
belonging TO Howard, together with the con-
| tents of the house, excepting the bed, have
| disappeared, with no indications as TO what
direction II has gone.
| Belmont HoidreIge, a tramp section hand,
met with most peculiar accident ten miles
| Denver on the Kansas Pacific railway Sunday
morning lie was stealing ride on the
| pilot OF the engine an incoming freight
| train The engine ran into COW and the
! tramp and the cow were thrown ten feet to
one side OF the track. The tramp struck the
| ground first and the cow descended upon
| him. The weight of the beast In falling
| broke his leg, and he with great difficulty ex-
| fraotcd himself from his pcrious position.
| Ills escape from morc serious injuries was
| remarkable. The engineer saw the accident
| sud stopped the train and brought HOldredge
| to Deuyer where he was placed In hospital.
| The switcbmen on ihs d.. Il r. G. At Pu-
| sbIo struck 0p tbs idtb. Tbey demAaa the
dise.asss r tho ysrdwss1rI William
cFoehef,