The Bessemer indicator., 1893-12-30
Wratsra Nsw. Not...

II. II. bcmand OF SAlldA committed
suicide on the goth on account Of i'll
health.
The next meeting Of the American
Federation of Labor will be held at
Denver.
Ex- Governor St. John, the noted
prohibitionist, is to speak at Denver
on the End.
The buildings of dniryman were
burned down few nights ago, aud
fifty cows perishcd.
At Grand Junction the new gas we'll
developments have been suspended
until new casing arrives for piping the
gas.
Near Sterling an irrigating ditch five
miles long is being constructed from
the Platte river to the Powell & Dill
Ion ranch, near lliff.
The Colorado State Teachers Asso-
citation will meet at Colorado Springs,
December 26th to 29th. The Rio
Grande gives rate of one and fifth
fare.
William NJ. McMechen of Denver,
has been appointed by Postmaster
General Bisscll to be postoffice inspec-
tor in charge of the Denver division,
vice james A. Small resigned.
The Manufacturers Exchange gave
an elaborate banquet at Denver on the
Goth which was attended by 200 gen
tlemen and ladies. The speeches de-
livered were of hopeful character.
Akron fruit growers report the pros
pect for apples next season as very
good. Apples, plums and pears grown
on the former buffalo range will be a
curiosity of the nineteenth century.
Rev. D. Il. johnson (coloredD has
been ordained as minister of the
Episcopal church by Bishop Spauld-
ing at Denver. He will do missionary
work at Colorado Springs this winter
At Sheridan, Wyoming, the jury in
the trial of W. T. Jones for the mur-
der of John d. Adams, which has been
progressing for the past week, brought
in verdict of murder in the first de-
gree.
There appears to be an obstacle in
the way of the extra session of the
Colorado legislature. Auditor Goody-
kuntz says there is not dollar to pay
its expenses and he will issue no war
rants.
At Alamosa the grain elevators are
filled to the roofs. The flour mill has
200, 900 bushels on hand and can run
night and day all winter. From two
to four cars of wheat are shipped from
Alamosa daily.
Minnie Craver, partially dcmented
young woman living at Denver, threw
vitriol in the face of Thomas Delaney
because he lad Tilted her. He was
fearfully burned and will lose the
sight of both eyes.
A great discovery of silver is re-
ported near the town of Shafter,
Texas, where extensive mines are al
ready being worked. The find is locat
ed near the Rio Grande river in
Presidio county, and in a district
which contains several old abandoned
mines which were worked u century or
more ago by the Spaniards.
The contract has been let to the
Laramie rolling mills to furnish the
angle bars which will be used with the
30, 900 tons of steel rails for which the
receivers Of the Union Pacific have
contracted with Pueblo steel works
This order will keep the Laramie
mills in operation all next summer
The magnitude of these orders indi-
Gates that the receivers intend to keep
the road in iirst-class condition.
At the Washakie agency, near Lam
der, Wyoming, Captain Ray, the mill
tary Indian agent. has just laid the
foundation for an Indian war. He has
had the heads of immoral squaws
shaved and ordered the Indian chiefs
to discard their surplus wives. Chief
Washakie of the Shoshones. the war
chief also of the Arapahoes, have mott.
fed Captain Ray that they will kill
him.
Sam Stringer, the mail carrier be-
tween Buffalo and Red Bank, Wyom-
ing, small Office over in the Big Horn
basin. lost his bearings on his last trip
and came near perishing in the snow.
He was discovered on the mountains
by Deputy Sheriff Hopkins, who con-
Quoted him to ranch several miles
distant Stringer had been travelling
about in the deep snow for two days
without food, and was about to give
himself up as hopelcssly lost.
A shooting affray occurred at King,
Colorado, Tuesday morning. resulting
in one man receiving a bad wound.
There has been bad blood for some
time between the Italian and Austri-
an miners, and it eliminated in a
fight at a. M. in the Italian saloon.
Particulars are hard to obtain, but it
is known that Mark Gates shot and
narrowly escaped killing Carlo Potato,
while he was struck with pick in the
hands of Jack Gilbrace, and there was
other rough handling done.
Mrs. Devoir and her children, living
at Aspen, were fearfully burned by an
explosion of coal oil few days ago.
1t seems that Mrs. Devoir, after light
ing the lamp. had unscrewed the burn.