The Bessemer indicator., 1893-09-09
Colorado,

The Bank OF Lovcland Is open again.
The First National Bank of Grand Junction
has resumed business.
The Busk-Ivanhoe tunnel on the Midland
road Will be finished In October.
There was big parade at Denver on Labor
Day. Nearly all trades were represented.
Eleven cars of coke are shipped daily from
Crested Butte to the Grant smelter Denver.
Some mlscreant cut the tram cable at Aspen
a few days ago, good deal OF damage was
done and eighteen men thrown out Of en-
ployment for rome time.
Hinsdalc County is going after Mineral
County with suit to compel Mineral TO
sumo Its proportion OF Hinsdale's Indebted
ness prior to the collection OF taxes.
H. c. Chandler, a Midland brakeman, was
fatally shot at Colorado City on the LIST by
Mrs Diemer, who claims that Chandler while
drunk attempted to assault her young daugh-
ter.
The Maid OF Erin at Leadv!lle has resumed
operations with a force Of forty men. This
force will be Increased In the near future
work IS found for additional men. The PEN
rose, 1t is understood is contemplating re-
sumlng soon.
The committee appointed by the stock
holders of the Peoples Savings Bank at Den
yer 10 Investigate It's condition report that 1t.
securities nrc good but that its officers have
used it to back up the Peoples National Bank,
owned, also, by them
The Loyeland Elevator Company have an-
nounccd that they are prepared TO buy wheat
at - cents per hundred for old and "
cents for new. Most OF the farmers expect
R better market, and all who are able TO do
so are preparing TO hold their grain for
awhile rather than sell at those figures.
Denver Markcts-Eggs, ranch l1c state
lic; butter, best creamery lBd2Tc, dairy lie;
hay, upland baled $l0asl2, second bottom
syQnSlO; alfalfa $500; wheat Soc corn, bulk
55c; sacked soc. oats, old 95c, new, 81 .0j;
potatoes 81 Is; cattle. choice steers 81 40
(bS2 u, cows 81 6OidS2. 90, native feeders 81 20
aS2.2', hogs, chocc a. 65, spring chickens
s2OO(a 81 80 per doz.
The cash account OF W J. Quinn, treasurer
of Mesa county, Is short over $4,000. 1t is
said the first Information regarding Qulnn's
defalcation came from his wife, who received
a letter from her husband stating that he was
defaulter and had gone to Pennsylvania to
see an uncle In The hopes OF making good the
amount. 1t is said that the money has been
in large part lost In gambling.
Charles $. Lee, ex-genersl passenger agent
OF the Colorado Midland Railway, has just
been appointed general passenger agent of
the Lehigh Valley Railway. The new ap-
pointmeut is in every way high promotion.
the Lehigh Valley being one Of the most
important lines running through the North
east, extending, as it does from Buffalo,
New York TO Philadelphia. As freight
line 1t ls factor in all coast business.
The Denver Savings Bank suspended on
the lat. The deposits s642, sT7, cash on
hand ss6,59s. loaus and discounts ss42 900
. The assets together with the liability of the
Z stockholders of $500. 600 amply guarantee
The depositors against loss. There has been
big drain for several days. The sixty days
notices were expiring, Deposltors while
they had confidence In the ability of the bank
TO meet demands, needed their money and
were taking 1t out,
] DR.. T. Thatcher Graves, the Providence
man who is charged with having poisoned
Mrs. Josephine Barnaby at Denver, commit
ted suicide by poisoning himself In the Arapa-
? hoe county jail on the morning of the 3rd.
Dir. Graves was awaiting new trial, having
been sentenced to death once. All arrange
l ments having been made by the prosecution
to bring on witnesses from the East DR..
Graves lodged the trial. In several letters he
! declared his innocence, hut said he was tired
of the fight.
/ An Italian by the name OF AnjiIo Toifali
who was working in the Mountain Quail
. mine, near Silyerton, while attempting to dig
out a misshot, was seriously II not fatally in-
jured 1t seems that the man was digging
out an upper and In some way exploded what
powder there was in the hole. The force of
the powder struck him in the face. lie WAS
/ brought 10 town and the doctors took out
some of the skull bone. II he lives, which Is
now doubtful, he will be both blind aud a
cripple
Complaint Is made that the fish of the
rivers Of North Park are being killed uniaw-
fully. The plan used Is new one 10 that
] section and shows how much thought and in.
genuity is expended In efforts to crcumvent
T the law. No dynamite or giant powder Is
used The poacher throws unslacked lime
Into the fish holes and the gases generated
smother the fish. Another plan Is 10 put
lime In soda bottle, add lILtlc water, wire
a cork in tightly md throw the bottle In.
The resulting explosion IL almost as loud n.
giant powder and fully as fatal.