The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
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2stIh 10 a crowded house
A new INCORPORATION proposes ID
build railroad from Boulder 10 "arsl
TIE Western SIoyse Congress VIII
us-et at Telluride from the 18Th 10 2lst
OF June
All of the cattle belonging 10 the
Union Beef Company are 70 be driven
into Wyoming TO Craze
Sheriff Leslie OF Leaaville hiss arrest
ID two men who are charged with hay-
ing robbed the Midland stage
A special train from Denver 10 Grip
pie Creek over the Midland made the
run In three hours and thirty minutes
The Board OF Capitol Managers have
decided upon plan for beautfying ehe
Capitol grounds Ii has $4,000 To e1-
pend
The coal miners al the Marshall coal
mine, about eighsy-siI In number. have
settled their difficulties with Manager
G0rham and returned 10 work
Denver detectives have arrested
James Charles COrbett and George Al
len who had counterfeit silver dollars
and couuterfeiEing plant in their pos
session
Twenry-seven members Of the Ar
kansas Publishers Association winch
held its convention at Mammoth
Springs On the 18th, have been Visiting
the State.
T. ". Robinson superintendent On
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Cornpanyf
steel works, has announced an advance
In wages Of 10 per cent june IN AL
departments One thousand men are
affected
The railroads have already granted
the rates 10 the Pacific coast demanded
by George J. Kindei Of Denver fof
which he eontended before the Inter
state Commerce Commission
Charles 6. stOItz al Telluride, acct
dsntzIiy ran over q fOur-yeAr old child
Of Mrs. DrummDnd Sunday afternoon
with q light road wagon. The wheels
crushed lts head and il may die
NJ H slifer. a Leadville mllknan,
YVES terribly injured by hold-ups few
nights since. His head i crushed and
ttJs.Fs l. possibility that ne may not re
cDTsr. His ssEailauis are Unknown.
The Supreme Court has rendered an
important decision. holding that the
election 81 district judges In Arapahos
County WIS legal. and refusing 10 SUE
tain the contention 81 Judges Bentley,
Kissing Burns and OthsrE. that they
wsr. entitled ~ hold over.
By The decision Of the supreme court o;
the United States Inc case against James
C1nnOrz Of Denver has been finally sei-
lied and the s4.Ifene,- " Judge Halle-t
mus, now ~ carried into effect Con
nDrs WIS convicted u Stealing fhe ballot
box a. the election hsid IN Denver in the
tall u 1s5l.
At Churches ranch. sixteen miles out
Of Denver, On tic Boulder line Of the
Gulf System. bad freight wreck &C
Cured about ~ O'Clock Tbursday
morning. and FOR nearly i've hours all
traffic Was blocked at The point Of the
accident This wrecked train was an
extra coal freigiter that plies back
and forth between Denver and Louis
vile. Fifteen cam were piled up In
The ditch.
Within tie past week farmers living
near the n ,iupsOn River LougrDOnt
and I,oTeland. and IN the nsigbbDrh0Od
Of Lueerne. CSsOrth GreeIeyj have dug
iiD myriads Of gfasshopper eZes, all
knowing life, proving that the severe
.s0ld. wet weather VI March and April
did no harm % them. NOW II ~ feared
that when summer II ushersd 10 the
pests viii hatch out and begin their
WORK Of ruin
Articles u Incorporation have been
fled by the Kl0 GraBde Branch Line
Railroad Company. which prDpoBes u
build line Of road frOIa Trinidad 70
Huerfano snd " capitalized Tor $780,
90. The directory contains leading
BIO Grande officials The lncDryora-
ZION Of this company IL taken 70 lbdl-
cate that there viii be no further joint
trackags agreements between the Gulf
and BIO Crande roads.
The secretary u the interior mas re-
fused 70 approve the Inaps submitted BY
the South Platte Reservoir company In
C1l0fat;o. which proposed 70 build res-
eryoir for irrigation purposes. and 70 sup
ply water 70 the city Of Denver In case
u emergency. The coTnpaDy's sppllca-
5ion stated that il would furnish water
for gardens and lawns during rhs heated
SEASON. II needed. The secretary holds
that this II not Irrigation within fhe
meaning Of the statute.
John Thomas, who was enpIoyeed 10
Dave Pardee's Godfrey bottom ranch,
near Creeiey, met a terrible death Sat
urday night He was at Evans on bug
iness9 and was on bis way home In biz
cart when his horse became frightened
and ran away. Thomas fell from bis
cart but hiS !es<S became tangled In the
reiLs and he was dragged mile and a
half before the hDnye vas stopped.
Nearly all Of Thomas clothes were
stripped from his body. while the flesh
Was torn from hls head. face and body.
When found life Nas extinct
The weather bureau announces that
the farmers Of the state have suffered
/ little from nc reeen; cold snap, though
frost occurred generally throughout the
farming sections. the fruit crop remain.
Ing practically uninjured. Many s4sc.
iiOns report damage 10 early garden
stuff, stFs wb4sPies and other small
fruits. Tie rrospects fDr g1Od crop
have materially improved In the s.pntfI.
erfi portion Of The state from the heavy
rain and sBJptF Of tic 10th. but tic out