The state herald., 1895-05-24
COLORADO CONDENSED.

"A ASW luCOTpOrHtlOu pTOpO0eb u
build railroad from Boulder to Ward.
All Of the cattle belonging to the
Union Beef Company are to be driven
into Wyoming to Craze.
A special train from Denver to 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 Identifying the
Capitol grounds 1t has $4,000 to ex-
pend.
The coal miners at the Marshall coal
mine. about eighty-six in number, have
settled their difficulties with Manager
Gorham and returned to work.
Denver detectives have arrested
James Charles Corbett and George AL
len, who had counterfeit silver dollars
session.
Twenty-seven members OF the Ar
kansas Publishers Association, which
held Its convention at Mammoth
Springs on the 16th have been visiting
the State.
The railroads have already granted
the rates to the Pacific coast demanded
by George J. Kindel Of Denver for
which he contended before the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Charles G. Stoltz, ut Telluride, acct
dentally ran over four-year old child
OF Mrs. Drummond Sunday afternoon
with light road wagon. The wheels
crushed Its head and 1t may die.
NJ. II. Sliffer, Leadville milkman,
was terribly injured by hol1-ups n few
nights since. His head Is crushed and
there Is possibility that he may not re-
cover. His assailants are unknown.
II. w. Robinson, superintendent of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's
steel works, has announced an advance
In wages of 10 per cent. June l In all
departments. One thousand men are
affected.
The third annual tournament OF the
Colorado State Fish and Game Protect.
I've association, to continue three days,
began at Pueblo on the 18th. The tour
nament is held on the grounds OF the
Pueblo Gun club at Lake Mlnnequa.
The Supreme Court has rendered an
important decision, holding that the
election OF district judges In Arapahoe
County was legal, and refusing to sus-
tain the contention Of Judges Bentley,
Rising, Burns and others, that they
were entitled to hold over.
By the decision of the supreme court of
the United States the case against James
Connors of Denver has been finally set
tied and the sentence OF Judge Hallett
must now be carried into effect. Con-
nors was convicted OF stealing the ballot
hpv a fhn al hal To-, t,, Ia.
fall Of 1891.
The special school election held at
Gunnison resulted In the election OF
Mrs. Virginia Grasmuck by forty ma
tority out of 800 votes cast. Mrs. Allen
was the defeated candidate. This cleo
ton was made necessary by the fact
that tie resulted In the contest be-
tween these two ladies' In the contest
two weeks ago. 1t was the most ex-
citing election ever held in Gunnison.
The coroncr's jury in the ease of the
death OF b. Il. Rboads, who was killed
Mt the Poorman tunnel on Saturday
morning. surprised the people OF Boul-
der In the matter of the verdict re-
turned. II was found that Rhoads was
hit by bullet from the Winchester OF
Charles Truitt and not from the revolt
yer Of Ritchey as Ritchey himself sup
posed. Ritchey was found 10 be aces
sorry.
At Churches ranch. sixteen miles out
OF Denver, on the Boulder line OF the
Gulf system, bad freight wreck oc.
Cured about 7:30 o'clock Thursday
morning, and for nearly five hours all
traffic was blocked ut the point OF the
extra coal frelghter that plies back
and forth between Denver and Louis
Vile. Fifteen cars We're piled up In
the ditch.
Within the past week farmers living
near the Thompson River, Longmont
and Loveland, and In the nelghborhood
Of Lncerne, North Greeley have dug
up myriads OF grasshoppcr eggs. all
showing life, proving that the severe
cold, wet weather OF March and April
did no harm 10 them. Now II IL feared
that when summer Is ushcrcd In the
pests will hatch out and begin their
work OF ruin.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed by the Rio Grande Branch Line
Railroad Company. which proposes TO
build line OF road from Trinidad TO
Hnerfano, and Is capitalized for $780,
900 The directory contains leading
Rio Grande officials. The incorpora.
tion OF this company Is taken TO indl.
cate that there Will be no further joint
trackage agreements between the Gulf
ana Rio Grande roads.
The secr.tnry M ibe ,n,erior has IN.
fused IA annroye Tho mans s,,hm,,,aJ hr
the south platte Ucseryolr comnanv IN
Colorado, whI,h pronosed IN huIia n ros'
eryolr for Irrigation n,,rnoscs md :" snn.
ply water "a ,he civ ~ Denxar in s az
~ emergency Thc cnmnanr.s ,n,,,ias
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