The indicator., 1897-09-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.


The State Normal School has an en-
| rollment of 40.
Nearly 10000 people visited Grand
Junction on Peach Day.
Horse thieves have been very active
around Brighton the past week.
A little Denver boy died of fright
after being chased by a bull dog.
The State University of Boulder will
| probably have so students this term.
Democrats, Popullsts and Silver Re
I publ.cans OF Washington county are 10
I fuse.
Grand functions big celebration end
| ed on the 9th with cowboy tourna-
mcnt.
The Greeley creamery has changed
| hands and the new owners will also
make cheese.
English capital has been secured TO
build the Colorado Springs X Cripple
Creek electric railway.
Mrs Sarah II. White Of silver GIN
has been appointed TO succeed her de
ceased husband as county clerk.
George Kallo who murdered a follow
. laliau at Newcastle Il year agn has
Just been arrested in British Columbia.
\ company with a capital of $4,000
has been organized AT Fort Collins To
engage in the Hour milling and grain
4 business,
John Il, Edwards Of Kansas City.
who WAS arrested for numbering a
man named Kay un Pixies Peak. has
been released rs the evidence was in
! sufficient.
The Woman's club OF Denver has un-
drr.alSen 10 entertain and chapcrune
the young ladies who are 10 act as
maids Of honor mt tile Festival of
Mountain and Plain.
The coronerS jury at Newcastle lie.
cided hat the blame for the terrihl"
collision near Jhat place ON the OH
rested upon the engineer aud couduc-
tor Of the Midland freight train.
\ terrible collision occurred mile
and half west of Newcastle on The
ith, between a Rio Graude passenger
train and n Midland freight Al least
tftrcn persons were Killed and many
others injured.
The Nome Vista Milling and E1eva-
tor Company has commenced the cree
lion of second elevator in Monte Wis.
Ia to hold 10000 bushels Of grain. This
Is madc necessary by the immense
wheat crop which is now practically
harvested
ON october II the state land commis-
Sioucr will sell at La lara, l.truo acres
of STATE school laud adjacent to the
Mormon settlement NJ sanford. Tile
land will hr sold in small lois and it is
cNpecicd thai nearly all the land VIII be
bought hv MormouS
Judge Luut of Colorado Springs has
rendered a decision in favor of County
Clerk Bates in the mandamus pro
ccedings To compel the clerk 10 register
votes mt Cripple Creek by canvassing
as ordered 10y the county commission
ers. The decision will he appealed TO
the supreme Cour; in a very few days.
The Colorado x Northwestern rail-
road, which is being built 10 Ward
will b" extended iuto Middle Park. BE
>idcs the railway. an asSocinte com
rIuy. styled the Pennsylvania Milling
and Mining Company. will carly begin
the construction of a reduction mill ~
Boulder 10 make a market for the ores
located in developed mines along the
railway, The mill will have a capacity
Of 100 tons daily,
Register Paddock Of The STATE Land
office has been investigating in regard
to the land due the state from the gen
cral governments as Indemnity for
school lands coniiscatrd for foris, mill
tary and .ofhvr reservations. He esti-
mates that the land due the state
amounts TO over 100000 acres. and II
special agent win probably be sent TO
| Washington 10 20 over the records in
tile General Land Office to get eNact
data, so that The Stale may make its So
lcctious.
o. Il. Miller. lie Denver man who is
In the pentcntiary for helping 10 wreck
the Commercial National Bank of Den
| YER. has been granted a new rial by
the Court Of Appeals. Miller says thar
during the former trial he had noj be-
lirvcd thar !, would result in his going
iu ghr penIfpntiary. aud had ltckt quiet
. and was he scapcgoal Of others. This
| would NOT br The ease in the next trinl
/ which would he solely on itS merits. lie
. said ,La The judge who heard tile ra~c
during the former trial had $1,000 Of
his indurSed paper In his possession At
the lime and should never have been al
lowed 20 Try HE case. Miller states
that he has recovered som" of the pa
. por since his 'rihl aud conviction.
Tlr rial Of Juan Duran. one Of the
men charged with ihc murder of Green
aud Kelly. the two dcputir, who were
| cruolly a~-n~-luated in the san I~idru
! country in April. 1886, while on their
! way 10 arrest cattle thief. was called
in the Disrric' Court ar Trinidad ON the
l3h. This case and the ones that ar"
to follow are the mos important that
have over come NJ in this county. if
NOT in the ~'atc. / Is expected that the
| 1tinlS will develop some personal fru.
.uro- that have not yer been made pub
lie and il Is alleged that when th"y
have been concluded. the most trcach-
rruus and hrarilr~s band Of thieves and
any other country viii have been bruk-
On up.
\ meeting was held al Denver on thc
Oh to form Il state bar association. 1t
was attended hy leading Denver attor-
news. and several from other cities.
The officers viii rousis; Of president.
two vice presidents. secretary and
treasurer These viii all be- clecicd At
the next meeting which will be held in
he Brown Hotel at : o'clock. October
lli, she day preceding the festival. The
following permanent committees were
provided for: Executive, admission,
grievances, law reforms, legal educn-
tinu. legal biography. 4 special com
mite" consisting Of Hugh Butler, Ed
ward l.. Johnson. Lucius w. Hoy aud
! Caldwell Nraman. was named tU con
slider the advisabili;y Of Incorporating.
The date of the first annual meeting
and hanqu"' was set for July :. lS9S,
and Colorado Springs will be h" placc,