The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-24
Colorado.

According to the recent decision, run
ming a slot machine is no longer IN
lawful in Denver, and saloonkeepers are
happy.
The threatened trouble between the
city council and the Aspen Water COM
pany has been compromised, and the
water will not be shut off just yet.
A band of 40 alleged gypsies, includ-
ing children, have been camped just
outside Colorado Springs for the past
week. Reports of their coming had
preceded them, and they were prompt
ly ordered to leave by the sheriff and
city marshal. Instead of moving on
they pitched their tents and proceeded
to beg, steal and tell fortunes.
State Fish and Game Commissioner
Swan wants to know where the COM
mittee that has charge of the Stock
Growers convention barbecue are go
ing to get the dozen antelope it has
advertised will be included on the bill
of fare, says the Denver Republican.
He says he intends to keep an eye on
that feast, and if there are any infrac-
tons of the law some one will get into
trouble.
Owing to the preventive measures
adopted by the state sanitary board,
there is less scab among Colorado sheep
than ever before.
I'll l. OCSNcty 4iAOlA AIIi5 Tic lLlCl
registered 40 degrees below at Dillon.
At a meeting held in Lamar to or
ganize melon growers association, 50
farmers who were present pledged
themselves to grow cantaloUpes next
season and become members of the as
sociatiOn, and there are many more who
will sign the agreement as soon as it is
presented to them. PrOWeTS county be-
ing the lowest part of the state, melons
can be marketed from here a week or
ten days earlier than from other parts
of the state.
A terrible accident happened at the
Minnesota mine, near Central City, on
Tuesday afternoon, resulting in the
death of John BOwden, a miner on that
property. When the men had returned
to their various places in the mine after
lunch they heard a noise as Of falling
earth and rocks in the 150-foot level.
They went there and found their fell
low workman lying in the bottom of
the level. covered with tons of dirt,
leaving only his head exposed. Help
was summoned and a doctor called, but
| the man was found to be dead.
Tierney is the name of a Rio Grande
switchman who was found dead near
! his lodgings in Pueblo on Sunday. At
/ the inquest on Tuesday Mrs. Tierney,
as she has been known, was the most
/ important witness of the day. She ad-
mitted that she had not been married
to Tierney. although they had lived to-
/ gether for ten years. She stated that
Tierney went out through the win
dow" but she persistently said no one
was present when asked who were in
the room at the time. No arrests have
been made but some are expected
Fifteen hundred rabbits. portion of
the kill at the Lamar hunt, were dis
tributed to the charitable institutions
and to the poor of Pueblo on Tuesday.
According to the annual report of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company, the
company mined 2.494,2S4 tons of coal
in this state during the past year.
Much of it was sold in Colorado. Some.
however, was made into coke at the
/ Pueblo ovens of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company, and some of it was
shipped out of the state.
Gray's Laxative Pellets cure consti-
patton.