The indicator., 1897-01-02
COLORADO conoENssD.


victs in the construction of water res
ervoirs is being agitated.
Downen, the Denver murderer. at
tempted to commit suicide before lit
was removed TO Canon City.
State Treasurer Mulnix has decided
to issue certificates of Indebtedness tt
cover the Horticultural boards eN
penses for 1886.
A Denver man proposes that thc
states prisoners be employed in boring
tunnel through the continental di
vide near Georgetown.
The state canal board has sold to the
Colorado Land and Water company
1850 acres in otero county at $3.50 per
acre, amounting to $3.50.
o. L. Miller, the Denver man convict
ed with Dow and McClurken for wreck
ing the Commercial National bank, is
| in Jail, as he has been unable 10 obtain
bail.
/ The Pueblo Bridge company has de-
manded of the state engineer an order
ON the auditor for $3.50 due them from
| the contractors for the construction of
| bridges on the Juniata and Pagosa
| Springs road. The engineer advises
them they must collect from the con
| tractors, but he is holding the lat
ter's money till the bridge bill is paid.
| Five big ten-wheel passenger engines
have just been finished at the Baldwin
Locomotive works in Philadelphia for
the Colorado Midland, and they will
| be delivered next week. Each engine
| without the tender weighs seyenty-fivc
tons and they We're especially designed
for fast passenger service over the
heavy mountain grades. Receiver Ris-
tine is also arranging for the purchase
of 200 new freight cars.
The biennial report of State Superin-
| tendent of Public Instruction Mrs 4,
]. Peavey is one of great interest 1t
shows the total enrolment in high
schools Of the state to be 44,472, and in
the public schools 81, CSC. with an av-
| erage attendance of G2,41O The gen
the sale and lease of school lands
| amounted To Si6,S7l.o4 in January,
1895; 81, 800. July, 1895; $40, 222 81,
January. 1896, and S3s,6sT6d July,
1896. The total income is about 800,
600 per year
G. u. Barnett, member OF citi-
zcnS' militia company at Leadville. was
fined SO and costs the other day on
charge Of carrying concealed weapons
The case was appealed. Barnett is
employed at the Mahala mine and was
arrested by a deputy sheriff while he
was going TO work. He carried an
order on him ordering him to carry
revolver as citizens militiaman. JUS
tice Wall held, however that the mil
itiamen have no right to carry con
cealed weapons and he accordingly
fined him.
Another bank trial Is on at Denver
this time in the criminal division of the
district court and F. X. Atkins, for
merly president and director of the
Colorado Savings bank, which closed
Its doors in the summer of 1893, is on
trial charged with receiving so as
deposit from Cora A, Galbraith after
he knew the Institution to be insolyent
There are about twenty other indict-
ments Of n similar nature against the
defendant in the present case and his
brother, c. o. Atkins. who was cashier
and a director of the bank.
The oil well being drilled at Golden
is making very good progress, being
now down about $50 feet The drill
has only been operated heretofore dur
ing the daytime, averaging twenty-five
feet per day, but hereafter it will be
worked night and day and the progress
will be much more rapid. After pass
ing through the surface formation, the
drill penetrated 100 feet Of sandstone,
and then came into the Oil-bearing
shale which still continues No oil has
yet been encountered, but there is n
very strong smell of gas. By the end
of this week 800 feet will have been
gained when heavier derrick will be
erected.
The records show that 800 cars OF
lambs have been received at the stock
yards In Fort Collins mp to date this
year, against 2io cars last year for the
entire seasons shipment says the FIX.
press. This shows most remarkable
growth in the shcep-feeding industry of
Northern Colorado. and will serve TO
further stimulate next years ship
ments The average number of lambs
shipped in each car is 800. and this
number multiplied by the number of
cars. 339. makes grand total of lac,
800 lambs now in the yards Of Fort
Collins feeders. The 30 cars of lambs
shipped in during the fall OF 1895
would make total Of 80, 400 head con
signed to the Eastern markets from
this vicinity last spring. Conservative
feeders in this valley estimate that not
less than 100000 head of lambs are
being fed for the spring markets in the
Cache la Poudre, Big and Little
Thompson valleys of Larimer county
All records of railroad building have
been broken by the Denver, South Park
& Hill Top Railway company, which
was organized in September Con
struction was begun the same month
that the company was organized and
the road was completed and in opera
ton sixty days later. This railroad Is
only 11M miles long, but it is an i'm
portant line for the extensive mining
district around Hill Top. The road
forms a junction with the Denver,
Leadville & Gunnison railroad at Fair