The state herald., 1897-06-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.
Monte Vista has curfew law.


! at Leadville.
| town on tho 1st
Victor is TO have n new electric power
| plant to cost $4,000.
More rain fell at Denver during last May
than In any year since 1850.
The city authorities at Aspen have ordered
the gamblers TO quit business.
A factory for the manufacture OF bicycle
saddles has been started in Denver.
The Annual meeting of the American Wa
ter Works Association met at Denver on the
Sth.
The State Federation Of Labor will attack
the constitutionality OF the new law against
boycottlng.
Some mlscreant tried to destroy with dyn.
amitc the flag pole at Colorado College the
other night.
break in an irrigating ditch washed out
some track on the Rio Grande near Mont
rose few days ago
William C. Daniels has purchased from
the estate OF W. q. Fisher all interest In the
firm OF Daniels j. Fisher at Denver and will
conduct the business himself hereafter.
Weld county's commissioners have offered
So reward for the bodies OF man. woman
and thrown into the Poudrc river, May 10th.
State Dairy Commissioner Canon is now
enjoying a slight rest from his duties, owing
to the fact that no oleomargarinc is being
sold because Of the chcspncss Of butter.
Butter can now be obtained nt a less price
than oleomargarine. aud there Is no object
for any one TO violate the law.
The report OF the Soldiers Home for May
shows: Total attendance. l;,s; twenty dis.
charged. one dead and thirteen absent with
leave. making total present on June list Of
1Oi. This is the lowest attendance reported
for some time and shows an effort on the
part of the management TO reduce the num-
her of inmates To point where they can he
cared for within the appropriation.
County Fruit Inspector Mllison NJ Arapa.
hoe has reported TO Secretary Shute Of the
State Board OF Horticulture that the Rus
sian thistle rs increasing with alarming
rapidity In Arapahoc county. He says that
II 1t Is not checked within a short time 1t
will do thousands Of dollars worth of dam
age. Mrs. Shute is now trying to induce the
county to appoint two deputy horticultural
inspectors. as the work is too arduous for
Mr.. Millison to attend To without assistance.
Game Warden Swan has received II report
from Special Deputy Game Warden Murphy.
NlhlioHtu NJ MI 'hIsbn, 10 tue tHtfl lHht u
number Of men from outside the state are
engaged In capturing young antelope
throughout Kit Carson county and Its vi
cinlty. The marauders find little difficulty
In taking the animals, which are now mere
calves. The captured antelope are shipped
alive TO points In the East. presumably for
exhibition In circuscs dime museums, etc.
The Florence n Cripple Creek Railway
iS tn httIII hau auI. I.pA ut
Victor. The plans are completed for n hand
some pressed. brick building to contain walt
Ing rooms. baggage room, express office and
all minor accessories. The site for the new
depot is In the center Of the city. and Is the
most convenient location that could possibly
he selected. The Midland Terminal has
brick depot In process Of erection one block
north on the same street. When these
structures are completed the depots Of Vie.
tor will be equal to those Of any town Of
similar size In the state
The cooperative commonwealth van left
Denver on the ;ri. to make u tour Of the
state In the interests Of Eugene V. Debs
scheme for the establishment II cooper
atiyc commonwealth on n large scale. II Is
Dehs' idea to colonIzc all the socialists he
can In some one state, and 10y prepondcrancc
Of numbers control the elections and revise
the state constitution on sociallstic lines
50 that cooperation In Its fullness may he
| established. This will he the work of two Of
the missionaries. James Hogan and y. L.
Gricst; the other. william Holmes. will es
tablish labor exchanges. They expect the
tour 10 last six months
The officers of the State Agricultural Col
lcge have made cut In the salaries Of the
professors In TINT Institution. Outside of
49, H. a
her u the faculty was cut In his or her year.
~ stipend To the tune of 500 and 500, ar
cordlnr to their respective grades the only
one to escape being President Aston Ellis
Ills salary was reduced from $4,000 a year To
s.. iH about four weeks ago. The salaries
Of the professors now stand at 81 200 In.
stead II sl.Si. II l. supposed that one
motive for the cut In salaries lay In the fact
that there is debt II si5.e1 On the partly
constructed laboratory ~ the college. which
the board hopes To meet In part by it, move
u rctrcnchment
Martha \. Shutc, SECRETARY Of the State
Board ~ Horticulture Is troubled about the
fruit show neNI fall. says the Denver Rrpuh.
| llcan. The show last year was turned over
| to the Chamber NJ Commerce and n wns q
sad failure, partly On account Of It's being
| held during the Festival ~ Mountain and
| rlain, Canon city has made a bid for the
show, offering Ia pay all the premiums The
| sentiment uf the majority Of fruit growers
| however Is In favor II holding II in Denver
| Hut ih" troublesome question ls where to
get III" money 10 pay the premiums Mrs
shut" says that II cannot b. held here unless
| the city Council aud County Commission
| appropriate" money I" pay the premiums
SHE called "n III" mayor who told her he
| Nuuln dn MI IN lis nnNgF In h,,. ,ha .h,,,.
held In Denver,
| Notwithstanding the failure of the last
| Legislature &" make an appropriation To
| pay scalp houniirs aud the announcement
| ~ THE auditor that none could be- paid Tor
| N" next ~" years, nearly every day fresh
| batch ~ claims arrive frum some ~ the
hack counllr, and nrc nrd away In the
| vaults Ia await the ilms that the state wifi
be- able io redeem them. over s2u.oU0 worth
u this Mud ~ paper i filed away nov aud
II l. growing daily Some ~ the hack eoun
| ties threaten To s"nh In the -rnps of the de.
| funrt CuNuirs, mountain Hons aud other
| Wild animals, aud n this threat Il carried
| "ut. III" auditor viii require more storage
room. II IL understood that Rio iilnnro aud
| Ruutt counties have determined 10 take al,
ynntnRc ~ the new law which permit.
counties 10 pny hountirs IN their avn ne,
count. hut ~ the coyote nuisance amounts
| t0 hut liilr IN the eastern counties II Il
hardly probable that they viii 20 Into The
bounty business Denver Nrws
The fate ~ the three men, notirhor. Rlnrk
stone and Nonnur l"st while crossing th,
portage from sunrise city. Cook Inlet Il
Prince William Sound has Just been learned
They left sunrise IN March ACCOMPANIED Il,
two guide When the huge glacier which