The silver star., 1897-04-22
COLORADO c oNDENsED.

Wueut was COMMANDING nknct price NJ
Monte Vista the other day than at Chicago.
7. R. Countryman has been arrested at
Cripple Greek. charged with opening his
wife's letters.
A determined effort is being made by
Bishop Warren and Chancellor Mcdowell to
| raise large endowment fund for Denver
| University.
The annual convention Of the Colorado
State Federation of Labor will be held on
81, the last day of April, the date having been
changed from May LIST to Friday, April SOth.
| Prominent Denver wheelmen at 4 meeting
called to discuss the question decided not to
secede from the League Of American Wheel
men, but to work for local option on the
Sunday racing question.
1t will be time to plant trees in a short
time now. good plan is to plant few
| each year. Hon. Henry Lee, who has one OF
the finest fruit farms near Denver. advocates
putting out at least 200 trees each year.
| J. W. johnson has been arrested at Denver
by deputy United States marshal on the
| charge of stealing newspapers wrapped and
stamped and placed on the top OF mail
boxes. He tore OF the stamps and threw the
papers away.
A considerable number Of Colorado coun-
ties owe Ayapahoe county money FOR ex-
penses that their citizens have incurred at
tue eouHty hospituir tucy uEc NeAy Sip"
In meeting their obligations. Suits are like
ly to be Instituted to collect
A contemporary says: The sheep feeders
are raking in the cash profits this season,
and 1t is estimated that $2OO,O0O In clear
profits. above the cost Of feeding. will be
turned into the tllls of the feeders OF Lari-
mer county this season, besides furnishing
good home market for thousands of tons of
alfalfa hay.
Judge b. +. Harrington, Cos Ernest &
Cranmer building, Denver, has one Of the
best ranches In the State, six miles north
Of Denver, on the Clear Greek avenue road.
The Judge is great admirer OF the Percher-
ons, and has one Of the finest stations In
the West, Palefrenier, 6g1S (6314). He Is Il
dapple gray and weighs 1866 pounds, and
was imported by NJ. w. Dunham direct from
France In 1857.
The Colorado Arizona Sheep Company
marketed ISL fine lambs In Kansas City last
week. They averaged seventy pounds and
brought So. They were fed bran. cracked
corn and alfalfa. Garrett Brothers. of La
mar. also had two double decks of Colorado
alfalfa lambs on the same market that
weighed sixty five pounds. which were sold
by II. C. Abbott Il Co., at $3.50 the top
price of the season for the same weight
lambs.
George Il. Wilson, who is feeding 1900
Cotswold lambs at Rocky Ford. Otero county,
Is trying an experiment. He is pushing his
lambs on alfalfa. That is the first thing In
the morning his men put in new hay or
freshen up that already in the racks; again
they do this after feeding corn; twice again
before feeding the evening corn, and again
about or 8 at night they put the hay be-
fore the lambs. Mr.. Wilson says that In
every case the lambs come up and go after
Il as II they had not been fed.
The State Board Of Pardons. at a meeting
held on the 18th, refused to grant a pardon
to John II. Bloom, editor Of the Del Norte
Enquirer, who is under sentence to thirty
days In jail for contempt Of District Judge
G. G. Holbrook's court. Sentence was
passed upon Editor Bloom on January 10,
1895. Since then he has managed to remain
at liberty by being respited from time to
time by Governor McIntire and Governor
Adams. The Supreme Court, In the interim.
passed upon his case and affirmed Judge
Holbrook's sentence.
An unfortunate accident which occurred
In the yards of the Colorado Midland Rail-
road, at Colorado City. about 1870 o'clock
Monday afternoon, resulted in the death of
William l.. Lowell. son OF State Auditor
John W. Lowell. Young Mr.. Lowell has for
some time past been employed In the paint
department at the Colorado Midland repair
shops, and was trusted employe Of the
road. His death was caused by being run
over By an engine on which he was riding,
It being In pursuit Of n runaway freight car.
The collision threw him of.
Manitou is now a temperance town. and
will be probably for about month. 1t
seems that all licenses excepting one expired
April 1 and the saloon men failed to make
application for new licenses at the last
meeting Of the council. II they had taken
out licenses It would have cost them 5000
for SIX months under the present ordinance,
but the new council is expected to give them
license for year for $500. The saloons
without licenses were ordered closed and the
order was strictly compiled with. 1t will
take month for the new ordinance to pass
and become n law, and in the meantime
Manitou will be quiet place.
Adjutant General Moses has appointed the
committee Of FIVE officers provided for Mt the
meeting of militia officers. held in the Den.
yer City Troop armory. to consider plans
for reorganizing and improving the national
guard. 1t consists OF AdJutnnt General G.
NJ Moses, chairman; Brigadier General r. J.
Brooks, Colonel II. b. Mccoy. Second In
fantry; Captain w. r. Grove Company f..
Eighteenth Infantry, and Captain C. Il.
Locke. Company +. First Infantry. The
project to consolidate the First and Second
inIhntfy regiments IN meeting with much
opposition, and Will likely fall through. II
adopted 1t would throw several officers out
Of the guard.
The people OF the lower Arkansas valley.
In Bent. otero and Prowers counties, hnye
had great struggle with the Irish DO.
tato and the odds for success have been
about even between the planters and the
spuds. particularly as to which would come
out on top Mt the end Of the contest. At
the farmers institute In Lamar last week
the matter came up and L. Writ Markham
stated In reply that he had made q success
OF potatoes for the pnst three years. Tho
method he follows In TO plow the ground
deep-say ten inches-and irrigate thorough.
" before planting. He plants the seed four
inches deep and does not irrigatc again until
the vines are In bloom. After that he irrI.
gates every ten days until the potatoes are
full grown. taxing tho water OF only for the
ripening process.
hesrtrcnding accident occurred In Boul.
der Monday. resulting In the death Of Knth.
ieen Ivy, the two-and. In half. .year old dnuri,.
ter Of J. II. Ivy and wife. Mrs. Ivy was at
home ON North Twelfth street, doing the