The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-03-24
DOlNGs AT DENVER.
stsns of Interest FRO. the CITY sd the
STATE CAplto1.

ASSbCNkiNG WI Va &@ss~ NY Vss'
shot and killed the other day by 4 man
named lake, while the former was out
duck bunting. lake claims that 1t was
an accident.
A person convicted Of Z crime less
than q capital Ofense may have re-
course to only one writ Of error, says
the Supreme Court. This statement Ii
mAde In connection with the refusal by
the court to consider the case Of Ed
ward Caviness. The crime Of Caviness
was murder In Tie second degree. As
his counsel applied for writ OF error
q year ago, then refused to prosecute
II, the court denied him privilege Of
again attempting similar action.
Mrs. Harvey Payne was reused from
her sleep last Saturday night to ind
man bending over her holding . pistol
to her head. He ordered her to get up
and give him all the money she had in
the house. With threats he made her
go TO her hiding place, q sugar bowl.
saved and had hidden there. she stag
gered to neighbours and fell senseless
on the steps. Hearing her fall, the oc-
cupants Of the house hurried out aud
found her.
The coming census may increase
C0lorado's representation in Congress
by two. Governor Thomas predicts
this. Another congressman should
have been allowed In this state when
the last appOrtionment was pade,"
says the governor, ''if the census had
been accurately taken, and am con.
fdent that the new census will add at
least one and In all probability two
congressman to our representation In
the lower house."
John Jacob Astor Powell, attorney,
is alive, well and practieing law in
Virginia. However, he IL not the John
Jacob Aston Powell of Ouray, who
disappeared from Denver not long ago
John 4. Barnett, a lawyer, is sponsor
Ouray lawyer used the Virginian's
name. Friends of the missing man
think that he is in South Africa, and
one of them says he has a letter frou
Powell. under recent date, from JO-
hannesburg, where he says Powell Is
protecting his South African mining
interests.
Captain Cecil A. Deanr, custodian Of
the war relic room Mt the state capitol,
has received the first dag made in Gil
pm County. lS uiueusiUub Ute IVALf
feet and there are thirty-fOur stars on
the field of blue. The original size of
the flag was 1Ox2S feet, and It was cut
in two ut some time not exactly knewn.
The other part has been DESTROYED or
lost. The ladies' of the Gold Dirt min
ing camp made the fiag in 1881 and
when the camp went down the emblem
was taken In charge by J. Q. A. Rol-
Inns, whose widow now presents the
flag to the state.
The sale of 100000 feet Of state
timber, scheduled to take place Inst
Monday, was postponed because of
the discovery Of an error In the adver-
tisement Of the timber, which makes
readvertising necessary. The adver-
tisement read 1.-The sotHh range" when
1t should have been the north range"
Bidders appeared in plenty. The re
advertising may cansesA delay ~ a
month. This mistake In advertising Ii
not the Grit Of recent dAfe- ~ similar
error was made In the sale Of the 600
acres Of OterO county lA0d to the OK.
nard Beet Sugar Company. Senator
Swink discovered this mistake and
came to Denver for the purpose of hay
ing 1t rectiiietl. To ]. w. Vickers, 1885,
COO feet OF Park county timber was
sold Mt 81 n thousand feet. This tim
her IL on school land near Hartzell. f.
NJ. Harsin bought eighty acres Of Otero
county land at SO an acre. This land
is where he has made his home for
several years. leasing 1t from the state
and improving 1t at. his own cOnven-
fence.
The National Rurnl, an agricultural
paper printed in Chicago, HAS under
taken to locate colony of eastern
farmers OH n tract of about 100000
acres, situated in the Bijou valley in
Arapahoe county, about thirty-six
miles east of Denver. About $1,000
acres has been purchased from the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and
will be sold to settlers for @1.25 nu
acre, or they may purchase the alter
nate sections from the government
under the desert land act ut the same
price, or locate them under the home
stead law, all getting their water from
the promoters of the settlement. The
water for irrigation it is proposed to
get from the underfiow of the gravelly
bed Of Bijou creek. The gravel and
the whole irrigation scheme have been
examined by civil engineers whose re.
ports to the promoters show that forty
per cent. of the rainfall sinks into the
soil. BijOu creek drains 1,JOO square
miles. though little water flows in tile
visible stream beds. The original
stream beds, of lmpermeable clay, are
at m average depth of seventy feet
from the surface. Tests show that
within II few feet OF the surface the
sands carry thirty per cent. Of moist.
ure while from five feet from the sur
face to the clay the gravel carries
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