Year: 1877

TROUBLES In COLORADO.


SECESSION MOVEMENTS AND NEW


STATE PROJECTS.


Politicians Endeavoring to Change the


Present Territorial boundary Lines.


special Correspondence of the World.l


DENVER, Col, May 25.-The new West
seems to be in state Of perpetual po-
litical ferment. The art of addition,
division and silence among their lead
ers is we'll understood and shrewdly
practised. There Is no plodding states
manship such as the older parts. Of the
East can boast OF, but q rapid scheming
everything into whirl. A Legislature
in Colorado, Wyoming or New Mexico
cannot meet without at once giving
birth to some startling project for the
removal Of the capital, the cutting up
OF counties, the granting OF female suf-
frage or the changing of some OF the
customs of society. It has got to such
q pass that the people are heartily glad
that Legislatures meet but once In two
years. La spite of this fact, however,
the politicians are never quiet. They
work up some measure for Congress to
act upon at almost every session. The
bill getting Colorado In as State was
the hardest thing they have had to back
up for years, but success In that has re-
newed their courage. New Mexico comes
next, and although the chances are not
by any means hattering, as developed by
their attempts during the last session
OF Congress, yet they are going to make
q D0id move again the coming winter,
and though the "greasers' down that
way protest, yet New Mexico will take
on Statehood IL Congress can be per-
suaded. The possibility OF success has
banded the natives into secession
movement-the taking off the western
portion OF the Territory and voting 1t @
part OF Arizona. This will enable them
dodge taxes and bask in oblivion. The
New Mexicans are q slow set eonstftu-
tionally, and IL they can get away from
schools, churches. newspapers and
progress they are happy. Those OF
them who live In the southern counties
OF Colorado have shewn much discon-
tent at high taxes, the advent OF rail-
roads and Statehood. and are selling out
as fast as they can and moving on down
into old Mexico. A few years more and
the ''greaser" will be rare species In
Colorado.


One OF the newer movements a good
deal talked of is the secession Of the
San Juan mining country from the
State OF Colorado. Some OF the am
bilious politicians down there think
that their country was left out In the
cold In the selection OF State officers,
and had no fair representation, accord
ing to population, in the Legislature.
So they propose to take the remedy
Into their own hands. They have had
two or three mass conventions and
hereabout cooked up q Southern Con-
federacy in Colorado. The temper OF
the leaders In the movement may be
best seen from the following extracts
from speech made by one OF them at
Del Norte not long ago:


Il am endowed with no prophetic
vision, yet / venture the prediction that
but few years shall have dropped into
the past before the legislative repre-
sentatives Of Del Norte will go to the
Capitol on foot-not that they will be
will be at their doors for unless we ar,
greatly deceived in the undeveloped
wealth OF our mineral-veined noun
tains, unless we are deceived In the pro-
ductiveness Of our valleys, the time is
not long distant when Del Norte will be
the capital city OF a new State whose
eastern boundary will be yonder noun
tains."


MAY the day soon dawn when we
shall be cut off forever from the polit-
ical magnates Of the North, who, as
they hold the balance Of power, have
compelled us to sue and to beg for our
political rights and then have denied
our prayer. May the memory of.our
w Itnear txtifh tho dho
OF our defeat abide with US and animate
US in the building up Of an Independent
sovereignty, which shall be the bright
est star in the nation g diadem."


The seceders are not fully united as
to the best way out of their difficulties,
but 1t is quite probable that their first
will be heard of at the next
session Of Congress, when a petition
will 60 in asking for the organization of
q new Territory out Of Southwestern
Colorado and the adjoining portions of
New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. Look
ing to this result settlers have been
pushing down the western slope Of the
into the rich valleys Of Utah,
and colonists have taken up the best
portions of the Jacarilla Apache reser-
vation in New Mexico. The San Juan
Valley and Cimmeron inhabitants of
ANO" IuCAlCO, uoSIly hnOllC1H5, W6uI
to be free from the old slow going Ter
ritory, and are easily persuaded to join
In the scheme for a new confederacy.


Could these ambitious, far West poll
ticians carry through half their pro-
jects there would be such cutting up
Of Territories that it would task the
to keep the run Of things.
There is strong talk of parceling out
Utah, the east half, as far as Salt Lake
City and including the principal settle
ments Of that vicinity, to go to Colorado,
and the balance to be set off to Montana,
Nevada and Arizona, leaving Brigham
without q dominion, and compelling
him to observe the laws or "pull up
stakes" There are couple
0f projects on foot that worry
,he people of Cheyenne good
leal. One is the formation OF the new
Territory of Lincoln, by which Chey-