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Show COLORADO NOiCOX Itfnii of Interest Culled from the Exchanges Ex-changes of the Centennial State and Put in Shape for Our Eeaders. CLIPPED, REWRITTEN CONDENSED Important Happenings, Bits of Current Comment and Newsy Notes from the Heart of the Eocky Mountains. It Is estimated that thero aro 11,100 organized or-ganized workingmen who aro legal voters vo-ters in Denver. Mrs. Italia Harvey ofTellnride, took a suicidal dose of laudanum but will survive. She had quarrelled with some female friends. The St. Clair hotel at Salida, which was erected aud furnished at a cost of about $!l(),ll00, has been leased to tleo. M. Withers, who has beeu running the Arlington hotel there for the last year. J. V. Steinbeck has received his appointment ap-pointment as postmaster at Lake City to till the vacancy caused by the recent removal of K. 11. Higgers for embezzlement. embezzle-ment. Higgcrs is now in jail at Denver. Den-ver. At Trinidad Fred Tomkins was sent to the penitentiary for one year for horse stealing, and Francisco Itucno got three years for rape. H. M. Sib-bett Sib-bett w as found guilty of graud larceny but wants a new trial. About one mile south of Fort Collins, on the farm of Judge S. li. A. Hay ties, there is a strong surface indication of petroleum. Judgo Haynes, a wealthy landholder and stockman, intends to prospect by boring ul least li(K) feet. Cattle in Boulder county are beginning begin-ning to suffer because of tho snow. Owners of cattle are obliged to fend itit.m nn titr nu tin. ittiiiu iu nnr .ret. alable, and hay iu consequence is scarce iu town aud has got up to $-'1 per ton. John Tiishor, a painter employed on the jail building at Trinidad fell from the roof, lifty feet, lo the stone pavement pave-ment below yesterday. His left arm was broken in two places, his jaw was fractured and ho was injured inter-ually. inter-ually. Another gang of all-round crooks were captured by tho Denver detectives detec-tives Saturday. There were four men in tho outfit and they were taken into custody by Detectives I'stick and Heno at the corner of Eighteenth and Arap-pahoe Arap-pahoe at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. 1 hey were rooming iu the upper floor of the block on tho southeast corner. A largo quantity of stolen goods was found in their rooms. The names of the quartette are William 1'alton, (ieorgo Coy, L. L. Woods andJ.W. Andrews. There was considerable excitement over the judicial bill in the afternoon, and when the session adjourned members mem-bers were feverish. Mr. Hanna was in a hurry and ran up against the aged doorkeeper, (ieorge Hoss. Mr. Hanna was curt. The doorkeeper complained to his son-in-law, Mr. Secor. The latter went to Mr. Hanna and objected to the treatment. A second later and Mr. Hauna had Mr. Secor by tho throat. Members rushed up aud gol between them and the visitors in the lobby and gallery rushed in to see the death struggle strug-gle that did not take place. Among the men who came up to see fair play or to act as referee, was W. W. Dunbar, Dun-bar, district attorney of the district court at Trinidad, who has been here looking after the barley product and judicial bills. Mr. Wootton, however, took care of him ami rushed him out-sido out-sido the railing. Denver Republican. A mining complication, involving serious se-rious charges, found its way into the district court under the title of Susie 1!. Austin, W. U. Rust, A, W. Rucker and D. W. Kucker vs. the Justice Mining Company of Pitkin couutv. The suit was launched on a temporary writ of injunction obtained by the plaintiffs. The bill of complaint alleged that the plaintiff Austin owned ;j 11)0 shares of the defendant company's stock, Plain-titr Plain-titr J. W. Mucker :i"U0 shares, and Plaintiff A. W. Rucker HINT shares. I'uder a board of directors legally chosen, it was alleged, (i. W. Crowe had, as superintendent of the company, made its property exceeJingly valuable and its stock profitable. False reports having boen circulated against, the management man-agement a new directory was chosen. The new board made Joseph 1'ussn superintendent. su-perintendent. Kusse was totally incompetent in-competent aud tho property at once began to run down hill. On April 3 the plaintilfs discovered for the lirst time that the new directory had advertised adver-tised tfce company's stock for sale on April ! with a view to closing up tho concern. The injunction was sought to stop the sale until an investigation could be had and the rights of the plaintiffs protected. Judge Graham granted a temporary writ under a bond of $1000. Denver Republican. |