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Show commended the appropriation by con-press con-press of $'-'0,000 for the survey of private land claims tn New Mexico, and he la much inclined to think that the committee com-mittee on appropriation will allow the full amount as recommended. Considerable opposition has developed develop-ed to the division of San Miguel county and the creation of Guadalupe county, mostly out of the Pecoa rlvor precenets on the ground that It would not be salf-sustaining. salf-sustaining. Among the prisoners who escaped from the Los Limits jail, aevsral days ago, was Oetaviano Tclles, the sen of Jose L. Toilet, a wealthy and influential influen-tial resident of San Hafael. Ortaviano is charged with murder, having shot and killed Simplico Mariiez on Christmas Christ-mas morning, 1800. AROUND jEllLl Items of Interest from Every Section of the Gnat Inter-Mountain Country. CLIPPED, REWRITTEN, CONDENSED News. Notes Quarried (ram the Mass of Exchanges and Polished up for Times Headers, Tho hills in the vicinity of Park City, Utah, are full of foxes aud there is talk of organizing a hunting party. W. II. George, chief clerk of tho Og-den Og-den postolliee, has resigned his position and will return to his former home in Kansas. Park C Hays was appointed in his place. Duo of the very finest presentations ever given by local talent In Ogden will IDAHO NOTES. There was "02.800 pounds of wool shipped from Weiser during the season of lH'.lO, and it is estimated that the production pro-duction of this most important staple will bu double next seusou what it was last. The forest of the Payette river drainage drain-age alone covers 2,501), 000 acres and the forest area in the state is 7.000,000 acres. An acre of the Payette timber is estimated to contain an average of 40,-000,000 40,-000,000 feet of good merchantable lumber, lum-ber, or a total of 100,000,000,000 feet. be the Kirniiss" which Is to bo given February 7tU and 10th in the Grand opera bouse. Among the Utah cities with bright prospects is Coriune. Already the ben-eticial ben-eticial results of the completion of the l!ear Uiver canal are being realized in euhanced values and const ruutio of building. Wednesday night last at Coalville, I'tah, Fred Lowe, a barber, and Frank Kepp, a quarryman, became involved in a quarrel over a shaving bill, which resulted in Kepp shooting Lowe to death, in the stomach. There is considerable complaint against somo girls, whose names are known about their disorderly conduct at the corner of Merchant and Harrington Harring-ton streets in throwing stones, loud talking aud general unladv like acts. The girls in question are from L" to 25 years of age. The officers say if they do not stop they will be arrested. A word to the wise is sufficient. American Amer-ican Fork Independent. A hnv n.mml Knmlinl riliri fltrpd 1A A ooy named samuei .urr, ageu 10 vears, met with u serious accident at Vermillion on Monday afternoon, 20th inst. He had a shotgun with him on a duck hunting expedition and on leaving a wagon which he was in at the time of tho accident, he by chance, dropped the gun on the ground which snapped the hammer, and it being loaded, discharged dis-charged the contents clear through the left leg about four inches above the ancle. COLORADO NOTES. The new Grand river bridge at Glen-wood Glen-wood Springs is completed. Lupton wants to be the county seat of Adams county when it is organized. Justin Baliey of Aspen, 23 years of age, found life not worth living after losing $'.'00 at poker, so he put a bail through bis heart Saturday night. The proposed extension of the Burlington Bur-lington railroad from Longmont to Cheyenne is looked tipon as a movement move-ment of great importance to Longmont. Long-mont. Representative Townsend presented a petition from citizens of Phillips county, coun-ty, Colo., asking for an appropriation to buy seed and other relief on account oi tne crop taiiure. The three farmer members of the Illinois legislature by holding steadily to their senatorial candidate, and preventing pre-venting an election, reminds the Colorado Colo-rado Springs Gazette of the Irishman who was the only soldier in his regiment regi-ment who kept step. Mr. Rittenhouse has Introduced a bill In the bouse making it unlawful for employers em-ployers or corporations to compel or coerce their employes to purchase merchandise mer-chandise from them. His bill also contains con-tains a provision to prevent employers from paying wages in goudsorsupplies. State papers are discussing the advisability ad-visability of abolishing the state bureau of immigration. That there Is reason for criticising its management all admit, ad-mit, but that does not alter the fact lhat it could be made one of the most important factors in settling up our state. There is something very appropriate in the fact that the chairman of the committee on irrigation of the house of representatives is a Denver lawyer' The facilities for "irrigation." owing to the number of saloons, aro better there than at any point in the state. Pueblo Star, F'eb. 2d: Thero now only remain live days in which to introduce in-troduce new bills. 'There are thus far 111 bills in the senate. The total number num-ber two years ago was over 400. This year's record will probably not be more than half that number. There have been 192 bills introduced in the house thus far. The Pueblo Chieftain fiendishly gloats over the fact that twenty-nine newspapers news-papers in Pueblo have been forced to succumb to the inevitable, all on account ac-count of its having the exclusive telegraph tele-graph franchise. The great wonder is why the impotency of that journal has not relegated it to the shade of No. 30 in the list. Coal Creek Growler: One year from next fall the people of Colorado will elect two congressmen to represent them in the lower house of tho United States congress. One will undoubtedly be selected from the northern part of the state, and one from the southern part. Senator Fred Betts of Pueblo, should receive the nomination from the southern district. The boaid of trado of Ruena Vista resolved to use all honorable means to prevent the valley counties from being united in a district with La Plata or Huerfano county. That iu tho event that the valley counties cannot be erected into a separate district by themselves, then some county tho most accessible and convenient abput tho north end of tho valley should be joined with them. NEW MEXICO NOTES. Fori Seldcn, near Las Cruces, will be abandoned. Pinos Altos will have a 1000-pound gold brick on exhibition at the world's fair in Chicago. Dan Troy lost about twenty fat sheep, Colfax county, in a raid of wolves on one of his herds. An act has been introduced in the legislature to prevent the disposal and sale of liquors and tobaccos by the use of niekle-in-lhe lot-machines. The two papers at Albuquerque are at dagger's point over the question whether anybody in that aggressive little city has or has not the ' grip." From incomplete returns it is learned there are 2300 school children iu Colfax county, and an average daily attendance attend-ance at 7H0 in the different schools. The agricultural college building at Las Cruces is rapidly nearing completion, comple-tion, and it is announced that It will be ready for occupation one week from next Monday. Walter Chalk was forced, at Albuquerque, Albu-querque, into a marriage with Mary Welch, a girl whom he had wronged. They became acquainted with each other at San Marcial. . Surveyof General Hobartis in receipt of a letter from John W. Noble, secretary secre-tary of th interior, saying he had re - |