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Show Wyoming grass has never been heard of. COLORADO NOTES. Pueblo is overrun with thieves and burglars. A new irrigating ditch is to be built east of Erie. The body of a man was found hanging hang-ing to a tree near Coal Creek. It is not knowa whether it was a case of suicide or murder. During 190, 2.317 dwellings were erected In Denver. The amount expended ex-pended on new buildings of all kinds was sixteen and a half million dollars. F. B. Mayer, the treasurer of the Puoblo Switchmen's Mutual Aid society, has disappeared and is supposed to have j WE AND OURNEIGIIBORS Bits of News Gathered from Various Points in the Great Inter-Mountain Country, CLIPPED, EEWEITTEN, CONDENSED Happenings in Utah and Surrounding States Put Into Shape for Times Readers. Springville i3 to have an electric light system. Utah and Wasatch counties have purchased pur-chased the old Provo canon toll road for $4000. The Park City Record is making an earnest light for a regular payday at that place for the miners. Such a day would be of much value to that promising promis-ing city. i There is a fine deposit of alum over on the Provo river that is attracting considerable attention just now. It was recently located by a couple, of Park j City gentlemen. i The city of Minersville has concluded to put a picket fence around their.ceme- i terv and with that cud in. view have absconded with the funds of thesociety. Engineer Walter H. Craves, now of Denver, but recently of Monte Vista, is prominently mentioned for state engineer. engi-neer. Mr. Maxwell, the present incumbent, incum-bent, is in the field for reappointment, with strong probabilities of success. Following is the number of acres of land tiled and entered in the various land ollices of ihe state during 1800: Denver, 544,273; Pueblo, 230.407; Glen-wood Glen-wood Springs, 62,752; Central City, 024.783; Del Norte. MtUiiM; Gunnison, 0,880; Dnrango, 70.000; Sterling, 27,254; Hugo, 15,(326; Montrose, 28,(100; Akron' 37,062; total, 2,232,030. A plan is now being developed to establish es-tablish a smokeloss powder plant in Denver. The projectors are Germans and they are said to have the monopoly of the inventor's rights in this country. It is estimated that the plant will cost $500,000, of which the German syndicate syndi-cate is ready to advance half. Tho police department of Denver last year cost $139,724.05, or overJ380aday, and yet nearly a dozen murderers escaped, es-caped, unarrested and undetected; robberies rob-beries and burglaries were never more numerous or captures fewer, while con-fidonce con-fidonce and bunko men carried on their games under the very eyes and noses of the police. lately purchased quite an amount of fencing material in the way of scantling and pickets. A one-legged white man from Salt Lake, and a one-legged negro from ProTo had a desperate seven-round prize fight at 'i'ilitio Monday night last, l'he negro was victorious and put his man to sleep in good shape. The tight Was for $."0 a side and the one-legged championship of Utah. W. R. II. Paxman, manager of the Provo Lumber, Manufacturing and IJuilding company, reports that his company has received 252 car loads of lumber since April, 1800, and has paid I as freight on the same the sum of 134,- I 010.50. Also that that company has re- ccived 200 cars of coal, and paid out as j freight on same the sum of $13,455, makj ing the total number of cars received I 551, and the total amount of froight I paid, $48,0.14. 50. i James Simpkins of Cedar City, on Wednesday evening went into his cor- ral to attetid to the stock. He had not been there many minutes before one of the horses kicked him full upon the breast with both hind feet. Mr. Simp-kins Simp-kins was rendered insensible for a short time, during which it was thought he had been killed. He soon, however, began to show signs of reviving and at last accounts was feeling pretty comfortable. com-fortable. WY0MINC NOTES. i Wyoming comes out on top in the number of business failures for 1800. there being only two, with $5000 liabilities. lia-bilities. The railroad to Sundance and the coal fields that is. the Wyoming part I of it -will be known as the "Wyoming f Eastern." j Rock Springs Miner: The happiest f men in the country today are the sheep i growers. They state that had they I themselves the making of the weather I this winter they would have failed to I furnish it in the perfection which the Ruling Power has seen fit to bestow. In Johnson county horses and cattle grow fat in winter on range feed, and plenty of work horses never see grain 1 from one year's end to another. In S fact the native grasses contain so much nutriment and strength that domestic animals have no use for oats, and such : a thing as a milch cow going dry oh L. |
