Show COLORADO AS A STATE tiie THE recommendation by president grant in his late lato message to congress in favor of Colo coio colorado Colont rodo do being admitted us as a state in the tho union is thus commented on by the tc missouri democrat president grapes graphs recommendation that colorado be admitted as a state has given great satisfaction to the people of the territory who are about to petition congress to pass the tho proper enabling act her population was not sufficient in 1870 to justify admission to the union but it is said to have so greatly increased that she has norv norg the requisite number of people the territory lias has an area of square miles about one third in the plains and t the he rest in the mountains her general altitude is greater than that of any other state or territory and she has the ill lil high by est peaks in the rocky bocky mountains the there thero is a belt of country rich in gold and silve sliver running through the mountains about two hundred miles from north to south with a width of ten to twenty miles mining prospects are numbered by hundreds and there are many mines ef f great value and promise in successful ope operation ration giving a yearly export of precious metals of about her ller agricultural and stock growing interests U are re also nourishing her capital city denver has twelve to fifteen thou sand saud people eople and slie she has other lp sprig sprightly it ly and prosperous towns with churches and schools equal to those of many older communities she has now miles of completed railroad and new lines in progress since the census of 1870 the area of lauds in fit farms has been greatly increased large settlements have been made by colonies mining industry has been active and prosperous and many new branches of business have been introduced colorado can fairly claim that her people constitute an intelligent antt anut weil well ordered community and it seems to be a mere question of nig fig figures tires whet whether hershe she shall become a state if she he can show the i required population the door will no doubt ne be ocene opened some perhaps many of the colo cadang undoubtedly desire that territory to become a state but others do not the pueblo colorado people objects and urges that I 1 de according cording to the most favorable es estimates the population cannot exceed that if a portion of wyoming territory Terri territory tor y were added to colora colorado do bringing about inhabitants it would make a total of but while Congre congressi sst emphatically declared last session that no new state with less than population could be admitted says the people this question of figures taken in in connection with the inclination of our people to avoid useless increase of expenses at present still make the day of stately glory an indefinite one 12 the matter mutter of desiring or not desiring a state government iq ig one which should be left to the people of colorado to decide if nay then the best thing would be for them to wait until they get ia in the humor for the proposed change if yea then the question of twenty or thirty thousand increase of population is a small affair not deservedly edly sufficient elena clent to be urged as a weighty objection it does not appear to us that congress has any ri night right g lit but that of might to keep a bundred bundled hu adred thousand people out of their rights as american citizens their rights to choose their own rulers and to a representative valce voice in the the tho federal legislature if the Color adans have not knot sufficient lelent independence to desire to enjoy and pay for their freedom as a state commonwealth instead of docilely allowing congress to bear a large part of the expense of the local government as a territory that is their bu business siness it is a matter that concerns them and congress more than it does any body bod y else of course if they have a sta state te government ern ment they must pay for their th air I 1 whistle instead pf af the united states paying for it for them the trouble in utah is t that bat the people have to pay for their whistle without having their whistle in the shape of a state government at least that is the ear effort ort of the cru eru crusaders sa who wilo seem wonderfully anxious that the people should pay for everything and havo have nothing no voice at all in the tho choice of their local off omm meers officers nor inthe disbot se ment of the taxes wrung mit out of their own incomes or pv mils wils for these reasons I 1 our cur citizens would infinitely prefer a state go government v to a territorial one they are by no means fond of having strangers tr angers augers and enemies to rule over them moreover if they are tire nii ail allowed to havo their whistle they do not so much mind paying handsomely for it but they do most roost decidedly object to a rule which te qu quires ates them to pay liay dearly for their whistle w istle and find bo be deprived of said whistle too which is tho the poney policy of or the crusaders I 1 ROCKY bocky wild BLASTS the omaha herald fouces I 1 the arrival there dec 27 and the departure thence dec dm 29 9 for the zoological garden philadelphia of a car with some fine specimens sp s of wild beasts from the rocky bocky mountains i among them the following cage no 1 A large rocky ilou tiou n tain female grizzly bear ilear 20 months old and weigh weighing ing pounds po u n ds 7 cage cane no 2 brown bearg beara months old cage no a 3 cin din cinnamon makozi bear 6 0 months 01 old oid d cage no 4 two brown bears male and fel fei female nale 1 20 10 months old and very fine specimens t j cage no 5 two silver bliver gray foxes cage N no to C G curious specimen cross fox i cage no 7 Deer from tile the uintah mountain mountains cage no noa 8 wyoming black bear and a utah black bear beat casero cage no 9 large largo female black tailed deer from utah this animal as well as the moose deer are ale beautiful creatures cage no 10 wild calvery cat very large and fine cage no to 11 mountain fount aln ain wolf coyote at omaha the car took on two nine fine elk eik sold by captain mix for the philadelphia garden the car was in charge of H carey and son of ogden who were to accompany it to philadelphia |