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Show COLORADO'S WAR. 1 Troubles at Deiiyer are By j No Means Ended. j BIS STORM IN ARKANSAS. I The Sky Was Overcast With Black Cloud j Then Followed Wild Fury by the Ele ments Trees are Uprooted and Houses Totter Other Sections Suffer Severely. Denver, March 20. The Gr3t resident resi-dent Colorado National Guard arrived home from Cripple Creek tonight, and will be kept under orders to be ready for immediate service until the police board trouble is settled. ' ' An opinion in the case submitted by Governor Waite to the supreme court ia not expected before Friday. Unless the court gives a direst answer to the governor's question of whether Orr and Martin or Muilins and Barnes are en-i en-i titled to the seats in the board, which j are in contention, the governor will not be bound by any opinin the court may see fit to deliver and will again take steps to seat his latest appointees. Judge Piatt Rogers, the governor's i principal counsel, said tonight: "impeachment or assassination on1 y J can interfere with the governor in calling call-ing out the state troops. The court has no more right to advise the head of the executive of the state in regard to that matter than tias a private individual. in-dividual. The governor has not asked for an opinion on that subject." Unless the court declares flatly that Orr and Martin are .tLe rightful commissioners, com-missioners, Governor Waite proposes to put Muilins and liarues in their places, even if it be necessary to call out the entire force of militia and all the able-bodied populists in the state. Captain Stone, of the police force, Bays he expects a renewal of the hostilities hostil-ities and is making elaborate preparations prepara-tions for battie. A strong guard is on duty at the city hall tonigut and will remain untill Ihe present trouble is ended. ' Governor Waite will file in the dis trict court, tomorrow, an affidavit set ting forth that he ia responsible for the organization of the new board, and demanding de-manding that he be included in the contempt proceedings for violation of the injunction. " AWCX storms. Helena, Ark., March 20. Helena . was visited yesterday with the .heavi est wind etorni in many years. At that time the eky Decame overcast over-cast with black clouds. 1'eople became alarmed, many of them leaving their houses, thinking a cyclone was con cealed in the clouds. At 4 o'clock the full force of the storm was upon the city, uprootintr trees, unroofing houses, blowing down fences and splintering telephone poles and doing other damage. The tin rooiS were blown off the two handsome stores on Cherry street occupied oc-cupied by Tanner & company, and Cook Brothers. A row of negro shanties located on the levee Dear the Mississippi valley depot were demolished. It is believed the country a few miles south of Helena must have been greatlv damaged as th storm seemed to have been most furious down the river. Monroe, Ia., March 20.-A strong -wind coming from the northeast blew down three dwelling houses, a gin house.stable and fencing of A. ti. Griffith, seven miles west of this city last evening. Aleo in the neighor-coo-l, the dwelling of Thomas Roberts was destroyed but all the inmates escaped. es-caped. Lhtle Rcck, Ark., March 20. A dispatch from Hot Springs say this city is practicallv shut off from the outer world for the time being. There has been no travel over the liot Springs railroad since yesterday. The rain which has prevailed for the past four days has put every mountain etream o a big rampage. Omaha, Xeb., March 20.-Suecia:s to the Bee from Cbardon, McCook anJ otLer western Nebraska pou ts, report the hardest snow storm of the season in progress. Tonight it was from six to ten inches deep and is drifting badly. Purvis, Miss , March 20. At 5 o'ekek this morning, a destructive storm passed through this section, and although a great deal of Umber was blown down and the roads obstructed by fallen trees, only a few houses were wrecked and no deaths have been reported. re-ported. Glknwood Springs, Colo , March 2J A heavy snow storm accompanied by heavy winds began here this evening. Denver. Colo., March 20. The storm which raged in Wyoming reached Denver at ten o'clock tonight, It is snowing hard and there is quite a high wind. CnEYKNNE, Wyo., March 20. A blizzard bliz-zard has prevailed throughout Wyoming Wyom-ing the past fifteen hours. It began snowing here at 6 o''Iocfc Ihis morning and continued until 6 o'clock this evening. A heavy wind accompanied the snow causing it to drift badly. The signal service reports fourteen inches of snow at Lander at noon. Tonight To-night the temperature is falling rapidly but the indications are that the worst is oyer. Little Rock, Ark., March 20. The sun shone for a few minute3 this morning morn-ing for the first time since Sundiy, af-Ivr af-Ivr raining continuously for nearly seventy sev-enty hours. The Arkansas river has risen eight feet and threatens to pass the danger lines. No trains have ar rived or departed for twenty four hours. |