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The Weekly Gazette from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 8

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Colorado Springs, Colorado
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1 May 28, OF '1 Hfc WKKK. i 'f hc reservoir at Cheyenne is filled with water, forming a lake. fc The foundation of a nc.u. Presbyterian Church is laid at Colorado Springs. f'he price of California wool has declined from 55 cents to cents per pound in Boston.

foundation stone of an Episcopal church has just been laid at Rergrm's park, by Bishop Randall. One thousand head of beeves for the Utah Cattle Asso- are en route from Denver to Salt Lake. Mr. A. M.

Merriam, of Colorado Springs, has jtibt sheared of 3,200 sheep, obtaining 7,000 pounds of wool. Gov. McCoofe is again ill at Philadelphia. The for, anil left last Saturday morning for East. The Chkftfiiii says that from fifteen to twenty passengers arrive on every conch, and Pueblo is literally overflowing tvith new-comers.

From a discrepancy' in the levels taken from the foot of Clear Creek, in 1865 and 1871, Captain Berthoud led to lielieve that a slow movement ol elevation is taking place in the Rocky Mountains. An important suit is pending; in the probate court of Jefferson county. It is- an injunction by several citizens of the county against the Arapahoe Ditch company to restrain it from enlarging the ditch from five feet wide to forty. It will tried the first Monday in July. A mammoth hoiefy costing $100,000, Ls to be built in at ai early dp-y, There are lac sleeping apart- i'nents, exclusive ol papers, and -iround the entire bu'iidjriga beautiful balcony is'tdbe constructed, in order to give guests -ample opportunity to view thc mountain scenery.

Mr. W. H. Jackson, photographer, Mr. Chmrle.s K.

Campbell, assistant photographer, and Dr. A. C. Peak, mineralogist and chemist, of Professor Uayden's surveying party are visiting Colorado Springs for the pnrjxj.se of securing views of some of the most striking scenery in the neighbor- Xpod, and for the collection of mineralogical The new Directory of the Si. Ixmis and Denver Land and Mining Company is follows John Evans, D.

II. Moffat, S. Cheesman, R. K. Carr, C.

S. Greek), H. U'! Nvis, and C. H. Lamborn, the board elected for one year.

The officers are as follows S. Cheesman President, B. W. Lewis Secretary, k. R.

Cormick Treasurer, D. H. Moffat, Jr. new Hoipl at Manitou is now rapidly approach me 1 t. i A meeting of the committee, appointed by the Hoard of I nisttes of Nevadasville, and the City Councils of Ulawk lltwk and Central was held a few days ago in Central, for the-purpose oppressing the views of the respective Boards upon the propriety of an election to be called for the purpose of issuing bonds to supply the said cities with water, by the ommissioners of Cilpin county.

It was resolved that the majority of the Committee were in favor of to-any reasonable amount that would insure a sufficient supply of water for all mining, milling, fire, mid domestic purposes for the county of Gilpin. It was recoinmt-nded that a (. ouinnuce be appointed for the purpose of making a pre- hmumy survey of the most practical route, together'with an estimate of costs, plans, and report at an earl) day on the i and cheapest way of- obtaining the necei sary completion, and v. in shorty be ready far IM tion of visitors. A Bath, lions? has been erected i into which the mineral watws of the celebrated Sprimrs.

cur I The Baths have p'laceiT under" the charge i ni-lci Sic.klcs lias reached Madrid, of Dr. B. P. Anderson. The road through (he ifte Pass is completed, and is now alive with traffic.

The mag- nificent'scenery of the 1'ass will make it a favorite drive, and Arrangements are completed- for bridging tlu; at wlio surren he CW rk Ce Hudson River Railroads are- I 4 trays'ago, KSriop Rantbll consecrated Grace church, Georgetown. -It is a neat Gothic edifice, with an open timber roof, and sufficiently, commodious to accommodate thc increasing congregation. The parish debt was paid On the same the bjshop "iliStitiifeel the Rev. into thc rcctoiship of the parish. Captain Seymour, who spent the past in Boulder County, owning a drove of horses which were kept ami sold at the White Rock mill, left the 6th oflast April for Abilene, to purchase cattle.

Since that time he has riot" 1een heard from, 3ml his friends fear he has met foul play. He had several thousand dollars in cuu-ency with him, which jxvsed to have tempted some one to commit murder. learn, that arrangements are made to constitute 1.1 i Cj i its sujxu-iority over the old road will make it great boon to i who surrendered Strruloiirg, is by the ''I and from South Park. The Urn ley Tribtitte says Quite mnnljer of our "men are down from the mountains, having been at work for Messrs. Hills-' cutting saw logs.

They arc for a few kiys preparatory, to going back to mnke tlie grand run oh of the logs. Althougli the river is quite high, the water comes only from North Fork of the Hlack Hills, and the I -a- Hills where considerable snow fell last week. The i er uow uf the has only just commenced melting, and mrnense tracts ef-k are in sight from town. The UKMI lanf arc now completed, having cost several thousand dol- ars. Mr.

Thompson is aW going forward with his mill he booming -the river below the roail bridge all of which must shem thai -hall lumber town, the. to tc seized for tAx T)ie vote of the.Scontc on the Jlabea.s Corpus Suspension IT, stood yea.s 28 nays 15. thousand francs have raised in hoppers ma k- i appcaniuce at Spanish tork and Payon, L'ia'i, ire doing coti.siderablc damage. rto 5 children "i fm tt Secretary of the on board tlic steamer Scant i Ixiiweeii Liverpool and Treasury ticciiues to modify the bill talk and anxiety ha-six-cn occa-iuneJ here within the past few days in regard Jo Capt. -Scytnoui.

The Vapta'm, 'if your readers will repjember, brought- into this comity a band of California borxt-cie most of which were sold to dealers 115 tjinj j.iml lijt money "i leaving the county he drew 55,000 out. to at Abilene, -'sthe next day he arrived in Denver, whert; Jie reeeived 52,000 more. All this money was, in large bills. His intention was to leave on the gilt, on the K. as written to Fohn King will shew.

Nothing having been heard from him since thai time, letters were written to his partner at Abilene, who arrivefl here last night. The last that has The owners of the Grai allow the to A a grand i a i jiibih-e. I rat km a first-clnss imih-r have refused to tings tiu're advertised. now in ch.iivc fur reserved I CIVci til' Kan- A hoavy in ihe Milh'y sns, Thursilny the three jiL-rsunv. The Southern I'mh raihvsy is to U- ci-vmi'ti-ted fmni Salt Lake City to this summer.

I in i i and llu- rk is K-iiig (inisft-utcd. vur is K-ing igorou-ly pr been known of Seymour was that the Sth of April he was Four children were burned to death in Memphis, in Denver, and intended to start east on tin- K. P. raiirond. on the evening of, the gth.

Mr. I Morgan, cashier of the Boulder bank, gave Capt. Seymour hi; in sec, on Saturdav r.ieht. of a lire 4 voiiiiicr miiK. cave apt.

a higher department in the Golden last.tute to be at the time advisee! the Captain cRargepfProf formerly Philadelphia, and thc old gentleman refused, and we. lately Principal of Burlington ilowa) Colleeiate Institute, to lake- a a i UK vm gt-iiueinaii rcuiscu, went i a i-; Principal of Burlmgton lowa) Collegiate Institute. sur mi.s«l here a Sevmour never left Denver alive as ii Irof. has a teacher experience of hfTeerj-years, and known that not on the K. i'.

train thc-nigbt of is the 1.ntm, i-mich, and German -Jan- the otli. '-M iev iny-tery'devcTlripeintsclf on Saturti.iv last. Some men coming to Golden from thc upper railr.w'd camp, i i'ucitic A in- 1 i A jjuagcs, speaking the latter fluently. Transcript. The whole of the iron necessary fot tlie completion of tlie JDem-er and Rio Grande Railway as far as Pueblo, left.

St. on the i8lh instant, which'should allow it all to arrive of uf (- covered the remains of near the hecuLo! the in time for the completion of the road in two weeks, unless the vei-y bad wash on the Kansas Pacific Railway should cause delay. The people of Pueblo are intending io ce-le the opening of Uw ttpihvay that town -by a Gram! Cealrai -says-j- Front- a gentleman-of this city, who has just retttmed from Fakplay, we learn that the roads Iwtfl-een here ant? (hat point are in fair condition and fwisKihle for all kinds of teams, ami that there 'are good prospects of a most successful 'mining season in the i'jtrk County this summer. Our informant says he on their way to Fair-play his return trip, and that hundreds be at, the mines as soon as the snow next south of Chimney Gulch, nlout one mile from i and reported the discovery to officers. Mr.

Ju-tice Allen, in the absence of ihe Coroner. r.nd M-oceeded at oiice to the spot. The remains were found out-ted under a pile i near thc bottom of the gulch, not far from its head, ami about forty feet from where the remains of another nvm-ivw found Scptcmiic'r, nnrf buried in the same manner. Two bullet were found in the skull, going to show that deceased had mur- dcred. lie had been a ni.in five feet inches in "eight, and locks of still in gotxl presen'ation.

are mines ot a ji nwvn A tn i wcre I0r 1 only articles alwuf the' Iwtlv that can serve io identify the i i which the eldest i i i i Thc freight i-f iJu- i Kailrond is said in l.t- Ivfi-rc. crease has also in tranic. rvf Pinstnn, hv .1 un Sundays. ian (kxt ai Shanghai. Judge I Jaw Icy.

of ihc L'nilt Slates Di-trict Ikravcr. a refjt's T' nnd s.l\.s tlmt no officer in rri'orv serve vt-nue. fcTrihc s'now'Tluk wood. Scseral miiK-rs were bunvl. uninjured except one, uho bad i i )r-g narrow escape-.

ard Th-ai's. The (Vminvon Cimncil passed an I lic library to keep the iv.idintj'rr« A lft'er fronV an Titiicer of says that Use Grand iHi.Ue. Alexis tii San l-'rancisco. fc is cnTciirred bvrt at aM to Link Cotton 'were ripened ien. All had icred man.

No money or valuable-, of C'olonc-1 City, w.is ass.i '1'Ju- found. Some- buftorrs found above i were the gulch, corres- to hav Work on the sicam wagon road, from (he Marshall coal h-' lt bociy had been dragged down the mounUin to the jrVmes, on South Boulder, to tlje Colorado Central railroadf place of inirial. The jury rendered a verdict in accordance ponding with those upon the clothing, would seem to prove body had been dragged down the mountain to the nt Golden City, is progressing rapidly ant? fav engine to run ihereon is expected by Ju favorably. The "engine to run thereon is" expected by June t. 'and the A'oad wj)l for it.

Tie eng4ne wiil -weigh-about i akive facts, so tJiat Uic whole aftair is uiost mystery. he following in the ton.s, and it is expected to make two round trips each I i l.iy, drawing twenty tons of coal at a load. The machine i rin Holel "Ji'ing the paM week 5s of Kngh'sh build and five or six hundred of the same ait- ton aift Kiclnnond, Pueblo and i i arrived at ame- N'cv tern are in successful use. A the English papers continue io dj 5 cus.s the treaty of with tmdimini.shed, interest, i and the editorials are inspired by .1 desire to pre- I vent the failure of arbitration and save the treaty. An article in tho Matt fatsi-tte s.ay» the whole ririft of feeling and opinion in England justifies the saying that thc worst 'thing with the is t.o save it.

as saving the treaty mcan.s jffenccvtnd humiliation to America or England, or means (he renewal a i nnt abatement of the i i it intendeil to a a How to s.ive the in-aty means who cnt the leek, or whether means cp.nnot i i i both parties shall agree to eat in each presence. American paper-appear to a i tile adoption of the supplrmenUi Sere There is onh one opinion, and i th.it i jnnd i ai once if the iiv-i'lv i i lii-rcw vn'K wife. Kansas City B. F. Krckafellow, anon i K.

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