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VOL,. 6. Mr. H. M.Condict, late editor of the lied Mountain Pilot, has taken a position on the Silverton Democrat. Colorado thin year produced und mar keted at good figure** over 5.000 bushels of strawberries— in quality not surpassed. The preliminary negotiations for that new railroad to Canon City are progressing favorably and satisfactorily. Actual work will soon be commenced. Mr. C. J. Peed, formerly editor of the' Pueblo Chieftain, has been appyinted by I Secretary Teller to a clerkship in' the gen- ! end land office at Washington. A deserved I President Arthur has decided tt> abandon ! his proponed trip to Yellowstone itarkjlcjv- J ing ascertained that r f he *u*,t aqd *»- * «1 aired in the construction uf set line to thi t resori v4ll be greater than be * anticipate'!. The Reporter is improving. With its miscellaneous matter published in the east, and its editorials furnished from the Rec- I obd office, it is making sOnic progress. If! it will now let u** liirni-h the local news, it would be quite a respectable paper. The county conium*»iou<ni adjourned on | Tuesday. The business transacted during | the *c*ffiou was all routine work—auditing ! bills and drawing warrants therefor, set tling with the county treasurer, examin ing the assessment, and the like. Mfwra. James Ferguson. I. W. liobtnson and others bave purchased the Coal Creek Entcrpriie. From the oahe* of the demo cratic Enterprise, Phoenix like, will rise a republican paper under a new name. The KECOKD extend* its br*t wishes to the new paper, coder whatever name it may be .urnchcd. The rainstorm win, h came upon ns ou Wednesday evening of ?n.vt week. and cou aoued almost unremittingly nntil Satur !ajr •fterno-.n, dul an immense amount of at***!. Giowiijr crops were r«-ftotdi<d. and he upon the rang*-* started into new :ife. u» the gratification of farmers aod lock men. v ~ v The election iu Utah, which occurs n^xN 1 month, will tent the polygamy law, known 1 ra the E«l!u;mds bill, L-.telyenacted l»v cou- It teas. The law prohibits polygamist* from voting or holding office. The question non i *a, whether or ‘.ot lh< low cun lie enforced, j The August election will be the iin»t test of bo matter. The statement of the United .State* tre.v . uirr shows gold, silver and United States rotes in the treatnry at x* follows: j lold icic ani -tailor* and boll 0n,5110,13.1,07-4 ; fractional stivercoin, 0,8 i; United -tattv. note*. 4M343.9?*'; t»ta .* OrtiAmtc* v OtatandinjK—<icdd, silver,s72,- ! - •. ■ • t aliform* gn«;>e yw»«-*. auch as tfcet hc**x •Is, K Ifanib :rg. Whitewater, Tokay and • then* whone names we do not now rrniem icr. Tht se grape* are ten let. an l have to i« covered during the winter, but they p:iv »r the troubl- They arc all very heavily odm with the largest bnwhr* of grapee, Mot being a f - t or mure long. Work realm: dy tor your own home in •ereds, this Grand Armv reunion and ex .omtion gala vrar for < .dorado ; but if any aan is caught saying aught against his neighbors, town ot county. “ shoot him on • llie spot.” Wo must not labor to destroy. , hot to build up, each other, and benefit mankind, by encouraging all «« enn to or- j copy with ns this gh.ritm* land „f sunshine Judge Dawson, of the superior court, of ; Denver, has lined Willard !'• ! »t * »•> 1 f ,- ‘ contempt Teller is < uins* 1 f-t 80-h. in 1 the rase of Tabor vs. Itudi, and in his an »wcr in said cause, in held by Judge Dawson, worked in < xtratirous delamatoi v mntter against the plaintifi: hem e the contempt Mr. Teller has appealed his e«-‘ to the siipren-e court, where it is likely to remain for a > ear »r non e Active preparation* are making at Den- | ver for the approaching Grand \rniy on mmpni. nl. k\ Camp Van D«r \ oort, rv. rvll.im: i. hrinjt P>'l rapidly in •bnpr The 8f»0 wall tents are all on the ground amt 1, in: put op. They ran awnmmmhitr r-o m 1(),IKID to 13.000ooM.rr*. Thelaixtnui tnirh rlrrtrir li«hta orr bvma pi uni In .oriliem. un.t thr muchimry 'ookmK. to feel thr worktnrn, began « icsdny. ________________ Mr Chart.* 11. Smith, thr grntlcmanly nroprirtor of tl.r Amrricall limirr,...! Dvn ,rr rrrtainly di.l Urn g.-nomna tt.ru. to vnr.tr tl." mr.nberr of thr Stntr l*n-M A« mrintion tort Tneatlay. Ho f'urmrhr.l pnr orr for the mrrtinß. nntl roornr and ho l| .t o tl.r in. tnlHtrn, frrr Sm'li Krnrpmly rhoul.t m-.ivr .lur rrcognltion from tl.r ,rrr» of thr rtntr. The Vmnienn lr now, „ It tv.r turn in thr part, onn of tl.r vrry brrt Urpt In tola in IVnvrr. The elect on of »’ W. Steele. of the Colorado Spring" Gnaette. to the presi dency of th« Colorado I’rens Asaodntton khm a erv proper tiling to do. Mr. Steele * a representive of tb« letter element of I Colorado journal hot. He is a gentleman of clrati personal cl»arnc|er, ami able and eonscientiouK in h * editorial work. His 1 -election a* president of the awormtlon a doulilo compliment —a compliment to nimand to the association that elected him. It having !>oen Charged that Ml Wbot »juvn Mr. 11 ill,government architect. $.>,000 [ ?4, Accept his (Tabor's) property for the lo- j cation of the proposed public building at Denver, Mr. Tabor pronounce# the charge I alne, mi vine: “The entire story in a lie, uude out o whole cloth, tnri whether it is •tmtod by Mr. Mott, or Mr. I Mott, or any body else, it is a lie, nil the name. So lor .a the location of the government building , n my land is concerned, Mr. Hill's skirts ■ire absolutely clear." Sudden departure fn n> the life of an bon- ,rrtl Christ inn gentleman, nnd Indulgence in gambling nnd drink, ban recently brought \!r. Charh*F. Fiahback.a promising young tawye.r, nn<l prominent official member ot he Methodint Episcopal church, of Lcad rillc, to disgrace and ruin. After having hr several week* indulged in these vices at Denver, borrowing money from friemln ♦<> oover losses, giving them chocks upon banka where be. hud no funds, and being once fur ihrtird by his church brethren with f tOOfro par creditors, and bide his s:n, a portion ot which money ho lost at the gaming table. Hi Wednesday Inst his household goods and hr* library wore attached,'and he arrested t*r obtaining mouny under fhlse pretenses. The Fremont County Record. THE GRAND COUNTY AFFAIR. Since last week's report of the assassina tion of the officers of Grand county, one of the wounded men—Mr. Webber— has (lied. There have been no new out breaks, nor have the two assassins been captured. Correspondents, representing the | morning papers of Denver, were sent over | there ; but they have had little to report, except conflicting accounts of the causes | hading to the tragedy anJ diversified opin- ; ions us to whom belongs the blame. There ) 1i:ls been a mud of long standing, growing [ out of election contests, comity scat re moval, land suits,and personal animosities; ! but, from what we have been able to learn ! on the subject, none of those questions ’ were so agitating the m.nds of anyone on the Fourth of July as to naturally lead to j ■ the bloody scenes then enacted. | It will be that Mills, one of *]>,• tin -O Vu r the * ~:ne. two . .jfi ~ie d.*putv ; county clerk, was insutntly killed. It :*p ! prai» now that he killed two men in Mis- ,‘ 1 siatippi several years .go, and had to flee ‘ the country. He was in Wyomiug for a time, and h:ul trouble there. Then he drift ed into the North park, and about two years ago became one of the county com missioners of Grand county. He was made • chsirmun ; and, supported *hy Wilson Wald- j ron. ran the county alfuira with a high hand. ’ U aklroii kibe la uiau last fill.and was put ! in jail. There were persons elected and appointed coaunissonere; but, on account of resignations and failure to act, it was some- ; time before a lull board was obtained, j Finally the board was complete, consisting j G. MilU, Harney Day mul 12. 1\ Wei? ,M ! r ' . two lattcr w «rkcd together, and Webber was rnada chairman in place of Mills. It in thought that while Mills and Waldron were running things, they issued many iile;rvl warrants and pocketed tlie pro ceed*. A* any rate, whi n Webber became chairman he announced that he was jeoing to investigate the county warrant business. When «u attempt was made to hold the first session thereafter, they were driveu from the courthouse by an armed ! mob, and were unable to get poss«-wsion of, tbe comity ’s books and papers This mob wu* led by Redman, who is supposed to ! have been oue of the CMwutsin.H, and who ' had often remarked that ho would kill i Webber. It is supposed now that Webber j and Day had coiuim octd an investigation ) of the county warrant business, or had an nounced their determination to do so, at 1 the meeting on Monday or Tuesday, and • that, to prevent exposure, Mills planned their Mwniiution, \uth results ns lx*foie published. This version o/ tbe matter appear* to ns to account for the matter better than any other we have seen, if it be true that Mills and Waldron had issued illegal warrants, it would seem reasonable that tbe fear of ex posure would lend a man of Mills’ cb a me- ! ter to plan desperate measures to prevent it. j Governor Grant has ottViel a reward of! SZW for the arrest of each and every per- j son who criminally participated in the as- 1 "White 'tvhvcr. iy,~wo visited j Anders artesian well, situated cn comer | of California and Colfax streets. The well | i* 37.1 lift deep, and flows a steady stream of water of about an inch in diameter. The water w perfectly clear, tree from nil i mineral, or any objectionable taste, of good i temperature for drinking. and is mid to l»e almost |»erlectly pure. There are now five other artesian wells at Denver, all flowing a good stream of water. There is some variation in the temperature of the water j Iron* t ;, »‘ different wells, none of them, however, being nnpleasantly warm for | drinking purposes, and all bring good, pure j water. Water from these wells is daily ; taken about the city for domestic purposes, « uml on every hand signs «rr ol** rvablc j announcing the fact that artesian water is ' umed in the manufacture of lemonade, soda and the like. People in largo numbers j daily visit these wells for vvntcr. Some go \ just* for a drink, others witlt little*. pails, I j tig**, kegs ami barrels ami take it away lor j lionie use. Many more w* 11s will In* Imred, and it is i probable that one will l»e lioret! m court- j house square, at the expense of the county, j it being the intention to make it a pro*- j pec ting well. This ml! is to lx» sunk some- i wherefrom 1,200 to 1,500 feet deep ami a j record kept of the formations passed! through. By such a plan it will lie demon- ; at rated just what underlies Denver, and much valuable information will probably Iks derived. This can lie done at trifling expense to the taxpayers, nml strikes us as a most commendable enterprise, j Denver has suffered greatly in the prist | from impure water, and oue of the grave i questions as to the future nl the city has I been relative to a supply of pure water for domestic purposes. The success of these I artesian wells, ami the quality of the water, bus unexpectedly, furnished n happy solu tion of that question. This artesian water discovery is invaluable to Denver. It would not be possible for anyone now to estimate i the benefit* to In* derived therefrom in the j future Other places suffering from itn j pure, or an inadaquate supply of water will ! l*.' encouraged to secure a similar boon. FLAX RAISING. Tlio Pueblo Chieftain l*elievea that t J»o j cultivation of llax in Colorado could ho ] lundc a groat ni; I profitable industry, and i ia surprised that tifarmers have not ox- 1 pen men ted in this* direction. The Chief- j tain says in many of the western states a | large n*rv:\ of flax is raised, hut the fibre is j not used, brine burned or allowed to rot.; Thearra of llnx planted in the western | states in was 1,1'27.300 acres, yet upon ! all this are:* no merrlmntable bax was ■ raised. The yield of seed was about H.000,-1 000 bushels, and the value about $1,000,000. i The total acreage el tlax in Europe. where j j the fibre is utilized, amounte d in 1-SMO to j 3,334,3*20, and the value of the fibre pro- i I dtaed to I yield per acre in (lax seed, therefore, in the j j western states was $7, as against an average yield in Europe of fibre alone of $33. ltel glnm, on an area one-eighth ns great as ; that given to flax in the western American states, annually produces (1,000,(KM) more; and France, with one-seventh of the area, produces annually $3,000,000 more. Here is an Industry worthy the serious attention of Colorado farmers There are indication* that the ; who nMMSsinnteri .Turtle Uouoh, at JoflYr p«n, Tex no, will eoinmit Anther atrocitiw j if the attempt i- • >..?«. o. convict them of | violating th- «'**. Thev twy they will co i. ' ' <«d, ami will kill i rverjrlxxly t r • nrieted. ! Tho mi It tv* *■ 1 •' governor to tlie* riotorm to* • ’ * A-»od , the families of \h« '<* »h« at. I starvation. Mon * ’ *** ’ rtlt^'J I their immediate in pear to h*' entirelr • .<’ CITY, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1883. THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. • The sixth annua! session of the Colorado , State Press Association met at the Ameri - can House, at Denver, July 10, the lbllow ■ ing memhciH being present: i John Arkins, Denver News, president; • j W. E. Pal/or, Colorado Farmer, k# cretary : I K. If. Tilnev. treat-urr; O 11. W angel in,' ! Boulder Herald ; Joseph Hoyle. Boulder ! News and Courier; K. L. Hayward, Long mont Le dge r ; C. P. Bryan, Idaho Spring* i Gazette: K. <f. Cooper, Denver Republican; i*. A. Leonard, Buena Vista Times ; Will .G. Smith, Golden Globe; George West, I Golden Transcript: G. T. Whitehead, Den j ver News; John Keller. Pomeroy’s Demo- : ' ‘-rr.t ; Halsey Rhoads, Kooky Mountain ' 1 I Herald : J. A. Chech . Evans Journal; j James Lorrens, Evans Journal ; J. I>. Dill- ! : I enback, Western NVvyapapej: Union ; E. J. i ; i ,; "rv*T. «iree!ry Tribune ; H. T. l**-: 1 FitH:;>»Kr<JcM»!mf ■ >■ ■ ♦-~T* i Gc.rgctown Miner; N. P. Bah'oeoek. Gun- j *•on >: A s.pt. mocrat; W*4>. h i„t. t'stE- ] »f>ni fC(inciv itev or.r»; C. A> itoynmnd, 1 I)' nver Tribune : A. H. Gorman, Colorado :! Springs Republic; E. A. Benedict, Idaho! 1 Springs News; Eugene Field, Denver 1 Tribune; George 11. Abbott, LeadviHe ' ( Herald: J. E. Lect, Denver Tribune ; How- > * aid Russell, St Elmo Mountaineeer; F. O. 1 Dickensheeta. Denver Republican; G. A. ' Webb. Fort Collins Courier; J. S. Dormer, \ 1 Central Register-Call; H. W. Steele, Colo- c | rado Springs Gazette; William Stapleton,' J Denver News; F. J. V. Skill*, Denver Tri- 1 i bune ; J. G. Brown. Denver Tribune ; IJ. J 1 ; M. Stevenson and Wolfe Londoner. ! Thirty-two new' members were admitted, c ; one ol nbom was Colonel E. H. Sawyer, o 1 i Gallon City. i The following officers were elected for | the ensuing year : President—B. W. Steele, Colorado Springs J Gazette. 1 b , Vice Presidents—George West and G. H. ! Abbott. Recording Secretary—W. E. Pnbor. Corresponding Secretary—C. T. Bellamy. Treasurer—Ed gene Field. ! Executive Commute—W. G. Smith. Gold iPn Globe; K. G. Cooper, Denver Ivepubii | can ; W. Stapleton, Denver New*. Hon. E. <». Wolcott was elected orator, j and (>. 11. I Cot hacker, ol' the Tribune, poet, I lor the next annual meeting. An invitation was received from the Cal- i iforma Association inviting the Colo- j r.do society to attend the semi-annual*] meeting in March, which was referred to • tfie executive committee. There being no orator or poet this year,! there was little done but routine work. 1 The excursion for Salt Eakc started at S • o'clock in the evening. MUAMI TKKIM. C'ufion City baa its many, if not more, shade tr#-*>* as any town of its size j n Colo rado. These trees are a great comfort, ar.d add greatly to the attractiveness of the ’""'n: bat, like most bh-s.sings on this * mundane sphere, they are not unallovcd blessings. ’ j We oofffdn’t and A-onWi’t do w?tkor* ! ttiTsh- r-rrrt irr*mi:fr» ~ • nuisance of uo small dimensions. As the j trees increnM* in size the crop ol cotton in creases, and the inconvenience from it be- ; comes more and more aggravating each j year. For a month past the atmosphere has>een - filled with cotton, and the end is not yet. ; it tills the air. .t is wafted into the houses; j it settles on, or st icka to. everybody’s clothes;; it penetrates the nasal organs; it is inhaled with the air we breath, in fact it is around, t on aud in everything. It ia omnipresent, i We would rather endure this storm of ' cotton than do without shade trees, but the Question is, shouldn't we commence pre- ! paring for a shade without the cotton. Box j elder, soft maple and various other varie ties of quick growing trees might be set ■ oat, and as they attained the proper size, j I the cot u*nwoods could t»e dispensed with. ■ ! It would pay an yon * properly situated ] jto attend \o it to secure from the east j jsever.il thousand 1 -vear-old trees of such J varieties as we have mentioned al>ove, { | and start a nursery of them, and as they ( \ Income large enough for transplanting on j i our streets, they could be readily sold for j i from fifty to one 100 per cent more than ; | cottonwood tree.** command, j Box elder and soft maple trees, one-ycar ] old. can l>e purchased of Nichols & lx>rton, j ■ l'awnport. lowa, and we presume ol many : other dealers, at s>d per I.oob. They are i . light, ami the freight would be trifling. Russian mulberry can be purchased ol the t same firm, of same age. for S2O per 1,000. ! Who will take hold of tins matter, and ! commence preparing for the future comfort and beauty of Cafion? There can bo no. , question about its being a paying invest ment. The freight on that class of trees, large enough to set out along the streets, is j very high They can U» purchased small, i i and grown to proper size here. No one j setting out shade trees would use the cottonwood, if the other kinds could Im* ob tained here readily of proper size. There is money, as well .is oomrnrt and beauty, in it. SECRETARY TELLER EXPLAINS. A Washington dispatch of the nth in stant says the origin of the plan agreed np |on last Saturday i published elsewhere in the IvKCORD' for the safe-keeping of the \pache captives. appears to htivc l*een generally misunderstood. The proposition j to place the police control of the San Car i los reservation in the hands ot the war dc . partment was mode hy Secretary Teller, I and not hy the secretary of war. In a con i versation Secretary Teller said : “There is •no foundation for the report, that, if the i arrangement agreed upon proves succcm- I ftil. the control of all the Indian agencies will eventually l>c transfer!ed to the war • department.” He denies that any such course is contemplated, and says the prin cipal reason for placing General i rook s captive* under th* supervision of the war department is because that department has the money necessary to keep them, while the department °«* the Interior has none." "The San Carlos agency,” the secretary added, “will he maintained as heretofore, except that the military "ill have entire charge of the police control and especial charge of the \ pnchc captives.” THE PRESS EXCURSION. Mr. and Mrs. II T. Blake aud W. B. Fel- | ton went to Denver Monday night to at- j tend the meeting of the State Fres* Amo elation on Tuesdny. Ou Tuesday night Mr. ; and Mr* Blake started on the excursion to j Kilt l ake City. The excursion went by I Knyof the Denver and Bio Grande, and l Will return o'c-i the Union l'aeifie. It was oxported to reach Salt I«akeOity last, night, spend two days there, seeing the plura’itv system, and reach Denver next Tuesday afternoon. There were about sixty excur tjnista on board the traiu. which con*.sted or two sleepeta and one jaMwcnger coach. It * sfbhe ft very enjoyable trip. There is talk '• *>rei*t exrnmion to California in March. A BIG (???). Stock of CrH and the Urn Just before j received news of the cap head of stolen cattle at . Ik creek, near St. Elmo, 5 and the arrest of five pf tli doing the stealing. j The particnlai re as fol- J lows: When lh' ' over, in j I’ark county, on dson and ! I’ark Mnlock, so who had i ! suspicions that :tle had j i Iteen taken star 4 em, and j i found them the men i j arretted, and t.fl *hey had ! i a prettCLinwry el J ; «*»«•» rift* i riafai J Ahuu y. J cnptnred b:l 9 ,«i to jjo1» . hahtnce U\ J?ll. fct .«»h, V to who ever holds tbe.oJ and. It Is fnipposctTTha • driven away early in J p Chalk creek, Where th -in, and been busily eng; . brands, to avoid detect;' A skillful hr.r on, can readily change b . . . owm rs | cannot recognize ae cattle j cm bo kept out :ure has healed the fresh . iced the j usual growth oi . nee, the < Muloek brand is j, tg a eir- i tie around the bt .?.■ in a/ldi- | I tinnal line or U\ - inverted' i into n “W” in : . 4 brand, I*o. II.,” was eh; . . J". (lie Mavt.l brand, \\ h changed { to *-90” \ There w?uradi> iniaPcn ver paper Tlu;rs • re was ru- I mor that two a clied at Fairplny. It is ) ii-of these cattle thieves m?i ed. i Ti The rain of ha -table to I this section of t ~ile this ' reason has l»een ’ ... j n •j,..' northern portion >. _ this sec- j I tion it has 1 >een r. Farmers i j along the Arkart plenty i I of water for irrfy.; I crops; • i hut farmers dep. m creeks j for water have ha , rc or i^ vS i [ damaged from lac * ,-r* on the stock rat)gos was , . . - t , ensions i wore entertained ... hut that! .storm has set al t. It com-1 menced raining V m, and i kept it n|» almost t<;*.lSatur day cveniug. it- . souk-! ing rain. If that deads: ■ u ;ost(of? which we gave , » week •. | brought the rain . ■ Hr never! convinced that do # ’ mau . agc*l ) are of rnachi * JT ‘' Irvcouos. * \ ■ w , • V <K jri pronanty som> « or ic<-* washed by water : lieu- , ry Harrison had 'v of hay destroyed, but «ai • • ' hiirc got caught in ti.-.t \ uown, in - time,about that sr > f • uungup. 1 The Cafiiui C»t: . Should tlx their ditch -u ’ break at every storm. Th ' t«*h has been put in sac > lit ion by; Dr. J. L. Prenti: ; damaged | by such storms : . ; 1 He has fl timed undt P*'.t in ! overshoots and j* v ‘ t.«t»-s at various jtoiut* al . ‘ that all j ! trouble is avoided »' waste ■ pates are ingenu : When i the water in the _ n i*-. certain ; point these pates open, and t. .ter es- j | capes, doing no damage. V.'e wot., rrcotn mend Dr. Prentiss to the Canon City Ditch j Company. THE APACHE QUESTION. I Secretary Teller. Secretary laneoln, Gen- j , «*ral Crook anil Price, commissioner ol In- i dian a flairs, had a **on|ere.i< e at the war ! department on the afternoon of the 7th. in j 1 regard t° the disposition ol the captured . Apache Indiana, when tl* following agree- I 1 mcut was arrived at: Memorandum, result of the conference , betTreen the secretary of the interior, the I commissioner of Indian affairs, the “ccre , tary of war and brigadier General Crook, f i Jnlv 7. ISS.v In view «tf im* difficulties ; fninuntiml in making a s. it is factory dis position of the Apache Indians, recently i captured by General Cnok. inder the ex isting methods of the aduiuistration, it is , determined by the secretary f war and the secretary of the iuterior, after due consider ation. that the Apache Indians recently : captured by General Crook, and all such as may l>e hereafter capture'?, or may surren- I d* r themselves to him, shill In* kept under 1 the control of the war department at such i {mints on the San Carlos reservation as may I Ik* determined by the wir department -- • but not at the agency wifnont the consent I of the Indian agent—to ffd and cared for by the war depot tine further 1 order*. For the greater Mwnnty of the | people of Artxona, and to ins.ire jhiicc, 1 1; c< : war department shall lie trn trusted with , the entire ]*olico control of ail Indians on the San Carlos reservation, and charged with the duty of keeping tkc peace on the ! reservation, and preventing the Indians i from leaving it, except with the consent of (General Crook, or the miner who may be authorised to act under him, I The war department slnill protect the ! Indian agent in the dischprgf ot his duties . as agent, which snail includd the ordinary j duties of the Indian agent, which shall re main as heretofore, except as to keeping ! the peace, administering justice, and pun i lulling refrac'tory Indian*. ;dl of which shall be done by the war department, a* above ! stated. t Signed.) KoiUUtT T. UXCOI.N, Secretary of War. Hkn-ky M. Tki.lkr, Secretary of the Interior. COMPLIMENTARY. This work's Reporter contain s. » two-1 column editorial. entitled ” l 1 nut," which j was written l»y the editor of the Rk'*ouik . Wo enjoy writ an; editorials for the Ke- . porter, and shall Ih> happy to famish the j editor of that paper with arti« lew, any time in thoTatinv. when Ins "soil iu«* run dry.” i lujv.i greenbaokers met in state con\en tiwn. at IVs Moines, Wednesday. tutd nomi nated a ticket. Hon. J. It. Weaver is the nominee for governor; Stanford Kilpatrick. < for lieutenant governor; lk W- t hnrvh, for supreme judge*; and Miss Ahbie O. Can- ; Held, for public school superintendent. ! Mr. Harry Kmrhart, who .pent aorne ! time iu Ci*Hon for his health. died at ivl ' ;>hi. India no. of consumption o* Inly A PLEA FOR WOMEN. I In ancient times the law of superior j physical strength was the rule ot* life. • Whoever could conquer another was his i master. With the progress of society this j slavery has been so modified that men are , nee, ill Christian countries; yet women j arc still in astute of dependence. Whoever j examine, with an unbiased mind, the j history ol this law of force must admit that j it is the ultimate origin of the present in i' Jeriority of women. The advancement of j the race has been so invariably attended t by the amelioration of the condition of | women that social philosophers ha.c i adopted their elevation as the measure of j | the civilization of a people. In the growth ; ot civilization all the old notions of the ! ’ superiority .if either sex is fast becoming ! I er.*d:e::**»d. A nation f -tqpies elevated in | aocon anco with its higher estimation of i the character of its women. The aggregate ! female mind and character is an iudex to the character of men. The true ad vancement of the race demands the ad vancement of the sexes. Women are ap proaching nearer and nearer to equality with men in all the vocations of life, and th- signs of the times indicate that they are destined to become man's eqnai in every respect, except physical strength; and no civilised nation will admit Jorce as a ruling principle. History has already shown that when it has been the privilege of a woman to occupy a high position,,whether political or social, her ability has almost invariably been fully * adequate for th<- place. We have few ex- j amplest of reigning queens, in comparison with the number oi kings; yet a greater proportion ot them have been famed lor the skill and intelligence ot their administra tion. Magaret, of Austria, made governor ot the Netherlands by Charles V, was one oi the ablest politicians of her day. Eng- • ! »•> proud of her present queen. Cath v- ue 11, of Russia, is considered the great est monarch that has sat on the throne of that country since I'tter the Great. Maria Theresa, empress of Bohemia and Hungary, led her own army, and managed her affairs, with such vigor and address that the monarchy ol Europe bowed in admiration. ! [>'■ . •: r. - qoeena, who have taken great personal interest in gov- j eminent and war, we cite only Dido, the i ' founder oi Carthage; Zenobia, the queen of Asia Minor and Egypt, who led her ownfi battles. and endured tr.e labors of the field ' - like her eomrnon soldiers; Boadicea, queen j of the K: itisli barbarians, w ho. when her L husband was t.tken captive, assumed the • . leadership of the army, and deafeated the j Rom 11 legions : Margaret of Anjou, in the I war of tlie Rases. If women can govern f with such tact and wisdom, have not they 1 j tht* uu ntal cajiacity for any minor calling? !| With the ancients, file's political and m>- 1 cial position-whether patrician, plebian, 1 1 or slav.—was determined by his birth. The j political disability of women is the single! example of the kinfrT*SßJXfv r t * guide. witiTouF r*-- ri' tion by legislation? j There would be more force in the argument ■ t if marriage were «»u equal conditions; but ! in these days the husband has the greater t , legal power. In business partnerships one J j person cannot have exclusive control of af-! j fairs; why should it be so in domestic alii- j ances? Until within late years women j have been taught to believe that the ideal j f of female character is almost the opp>>site j < of that ot men : not self-control and self-, ' reliance, but submission and dependence. ! They have been governed by custom and . ? general opiniou too long. Let them rejoice ; 1 that this nineteenth centurv is the begin- ! i uing of the age of free thought and inquiry ' for them, as the seventeenth was for men. Liberal education is their grand aid to fit , r them for the duties of hie. Thank God j f that educational ad vantages are increasing, j Italy deserves to be immortalized for first responding to their call for systematic edn- f cation. There is a growing interest in the . ? practical training of women for business, j In no age have they been so eminently ; honored for their personal merit as in this. 1 It is not enough to be good ; they must be j j good for something. Those women who can 1 take care of themselves are no drag on so- ! ciety. and are respected according to their ’ < ability. The world is testing this by free ' 1 competition, and they are proving that , . ability by the fact of success. Medicine and i teaching are the principal professions open j on a large enough scale to make such facts ! of much value, although a good reconi is ; being made in law, theology, and the arts. ; : ' Discourage cot women trow studying med ; icine, a profession which is of so much value j in the home ; or any other profession which j will so greatly increase their sphere of use- j fulness. Women, without medical diplo- > mas, have won the cognomen of ** minister- i : ing angels ; ” but arc tacitly proving that! j they prefer to l*c commou clay, with them. ! j Eighteen huudred and cighty-ouc will be memorable as the usher of the millennium in a different souse from Mother Shipton’s 1 , pfophocy. It was the usher of the politi- ! cal cnfrancliiscmeut of women. The Isle of l I Man has sounded the first note : austere \ j Russia has partially fallen into line ; and j • England and the United States are prepar ing to follow. Woman a heroism and patri otistif have been fttlly demonstrated iu the ' religious and secular revolutions of the j world. What better complimeut to the | heroism of Amcri. iu women than that paid , ; by a foreign officer to the mother ol* Wash j ington: ** It is not surprising that America • can produce great men. siuce she cau boast [ of such mothers." The United States has : complimented w*.man's patriotism by | choosing Mm. Yiuuie Kcuni Hoxie to make j I the statue of its naval hero. Admiral Far- , i ragut ; and Acne Whitucy, to represent 1 • its statesman hero iu marble. Consider the ; great advancement made by women iu the | present century —in art, science, literature, j 1 philosophy, philanthropy—aud say whether j their prospect* are not bright for acting a | ; grand part in the Unlory of eteh Uw now future; whcthei they shall n-H mmu OttttPJ > the poeitiou to which they are morally en titled. as mans compeer—the position of ■ with him in all relations of life, 1 and enjoy all the privileges of civilised and ! Christianized citizenship. A mm: V. smith, B. L. I Canon City. July t>, ISB3. I The l"»envcr Times says the recent rise* of [ the I'htte river is said to have killed ucar ,Jy all the young tnuu in the caftou. This i happened once before, soiuo four or live j years ago. It will not a fleet fishing this i year, but will to a eonsideruble extent the ‘ two succeeding years. It is expetCil that SwwUuy Folger will M>on issue a call for SI.‘»,tKH),IKX) bonds. The New York banks oppo?.e it. but the money I :s accumulating steadily iu the treasury, ■ and unless bonds nr® railed in there is dan ger of a monetary stringency in the msr • kots. _ 1 There are in Utah to-day 160,000 people. ' Of these 140,000 are Mormons, but oni> }s .000 are polygamists STATE NEWS. Denver had a baby show this week. Poncho Springs has ninety-nine school children. The assessed ruination of Ouray county is 5600,000. | Halida will soon have a post of Grand Array veterans. The assessed valuation of Bonlder county this year is $4,500,000. A colored Baptist society has just been ! organized at Lcadville. Halida base ballists got badly beaten at ’ T-f-adviUe last Saturday. ) Humor has it that the South Pueblo ; j News is to be resurrected. T a Pi *ta county will not make any ex- j ; hiblt at pti4T.gr thniyear. \ Qcuna Vista’s hose terra tvo'.i the prize at Fairphiy, on the Fourth. Mr. S. I>. Morrison, a Colorado pioneer, died at Denver on Saturday. The Denver and Rio Grande company is building stock yards at Salida. A large number of bee trees have been found in the foothills near Denver. San Juan county covers 600 sfjnr.ro miles, and has 20,000 mining claims. A Santa Fe brakeman fell under his train at Pueblo, ou Monday, and lost a foot. "William Lewis has been acquitted on the charge of killing “ Indian Bill ’’ at Parrott i City. Professor Praia has tendered his resigna tion as president of the School of Mines faculty. The assessed valuation of San Juan county this year is $1,600,000, against $600,- 000 last year. A new process crusher and smelter is be •ine completed at Denver, by Messrs. Smith, Hibbard & Co. J The twenty-fimi anniversary of the dis covery of gold in Colorado will becelebrat j ed next September. Dave Day has been arrested for contempt of the county court of Ouray county, or one of the judges thereof. O H. Rothakcr, editor of the Denver Tribune, has returned from Chicago, ac companied by his wife. ? The Rio Grande company ia erecting a “handsome passenger depot at the Bessemer steel works, South Pueblo. J Captain Dean, who was shot in the Grand Lake fraas. still survives. He is very sanguine tMt he will recover. One W. 11. Sutcliffe, who seems to be a sort of religious crank, has been exciting spine notice in the Denver press this week. f \\ .11 S. Young, late mineral clerk of the L nited States land olllce, Denver, has been ' discovered iu the embezzlement of S6,OX). During the past quarter Leadville pro ti .Xi- iiow'... :* r.g aiioct fat t> lo.at jrtp. ■ congratulates herself that she nok has a cemetery. i The .projected Leadville, Fairphiy and Mount Sterling Short Line Railway scheme has burst like a bubble, the bonholders being ** left.” A new ditch company is being organized a* Salida. to bring warer on the entire park, east side of the river, between Salida and Browns caflon. Town Marshal Rowan, of Pitkin, was stabl>ed on the night of the 4th by George McKinley, a saloon keeper. The marshal received four cuts. Robert Pitkin, son of onr estemetl ex governor, has made quite a favorable re cord at Yale. He is now spending his va cation in Colorado. The killing of the Grand county commis sioners and county clerk on the Fourth is already creating a sentiment that the coun ty should be abolished. The Leadville Chrouicle predicts that the value of the output of the carbonate camp for the year ending June 30, ISS4, will be in excess of $25,000,000. A Pueblo lady went to Colorado Springs on the Fourth, locking her children np in the house, and was prevented by the wash out from getting home until the night of the otb. Officers of the law ha\e been having % high old time with eattie thieves in the vicinity of St. F.lrno and Tin Cup lately, and quite a number of thie\e« have been arrested. Colorado Sprngs was visited on the Fourth by *2.f>oo people from Pueblo. A washout ou the Denver and New Orleans detained about 1.400 of them at that place I until the sth. The Indies' Auxiliary society will form a national organization during the session of the Denver national encampment, and the Academy of Music has been secured for 1 their meeting. The J. B. Orman hose company, of [ Pueblo, won the straightaway race, ot* 700 I iVet, at the Santa Fe tertio-millennial. on | Wednesday, in 25$ setonda. Thus heating the beat time on record. The national flag of the glorious old Maa saehusetts First, borne through the reliel lion. will be a feature of the national en • oampment. at Denver. The flag is in a \crv good state of preservation. A washout on the Denver and Kin ! Grande. »*outh of Colorado Springs, on Fri -1 day of last week, detained several trains tit that place over night. All was repaired, and trains were rnoxiug again on Saturday. | The Brunswick & Balke billiard table manufacturing company is preparing for a grand tournament at beuver during the 1 Grand Army encampment, the conte>tants 1 to be SehivtVer, Sexton, Wallace uud Morris. ! The Gospel Temperance Society, of LVn- I v«r, has changed its name to that of the " Denver Temperance L’uion.” Its presi dent, Mr. Behyiuer, will soon make a tour of the state, iecturiug iu the larger towns. In Buena Vista there are so\en candi dates for shentV. five for clerk aiul recorder, j two tor treasurer, two for coroner, four for t county judge, two for assessor, three for county commissioner, and four lor county superintendent. 'i The Denver mml Rio Grande Railway is { now compleU'd vo Wagon Wheel Gap, and ' i trains arc running regularly. The comple- \ ! turn of the read to the Gap opens t*» the j 1 public what is sure to become the most j popular watering place in the v cat. \lr. M. K. Puat, of the finu of stehbiiS,! i*oat A l\».. bankers of Cheyenne, Wyoming, , and Silver Cliff, Colorado, havmg purchased ; , the interest of Mr. Stebbios, the tlriu uatpo has been c iangcd toM. E. l’ust 4b Co., un ! der which buaiueM will lie continued. ! Buhop Simpson, of the Muihodist Ki>la copal church, who is uot in g«M»d health, ; will spend the summer traveling with hb» daughter in Colorado. The Methminta of t Colorado will, no doubt, give this vcaerablv and girted prelute a suitable O'ception DOMESTIC NEWS. Seven deaths from sunstroke a? Phila delphia on Sunday. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will spend the i summer in California. Archbishop Purcell’s remains were bnriod at Cincinnati on Wednesday. Galveston has yellow fever, and her citl ' rens aro thoroughly alarmed. I A general strike of telegraph operators is threatened, to occur next Monday. A hail storm in Dakota, on Tuesday, destroyed 5,000 acres of growing crops. A cold wave struck Chicago on Sunday, bringing overcoats and fires into requisi ! tion. Another fifty-mile section of the North ; er jx Pacific railroad ha* hues «eeepted by the President. Recent rains along the line of the North ern Pacific railroad have been beneficial to the growing wheat. The commercial travelers of the United States held their annual convention at Cleveland this week. The New York board of Aldermen passed the laborers’ Saturday half-holiday measure over tho Mayor’s veto. Democrats carried Annapolis, Maryland, at a municipal election on Monday—for tho first time in many years. There were fifty-one cases of mmstroko in New York on Saturday last—thirteen fatal. Mercury reached 97°." The works of the Bethlehem, Pennsyl vania, Iron Company are closed, »r.d 2,200 men are idle in consequence. The Western Nail Association baa de cided to clu»e down for one mouth to pro vent any depression in prices' Portland, Maine, is somewhat ancient herself, having on July 4th celebrated tho 250th anniversary of her settlement. Vessels arriving at Pensacola from in fected porta must remain in quarantine until the lrost kills the yellow fever germs. Governor Hale, ot Wyoming, who is very :!1 at Colfax Springs, lowa, begins to show favorable indications of a return to health. Chief Moses has agreed to relinquish his reservation in Washington territory. About 2.000,000 acres will thus be opened to set tlers. The Tennessee state prison, with its eon ' labor, has been leased to a coal and iron company for six rears, at 5101,000 per annum. The contempt prisoners at Santa Fe bar® been released, and the disputed mining pro perty is in the hands oi Hon. W. C. Bitch, receiver. The wheat and oats in Wisconsin, lowa mnd Minnesota are doing well, and pro mise a large crop, bat the corn and barley are suffering. At a Milwaukee tpinwram ceipt.i increased £.540,769 during the first week of July when compared with the last week in Jnne. The Sir Kinghts of Apollo commnndery, Knights Templar, of Chicago, accompanied by several eastern lodges, leave New York to-day for Europe. A demand for an increase from two and oue-halfto three cents per bushel for mining caused a number of Springfield, Illinois, coal mint's to close. Several buildings were wrecked by a tornado at Cimarron station, Kansas, on the Santa Fe road, last Wednesday. No persons were injured. A vessel with yellow fever on board has been forced to anchor twelve miles off Gal veston, and her officers forbidden to euter that port this summer. The sugar commissioners, sent to th « Sandwich Islands to look up alleged, swindling operations, have returned, having discovered nothing fraudulent. John S. Prince was defeated in a twenty mile race at Rochester. New York, by H. W. Hi gam. an English wheelsman. Time, 1 hour, 9 miuutes seconds. A tornado struck Soldier City, Kansas, on Wednesday, and wrecked a number of buildings. Three women and one child were killed and fillet, u persons were injured. Several of McGeoch’s Chicago creditors decline to accept his proposition for a set tlement on a basis of fifty cents <m the dol lar. and the scheme is likely to fall through. All is quiet at Ely, Vermont, and the military have gone home. The dcstituto people have been provided for, and work on the mines will uot be resumed at pres ent. The captain and lieutenant of the Salva tion Army, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, have been fined and placed under bonds to ;do no more street parading. They have I appealed. j Destructive forest fires are racing in i Oregon, and it is believed they will oon ( tinne until chocked by rain. Two hundred : thousand dollars worth of property has been destroyed. The officers of the Philadelphia Dispen sary are asking for the photographs of two men styling themselves Professor Campbell J and IVietor Darling, who are victimizing the western people. Zion's savings bank at Salt Fake City ■was entered Tuesday afternoon by two meu. who knocked the cashier down, and got away with what gold w.q> in sight. The i amount taken is no* StßßVtll J The reports of the special agents of tho general load office have unearthed a largo number of cases of fraudulent entrio*. I About f>6.000 acres of flue lamb hav« been ! restored to the public domain. The decision of the {Ofttiflbster general upon the subject of mail matter for tho lottery managers is averse, ami h© direct* i that all registered letters ami money or •* j ders be returned to the senders, i Large numbers of pauper emigrants are being brought by tho Allen lineof steamers into Canada, and from there forwarded to the United States. The authorities at Wash , mgtou say there is no law to prevent ti. The quarantine Along tho Texu» coast, against the yellow fever port* of Cuba and Mexico, is the most rigid arul exacting ever in existence there. So cnee* of lkv« have yet beeit reported at any point in. Texaa. The Navajoes number 27.000, with 10,« 000 able tc bear arm*. They art* eery wealthy in itook, that of Mann Situ reported to l»C not less tlmo IXMi.OOO. Tho Vavnioo agency is forty-live miles from Fori Win gate, New Mexico. The effects of the ln*at in New York hi 1 creased the deal h rate. One tltmtmimi sad fifty persons died during the past week against 710 for tho previous week, so in ! crease of nearly nicy ja r cent Hlx hundred i and seventy-two «d» idreo under § ym*t af age died during H*» week. XO. 28