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been mining engineer, has appointed chief of police of Denver. The Silver Cord mill at Leadville was burned on the 17th. Loss $15,000. The Denver Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the address adopted by the silver convention. The striking switchmen at Pueblo have agreed to go to work. but some of them will lose their positions it is thought The big merchants of Denver have started a movement to induce their landlords tolower rents. which are too high for the hard times. The coroner's jury has decided that How. ard. who was murdered near Pueblo recently, came to his death at the hands of Indian Joe, tough men who has a bad record He is under arrest. Bush & Tabor, who run the Brown Palace and Metropole hotels at Denver have assigned. The total amount of assets involved in these assignments is $2,222,909.90 while the liabilities of all the firms involved amount 0 $641,334.66 The People's Savings Bank. the Rocky Mountain Dime and Dollar Savings Bank and the Colorado Savings Bank of Denver falled on the 17th. There had been a steady with drawal of deposits and the banks could not realize on their securities Their deposits amounted to about $2,000,000. At an early hour Saturday morning the Aspen house at Aspen. owned by J. T. McCarthy, was burned to the ground with all its furnishings. Several boarders were forced to jump from the windows in their night clothes Loss $7,000. Insurance 83,200 An explosion of it lamp in the hall is supposed to be the origin. Denver Markets-Eggs ranch 16c, state 17c: butter. best creamery 23@24c, dairy 17c; hav. upland baled 812@$15. second bottom 11($12:alfalfa $7.00: wheat 85c: corn, bulk 75c sacked 87c: oats, $1.18, sacked $1.21 potatoes $2.75: cattle. choice steers $3.00 @$3.50. cows $2.15@$2.85. native feeders $2.00 @$2.75; hogs, choice $5.70: spring chickens $3.50@c$5.00per doz: bens. 12c State Engineer Kramer has been called upon by the farmers of Larlmer county to deside a knotty question R. Q. Tenny, the water commissioner, has issued an order closIng the headgates and shutting off the water from the ditches The question comes under the law of priority. which It Is said will cause trouble before the water supply can be properly distributed In compliance with a petition presented to the commissioners of Pueblo county by over 1,000 citizens, that body decided to have the grading and filling necessary for the completion of the Fourth street bridge over the Arkansas river done by day laborers, under direction of the county road overseer. instead of letting it out on contract. There is large amount of work to be done and laborers are delighted with the action of the commissioners. The Western Colorado Investment Com pany, which is to put down two wells in the vicinity of Grand Junction. has been sending out leases to all the ranch owners for signatures. The returns have begun to come in, and leases for more than 1,000 acres of land have been filed with Colonel Grout As soon as the percentage of land under lease becomes ufficiently large the machinery will be brought here and the work of boring for water will be begun. F. M. Goodykoontz state auditor and superintendent of insurance. has issued his report for the year ending Dec 1892. The report snow that during the year of 1892 fire insurance risks were written to the amount of $103,168,403.69 as compared with $93,519,766. 16. the previous year. The premium receipts were $1,721,483.74 The losses paid increased from $573,139.42 in 1891 to 806,481.04 In 1892. The business of the life insurance companies IncreasedFrom $16,025,740.25 to $18,598,881 98. The premium receipts decreased from $1,422,422.66 to $1,272,023.09 The investigation into the disappearance of Henry Howard at Baxter station. near Pueblo, revealed the fact that he had been murdered. After making a close examination of the premises the work of excavating the well began. This was a laborious task as the well was twelve feet deep. and after the body of the murdered man had been thrown in it had been tilled with posts, rubbiah and earth. The body was found at the bottom in a much decomposed state. but was readily.identified as that of Henry Howard. The upper part of the head was crushed, that part of the skull being broken into small pieces. indicating that several blows had been inflicted to complete the work of murder. The body had on no clothing except shirt and drawers, and is belleved the man was attacked at night while asleep. A horse, cart. harness and dog belonging to Howard, together with the contents of the house, excepting the bed, have disappeared. with no indications as to what direction It has gone. Belmont Holdredge, a tramp section hand, met with a most pecullar accident ten miles Denver on the Kansas Pacific railway Sunday morning. He was stealing a ride on the pilot of the engine on an incoming freight train. The engine ran into a cow and the tramp and the cow were thrown ten feet to one side of the track. The trainp struck the ground first and the cow descended upon him. The weight of the beast in falling broke his.leg. and he with great difficulty extracted himself from his perilous position. His escape from more serious injuries was remarkable. The engineer saw the accident and stopped the train and brought Holdredge to Denver where he was placed in a hospital. The switchmen on the D. & R. G. At Puablo struck on the 10th. They demand the discharge of the yardmaster, William Crooker.
