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Colorado. Idaho Springs has a band of eighteen pleces. Burlington, in Eastern Colorado, has just had completed a $10,000 flour mill. The coke ovens at Crested' Butte are running to their full capacity. Sheriff Lovell of Yuma county was assaulted by foot-pads while in Denver recently and he was severely hurt, but the robbers were scared off before getting any booty. Thomas and Herman Chase and Freeman Chase, their cousin, have been arrested for murdering Asa P. Beam, postmaster at Lansing. A detective who has been working on the case claims to have good evidence against them. It is circumstantial. Gunnison county reports shipments of 25,000 fat beef cattle during this year, netting about $260,000. One stockman, named William Bnyder, shipped a whole train load of sixteen cars last week. This from one of Colorado's mining counties. Crooked Creek, six miles east of Buena Vista, is assuming some importance as a mining camp. The velns are reported to be large and well-defined, between granite and quartzite walls. Ore taken from the different claims will run from 83 to $150 per ton. Colorado College has just received a gift of 87,750 from Mr. Henry Cutler, of North WIIbraham, Massachusetts. Mr. Cutler is one of the trustees of the college and one of its oldest friends, and has always been a liberal contributor to this Institution. After him Cutler academy was named. The State Bank at Julesburg closed Its doors December 2. Oscar Liddle, who is cashier, made an assignment of all property, both real and personal, to Peter Peterson. While it was not unexpected, still quite a number of people are caught for small amounts. It is not expected that It will In. volve other business houses. George Richardson, a miner employed at a the Loveland coal mine, near Golden, sustained what will probably be fatal injuries Wednesday forenoon. He was setting off a blast in one of the stopes, and, while dea scending a manhole to get out of its way, a rope broke and precipitated him to the bottom of the shaft, a depth of thirty feet. He was at once taken to his home and medical aid summoned. On examination It. was found that his back was broken. The prospects for his recovery are considered to be doubtful , indeed. A Denver company proposes to make cement out of stag. The patent applied for is for "Disintegrating furnace slag." The disf integrated slag contains all the elements of k Portland cement. The slage is taken from the d furnace in a liquid state and is poured into = pits prepared for the purpose, charged with the Anthony process. In this process is concealed the sucret upon which Mr. Anthony bases his claim for a patent. During the subsequert cooling process the perfect disintegration occurs, resulting in the obtainment of a fine white palpable powder. An after process converts the slag into Portland cement.