In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Thursday, November 13, 1884
Page: 2

IN AND AROUND TOWN

There were few who could have painted the town in white the day after the election, but have finally concluded to accept the inevitable.

A. S. Baker and wife leave tomorrow for St. Louis to attend the Cattle Grower's Convention, which is held in tht city next week.

We were presented last week with a fine specimen of workmanship in the way of a pen rack, which was executed by the skillful hand of J. E. Fisk.  When it comes to a horseshoe he knows what is wanted.  Good luck to you, Joe, and the horses you shoe.

There is some talk of sinking a prospect hole up in the narrows to thoroughly determine whether coal can be had here in paying quantities.  Such an enterprise ought to meet with encouragement from us all.  The demand for coal here is large and being so far from any mine, we are liable to expereience a famine in that article at any time.

L. W. Kimball starts to St. Louis tomorrow to bring back the trotting horse which has been bought for his use by the Fort Morgan Live Stock Company.  It is said to do the mile in something less than three minutes.  When he gets this fancy animal here he will take great pleasure in throwing the dust in our eyes, no doubt.  Well, we had as soon as it would be him as any one we know of.  But we had rather he would drop all that wild Texas look which invariably covers his face whenever he mounts his wild and dangerous bronco.

Mike Haigley reports that the fire that has been raging on the range southeast of us has burned over a tract of country extending from the Little Beaver to the Ricaree.  But lately a large drove of rawhides were turned on to this range, and the outlook for them, and other stock drifting on to that section for winter feed, is starvation.  Mr. Haigley thinks, from the fact that many distinct fires were going at once, that the range was set on fire with malicious intent.  Attempts so far to subdue the flames have been unavailing, and they are still raging to the east of us.