The Lamar register., 1891-11-28
WESTERN NEWS NOTES

The Colorado Normal School has
l54 pupils in attendance
A seven-year-old Leadville boy gets
intoxicated by inhaling the fumes of
gasoline.
There is lively war in progress at
Telluride between rival electric light
companies
The Colorado Midland has com
meneed ruuing two trains day across
the mountains
Bonds of the Atlantic-Pacihc tunnel
company have been hoated in New
York 10 the amount OF $3.50, 900.
The Mining Congress in Denver was
a great success The enthusiasm for
the free coinage of silver was IN
bounded.
Hunters in Green Mountain Falls
and vicinity are having the opportun-
ity of trying their skill on deer, which
are often seen in the vicinity Of that
village.
The district court that has been in
session at Las Vegas for three weeks
6nds that all its work is useless as the
juries were not called in the manner
prescribed by law.
Five Mexican women and three men,
convicted at Las Vegas of violating the
Edmunds act, were taken TO Santa Re
by q United States marshal and placed
il the penitentiary 10 serve sentences
varying from three to twelve months.
Two OF the women carried young
babies with them
Denver Markets. Egg-29G27c;
Butter-Jersey creamery 26CdS3; dairy
22c; Hay-new upland s13(ds14, sec
ond bottom sS(Gs9; alfalfa $500:
Wheat-sl so ? 100 MS oats-s1.oS
(6Sl 10; New potatoes-65c a zoe
2 100 rs; Cattle-choice steers 81
3s2. 75, good TO choice cows sl.I5(G
$500, native feeders. s1.90Cds2. Is;
Hogs-choice s. .75(d IS. IS; Sheep
choice muttons shorn s.. 25(dsS so,
common and feeders g 25(Gs2. so.
A man down on Rifle Greek set a
big bear trap the other day. and later
on found large bald eagle caught in
il by The leg. He had dragged the
immense trap, which was secured by
a chain to heavy log, into some brush
more than twenty feet from the spot
where trapped and was quite dead.
So large and strong was his leg that
it was not broken. 1t was twelve feet
from tip to tip of its outstretched
wings
The railroad commissioners of
South Dakota are in Chicago, deter
-,,7r..1 +har -, o5ap. % - shall bs San+
them to carry away the surplus grain,
which in many cases has only tar
paulin coverings in the fields. Much
IS also unthreshed because of a lack
Of storage room. The Chicago lines
have promised all the cars they can
possibly send, but they are met by
equally imperative requests from al
most every Western state.
Hunters and guides have often re-
the mountains aud an old-timer who
calls himself 'sConundrum joe told
our reporter that while out on a hunt
ing expedition to the Flat Tops he
saw band OF about thirty elk and
among them was one of perfectly
white color. He said it was a noble
specimen of its race and he took a
shot at it, but missed If it could be
captured what a price it would bring
in the East-GlenIoood Springs In II.
A company bored a gas well near
Pennington, Utah, few weeks ago
and found so much gas that they de-
cided to bore another eight inches in
diameter. The new we'll encountered
the same strata as the old one, and
when the gas was tapped the pressure
was so strong that nothing could be
done with it until stop gauges were
attached to the pipe to keep it from
escaping. The roar made by the es-
Gaping gas could be heard for half
mile, and when it was ignited it
burned for height OF sixty feet.
The superintendent in charge of the
work, and who came from the Ohio
gas fields. says there are few wells in
that state having a stronger flow ii an
this one, and he is confident it will be
so permanent as to warrant the ex-
penditure of the money necessary to
pipe it to Salt Lake, a distance OF
twelve miles.
On Thursday, Mr.. Moore, the rail
road contractor, had occasion to test
the character of the rock along the
right of way just opposite the Cliff
house, so he had four holes charged
out OF a number his men had drilled
and for feeler put into the four a 25-
pound keg of black powder and few
pounds of giant for starter (only a
pop, you know, in railroad parlance) ,
and turned her loose at o'clock in
the afternoon, and lol-behold the
the transformation-the Cliff house,
which a moment before was quietly
standing in all its inviting and attract
i've beauty, was now almost a wreck
its front looked as il it had been used
for gatling gun practice windows
knocked out, doors knocked in, and
the boarding full of holes from the
size of peas up to a good sized cannon
shot, supper was all knocked into pi,
and so was breakfast and boarders
were hustling around with empty
stomachs and a curse upon such
blasted blasting. Norte Pr0spector.
j. c. Kennedy writes as follows to
Sports Afeid, relative to the wholesale
slaughter of game in Routt county. 81
do not believe it an exaggeration to
saw that nearly one half the residents