The Lamar register., 1892-03-12
NEWS ITEMS FROM FAR AND
NEAR.
Western News Notes.

Fire in Pueblo livery stable on the stu
destroyed twenty horses.
John Smith has been fined $50 for killing a
Rocky Mountain sheep near Montrose.
John X. Demier has been appointed super
intendent of the New Mexico penitentiary.
The Midland railroad company has begun
preliminary survey for branch TO Cripple
Creek.
Many officials in Colorado who formerly
had fat office now find that under the new
fee law they have very lean job
An irrigation convention is to be held at Las
Vegas on the 10th of March. The Santa Fe
and other roads sell round-trip tickets for one
fare.
The receiver of the Cheyenne National bank
has been directed by the comptroller OF the
treasury to pay dividend of twenty-five per
cent.
Archbishop salpofnte of Santa Fe has is
sued circular in which he severely critieizes
the practices of the order known as the
'.Penitentes.n
\ Creede train was wrecked the other day
near Del Nortc, and several passengers were
injured car was ditehed by broken rail-,
| and caught fire but the fire was put out
Miss Sarah Levier of Coal Creek, while aP-
parently deranged, got up the other night and
strayed away into the hills where she was
| found after a time utterly exhausted but
| otherwise unharmed.
1t is declared that the Union Pacific officials
are seriously considering the advlsability of
moving their shops from Omaha to Denver in
consequence of the hostile attitude of the
Omaha city government.
The Senate has passed bills to pay to R. NJ.
Hubbard, Longmont; H. A. W. Tabor, Lead
Vile, B. Z. Roekafellow, Canon City, and
W NJ Kittleby, various sums expended by
them while postmasters at these places.
J. W. Collins, who, for long time was en-
gagged In the banking business at Cheyenne,
committed suicide at San Dcigo, California,
on the 3rd. When his bank at San Delgo
| failed last fall, the Cheyenne National Bank,
in which he was interested also closed its
doors and its cashier George L. Baird, com
mltted suicide. Collins was soon to have been
tried on the charge of embezzling 100000.
Senator Carey has been authorized by the
committee on territories to make favorable
report upon the bill providing a code of laws
for the Yellowstone National Park. At pres
ent the park is a resort for criminals who are
safe from arrest in the park. The present
bill provides remedy for this evil, and Mr..
Carey Is very hopeful that it viii become a
law
Denver Markets-Eggs, ranch lsc, state
16e; butter, best creamery 27Ca33e, dairy zoe; /;
hay, upland baled s11@Sl2, second bottom
SS(aS9, alfalfa 81 50; wheat Sl.35; corn, bulk
Csc, sacked 73c; oats, sl.0S, sacked s1.15;
potatoes 5Oa6Oc; cattle, choice steers s.. SO6
o l.- -
as. .65; hogs, choice S4.60@475; sheep,
choice shorn "a OOas4.5O common and feed
ers sa.5o9s3,OO.
The board of county commissioners at Santa
Fe has refunded s150,000 of that county is
sued in aid of the Texas, Santa Fe X Northern
railroad from Espanola to Santa Fe from
per cent. to per cent bonds. The road will
be extended during the spring from Santa Fe
TO San Pedro and through one of the richest
coal and mineral sections in the Southwest.
The contractors are TO take these bonds in
part payment for construction work. 1t Is
| expected that work will begin May l.
There has been some speculation at Salt
| Lake as TO how the company of Indian sol
| diers, brought there from the Rosebud agency
| in South Dakota, two months ago, would con
| duct themselves when they were paid of II
| was expected that large part OF their wages
| would be spent for whisliey and what re-
| manned would be invested in trinkets dear tc
| poor Los soul. These expectations have MOI
been realized. The Indians were paid for the
| first time on the 9TH, receiving two months
| pay The next day they sent more than two
| thirds of the money they received either by
express or money order to relatives and friend:
| in Dakota, and not one drunken Indian sol
| dier has been seen either to-day or at any time
| since they arrived here.