The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1894-02-23
Western News Notes.

western News Notes.
!. Captain Russell, a stock man livin
# at La Veta, was robbed Of 400
n while at Omaha last week.
e The Sunfower' Valley croamery
n near Trinidad, is kept running to it
Il full capacity with profitable results.
:. Columbia coal mines at Newcastl G
: Wyoming, are to be run to their full
G est capacity during the balance of tn
winter.
: The strike of miners at Yankee Hill
/ has been settled, the men accepting {
r reduction of 25 cents. They will now
get $2.75.
A big meeting of women was he d
in Denver last Tuesday to discuss
! ways and means for encouraging home
industry.
A Jefferson, county, Colorado,
dairyman named Q. T. Foltch, reports
his COWS as yielding revenue of $94
each during the past year.
Tho Colorado Assembly has received
an invitation to visit the Mid Winter
Fair at San Francisco, and it is q qhite
probable that a number will 60.
A coal and metal miners convention
has been called to meet February 10
In Pueblo to organize the miners of
Colorado into the group system.
Lake City, Colorado, prospectors
who went into Southern Utah last fall
report some startling discoveries in
the way of new gold mining regions.
DR.. Field of Rock Springs attempt
ed to commit suicide few days ago
as result of having lost money ON
the Cor5ett- Mitchell fight. He will
recover
AT Colorado City the Midland round
house employees are permitted to work
only three days out of seven, and the
machine shop men have been reduced
to half time.
The Colgate relief parties which
went out from Montana and Idaho i
last fall 10 search for the lost men have
returned, having been driven back by
severe storme,1 ~
Eddy, New Mexico, with manufaS-
turo ice aud have an electric light
7airnv' Auv7VpOTation, in a Rew-wu6r,.-
hence. The machinery has been |
lpAlsd Sse-tba Ifast, \ |
!, Hf3Fhg Denver Cha{ uber Of Commo.. .fp'
-! u e sring a pl3 n 9,,,inn Tss- III,
ve: cut off from AraPahoe coahtyTand
hatAJAA-AitE-and county govorpmS Ants
consolidated to save expense.
The Gulf officials have issued an Or
der cutting down the train servioe on
the Cheyenne & Northern to a train
each way on alternate days. Hereto!
fore there has been daily service.
The Cripple Creek miners stand r
firm for eight hours and none of the
nine-hour mines are running. d. II.
Moffat, speaking for the mine owhers,' 4
says that they viii never surrender. ~
The Colorado Silver League has is
sued an appeal fer funds with which
to spread information on the silver
question. 1t calls attention to the
fact that the work must be done soon,
as the Congress elected next fall will
probably choose a president in 1896.
The secretary of war is considering
the question of transferring the Fif-
teenth infantry now stationed at Fort
Sheridan, to Fort d. a. Russell, three
miles from Cheyenne. This will trans
fer the Seventeenth infantry from
Fort Russell to some point farther
west.
The miners at the Colorado Fuel
company's coal mine, after being on a
strike for nearly four months against
20 per cent. reduction, held a meet
ing on the 18th and declared the
strike off. The resolutions adopted
accept the reduction demand a 25 per
cent reduction in commissary sup
plies, that all the strikers be taken
back, regular pay day and shot fires.
The resolution was adopted by vote
of q to ~. The result of the meet
ing was wired to headquarters at Den
ver,
Tho city Of Casper Wyoming has
closed a contract with tho Michigan
Pipe Company of Bay City, Michigan,
for complete gravity system of water
works, which are to be in operation by
June next, Elkhorn Creek will be
damned and a reservoir holding half
million gallons of water will be con-
structed on the hill south of the town,
which will furnish ample pressure for
all purposes. The Michigan Pipe
company has contracted to furnish all
the material and labor for the system,
and take in payment the $50, 600 city
bonds voted last season.
There is a considerable decrease in
the amount of coal mined and shipped
from Rock Springs during the month
of January, 1894, as compared with
the shipments made during the cOrre'
spending month in 1893, The de-
crease amounts to /, 437 cars or 80, 925
tons, making a shrinkage Of about
sl5 OOO in tho amount of Wapps maid