The Bessemer indicator., 1894-02-24
Western News Notes.

The Denver Bar Association gave
very successful banquet on the 21st.
A saloon and small hotel at Cope,
Rock were burned down on the 21st.
Natural gas has been struck in q
well at Garrison. 1t las strong flow.
The miners of New Castle have re.
turned to work at the company's
terms.
Very heavy SHOWS east of Leadville
have caused the railroads great deal
of trouble.
The only tunnel on the Florence &
Cripple Creek railroad is finished. Ii
is lG5 feet long.
The burglar who has been making
free with the goods and chattels of the
people of Brighton has been captured.
Superintendent Harding Of the King
coal mine at Como was injured few
days ago by fall of rock. He will
probably recover
lgnatius Donnelly lectured at Den
yer few nights ago on his favorite
theme of the Baconian authorship of
the Shakespearian plays.
Arkansas valley bee men will ex-
port bees by the car load this winter
II. f. Hagan has sold car at Rocky
Ford and says the supply is increasing
year after year.
The Gulf road and the Rio Grande
have made contract by which the ex-
press business will be controlled by
one company, the Globe, the successor
of the Rio Grande.
Navajo Indians in Western New
Mexico own l, 900, 600 sheep, $50, 900
goats, 10000 cattle and about 100, 900
ponies. 1t is said that they marketed
1000, 900 pounds of wool last year.
Chief Justice Dale of Oklahoma has
rendered a decision Of great import
ance to the thousands of people who
are living as renters on the Indian
lands. He says they cannot be eject
ed.
State Game Warden Callicote of
Colorado recently seized 800 pounds
of venison that had been shipped from
Fruita to Denver contrary to law. He
traded it for 1000 pounds Of beef and
gave it away to poor people.
Governor Waite has sent to the Su-
premc Court the questions he has pre-
pared concerning the right of the
Board of Penitentiary Commissioners
to parole prisoners who have been
transferred from the state penitentiary
to the reformatory.
Archbishop j. b. Salpointc of the
Roman Catholic diocese OF New Mexi-
co, which includes Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona, has resigned, and
his coadjutor, p. l.. Chapclle, sue
ceeds him. Archbishop Salpointe re.
tires on account Of old age and infirmi
y,and will hereafter reside at Tucson.
The Maxwell Land Grant Company
which owns about l,7l4,00 acres Of
land in New Mexico and Colorado, i.
being sued by foreign stock and bond
holders to foreclose on the property
for the sum of s275, 900. Interest or
the bonds is said to have been default.
ed since 1856. This promises to be al
important and lengthy piece Of litiga
ton
There is considerable decrease il
the amount of coal mined and shipped
from Rock Springs during the month
of January, 1894, as compared witt
the shipments made during the CORE
spending month in 1893. The de
crease amounts to /, 437 cars or 30, 92;
tons, making shrinkage Of abou
S45, 600 in the amount of wages pait
the miners for the month.
The authorities at Denver are al
torn up over the arrest there Of jane
Raphelford, the Arkansas bandit
The attorney general threatens to ar
rest the two officers who first made th,
arrest, as under the present laws pri
vate detectives are not allowed to op
crate in Colorado. The city and coun
ty officers are also wrangling for tn,
reward offered for Raphelford's arrest
The miners at the Colorado Fue
company's coal mine, after being on I
strike for nearly four months against ,
25 per cent. reduction, held q meet
ing on the 18th and declared tn,
strike of. The resolutions adopted
accept the reduction, demand Is pc
cent. reduction in commissary sup
plies, that all the strikers be takeI
back, regular pay day and shot fires
The resolution was adopted by vot.
of q to IL, The result Of the meet
lug was wired to headquarters at Den
yer.
Manuslito, chief o. al the Nsvsjos
did rsesntIy. -. -