The silver star., 1897-11-18
WESTERN NEWS NOTES

0RtyACx IN WYNN W 4yCuvCts
There was very heavy fall Of snow
in the vicinity OF Aspen on the 6th.
Judge Kinkaid has pronounced the
Nebraska Irrigation law constitutional.
Judge Gabbert was elected to the Su-
preme Court by a plurality OF about
5000.
Denver real estate men are organic
the city.
Governor Adams made formal visit
to Governor Richards Of Wyoming %
the 5th.
Ten thousand people attended the
corn carnival at Beatrice, Nebraska.
last week.
Six thousand head OF sheep were lost
In the recent storm at Hollis ranch, El
Paso county.
Denver which has added 10 cents to
the price of coal.
At last accounts there was no indi-
cation that the New Mexico train rob-
bers would be caught.
Thirty-four young elk have been
shipped from Utah to New York to be
placed in park in the Adirondacks.
Kansas officials have instituted ju-
dicial inquiry to determine II the Kan
sas Wholesale Grocers' Association is
. trust.
The force Of convicts employed ON
the work of rebuilding the territorial
capitol at Santa Fe has been increased
from fifty to fifty-six men. The foun-
dations are completed and the force is
now engaged in laying the first floor
joists.
City Engineer Carpenter Of Victor.
recently suspended on charges of in
competency. has beeii acquitted and re-
instatal. Marshal Madden and Attor-
ney Miles We're convicted and expelled.
Roy Fitzpatrick was made marshal and
j. $. Fritz city attorney.
Temple Emanuel, the handsome Jew
ish synagogue at Twenty-fourth and
Curtis streets, Denver, was rendered
almost total wreck by fire on the
9th. Only the excellent work of the
firemen under Chief Roberts saved 1t
from total ruin. The flames succeeded
in leaving the edifice dismantled and
rOofless The estimated loss is $25, 600.
The fire was caused by an over-heated
furnace.
A party of engineers and officials of
the A. 7. l. S. +. Railroad left Ration
on the 9th to go over the line for a pro-
posed branch railroad to Cimarron.
Until surveys are completed 1t will be
undecided at what point they will con-
meet with the main line. II u thought
the branch may he built this winter
and the line will doubtless be extended
through the CimarrOn canon to the
Moreno valley to receive The benefit Of
Umca, BonitO. Ute Greek. Baldy, Eliz-
abeth. Hema tite and Red River mining
districts.
Fire at Deming. New Mexico, ON the
4th destroyed the finest residence prop
erty In the city. owned by Colonel
James A. Lockhart of Colorado
Springs. and occupied by Otto Mergen-
thaler, the inventor of the linotype
typesetting machine, as a winter resi-
dence. The loss to Colonel Lockhart
will he $4,000. on which there is an
insurance of $4,000 Mr.. Mergenrhaler
lost all his household effects and valu-
able papers, including plans for an i'm
proved typesetting machine.
A home for deaconesses Is to he es
tablished in Denver by the MetliOdists.
Ihe women of the missionary society
intend to maintain permanent home.
with thirty or forty deacOnesses. They
Will work among the sick. the poor and
those In trouble. Should sickness in
wade the home of a family in poverty
the deacOnesses might 20 to the house
to live until the patients We're restored
to health, in fact all sorts of charita-
BILE work are contemplated. Each de;i-
cOnass rs given her hoard and room and
$8 each month for the purpose of cloth
ing herself.
Engine No. 81 OF the Gulf narrow
gauge system. the same which went
down into the creek at the flood In
May, 1894, was taken to Boulder on the
9th OH u fiat car and unloatled. Ii Is
to be used In constructing the narrow
gauge road to Ward. When the bridge
at Boulder Is ready for the cOnstruc-
ton train to pass over the work can
be pushed forward rapidly. as the
abutments for the bridge across the
creek ut the mouth OF Boulder canon
are ready for the beams. Enough iron
Is now on hand to keep track layers
busy for month or more.
Fish and Game Commissioner Swan
lias filed with Governor Adams his ac-
count OF the recent Indian troubles.
In II he makes a suggestion that the
governor appoint commission to in
vestigate into the killing OF the Indians
on October 22nd. to ascertain whether
the posse or the Indians were to blame
for that active hostility. He liz Of the
opinion that the account Of that killing
MS given by Game Warden Wilcox is
| correct, and that the shooting Of the
Indians could not have been avoided.
1t ls for fear that all might not think
ns he does concerning that affair that
he suggests n commission he ApDolus,
ed He alsO intimates that the com.
mission, II appointed. might discuss
and provide. II possIble. ways and
means To prevent the recurrence of
similar disturbances.
On the 10Th Of this month the First
regiment. United States army, stat3onod
ut PresidIO. California. for the iaet
eleven years. will change places WIN
the Seventh infantry. stationed at RoFt
Logan. Colorado. This change wae not
unexpected. because both regImenta
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