The silver lance., 1897-09-24
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.

| warning against carele6sly starting for
est fires. Heavy penalties attach to
such carelessness
Tho fires on Big Horn reserve in
Wyoming have grown SO serious that
settlers have asked help from the
troops in extinguishing them.
The opening of the Territorial Fair
at Albuquerque, on the 18th, was on
grander scale that has ever been seen
In the seventeen years of its existence.
Governor NJ. A. Otero formally opened
the fair in the presence of nearly TO-
900 people who had come from all parts
Of the territory.
The sheep camp of Joseph Young, on
the Quaking Asp mountain, Wyoming,
was attacked Monday by a huge black
bear and her cub. .Abram Waldo, the
herder in charge Of the camp, fired at
the animals and succeeded in killing
the cub, the old bear running away.
This Is the first bear that has been
seen in the vicinity for ten years.
The will of Charles T. Wilder Of
Wellesley, Massachusetts, has been ad-
mitted to probate. The will contains
many public bequests and over $780,
600 is left to charitable and education
al institutions. The sum of $4,000 is
left to Colorado College at Colorado
Springs. Colorado.
| The Colorado & Northwestern rail-
road, which is being built to Ward,
will be extended into Middle Park. Be
sides the railway, an associate COM
pany, styled the Pennsylvania Milling
and Mining Company, will early begin
| the construction of a reduction mill at
| Boulder to make a market for the ores
located in developed mines along the
railway. The mill will have a capacity
of $50 tons daily.
Much excitement prevails at Soda
| Springs, Idaho over the discovery of
what seems to be an extensive deposit
of coal four miles from that city. The
coal is bituminous and the tests SO far
made prove 1t to be of excellent quail
| ty. Idaho is now entirely dependent
upon Colorado and Wyoming for her
coal Coal prospects have been found
in the Teton Mountains and on Horse
shoe Bend, on the Upepr Payette, but
| both remote from railroads. An exten-
| sive deposit of coal at Soda Springs
would be more valuable than a gold
mine.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference
at Laramie has made the following ap-
pointments for Wyoming: Superintend-
ent, e. e. Tarbill; Big Horn, Fl. A. To-
land; Buffalo, Il. J. Robinson; Carbon,
r. H. Taylor; Casper, J. H. Gillespie;
Cheyenne, d. G. Winship; Cheyenne
Mission, A. A. Johnson; Douglas and
Manville, Lincoln Steere; Evanston, +.
Il. Dubois; Hyatville, L. G. Thompson;
Laramie, J. p. Warner; Newcastle and
Cambria, G. d. Day; Otto, Henderson
Richie; Manchester, T. d. Saffell; Raw
Inns, q. X. Hollar; Rock Springs, G. H.
Smith; Sheridan, Benjamin Young;
Wheatland, s. A. Smith.
In a mandamus proceeding before
District Judge Laughlin at Santa Fe,
the cOur; decided that Dr. ID. w. Man
ly was entitled to hold Office as a men,
Der OF the New Mexico Board of Dental
Examiners for four years under Cover
nor ThorntOn's appointment Of two
years ago, and that DIR. J. b. Brady,
who was appointed by Governor Thorn
ton last February, could not force the
board to meet and recognize him as
Manly's successor. The decision causes
much gossip in official circles, since
Manly is Republican and Brady is a
Democrat. The court also held that on
ly by quo warrantO proceedings could
the title to the Office be tried.
Frontier Day at Cheyenne, September
23rd is to be one of the biggest events
ever known In the history of Wyoming.
u
which will be entered horses that have
never been saddled or bridled. The
meanest and most untamable horses
in Wyoming will be assembled for this
event. A stage coach will be held up
and vigilantes will give a realistic re-
production of an old-time hanging bee.
Twenty-Five strikers were shot to
death near Hazelton, Pennsylvania, on
the 10th by deputy sheriffs. The strik-
ery were unarmed, and were marching
along the public highway to hold a
meeting at a neighbOring mine.
The trial of Juan Duran, one of the
men charged with the murder of Green
and Kelly, the two deputies who were
cruelty assassnated in the San Isidro
country in April, 1896, while on their
way to arrest cattle thief, was called
in the District Court at Trinidad on the
18th. This case and the ones that are
to follow are the most important that
have ever come up in this county, II
not in the state. 1t is expected that the
trials will develop some personal fea-
lures that have not yet been made pub
lie and 1t is alleged that when they
have been concluded, the most treach-
erous and heartless band of thieves and
murderers that ever infested this or
any other country will have been brok-
en- up.
1t is stated that the $50 miners en-
ployed by the Ration Coal and Coke
Company at Blossburg will probably be
forced to accept a cut of 20 per cent in
wages. The miners have had but three
and one-half days of work during the
past month. They occupy company
houses and trade at the company store
and most of them are SO far behind in
their accounts that they will likely ac-
cept the offer rather than risk finding
employment elsewhere. Hitherto the
Blossburg miners have paid 60 cents a
ton for mining coal and the company
upholds the cut on the ground that so
cents Is all the Colorado coal miner re-