The silver star., 1897-06-10
WESTERN NEWS.

The governor Of New Mexico has ap
pointed thirty delegates to attend the Gold
| Mining convention At Denver.
| sage brush machine made in Cincinnati
at a cost Of 5000 has reached Uintah. Wyo.
| mlng, and will be tested there.
W. II. C. McKesson Of Clayton has struck
! a very strong How of water at depth OF
| 10 feet In making test they pumped
| 900 gallons per hour and could not lower the
water an inch.
/ Some men OF Sheridan. Wyoming. have
lately purchased 1900 head Of stock cattle
In eastern Washington. Oregon and Idaho.
| Heretofore these buyers went south for tbe'-
annual supplies.
/ large flock owner OF Wyoming has icas'si
a large body Of state lands and fenced 1t to
protect himself from the ravaRes OF trail
bands. Others have also applied for leases
on state lands for sheep pastures.
Reports of renewed depredations by the
denizens Of Robbers Roost, In the San lsa-
fael country. Utah. are coming in. The
latest is of an old and unarmed peddler,
who was relieved of about 500 near Hunt
ington. Butch" Cassady's gang and other
noted Utah desperadoes are now supposed to
be entrenched in the Roost also
A special from ARABIA. Wyoming, says:
Much excitement prevails throughout north
ern Wyoming and southern Montana. The
Cheyenne Indians on Tongue river are caus
ing alarm and an uprising is feared. A
sheep herder was murdered few days ago
and the sheriff demanded that the In
dians surrender the murderer but they re
fused.
Rates to the Christian Endeavor conven-
tion In San Francisco have become badly
demoralized. Low as is the S25 one-way
rate agreed on from Chicago for the occs-
sion. there is no likelihood of the roads re-
seving anything ike 1t for each passenger
carried. A wild scramble for the business
has been begun by the competing roads, and
each has its agents out contracting all the
business they can find.
j. r. Lord. assistant superintendent of the
Metropolitan Insurance Company. which
State Insurance Commissioner McNall has
ordered to discontinue business In Kansas.
has received letter from Vice President
Fisk Of the New YORK Office instructing him
to disregard McNall's order and continue In
business The letter asserts that McNall's s
action Is absolutely without authority of
law. Counsel for the insurance company Is
said to be en- route from New York to act
in opposition TO McNail and protect the
company's representatives In Kansas.
Edgar NJ. Biggs. president of the New
Mexico Lumber Company. owning an exten-
sive plant in Rio Arriba county. on the Colo
raho ilne, ana VINO VAS convicted IN the
United States Court January year ago of
cutting timber on the public domain. has
been pardoned by President Mckinley. He
was sentenced to pay fine of $1,SO0 and
serve four months in prison. The pardon ex-
tends only to the matter of imprisonment.
The amount of the fine and costs have
been paid TO United States Marshal Hall.
Mr.. Biggs goes free for time, at least.
There are other criminal suits of similar
nature pending against him in the United
States Court. also three civil suits for 500. 600
each, in which the government claims dam
ages from the New Mexico Lumber Com
pany and the Denver n Rio Grande Com
pany on the charge of unlawful cutting of
timber. A fourth suit for $4,000 against
the Denver 4 Rio Grande resulted in n
Judgment for $4,000. but was set aside by
the court excessive, and on a second trial
the jury returned verdict placing dam
ages at $G,2s2.