The broad ax., 1897-12-25
WESTERN NEWSNOTES


There was q 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 SUI
prone Court by q plurality OF about
1000
Denver real estate men are organic
ing TO boom every project that win help
the city.
Governor Adams made a formal visit
10 Governor Richards OF wyoming on
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, FL
Paso county.
A coal combine has been formed at
Denver which has added 80 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 a park In the AdIrondacks.
Kansas officials have Instituted a Ju-
dicial inquiry TO determine IL the Kan
sas Wholesale Grocers' Association Is
q trust.
The force of convicts employed on
the work OF rebuilding the territorial
II fNar.W nj
from fifty TO fifty-six men. The foun-
dations are completed and the force Is
now engaged in laying the first floor
joistE
City Engineer Carpenter OF Victor,
recently suspended on charges Of In
competency, has been acquitted and re-
instated Marshal Madden and Attor-
ney Miles were convicted and expelled.
Roy Fitzpatrick was made marshal and
]. s. Fritz city attorney.
Temple Emanuel. the handsome Jew
ish synagogue at Twenty-fOHrth and
Curtis streets, Denver, was rendered
almost a total wreck by fire on the
5th. Only the excellent work Of the
fremen under Chief Roberts saved IL
from total ruin. The flames succeeded
in leaving the edifice dismantled and
roOdess. The estimated loss Is $4,000.
The fire was caused by an Oyer-heated
furnace.
A party OF engineers and officials Of
the A. 7. & S. +. Railroad left RatoII
on the 9th to go over the line for pro-
posed branch railroad to Cimarron.
Until surveys are completed IL Will be
undecided at what point they will con-
meet with the main line. 1t Is thought
the branch may be built this winter
and the line will doubtless be extended
through the Clmarron canon to the
Moreno valley to receive me benefit OF
Uraca, Bonito. Ute Greek. Badly, Eliz-
abeth, Hematite 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 be $4,000. ON which there Is an
insurance Of $1,000. Mr.. Mergenthaler
lost all his household effects and valu-
able papers, including plans for an i'm
proved typesetting machine.
A home for deaconesSes is TO be es-
tablished in Denver BIZ the Aetbodists.
The women OF the missionary society
intend to maintain a 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 60 TO the house
to live until the patients were restored
TO health, in fact al sorts of charita-
BILE work are contemplated. Each dea-
coness is given her board and room and
IS 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 food in
May, 1894, was taken to Boulder On the
9th on q fat car and unloaded. II is
TO be used in constructing the narrow
gauge road to Ward. When the bridge
at Boulder Is ready for the construe-
ton train to pass over the work can
be pushed forward rapidly, as the
abutments for the bridge across the
creek at the mouth Of Boulder canon
are ready for the beams. Enough iron
b now on hand to keep track-layers
busy for q month or more.
Fish and Game Commissioner Swan
has filed with Governor Adams his &C
count Of zoe 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 Is OF the
opinion that the account OF that killing
as given by Game Warden Wilcox Is
correct, and that the shooting of the
Indians could not have been avoided.
1t is for fear that all might not think
as he does concerning that affair that
he suggests commission be appoint
cd. He also intimaies that the cous-
mission. II appointed. might discuss
and provide. IL possible. ways and
means to prevent the recurrence OF
similar disturbances.
On the 10th Of this month the FIRST
Regiment. United States army, stationed
at Preside. California. for the last
eleven years. VIII change places with
the Seventh infantry. stationed at Fort
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