Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-27
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
ALTeELD ON THE SILVER SENTIMENT.


Henry G. Mason, tramp, fell from
train at Boise Ida, Friday, and
lost a leg and an arm.
The Cooks and Walters union of
| Denver. Colo. has declared war upon
the cheap japanese restaurants re-
Gently opened in that city, and Is using
every possible method to drive them
out of the business.
on Friday last two men were ar
rested at La Junta, Colo. charged
| with manufacturing and passing coun-
terfeit bills. The bills are made by the
| Photographic process and have been
freely distributed throughout that
| state.
Reports from the southern parts of
| Colorado show that the sheepmen are
losing thousands Of sheep by the snow
| and extremely cold weather. The
! winter has opened up unusually severe
| and promises to be an exceptionally
hard one ON the sheepmen.
Prairie fire is raging in the great
| Pan Handle country. Texas. and the
ranchmen's efforts to control 1t have
| been futile. 1t is reported 500 acres
| of grazing land has been burned over
and the loss of stock will amount to
thousands of dollars.
The owners of all the large and pros
porous mines in Cripple Creek, Colo
made a handsome Christmas present to
| their employees by allowing full time
for an idle day. The gift In the aggre-
| gate amounts to about $4,000, divided
among several thousand meiners.
. E. W. Purseds bay gelding, BuclSwa,
| lowered the worlds race record for a
mile and n half at the Oakland, Cal.
| track Friday afternoon, winning un-
der pull OF six lengths in 2:32h. The
former record for the distance was held
I laNH s.t.lt. Wl.eE ..lr Tod
| pounds and was ridden by w. Martin.
January next, Denver's new traffic
| bureau will begin operations. The first
| aim of the bureau will be to prevail
upon the railroad companies to recog
nze Denver as n manufacturing CEN
ter, by making such discrimination be-
| tween the freight rates on raw and
manufactured materials that manufac-
turers will be induced to locate there.
Parson Thomas Uzzell of Denver,
| Colo, distributed 5000 Jack rabbits
among poor people who applied for
them Christmas morning. These rabbits
were killed in the annual hunt at La
mar. Colo. Arrangements are being
made to feed 1000 people at the an
nual Christmas dinner at the Uzzell
Tabernacle next Tuesday.
A dispatch from Denver, Colo, says:
| Arctic weather still prevails west of
the Great Divide. The warm weather
| which visited Denver a few days ago
did not climb the mountains. Accord
| ing to the weather reports received
at the general offices of the Denver
| e Rio Grande r. r., the temperature
ranges from zero to IS degrees below
zero in the towns on the western slope.
w S. Stratton, the millionaire mine
owner of Victor, Colo. gave orders to
"A local coal dealer to deliver ton Of
coal to each poor family known to him
in that city Christmas, and ton to
| each one applying whose circumstances
were not known to him. Two hundred
tons We're delivered that day and APP
plications are on file for 200 more. The
| gifts were to have been anonymous
but the Identity of the giver leaked out
| Saturday night.
The Overland cotton mills of Denver,
| Colo, have carried the war into the
enemy's country" with n vengeance by
securing contracts which will place
| their products in Boston, Mass. They
| have also secured, In close competi-
| ton with the eastern manufacturers,
the contract for furnishing Claus
| Spreckles material for his sugar bags.
| This contract alone Is sufficient to
keep large mill in almost constant
operation.
Bishop Warren, OF the NJ. E. church,
| Denver, Colo. who is to make a mis-
sionary tour of several South Amer-
| can countries has just received final
| instructions from New York city. Be-
sides holding conferences, he will take
| formal possession of $1,000 worth of
property which has been donated to
his church. Bishop Warren will leave
| Denver January II next Mrs. Warren
and Miss Ilif Warren will accompany
| him.
| Jack Cronin,a driver in the Mcdonald
| logging camp, near Olympia, Wash,
shot and killed Tony Ferardi in saloon
| Sunday night. Three shots were fired
| by Cronin. either of which would have
| proved fatal. After the shooting Cro-
min walked into the barroom, laid his
| revolver on the bar and expressed his
Willingness to give himself up. The
| shooting was the result of previous
trouble. Both were more or less intox-
| icated.
Here is what ex-Gov. John p. Alt
| geld OF Illinois said. when asked
| whether the sentiment in favor of sill
Yer in Ohio. illinois. Indiana and bor-
| dering states was growing stronger or
| weaker. II can assure you that the
! sentiment In favor of silver Is not on
| ly stronger than it was in 1896. but 1t
| is very much stronger. There is no
| question whatever about this, and It Is
!
| in 1900 there VIII be much stronger
sentiment than there was at the last
Presidential election. strong as the
| sentiment then was"
! A circular letter has been sent to the
boards of county commissioners
| throughout Colorado by the ways and
means committee of the Colorado COM
mission of the Transmississlppi and
| international Exposition, asking the
boards to appropriate stipulated sum
| to defray the expenses of state exhibit
| at Omaha next year. This appeal Is
| made because the state legislature
failed to make an appropriation, and
because the ways and means commit
teee realized that II was impossible to
| raise the necessary funds, about $780,
900, by public subscription.
San Francisco Chronicle. An old in
dictment against Il. II. Clute, the hus-
| band of the woman who was so brutal
| ~ murdered n week ago on Guerrero
street, was dismissed In the United
| States district court yesterday. The
Indictment charged him with having
in his possession and selling cigars in
| boxes previously used, and with fail
| ing to destroy the stamps on clgnr
boxes. The Indictment was returned
| May g. 1895, and Clute was admitted
to bail In the sum of $4,000. Trial of
the case was set from time to time, but
wns as often continued for various
reasons, many OF the circumstances be-
ing for the term.
Boise Statesman; l.. b. Gorham ar
rived In the city last evening. He re-