La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-08-06
WESTERN NEWS.

| Leadville Is having n building boom.
| breckenridge has voted bonds for wnt.
er works.
Sister Mary Bridget. n famous west
ern Sister Of Charity, died at Anacon-
da, Montana, Saturday.
A mountain lion weighing 131
pounds was killed near Red River,
New Mexico, few days ago.
The Denver men who Joined Captain
| Drapsr's engineer corps will become Il
part of the garrison of Hawaii.
| The military school of New Mexico.
located at Roswell. is completed, and
will open September next with full
corps of teachers.
| About o5OOO acres of grain was de-
stroyed by hail in Cass county, North
| Dakota. The storm went over three
townships in the shape of crescent
Grasshoppers are such a nuisance at
| Colorado Springs that the street lights
are not turned on during the evening
to avoid drawing the hoppers to the
city.
The better times among the farmers
Is Illustrated by the fact that Il Fort
Lupton implement dealer has sold Il
car load of binders to farmers in the
immediate vicinity.
1t is more than probable that Major
G. l.. Cooper of the regular army will
be appointed lieutenant colonel of the
Arizona. New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Indian territory volunteer infantry reg
ment.
A committee nj Prescott. Arizona, is
calling for subscriptions with which to
erect in that city n suitable monu-
ment to the memory of Captain O'Neil
| .ttI tt..,,. AIT, -tn
have fallen in battle.
State Auditor Lowell has issued GER
titicates of Indebtedness for mobiliZing
the Colorado volunteers to the amount
of $26.o7i.12. The bill owing the state
by the government for uniforms and
| equipments Is about 100000.
The Albuquerque Rough Riders
| Aid Society" has been organized. 1t
is composed of the parents and rela-
| tives of the rough riders now at the
| front. and is organized for the pur-
| pose of aiding these and other volun-
| tccr soldiers.
Charles j. Swan. the postmaster at
| Parachute, Colorado, is under arrest
and is accused of cmbcZZling $2iO of
! the funds of his office. He was ar
raigned before Commissioner Sweeney
| mt Grand Junction ana remanded to
| tbe county Jall OF AfipunOe county,
| where he was locked up.
The Denver Post says: The Saliva
| tion army colony at Holly is prose
| lyting the entire eastern part OF the
Arkansas valley. Three evenings Il
week salvation meetings are held and
the big tent is crowded with cowboys.
farmers and sheep herders. The old
rough element of the valley is becom-
ing meek and mild and the voice Of
the scoffcr is hushcd.
1t may be remembered that Gaylord
Fish died mystcriously at Georgetown
! last December. Detectives who have
been on the case claim to have state
ment from Mrs. Edna Beaman, who
was with the Fish family at the time,
to the effect that Mrs. Fish killed her
husband by administering chloroform.
Mrs. Beaman now lives ut Sedalia,
Missouri, and Mrs. Fish is at George
town.
In some unknown way a rumor has
gnincd currency throughout the coun-
| try that Colorado has not come to the
mark with her full quota of men to an
swer TO the second call for volunteers.
The governor has received n bundle of
letters, dated all over the country, re-
ferring to some mysterious telcgraphic
item which was said to have been seen
"in the press" and Offering men TO
| help Colorado out. Colorado has plenty
of men and TO spare.
The actual work of building the Big
Evans railroad out of Leadville has
commenced, says the Herald Demo-
crat. Several more carloads of mules,
horses, wagons and grading tools have
been brought in, and are being distrib-
uted along the proposed line in Big
| 'ynn f.nn 81 pS
tablshcd for the men. one being locat-
ed at Evansville. Mr.. Crook. of the
contracting firm of Orman. Crook &
Co, is In personal charge of the work,
and will have full crew of men on
fhe grade in day or two.
Walter II. Wise, who died while on
his way to Manila, was well known in
Denver, where he lived with his
mother and brother. Being n
young man of delicate health 1t was
not thought that he could pass the
physical examination required and his
friends tried TO dissuade him from his
determination. but he persisted and
one day came home triumphantly car
| rying his enlistment certificates. He
was n member of the Junior Order
United American Mechanics. in which
order he was a great favorite.
A circular has been received by
Mayor McMurray of Denver from
John ID. Long. secretary of the navy,
announcing that an endless chain was
started for the purpose of raising
fund to build n new Maine battleship.
The secretary of the navy recon-
mended 1t to all patriotic Americans.
,fhe mayor ordered his secretary to
send out four letters to city officials.
who We're requested to do likewise
each in turn forwarding 10 cents to
Secretary Long. Thus the chain is to
be started rolling from the city hall
throughout Denver.