The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-05
Work On a Colorado Railroad Pro-
tected BY Armed Men.
GAME LAW VIOLATIONS
INDIANS NOT THE ONLY VIO-
LATERS IN COLORADO.
Congressman Osborne Predicts Free
Silver Victory In Wyoming-one
of Alcoholism In Montana
Teachers Association of Idaho.
Colorado.

The Florence & Cripple Creek railroad
is building a trestle over the Midland
at Victor, and thereby hangs tale of
injunctions and physical measures to
prevent the work by the latter road.
While the work was in progress Sun
! day night the Florence & Cripple Creek
force was under the protection OF a
/ large guard armed with rifles. The
! guarding force will be kept at the
scene after the entire 300 feet of bridge
work is done, for the reason that nu-
merous rumors are floating around to
| the effect that at the first favorable
opportunity the Midland people Will at
tempt to interfere with the work of
the rival road, and attack the bridge
with giant powder at the point where
it crosses their main track. So far
as can be learned the Midland people
have not engaged any armed men.
Notwithstanding this, the Florence 81
Cripple Greek people are keeping sharp
| lookout. This gives the Florence d
Cripple Creek road an opportunity to
enter the Bull Hill region, which has
really been the point IN dispute be-
tween the two roads for some months
past. Shortly after midnight Monday
morning the work was completed, and
100 armed guards were disposed about
the camp fires prepared to meet an at
tack from the Midland forces. Two
hundred wOrkmen were laying string
ers preparatory to putting down track.
Yesterday morning the second an
nual show of the Southern Colorado
Poultry association was opened in Pu-
eblo Entry blanks received indicate q
large collection of fowls and the exhibit
ton SurpaSseS the first display made
year ago. Some of the most noted fan
ciers of the country will serve as
judges.
A dispatch from Delta says Charles
L. Pike of HOtchkiss will probably be
named deputy district attorney for the
county by District Attorney-elect S. G.
McMullen.
The Eaton Herald has been leased to
II, z. Hogue. It's proprietor, elected
superintendent of schools, goes to Gree
ley.
The farming and stock raising class
of San Luis valley, taken as whole,
has made great advancement during
1897. Nearly everything grown on the
ranch has been in fair demand at fair
prices. The cattle and sheep industries
have been especially lucrative, horse
growers are feeling much more pleased
than a few years ago, because the mar
ket for good horses appears much
brighter.
The report shows that Colorado pos
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America today, and considering the
long, heavy grades, hills and adobe
roads which must be traversed in some
parts of the state, it is an indisputable
fact that the achievements to the
credit of state riders far surpass any
thing ever done in eastern states,
where pancake roads are to be had
and pace making galore is furnished.
Denver's new mint building is to be
built of Colorado granite and rooted
with red Spanish tile, and be as near
fireproOf as possible.
John Gardiner, professor of biology in
the state university at Boulder has
been compelled to give up the greater
part of his work on account of poor
health. Mr.. 7. Ramaley, instructor in
biology in the University of Minnesota,
has been appointed to take his place,
and will arrive in a few days from
Minneapolis.
George w. Pickett of the Pickett
Pickering Tramway company was Sc
verely injured in Horseshoe Monday.
He was working on a tower repairing
the tramway that runs from the En-
mons mine to the EmmonS mill in this
district, when the tower blew over and
he fell and had his hip broken. He had
his arm broken q couple of weeks ago,
and now he is in bad way.
State Fish and Game Commissioner
Swan has just returned from a trip
through the western and central parts
of the state, which he made for the
purpose of examining into infractions of
the game law by the ranchers, says the
Denver Republican. while I was
away" said Mr.. Swan, yesterday af-
ternoon at the Albany hotel Il learned
enough TO convince me that the Indians
are not the only violatOrs of the laws,
but that the ranchmen are in the habit
of shooting a deer or an elk whenever
they feel so inclined. They pay abso-
lutely no attention to the game law,
but hunt off and on all the time, es-
pecially in the winter"