The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-27
NEWS OF THE WEST.

A broad-sword contest between two
of the best swordsmen in America, ex-
Sergeant J. j. Pascoe of the English
army and ex-Lieutenant S. W. Wider
of the kings first dragon guards, will
occur at Victor, Colo, on Sept. 2.
t. w. Bartels, who is working some
mining property on Engineer noun
tain, Colo, reports the finding of a
human skeleton near the site of an
old stable on the road about two miles
from Mineral Point in San Juan
county.
Charles Bellamy and Professor Rob
ert Burkhardt, who are developing
the graphite property in Halleck can
yon, Albany county, Wyoming, are go
! ing down on body of ore so feet
wide, which they report is improving
in quality with every foot of depth.
AT the present depth they have a quail
ity of ore running as high as So per
cent in pure carbon and the same as
that recently tested by New York an
alysts, who said it was equal to the
best quality of Ceylon ore.
In street brawl between represen-
tativeS of two Republican factions at
Santa Fe, n. NJ, City Alderman r. l..
Baca was assaulted. and badly beaten
about the face and head. Ex-City
Marshal Richard Alarid and other ward
politicians mixed in, and pistols were
drawn. One shot was fired, which took
effect in the fleshy part of Policeman
Martinez's thigh: Deputy Sheriff HUI
Der arrested Alderman Baca on the
charge of firing the shot.
Another reservoir, company, the Low
er Lathean, was organized in Greeley.
Colo, Thursday evening, with a cap
ltal stock of $4,000, 200 shares of 5000
each. The location is east of La Sale
south of this city.aa and comprises 1929
acres 1t will have capacity of 1885,
800 cubic feet when there is II feet
at the headgate, and when there is 10
feet at the headgate it will contain
1SS, 100000 cubic feet. There is en-
braced under the Lower Lathean ditch
some of the finest soil to be found in
Colorado. 1t is a. great wheat and DO
tato section, and, with the reservoir to
furnish irrigation water during the dry
seasons, it viii be one of the richest
districts in the northern part of the
state.
A young Mexican woman named
Cruise Morales, from San MarciaI. N.
NJ, was arrested and Jailed at Santa
re the other evening on the charge of
proving around the suburbs at night.
wearing mask and frightening women
ana children. For some weeks past
native citizens have been ANNOYED at
night by two parties. wearing white
masks. Friday night they were chased
from Chinese house, and next morn
ing an examination of the footprints
indicated that one Of the maskers was
a woman Suspicion fell upon this
woman, and it turned out that her shoe
neatly fitted the footprints in the mud
She declines to talk and says they NAV
hanS her, but that she will give nobody /
away.
CROPS IN WYOMING.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 23.-The past
week was unusually warm throughout
the state, it being one of the Warmest (
weeks OF the season. The showers of /
the 18th were scattered some portions
OF the state receiving. good rains, while /
other portions received very light /
or no rain at ALL
throughout most portions of the
eastern counties the grain harvest is
nearly completed, gardens and potatoes
are maturing rapidly, and the crop
season is nearing the end. Grain har-
vest is in progress throughout Big
Horn county, but throughout ITinta
and western Fremont spring-sOvn
grain is just ripening, and its harvest
has only begun. The reports indicate
that the grain crop of the western
counties will be the best for years.
Early potatoes are ripe, and late
ones are nearing maturing in eastern T.
The condition of the crop is
good. and indications point to a good
to excellent yield in nearly all parts
Of the state.
Some haying still continues. but the
bulk of the crop, which has been ex-
cellent in nearly all sections of the
state, has already been secured.