The silver lance., 1898-02-04
WESTERN NOTES.

The Ignite coal miners of northern
Colorado, who struck on last week, are
still out.
were fatally injured at Clay Center,
Kansas.
Colorado's red sandstone is being
marketed extensively in Chicago and
elsewhere.
The Gulf surveying party is at work
on the proposed line between Walsen-
burg and Pueblo.
John F. Campion's $1,000 st. Bernard
dog has been shot by some unknown
party near Twin Lakes.
The Golden Oil Well Company has
made arrangements to recommence
sinking in the old hole as soon as the
weather permits.
The Santa Fe road is having a great
deal of trouble with the johnson tun-
mel in Arizona. 1t caught fire and men
nave been at work for nearly week
trying to clear 1t out.
The report of the experts on the con-
dition of the failed bank of Montrose
places the good, available as
sets at $5SS, 403.67: doubtful, $780,
690.70; bad, $107. .252.53; unsecured
hdpilties, S%U1 ,o4o.3o.
The town of st. Elmo suffered a Sc
we're loss by fire on the morning of the
23rd. Several buildings were destroyed
and only by energetic measures was
the whole town prevented from burn
Ing. The loss was nearly $4,000.
The Colorado Springs Drug Com
pany was fined $500 and costs, Satur-
day, for selling liquor by the drink.
nd md rat EnTD-
pany of Colorado Springs has leased
10000 acres of land in Pueblo and
Huerfano counties.
-Four arrests have been made for the
burning of the two Seminole Indians,
McGeisey and Sampson, near Earlboro,
l. T., January 18th. 1t is stated that
two of the men named Martin and
Hull have confessed, giving informa-
ton as to members of the mob.
The favorable rates made by the
Denver & Rio Grande on wheat from
the San Luis valley to Gulf ports for
export, has greatly stimulated sales by
farmers. 1t is now believed that
large part of the surplus will be mar
keted within the next thirty days.
Leonard Sedgwick of Grover, Colo
RADIO, who sold his Dawson claim No.
36 to the Cudahys of Chicago for $780,,
600, is said to be on his way home
from Portland. With him is Miss Lou
Keller, who recently made the journey
out from Dawson. 1t is expected the
two will be married soon after they ar
rive.
Governor Leedy of Kansas refused to
honor the requisition of the Colorado
authorities for James Turner of Osa-
watomie, who was recently arrested by
n Cn1nrodo har xxyfth
plicity in the murder of w. j. Barndol-
lar at Pueblo. 1t is claimed that the
arrest was made upon information of
two cOnvicts in the Colorado peniten-
fiary, who made an alleged confession
duplicating Turner.
A serious freight wreck occurred on
the Midland road at st. George, about
thirty miles west of Colorado Springs,
a few days ago. The engine Of an
east-bound freight train left the track
ON a bridge, tearing the bridge down
with the wreck. Ten cars loaded with
ore were piled up in confusion. The
bridge was a short one and not very
high. Fortunately no one was injured.
Traffic was delayed for twenty-four
hours.
The commissioners of Converse coun-
ty, Wyoming, have finished the work
of auditing the accounts of the county
officers for the past year. very
gratifying state of affairs is disclosed.
Under the present management of
county affairs the entire expenses of
the county for the past year have been
paid, about $1,000 Of the cOunty's in
debtedness Cancelled and surplus re-
mains on hand sufficient to meet the
county expenses for the first quarter
Of the year 1885,
The largest fee ever paid in the state
of Colorado and probably the largest
ever paid in any state, was received by
Secretary of State Whipple few days
ago. The amount was $40, 80 and 1t
was paid by the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company for the filing Of a certi-
fed copy of its articles Of incorpora-
ton. The reorganized company was
Incorporated under the laws Of Utah,
but in order to do business in Colorado
1t was necessary to have the legal pa
pers recorded in this state.
A radical change will be made in
the management of the State Home
and Industrial School for Girls, located
at Denver. 1t is claimed that the dis
cipline of those girls is altogether too
strict and their punishment too severe.
Although they are sentenced to the
home by courts it is thought by the
new board that as many of the girls
are of tender years, their treatment
should be educational rather than pun
tive. The matron will resign and an
entirely new system be followed in fu-
ture.
The Hesperus coal mine was opened
up on the oath, after having bean tight
ly closed and banked for five days. The
fire in the tunnel, SO far as the timbers
were concerned, was extinguished, but
a cross vein of coal was found to be
still burning and eating its way into
the hill. Workmen, however, were en-
abled to enter the tunnel and with a