The silver lance., 1898-01-28
WESTERN NOTES.

There are 100 pupils in the Ridgeway
schools. ~ ST
John F. Campioa hat been CHOSEN
president of the Denver Chalnbsf of
Commerce.
For the first time since woman suf-
frage became law, Pueblo county has
woman In charge of its schools.
George A. Henderson Of Sterling has
received an order from Hamburg, Ger
many, for a carload Of alfalfa seed.
| Assaults on women who are ont on the
streets alone at night continue at Den
yer, and the police are unable to catch
the criminal. - -.---.-------..--'-s.--
A 5000 creamery lie to be built at
Wheatland, Wyoming. This colony is
settled mostly by Colorado people from
the Greeley district. '5ssl
The Colorado State Beekeepers' AS
ISOLATION met at Denver on the 18th to
attend to business matters and discuss
questions of interest to their industry.
Fifteen hundred bales of cotton
growa in Texas have been started over
the Gulf road for the North. They
viii go to Japan by way Of Portland,
Oregon. "a,
The pet stock show at Denver last
IL
result of the show a permanent organ
szation was effected, with Fred Brown
as president
An investigation Of the books of the
clerk of the Supreme Court revealed a
shortage of $2,3O5 in Clerk Miller's ac-
count. He has made the amount good.
Mr.. Miller said that the errors were
unavoidable and came through the
faulty system of bookkeeping.
One of three miners, while crossing
the range from Leadville to the Hill
Top mine. Park county, became ex-
hausted and was left by his compan-
Ions, who came on to the Hill Top mine
but did not report until next day. A
searching party was sent out and found
the man had frozen to death. The un-
fortunate man was supposed to be Dan
Mullen.
The Boulder city council has voted
*3,OOO toward constructing and main
tanning a hospital at the university
grounds The appropriation is on con-
dition that the county commissioners
and the citizens raise an additional
$7,OOO 1t also ordered the city clerk to
purchase twenty tons Of fOur-inch wa
ter pipe and 500 pounds of lead for the
purpose of extending the water mains.
A reported epidemic among the sheep
on feed near Fort Collins has been de-
cided by DIR. Gresswell to be only bill
ary arrangement as a result of feeding
too much heterogeneous food. The dis
ease Is natural result Of attempting
to fatten too rapidly. A preventive, to
be given while fattening, is as follows:
Bicarbonate of soda one part; nitrate
OF potash, one part; blcarbonate of pot
ash, one part. The dose IL one tea
fu1 fn tn
four times a week.
On the 22d the annual spring ship
ment Of fat lambs from Larimer coun-
ty to Chicago begins. John @. Rich
ards and Bailey, Rison Il Son will ship
hve carloads, which have been feeding
| since the 18th Of September last, and
have attained an average weight Of
eighty pounds From then on ship
ments will be made every few days
until the entire output OF 100. 600 head
are disposed of. The present price in
Chicago for fat lambs is $5.75 per
hundred pounds, about so cents high
er than at this season last year.
State Engineer Mead of Wyoming
has received a letter from Colonel w.
| #. Cody, stating that he has secured
the cooperation Of several New York
capitalists in his Big Horn basin en-
/ tCARAAScDsA HdEhy tIlIb year u uuuuTeu-
barrel flour mill will be erected at
Cody City. The big canal, upon which
work has been in progress several
years, will be completed and 10000
| acres Of land placed under cultivation.
| A sanitarium will be built at the Big
Horn hot springs and other improve
ments of a public character be made
In the Big Horn region .
Pueblo is considerably agitated just
at present over the reported cures that
| have been accomplished within the
| past week by a man named NJ. ].
| Landers. His method of procedure is
very largely the same as that employed
| by Schlatter when In Denver. Landers
IL a farmer. and came to Pueblo with
his family about a month ago. Landers
- decidedly reticent, charges nothing
| for his services, and very seriously OBJ
jects to having his name appear in
print in connection with any of the
cures he is credited with. He does not
claim to have divine power, and, in
fact, refuses to say where his power
comes from.
Railway mail service will be pro-
vided for towns in the northern part
of the state. Orders to this effect have
been received from Washington by
Chief Clerk Putney of the railway mail
service in this city. This is the result
of requests that have been made dur
ing the past two years by residents of
that section. Arrangements for the
service were at once made by Mr.. Put
ney with General Superintendent Dun
away Of the Gulf road. This will give
direct daily mail service to Semper,
Louisville, Nj Wot, Lafayette, Broom
field, Longmont Loveland and Ber-
thoud. Many other towns VIII get their
malls earlier than at present. The saw
ing of the time to the Ward district
will be twelve hours. = 49, Goes