The Springfield herald., 1899-05-19

Cripple Creek Mining Stock Exchange
1t was decided TO raise the membership
fee from $50 TO 500.
The state authorities of Idaho have
issued n proclamation forbidding mine
owners to employ any men not holdihS
permits from the states agent No un'
ion men will be allowed to work.
At mass meeting of citizens held
at Las Vegas. cordial invitations We're
! extended to the Rough Riders to hold
their reunion here June 9th, and any
| amount of money necessary was
pledged for their entertainment.
The presence of Edwin Boice OF
Idaho, president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. will be n feature of
| the fourth annual convention of the
| State Federation of Labor, which VIII
be held In Denver June 9th next
Plans submitted by yaran & Stern
er, the Denver architects, have been
accepted by the owners of the Antlers
| hotel ut Colorado Springs. The build
| ing Will be nearly twice rs large ms
the old structure and will cost $3.50
600. Work will be commenced on it
within two months.
A dispatch from Canon City says:
Work was begun this morning by the
county surveyor on the state wagon
road between Pueblo and Leadvillc.
This road will be built by convict Ia
Dor, which will make its cost small to
| the state. 1t will be only Il matter of
few days now until Il number of the
inmates of the states prison Will be
put to work on the road
a terrible tragedy occurred at Fow
! Ter, Colorado, on the 9Th. Frank Bo-
hanan shot his father to death as the
| result of n quarrel over wages due to
the son. A posse started after the muir
| derer at once and his capture seemed
certain. The guilty man is one of the
two brothers who gained notoriety by
| killing deputy sheriff who was try
ing to arrest them at Icadvlle.
Ex-senator Carey has returned from
| Wyoming station on the Union Pacific,
where he has been perfectlng the de
tails for the building of the great Lar
| annie river reservoir. The big steel
| sluice gates are ready and the work
| of building the reservoir will soon be-
| gin. The preference in all work upon
| the big dam is to be given to the resi-
| dent users of the water at Wheatland.
| Six hundred and five thousand
| pounds of wool have been sold by
Rawlins sheepmen during the past
| week at prices ranging from 10 to u
cents per pound. The practice of con
| signing the product TO Boston and 9TH
er eastern houses for storage and sub
sequent sale is being abandoned, the
| producers preferring the certainty OF
| direct sale TO the uncertainty of future
| prices.
| Major General w. r. Shafter will
| m al ('h1ufnlI-
qua at Boulder. He writes from the
Presidio at San Francisco, that he will
visit Boulder sometime during the first
| two weeks of August He will speak
on the Campaign in Cuba" The
| Chautauquans are hopeful of securing
| the presence of General MaNimo Go
| meZ, the great Cuban leader and idol.
Negotiations between him and the
Chautauquans are now in progress.
The owners of the Ferris Haggerty
copper mine, near Rawllns Wyoming,
have refused an offer of 100000 cash
for the mine made by Wall street
firm, representing the trust. The price
asked by the owners is Sl.00O,0oo, and
1t will not be sold for less than this
amount. The mine has proven to be
one of the most wonderful copper pro-
| ducers in the country. The ore is pay
ing n big profit in spite of the fact
that it has to be hauled by sled and
wagon to the railroad, seventy miles
distant.
The famous turquoise mine at Ger
| rillos, about thirty miles south of san
tn Fe, is now the property of the Iif-
fanys, the New York jewelers., who
are working it on scientific methods,
who last year took out about twice as
many jewels as it ever yielded before.
There are about sixty turquoise mines
in the territory, the product of which
amounted to S525,0oO last year and is
entirely controlled in the United States.
The largest piece of turquoise ever dis
covered here was taken from the Tiff
fany mine and was valued at $4,000.
DR.. J. w. Smith of Cripple Creek
performed an operation recently upon
Mabel Relander. whose parents keep
the Relander house at Haverly, on
Four-Nile. About two years ago Il
needle was broken off in her flesh, and
although since that time it has not
caused her much annoyance, few
days ago she began to suffer pain in
her back. DIR. Smith made an exam
ination and removed the needle. 1t was
found that the piece of needle con-
tained the eye, in which there was
one-half inch of thread. The needle
anu tnreau were aluiost perfect.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company has
recently adopted several novel and
commendable plans of promoting Its
interests and the welfare of its en-
ployes and the public generally. One
of them is the appointment of a. Rein
eisch. n landscape gardener. whose
duty it is to beautify the grounds
around its stations and shops by plant
ing trees and flowers and laying out
little parks, which are very grateful to
the eyes of travellers through the des-