The Elbert County tribune., 1899-06-22
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

Polly Goats OF Lcndville II charged
With having deliberately murdered her
baby.
Wiimot II. Lake OF Central City was
lrowned In South Boulder Greek on the
10th.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
Mexico ON the 10th, being the first
m several months.
The Union Pacific lost $4,000 by n
fire Mt In Sale. Colorado, which burn
ed the ore chutcs and several cars.
a fhree-yenr-old girl wandered awny
from her home Ia Russell gulch. 1ii-
pin county. on the 10th and had not
been found Monday night.
The city council OF In Junta has or
'lcred new reservoir with cnpncity
q 100000 gallons TO be built ns an na-
1itlon to the city water plant
Snfn Roberts OF Canon City shot and
killed his wife and her mother ana
then killed himself He wns dissolutc
aud his wife had obtained divorce.
A message from Buffalo, Wyoming,
on the 18th states that a courier has
come In from Powder river with the
report that the officers have the Union
Pacific train robbers surrounded at ~:
X. mountain and capture Is regarded
ns certain TO follow.
Two lads, named Pring and Lee, In
hay rack, were killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The two
horses hItchcd TO the wagon We're
kIIicd and the wagon demolished. Two
other young men standing by the wag-
on tnIking to them were uninjured.
Oliver Lee and James GIllIlnnd We're
acquitted OF the murder Of Henry
Fountain ON the 18th The jury was
closetcd bnt seven minutes. There was
great applause In court when the YER
dict was read and the prisoners were
warmly congratulated. In their argu-
mcnts the attorneys have been bitter
toward cnch other Mt times and toward
the witnesses for the other side.
Unless the convicts nt the penItcn-
tInry are soon put to work nnd made
partly self-supporting there VIII be n
shortage at the end OF the term of
from 100000 to $4,000, according TO
G. T.. Hoyt, the warden. He snys II Is
not only proper hut absolutely neces-
snry that the men be placed at work.
MS II they are allowed TO remain In Idle
ness the institution Will find Itself head
over heels In debt.
AT nn adjourned meeting of the town
trustees OF Evans license was granted
Mt 81 600 per yenr to saloons. Three
applicants for licenses were handed In
and granted. The town voted temper
nncc by large majority last April.
but by the resignation Of two OF the
temperance trustees the change came
about A petition was circulated ask
Ing the board not to grant a license,
md was signed by n majority OF the
voters, but was nnheeded-
The Indians OF San Felipe and santo
Domingo and the Pueblos of Berna-
lilo county have won the cases they
appealed to the United States Court of
Private Land Clnims. These grants
were confirmed by the court. but with
areas much less than claimed by the
Indians, In case No. 134 the grant
claimed embraced 10000 acres. In
ease No. 1874. the claim was for 25,000
ncres. and In case No. 1856 the San Fe-
iIpe rucblos claimed over 2500O acrcs,
A promising gold discovery is report.
cd at Buford, n station on the line Of
the Union Pacific railroad about %
miles west OF Cheyenne. The dIscov-
cry was made May by the O'ReIlly
brothers of Buford. who have since
TINT time been sinking prospecting
shaft on the ore body. They are now
down 30 feet. where they have cut n
vein from which the ore assays over
5000 per ton In gold. A number OF
residents Of Cheyenne have stakcd out
claims adjoining the O'Ncilly property.
Manager Voorhees, OF the Hnrtvillr
iron mines has received instructions
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pnny to close down the mines Mt Hart
vile, Wyoming. NJ once. This throws
between 100 and 150 miners and ore
haulers out OF employment and de
stroys number of good business en-
terprises In the Badger ITartvillc see
tlon. II Is believed that the order to
close down Will also delay the building
OF the spur from Badger to Hartville
work upon which was commenced
some weeks ago.
The insurance companies have begun
their fight on the Denver & Rio Grande
road to recover losses occnsloncd by
the disastrous fire nt Colorado Springs
last October. II Will be remembered
legged TO Lssve beer due to the explosion
of car of powder on the Denver &
Rio Grande tracks. and suits have been
started by the small property owners
on Hucrfano street to recover damages
The suit as filed is an exceedingly vol
luminous one. 1t involves over $4,000
and others similar in nature may fol.
low It.
The new 1900 class engines which
We're recently sent to Cheyenne from
the East to be used between Cheyenne
and Sidney, Nebraska. are not proving
ns satisfactory as was expected. 1t
was claimed that the locomotives.
which are the largest In use by the
Union Pacific. would haul sixty-five
loads from Sidney to Cheyenne. but
thus far they have only been able to
haul fifty loads. Trainmen are of the
opinion now that the new locomotives
VIII not materially affect the working
force OF train and enginemen on the
Union Pacific.
wyoming has been notified by the
that equipment to take the
place OF that furnished the volunteers
from that state hus been shipped from
the government supply depots and
should arrive In n few days. When
the Wyoming volunteers left for the
Philippines they took with them al
most NIL OF the military equipment In
the state. when the state militia was
reorganized and recruited. there was
little or. no equipment for the new
troops. In the consignment from the
general government are number OF
cannon. two or three hundred Spring
field rifles and large number of tents.
A dispatch from Chicago says: An
agreement has been reached In the long
standing suit between the Colorado
Midland and the Busk tunnel bond.
holders. The tunnel bonds. amounting
to 81 .250.0OO. are TO be exchanged for
Colorado Midland >. B and 4 per cent,
bonds. The tunnel bondholdcrs are nj.
so to receive ! per cent. interest. less
lpraI exupuses for The ppriod of fhp re.