Gilpin observer., 1899-07-20
NEWS FROM THE.
WESTERN REGION.

sign his office on the Colorado line.
Mr.. Ristine is at Glenwood Springs
with his family. He will remain there
a few days and then come to Denver
and close up his affairs and leave for
his new position. 1t is likely that
some of the general officers of the Col
orado Midland will be taken to Chi
cago to accept higher positions with
the Alton line. Who will follow Mr.
Rlstine into the executive management
of the Midland is not yet announced,
but 1t is more than likely that Mr.. l..
G. Cannon, the present comptroller
and executive manager, will step into
the higher position.
Swift Bear and his party of Sioux
Indians, having eight wagons loaded
with venison, resisted arrest on Buck
creek, Wyoming. for killing game con-
trary to law. Amos Demming, deputy
sheriff of Converse county, and a
posse left Lusk Wednesday with war
rants for the arrest of the Indians and
overlook them at Buck creek Thurs
day morning. After reading the war
rants the Indians refused to go with
the sheriff, drew u line and told him II
he crossed the line there would be war.
Being outnumbered the sheriff came to
Edgemont to get help and papers for
the arrest of the Indians in South Da-
kota, as they had crossed the line.
Deputy Sheriff George Miller of Edge
mont will go out with an Increased
force. Demming telegraphed the In
dian agent at Pine Ridge to have
force of Indian police go out to inter-
cept the Indians if they got away from
the Edgemont and Wyoming posse,
and it is expected the Indians will be
overtaLen somewhere near the agency.
| on
the Union Pacific, due at Sterling
Sunday morning, was ditched about
eight miles west of there. No one was
killed or seriously injured. The cause
of the wreck was waShOut- The
| Pawnee ditch was over it's banks and
| sent torrent of water down against
the track, washing the dirt from under
section about thirty feet In length.
The train was made up of two baggage
cars, two chair cars and the sleeper
| Turquoise. The engine and first bag
| gage car passed over the weak spot
safely, but the second baggage car,
containing the safe, broke the rails,
was stripped of its trucks, showed
along the track three car lengths and
deposited on the south side, topping
| nearly over. The first chair car went
across the break minus its trucks, and
stopped standing at an angle across the
track. About forty passengers were
aboard, twenty of whom occupied the
! sleeper. 1t is little short of miraculous
that not Il person was killed OF seri.
ously injured.
One of the most terrible cloudbursts
and floods known in the history of the
section occurred five miles west of
Pine Grove at about 2:30 p. IN. on the
18th. The electrical display was vivid
| A n
peared from the north which was met
by one from the west and a battle of
the giants began. The water fell in
torrents, filling Pine Grove gulch and
Rowlen gulch to depth of fifteen to
twenty feet. When the flood struck the
Platte river at point half n mile west
of this place, it swept the railroad
bridge and tracks into the river for
about eighty feet. At Cliff, five miles
further west, the railroad track was
buried under sand, rocks and debris
for length of 300 feet and depth of
from two to six feet. The wagon road
in Pine Grove gulch, which was built
by the Stewart & Mcconnell Lumber
Company three years since, at cost
of $4,000, is nearly destroyed. Every
bridge for four miles is gone. The
Colorado & Southern Company imme
diately placed force of fifty men at
work and trains are running regularly.
Some transferring of passengers was
necessary last night.
Warden c. p Hoyt of the state peni-
tentiary advocates an addition to that
institution. The penitentiary, he says,
| Is oyercrowded. 1--WE have $50 cells
and 5S7 convicts. This necessitates
putting two men in many of the cells.
When you consider that the cells are
only 4x7 feet it can readily be seen
what it means to put two men into one
of them. 1t is simply outrageous that
this must be done, but there is no help
for 1t until we build an addition. We
ought to have cell room for at least 300
more prisoners. A building of this
kind would cost us about $4,000. This
is figuring on the roofing and iron
work. The labor. stone. lime, brick and
everything in that line we could fur
nish ourselves. Out Of the 5S7 convicts
$50 are at work making brick, quarry
ing rock and laying water mains. We
are extending our water works sys-
TEN. About 1000 feet of mains is be
ing laid. and we shall tap the Arknn-
sas twelve feet below its bead, thus
insuring absolutely pure water. An
other important enterprise on which
the prisoners are now at work Is the
building OF a stone wall around twen-
ty-two acres of land adjacent to the
penitentiary and n part of the peniten.
tiary grounds"
The smaller Heron site for the new
public building at Leadville has been
recommended by Special Agent Nc.
Dowell. The entire site is offered for
$4,000. embracing property mt the
corner of Harrison avenue and Eighth
street. 105X153 feet. The smaller por-
ton is offered the government for S12,-
600. The latter proposition Is recon-
mended by Mr.. Mcdowell. This will
give room for building 60x1O0 feet