La Junta tribune., 1899-01-28

! d. l.. Gordon lost his life In the
burning Of the Cardiff shaft house,
/ near Ward. last Friday.
- investigating the management Of
the Insane Asylum at Pueblo.
A coal mine OF the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. near Glenwood. In be
ing flooded to extinguish q ,re.
! Mrs- J. b. Belford has been appoint.
ed trustee of the State Normal School.
She takes the place OF Governor
Thomas.
Denver sportsmen want change In
the game laws that will permit the
shooting Of more than twenty ducks
/ In a day during the open season.
Ex-Governor Job A. Cooper died at
his home. In Denver. on the 10th. He
| wns only sick day, the cause OF his
death being peritonitis. He leaves a
| widow and four children. among
whom his large estate will be divided
Frank E. Snow, who has obtained
the contract for the JOOfoot tunnel at
the Goose creek reservoir, above Bur
falo. has begun work. This work will
probably give employment for from
200 to 800 men for several years.
A bill has been introduced in the Wy
| oming Legislature providing for the re-
moyal OF the state prisoners from the
present occupied penitentiary at Lara
ME TO the newly erected penitentiary
| II Rawlins.
Colonel William ]. Bryan. accom-
panied by Mrs. Bryan. visited Denver
On the 10th. and was given warm
welcome. He put in busy day, hold
.ng reception. talking to politicians
and reporters and accepting the hospl-
!ality Of private citizens.
The platform holding Colonel and
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan and
100 others Mt Coliseum hail. at Den
yer, fell with n terrific crash. and the
silver leader and his wife, with those
who occupied posts OF honor. mar
eowly escaped death or serious in
Jury.
Alfalfa seed is now shipped from
Denver to the South and East in quite
large quantities. Mr.. c. X. Root, the
enterprising manager Of the Colorado
Seed House, at Denver. says that al
falfa Is now grown quite extensively
in Texas and in some of the eastern
states.
Detective George A. Scarborough. ex-
Texas state ranger, who killed Kid
Johnson and shot and captured Bron-
cho Bill, a most notorious desperado
and train robber is In Santa Fe working
for the captaincy OF the troop OF New
Mexico rangers about to be created by
the territorial Legislature.
The social breach which has SO long
existed between the families of Sena-
tor Cushman X. Davis and former
Governor Merriam of Minnesota is
said to have been closed up. The
wives of the two men are said to have
ciasped hands and become reconciled,
and the social war has come to an end.
A. ]. Boutwell, of Wyoming will
read a paper before the National Live
Stock Association on the "Extermina-
tion Of Wolves" and will illustrate his
talk by producing on the stage pack
of real live gray wolves, captured on
the range in Wyoming, and rs savage
and untamed as brute creation ever
gets to be.
The city engineer of Cheyenne ,says
that the charges Of the electric light
plant to the city are higher than In any
western city or town except Leadville.
Colorado. Cheyenne pay $162 each for
her thlrty-two arc lights. He says that
an adequate city plant would cost $14.-
GOO. He advises that unless the pres
ent extortionate charge Is remedied the
city ought to build its own plant.
Colonel w. II. Combs is the origi-
nator of a proposition calculated to
employ the convicts OF Colorado prof
itably to the state. The coloneTs prop
osition is. In brief. TO use the convict
labor of the state in the construction
of big double-track drainage and
transportation tunnel. starting at a
point near Malta, extending thence
under the city OF Leadyille and on to
the Mosquito range.
The contract for grading the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad standard gauge
over the Veta pass into the San Luis
valley has been awarded to Clough &
Anderson OF Colorado Springs. The
work Is of the heaviest type known in
mountain construction and Is expected
to cost 100000. The necessary force
will be secured at once. as the contract
requires for the running Of trains by
October 1st.
The Moon-Anchor mine has been
sold to an English company. The Old
stockholders receive $1,000 shares Of
Fl each, one-seventh of the capitaliza-
ton Of the new company, and mini
mum of f1S0.OOO In cash. The Battle
Mountain property is not included in
the deal. The directors Of the Moon
Anchor Gold Mining Company met
this afternoon and issued circular to
the stockholders. giving the facts
about the deal which Werner q. Reed
made with British capitalists on his
recent visit to London.
The opening OF the new Atchison,
Topeka 4 Santa Fe depot and Harvey
dining station, constructed 1t cost OF
$4,000, took place at East Las Vegas
the other day. There were hundreds
OF visitors. The hotel and the depot
are OF brick, two stories high, In the
old Spanish mission style Of architec-
ture, and nnished In the very perfec-
fion Of tho builders art. Each IN heat