The Holly chieftain., 1899-10-06

ana now that cheap water is possible
1t Is questioned whether Edison's so.
called electrical method of gold extrac.
ton Will be OF such great Importance
in this district after all
State warrants will no longer he nod.
| died among scalpers by state employees.
| Ihis was the announcement made by
Attorney General David NJ. Campbell,
| VINO took the Initiative in the matter.
atter conference with the heads of
departments. The attorney general
mas all along protested against the
throng OF warrant buyers which how
ers around the capitol on pay day. and
puys up the warrants of janitors
guards and other employees by paying
a Few cents premium-generally about
l per cent He says that this prevents
| the treasurer from securing them and
saving the state the interest which
warrant buyers secure under the pres
ent system. Attorney General Camp
bell so strongly presented his case TO
| the officials at the meeting that they
all agreed to notify their employees not
to sell their warrants in future.
Two men on horseback held IN the
stage from Sneflles at 3 o'clock Mon
day afternoon about three miles south
| OF Ouray, up the mountain road, Mt the
second watering trough, n place well
fitted for such n deed. The men pre-
sented revolvers at the four occupants
OF the open stage and endeacored TO
| get out the iron safe. but could not
break the fastenings. The bandits
were after the gold bags brought down
daily from the Camp Bird mine. but
were unaware that the bags are al.
ways placed in an iron safe with an
| armed guard TO protect it. \ telephone
message from Sneflles shows that the
men kept up on the road and passed
through Snetiles Sheriff Edgar is us
ing the wires and will dispatch posse
TO endeavor TO capture the highway
men. The occupants of the stage were
not molested and no property was talk
en- from the stage, which carries the
United States mail.
The deputy United States marshals
are still on the South Creek portion of
the Maxwell grant and have made no
eviction, nor have attempted to make
any. They have simply served few
writs. No officers have yet appeared
in the Stonewall valley. When they
do appear it Is said there will be no op.
position to the serving of papers, but
that evictions will not be tolerated
The spur from the Cheyenne &
Northern, from Badger to Hartville, Is
progressing very slowly This is on
account of the inability of the contrac.
tors to get and keep men at work.
More than 500 men have been sent to
the work at one time and another, but
only seventy-iiye remain Mt the present
time. 1t is not due to the scarcity of
labor. Plenty OF men can be found,
who go TO work but quit within Il
weeks time. This is unfortunate, us
1t will retard the opening of the road
much longer than has been counted Oh
by those ready to use it.
Il. A. Schomburg of Ration, New Mex.
leo, superintendent of the Maxwell
Land Grant Company, says in refer
epce to the evictiOns now determined
on: ''All this talk about n thou
sand families being rendered homeless
through the efforts of our company Is
pure nonsense. In the whole Colorado
portion of the grant there are not
more than 300 squatters, including
men, women and children, and 1t is
not the intention of the company to
oppress them in any manner whatever
The truth of the matter Is, though
| that Il large number of these squatters
make their livelihood by cutting our
timber and selling 1t. and we propose
to put a stop to that If we can. Any
settler on the Colorado portion of the
grant who will give proper guarantees
not to destroy our timber land and who
is willing to recognize our title by buy
| ing or leasing, has nothing to fear at
all; but 1t is a case where patience hns
ceased to be virtue and If they will
not quit their deprcdations and recog-
niZe our title they will have to move
off, every one of them. If 1t takes the
whole force of the United States gov
ernment to put them off,"
When Sheriff Stewart of Eddy coun-
| ty, who captured w. ii. McGinnis,
member of the Black Jack gang. called
upon Tom Ketchum, leader of the gang.
at the penltentiary the other day,
Ketchum said, iokingly: II am getting
| fat, so that when they hang me they
can eat me, il they want to-" This re-
mark led the, penitentary authori-
ties to believe that there was some
| thing up, and after thorough investi-
| CATION a daring plan was discovered to
make break for liberty. Ketchum had
been in the penitentiary hospital since
his arm was amputated, recently In
the clotnS useu AZ DanuaSe was
| found steel saw made of a clock
| spring and in the water closet n COM
plete wooden pistol, covered with tin
foil, was discovered. His plan was to
saw through the hospital door, surprise
the guard by fiourishlDg the mock re-
| volver, seize the guards gun and fight
his way out or perish in the attempt.
| When the saw was discovered Ketch-
un broke down with emotion. He was
promptly removed from the hospital to
the cell house, from which lie cannot
escape. Ketchum had confederates In
| making these preparations. but who