The silver lance., 1899-02-17
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

ing cleared S250,0OO by the recent rise
In Isabella stock.
Mine operating at Anthracite and
Crested Butte was at n standstill on
the 9th owing to the inability Of the
Rio Grande railroad to furnish cars.
Communication with outside camps is
practically cut off.
Governor Thomas on tile Sth received
a reply to his cablegram TO General
Hale. asking who was injured or killed
In Saturdays fight at Manila. The re-
ply was: "Shot and instantly killed in
action, Charles Carleson, l.; Cass White,
ID; Doran. /; slightly wounded in ac-
ton. Haughwout; wounded in action,
Boyce, l.; Weaver, b."
The most heroic incident of the
storm in Wyoming was Mrs. Holmes
leaving the Ferguson ranch. near Sill
yer Crown, to go TO Iron Mountain,
twenty miles. losing her way in the
storm and laying out two nights. The
first night she spent between the two
horses of her team. and the second in
an old dry well. She had some food in
the wagon. She got home safely, but
is sick from the hardships endured.
The funeral services at Denver over
the remains of Rev. Myron w. Reed
were remarkable for great out
pouring of people of all classes. The
throng was immense. 1t filled the
Broadway Temple to overfiowing. A
thousand men and women stood in the
street outside, cold as the weather
was, unable to see or hear any of the
ceremonies, but 10th to leave the build
ing where the last honors were being
paid the man they loved. In the serv-
ices a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic clergy
man and several Protestant ministers
participated.
Announcement is made that the cast
iron pipe mills of the Colorado Fuel Il
Iron Company at Pueblo will resume
in the course of the next few days.
They have large orders ahead. This
means the employment of about 100
additional men. 1t is currently report
ed and generally believed that the COM
pany will soon begin the construction
of a fourth blast furnace with a capa-
city of 100 tons of pig iron per day. 1t
is at present imposs bic for the furnaces
to supply all the crude iron that is re-
quiredain all departments of the plant
in operation on full time as they now
are.
The judges of the Wyoming Supreme
islature, have been for two weeks ex-
amining the revision of the statutes
repudated by the Legislature of 1896,
verifying the presence of all statutes
indicated therein. and eXpurgating for
eign matter Incorporated by the revis-
ors. have about concluded their work
and will report tomorrow. The re-
vision verified and expurgated will be
ordered published as the revised stat
utes of the state. The chapters on
revenue and municipal corporations
interjected into the revision by the
former committee have been expurg-
ated.
The Rocky Mountain News says: 1t
Is expected that there will be a great
shaking up among mining companies
recently organized and incorporated
when the books of the secretary Of
state have been thoroughly examined
by representative of the internal rev.
enue collector. The collector decides
that companies should pay govern
ment war tax at the rate of 81 per
1000 shares, whereas some of the new
ly fiedged companies have tried to get
off with stamps costing only 81 in all.
Under the ruling of the collector. the
company Incorporated for $JO0,OOO
should pay government tax to the tune
of $500.
A dispatch to the Rocky Mountain
News from Salt Lake City says: Moses
Thatcher, formerly an apostle of the
Mormon church, has declined n Unit
ed States senatorship rendered him by
the Democratic members of the Utah
Legislature. Thirty-three members
petitioned Mr.. Thatcher. asking him to
become a candidate and pledging him
their support. Thirty-two would
elect. Thatcher is Il polygamist and
has four wives, his status being SINH
lar TO that of Brigham ii. Roberts, re-
Gently elected to Congress, and 1t was
because of this status that he declined
the senatorship. In an interview he
said he did not want to antagonize
Christian people of the country.
writ dismissed and petitioner re-
manded." was the decision of the Su-
preme Court at Denver last "Wednesday
in the original application of James
Doyle for a writ of habeas corpus.
Doyle had been directed by Judge Lunt
of Colorado Springs not to prosecute a
suit in Iowa against the Portland Min
ing Company. He violated the order
and obtained judgment for over $500
900. The court therefore held him in
contempt, and from that Judgment he
sued out writ of error to the Court of
Appeals and applied for a supersedeas
which was denied. After this denial
further proceedings were had in the
case in the Ell Paso District Court and
the petitioner was placed in Jail. He
then asked the Supreme Court for Il
writ of habeas corpus. which the court
refused. He will go back to jail
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided against Assessor Ames of Arapa-
hoe county in his contest with the State
Board of Equalization. Assessor Ames
refused to extend the tax of 1896 of
the State Board of Equalization on rail
road. telegraph and telephone proper
ty in this county and proceeded to make
an assessment of his own. In SO doing
he had the interests of the county