The state herald., 1899-08-04
WESTERN NOTES.

| "Ni iiouniy III oh tHS <clH.
Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh lee
tured ut the Boulder Chautauqua on
the battle Of Manila last week.
| Governor Thomas, in an address be-
fore the Boulder Chautauqua, con
demned the present policy of the gov
| ernment in relation to the Philippines.
The opening session of the Rocky
Mountain Medical Association began
ON the 10Th Mt Salt Lake when Presi-
dent Charles Pickney Hough of Salt
Lake called the meeting to order at
Salt Lake.
1t has been given out that August 1st
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail
road will operate Its trains direct to
Denver, via the Fort Worth & Denver
City roads track. The new deal will
enable the Santa Fe to get into Den
yer mt n saving of nearly thousand
miles.
John Doyle, engineer of the Garfield
Grouse mine, Cripple Creek, was car
ricd off by twenty masked men Mt an
early hour Tuesday morning. The
| victim, who was released after being
severely beaten, cannot or will moi
give any reason for the treatment ht
received.
The prize recruiting record Is be.
| lieved to be held by First Lieutenant
Max Luna of the Thirty-fourth regi.
ment. who has in two days in Phoenix,
| Arizona, enlisted fifty-two recruits for
his regiment. The men We're sent Ia
Fort Logan and We're given royal
send-of by the town people.
Simon Rodriguez was found at
o'clock in the morning on the Pecos
Valley X Northeastern Railroad, near
Roswell, with three knife wounds in
his side and his two hands cut off
by Il switching engine running over
MIN. a Mexican was arrested on
suspicion of having committed the
crime.
The Santa Fe and the Colorado &
Southern have completed the time
schedule of passenger trains between
Denver and Pueblo. The new arrange
ments give the combined roads six
passenger trains n day each way.
Tickets Of either Santa Fe or Colo
RADIO 4 Southern are good on the trains
of either road between Denver and
Pueblo.
County Attorney Putnam of Salt
!.
charging Apostle Heber j. Grant of
the Mormon Church with unlawful Co
habitation. The affidavit filed against
Grant by c. NJ. Owens. who is working
up these cases, charged Grant with
adultery, but County Attorney Putnam
did not think the evidence sufficient
TO warrant prosecution under this
charge.
Leadville sportsmen have taken up
the cudgel against the Twin Lakes
Reservoir Company and will probably
bring Il contest in the courts question
ing the right to construct reservoir
on meandering stream or TO raise and
lower the water. The opinions of sew
eral Denver and Leadvillc lawyers
have been obtained TO the effect that
according to the federal statutes this
right is prohibited.
Colorado Is threatened with another
| p3sscugor rate war. which may posi-.
! fly assume the ruinous proportions of
the famous conflict some five years ago
between the Denver u Rio Grande and
the Colorado Midland roads. when the
| fare 10 all parts of the state was but -
| cents. The impending conflict will he
I between The same roads and due TO
| the threat Of the Rio Grandc 10 put on
another fast train to Grand Junction.
The movement begun by the Sol,
| dlers' Relatives Union OF Denver To
| bring the Denver volunteers home
from San Francisco free Of cost To the
soldiers themselves is gaining ground.
Funds of similar nature have been
raised In Pueblo. Lcadvllle and other
A Iii L.
on foot In Cripple Greek. aud the city
council of that town has already ap-
| proprlatcd l.Oo0 for the Relatives
Union Of Cripple Creek 10 carry out Its
| project.
Canon City citizens now believe tlnt
| there is no question hut that that town
! viii he tn" terminus Of the Florence
y Cripple Creek railroad. Railroad
| men say that the Florence x Crpnlc
Creek line win unqucstlonably build
the extension ana that In reality IL
| is meant ms n block to the Santa Fe,
which has contemplated building into
| Cripple Greek for some time. The
/ committee from Canon City say the
line VIII be built, II believes, aud In
/ operation within four months.
4 dispatch from New York says:
I President Trumhull Of the Colorado x
/ Southern Is said 10 have In his pos.
/ session plans and surveys for the
/ building OF shor; line from Denver
/ 10 Cripple Creek. Under the plans
/ the short line would connect with the
| Colorado Midland, or In lieu of that
/ have n very close agreement with the
| Florence \ Cripple Greek rond. and
/ thus open M n prolific country south
OF the Arkansas river. Mr.. Trumbull
| N said 10 DC warm advocate Of
/ carrying the original plans TO compile
| tlon now. ns the freight Income would
4 he about 81 n ton for u haul of scarcely
/ 100 miles on an even grade.
| st. Louis people have been In Spring
Z cr. New Mexico, looking FOR trnct OF
} land ~ 2o,Vpo ncrrs Ia one body. II ls
| understood that they are negotiating
with the Maxwell Land Grant Com.
pnny for that amount OF land adjoining
the city IN the north nnd east. South.
rrn New Mexico people have also been
looking NJ n tract Of GO,OOO acres he.
longing 10 the grant an the west nud
| north, nnd other eastern buyers have
made nm onrr FOR 100000 acres also IN
one tract. ~ this rutc the Maxwell
Land Grant Company viii roon own
very little land In southern colfnN
county. What usc this lnnd II Ia be put
Ia N not known, II N known to be- ia,
best agricultural land IN the grant.
1nr State University win open Sep
trmbpr iilh, with private funds nd
vnnccd 10 pny lis running expenses un
~ the state can provide the necessary
money to pay its SliO.vp npprpprin