The state herald., 1899-03-24
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

| NbTh OU IbOUlNpF electric street INli-
way will be commenced soon.
\ telephone line is being put up be-
! tween Pueblo and La Junta.
| Mrs. Il. o. Wolcott has returned to
Denver, but the senator is still in Wash
ington.
DIR. 7. A. Hughes has resigned his
position as secretary of the Colorado
Board OF Medical Examiners.
The imprisoned Leadville miners
have not yet been released and 1t may
be some time before they get out.
The Denver milltiamen returned
from Lake City Tuesday morning, only
one company being left on guard there.
\ murderer and cattle thief. who had
been convicted. sawed their way out OF
the Arapahoe county Jail II few days
| ago.
| Contracts have been let and work
begun on fifteen miles Of the grade Of
the Rio Grande Westerns Park City
extension up Provo canon.
At the meeting of the sovereign
camp. Woodmen of the World. nj
Memphis. +. A. Falkenburg of Denver
was elected sovereign adviser.
While the passenger train on the
Cheyenne Il Northern was snow-bound
| last week the soldiers at Fort Russell
volunteered TO help shovel 1t out.
AT the coming municipal election
Rocky Ford viii vote upon the propo-
stion of issuing water bonds in the
,fS 10 X
| ing on $1,000 seven per cent. bonds ana
providing funds for the extension ana
| Improvement of the water works.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that stockholders in savings
banks operating under the laws oI
Colorado must consider themselves lia-
bic personally for double the amount
of their holdings and answerable TO the
depositors of the institution for that
amount.
Rev. Jonathan Wood has been grant
ed n divorce In the County court at
Aspen. Rev. Wood has been pastor
of the Baptist church there for two
years past and both he and his wife
have been held In high esteem. Rev.
Wood alleged extreme cruelty and the
evidence showed the wife TO be so in
sanely jealous that the jury thought
him justified In seeking a divorce.
The Wyoming State Board of Equali-
zation has raised the valuation upon
live stock for purposes OF taxation thir'
~ per cent. over last years rates.
Range cattle are raised from S15 10 $40
per head; range sheep from Sl.I5 TO
sos. and other classes OF stock. ex-
cepting horses, which are unchanged.
are raised In the same proportion. The
raise In these valuations Will increns"
the assessed valuation of the state n
million dollars,
The United States grand jury at
Butte returned indictments against DR..
]. l.. Atkinson, surgeon: Charles Nc
Intire. irrigating engineer. and Frank
A. Hunter. clerk at the Fort Peck In
dian reservation. for soliciting cam
paign fund for the 1896 election. The
money IL alleged to have been collect
ed ON November 30. 1896. TO help
make good deficit In the campaign
fund OF the National Committee Of the
Democratic party.
A Leadvllle dispatch Of the 10th says:
The Rio Grande reached kokomo to-
day, and tomorrow morning Will start
running passenger trains on the Blue
river branch on time. 4 train OF freight
ears filed with supplies Will also be
rushed Into the town. The principal
food VIII be potatoes. flour, butter and
eggs. of which the town is badly In
need. This is the first OF the blockad'
ed towns In that section OF the country
to he opened up. they having been lso-
lated from the outer world for over two
months.
by the terms OF n contract signed In
Denver. the Wells-Fargo company Will
ON May LIST place Its service In opera
tion over the lines of the Colorado x
Southern railroad. by this change
600 miles of railroad service IL added
TO the Wclls.Fargo system. thus super.
seding the service OF the Pacific EN-
press Company. and giving II direct
connection with the northern and
southern lines controlled by II. The
Wells-Fnrgo company Will retain all
employees OF the Pacific Express Com
pany who Will stay.
The RoNann Gold Mining and Tun.
ncllng Company OF Colorado has pcti.
TONED the District OF Columbia Su.
prcme Court for permanent injunction
against Secretary of the Interior Hitch.
cock, Commissioner Hermann Of the
General Land Office. and the Isabella
Gold Mining Company. also Of Colo
rndo. 10 prevent the government issu.
ancc 10 the Isabella company of any
pntont for lands covered by the locn.
tlons made In the names Of the Red
| Cross. the Green Cross and the fcrdl,
nand lode mining claims.
The rumorcd resignation OF Casslus
VI. Moses Of Pueblo. lieutenant colonel
of the First Colorado volunteers NJ Ma.
/ Mia. has been confirmed by telegram
received by Governor Thomas: Gen.
ernl Otis wires from Manila that he has
| declined to accept Lieutenant Colonel
| Moses resignation for the reason tim,
1 his services cannot NJ this time h. dis.
pcnsed with or his plnce h. filled" II
| hns been known among members Of
! the militia IN Denver for some time TIM,
Lieutenant Colonel Moses was no, sat.
lshod with his treatment NJ Manila.
| Many nsscrt that he wHE not friendly
| with Colonel Coy owing, II II said. Ia
the ln,tcr's treatment Of him.
Deputy sheriff Wnrnumcnt has r..
turned TO Cheyenne from the rnngci of
Little Horse creek IN eastern Laramie
county. whore he served inJuncii0ns
upon n number of the small -inckmrn
Of thu region ~ restrain them from
carrying oui ilirrnts To drive The cntilo
" Mark Cond ana e. !. lloyRhnm
from the rnnRc. The nJuncilons Were
secured by McHsrs. cond and Hey.
| .lnm Win ilnlm tho Alnrl.mnn Ihrnni.