The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

tons made in the names of the Red
Cross. the Green Cross and the Ferdi-
nand lode mining claims.
Something new and fresh in the way
of palaces is to be erected in Salt Lake
City shortly. Cities in a cold climate
erect ice palaces. but Salt Lake intends
to put up salt palace. Millions of
tons of rock salt are available, and
committee, already appointed, Is to
meet to complete the arrangements.
1t is said that there are no difficulties
in the way of making the proposed
palace entirely of salt. When con-
pleted it will certainly be novelty,
and will doubtless attract visitors not
only from the inter-mountain section,
but from all parts of the country.
Deputy Sheriff Waraument has re-
turned to Cheyenne from the ranges of
Little Horse creek in eastern Laramie
county, where he served injunctions
upon a number of the small stockmen
of the region to restrain them from
carrying OUT threats to drive the cattle
of. Mark Coad and C. j. Heysham
from the range. The injunctions We're
secured by Messrs. Coad and Hey
sham, who claim the stockmen threat
ened violence. The matter will come
before the District Court upon the ap-
plication to secure a permanent injunc-
ton to restrain the defendants from
driving of the cattle. The procedure
is n novel one in determining range
disputes and will be watched with
great interest.
The appraisers appointed by the Lead
vile Water Company and the city for
the purpose of arriving at valuation
of the water works have handed in
their report to the City Council. 1t fixes
the value of the plant and water right
at S3OO,OO0. The council Immediately
passed a special ordinance for the pur-
pose of submitting the question of the
purchase of the water plant TO the tax
payers at the coming election. The
water question is DOW feature in
municipal politics. The present water
company has been operating under
twenty-five-year contract, which ex-
pired this year, and under the terms of
this the city is entitled to purchase the
plant at n valuation fixed by n board of
appraisers. The water works company
asked 100000, but finally came down
to S350,000.
The western roads have definitely
decided to abolish the feeding in tran
sit rates which have been granted to
stock men for the last several years.
The date has not been definitely decid-
ed. though it will probably be May
10th. The Kansas roads cannot change
the rate much sooner than that, as the
state law requires sixty days notice
of changes. 1t is the expressed opin-
ion that all roads will make the change
at the same date to AVOID confusion.
The stock men in the western range
country have made n vigorous but in
effectual fight to retain the rate, as it
has been of immense benefit to them.
The reason given by the railroads is
that the privilege has been abused by
stock men selling the cattle and bill of
lading after they have been unloaded
and placed in the feed yards, and also
that the corn consumed deprives the
roads of just that much freight.
A Leadville dispatch says: Now that
the two miners are safe above ground,
the rescuers speak with almost bated
breath of the dangers that menaced
the men above and below the ground
While Reuss and Frey We're prisoners,
a roseate picture was presented to
them and their friends, but now that
it is all over, some of the true condi-
tions have become known. From the
time that the ground gave way in the
main shaft, two weeks, ago, every per-
son employed In the rescue staked his
life on the merest casualty. 1t was
never known what moment the shaft
ground would give away, and all the
workers would be dashed to the bot
tom of the shaft. The least displace-
ment would have cut off all communi-
cation with the two men, and they
would have slowly starved to death.
There was danger not only to those
working in the rescue shaft, but also
to those that worked in the Starr
drift, as there was constant caving
of dirt throughout the time that the |
men were pushing forward. In fact, |
all the rescuerS were working in |
ground, and they knew it. |
Tomorrow morning the cleaning out |
of the old Bon Air shaft where the |
cave occurred will be continued, and /
as rapidly as possible the dirt and rock |
will be raised to the surface, and the |
old shaft placed in condition to CON
tinue the important operations upon
this property being conducted by the |
Leadville pumping Association.
A dispatch to the Denver Republican
from Lake City says: 1t leaked out to-
day that the military board of inquiry
would report to Governor Thomas that
the calling of troops to Lake City was
without warrant, censuring Sheriff
Deck in strong terms and pointing out
that the commissioners are not entirely
blameless in the matter, the evidence
going to show that they had in
measure interfered with the sheriff in
the performance of his duties. The
report will also show, 1t is said, that
the Italians were more Sinned against
than shining, they having been led into
the trouble by few American miners
who had had trouble with the Ute and
Ulay and Hidden Treasure Companies
1t will also state that it is the belief of
The board that the Italians are not re-
sponsible for stealing state arms and
1t is asserted that Sher-
if Deck will surely be removed from
office, and that there is strong probabil-
ty that the county commissioners will
meet q like fate at the hands of Goy-