, 1899-08-10
WESTERN NOTES.

students and 200 preparatory pupils. 1t
graduated in June fifty from the uni
versity and thirty-seven from the pre-
paratory. The alumni of the university
now number 325 and of the prepara-
tory school 2SI. Among the noteworthy
events of the past year were revision
of the requirements for admission,
shortening by one year the entire pc
riod required for obtaining both n col
lege degree and n degree in law or
medicine. opening q hospital and estab.
fishing clinics in connection with the
medical school. Next year h Full o Il
years medical course will be given.
The Thirty-fourth regiment will be
fully recruited within three week and
every one of the men vii be In quar-
tiers at Fort Logan. The T~hirty-fourth
is recruited from the states of Colo
RADIO, South Dakota. Wyoming, Utah
and New Mexico. Sub-stations are be-
ing established in all these states. un-
der the direction of regular army Off
GERS. South Dakota is under the direct
charge of the army headquarters at st.
Paul. The officer in charge of the sub
station Mt Salt Lake reports many en-
listments for the regiment and officers
in the field in Utah also report success.
The Santa Fe Office is sending many
men and yesterday Lieutenant Cole
man was ordered to pl cceed to Coralis.
New Mexico, inc open a second sub
station in New Mexico. 1t is in Colo
RADIO. however, where the bulk of the
enlistments for the Thirty-fourth are
being made. 1.-The success in recruit
ing the regiment is highly satisfac-
tory" says Lieutenant Ryan. in charge
of the station. for the regiment is to
be recruited from Western states which
are not as thickly populated as are the
Middle and Eastern states or Northern.
Then. again. the towns are much small
Ter. but there seems to he a desire upon
the part of many to join the army and
we are having no trouble whatever i'm
securing men. The recruits are fine
specimens of physical manhood and
are n credit to h army. The regiment
will be one to be proud Of when 1t is
complete"
There is n gang or moonShiners in
Colorado which Is minus n complete
distiling apparatus. The still was cap
tured on the west side of Spanish Peak,
about t~hirty-five miles from La Veta,
Fol about six weeks Collector Frank
w. Howbert of the internal revenue
office has been working oil the case.
and for ten days Deputy Collector J. q.
Allard and Special Gauger w. l.. Paint
cr of Omaha have been ranging the
mountains about La Veta in search of
the plant. They located 1t in a small
log cabin after three days scouting.
cabin was hidden among the rocks
and underbrush and tall pine trees at
the foot of Il cliff. None of the moon
sinners We're in or neal the cabin at the
time of the capture. The officers say,
however, that they have located the
distillers and expect to arrest them.
cabin contained nothing but the
still and washtubs. No living or sleep
ing accommodations We're anywhere
visible abOut the place. For this rea-
son ii is particularly difficult to esti-
mate the number of the gang. The
officers. however, are reasonably GER
tain of the guilt of three or four men.
The still was located by the amount of
white" whisky found in the railroad
camps of the workmen who are engag-
ed in building the new road over La
Veta pass. Collector Howbert first
learned of the presence of the white
whisky in the camp about six weeks
ago. Since then he has been in con
slant communication with officers in
that part of the country. IL about
two weeks ago Allard and Painter
were detailed TO find the still. They
got a definite clue about three days
ago. From that time until they found
the still they hunted for the moon
sinners day and night in the midst of
n pouring rain. Allard and Painter
have telegraphed Howbert that they
are almost assured of catching the
men at once.
Professor Henry f. Osborn, in charge
of the geological department of Co
lumbia University and connected with
the American Museum of Natural His
tory in New York. arrived in this city
yesterday, says the Denver Republic
can, from the fossil fields at Aurora.
Wyoming. Professor Osborn is in
charge of the work ut that place which
is being carried Oh under the direction
of the American Museum of Natural
History. This is our eighth season mt
the work" he said yesterday afternoon,
and it has been our best. We have
discovered many valuable skeletons,
and a large quantity of miscellaneous
bones. We are in searcN chiefly of
dinosaur fossil remains. and the quar-
ries in which we have been working
have proved rich In just the specimens
that we sought. Two years ago we be-
gan work in digging u Il large skele-
ton, which turned out TO he about half
complete. IL was iDONI q 1ept
long. This year we nave completed
the excavation of n skeleton which
lacks but little of being absolutely per
feet. The head, some of the vertebrate
of the neck. and one or two bones OF
the fore limbs are missing. BY compar-
ison of the femurs of boil skeletons
we have proved that the animals were
of the same size. We will be able to
combine both and then will have n fos-
sill skeleton complete. except the head
and seven of the vertebrate. The most
recent discovery in our quarries was n
small head of Il dinOsaur. Unfortun-
ately, it belongs to an animal much
smaller than those whose skeletons we
have just found. The head Is interest
ing, on account of its extremely small
proportions. 1t Is barely eighteen
inches long and "A foot wide. When
you remember that the body to which
il belonged was fifty feet long. at
least, and almost as high. you get an
idea of the snake-likc smallness of the
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