The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-21

with having deliberately murdered her
baby.
Wilmot II. Lake of Central City was
crowned III South Boulder Creek on the
10th.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
Mexico on the 18th. being the first
Il several months.
The Union Pacific lost $4,000 by Il
fire at La Sale. Colorado. which burn
ed the ore cluteS ana several cars
a three-year-old girl wandered away
from her home in Russell gu!ch. Gil
pm county. on the 10th and had not
been found Monday night.
The city council of La Junta has Or
uereu new reservoir with capacity
OF 100000 gallons to be built as an ad-
ultlon to the city water plant
Sam Roberts of Canon City shot and
Killed his wife and her mother and
then killed himself. He was dissolute
and his wife had obtained divorce.
a message from Buffalo, Wyoming,
on the 18th states that a courier has
come in from Powder river with the
report that the officers have the Union
Pacific train robbers surrounded at r.
X. mountain and capture is regarded
as certain to follow.
Two lads, named Pring and Lee, in
a hay rack. were killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The two
horses hitched to the wagon We're
killed and the wagon demolished. Two
other young men standing by the wag
on talking to them We're uniniured.
Oliver Lee and James Gilliland were
acquitted of the murder of Henry
Fountain on the 10Th. The jury was
clOSeted but seven minutes. There was
great applause in court when the ver-
dict was read and the prisoners were
warmly congratulated. In their argyll
ments the attorneys have been bitter
toward each other ut times and toward
the witnesses for the other side.
Unless the convicts ut the peniten-
t;nry are soon put to work and made
partly self-suppOrting there will be a
shortage at the end Of the term of
from 100000 to $4,000. according to
G. T.. HOyt, the warden. He says it is
not only proper but absolutely neces-
sary that the men be placed at work,
as if they are allowed to remain in idle
ness the institution will find itself head
over heels in debt.
At an adjourned meeting of the town
trustees of Evans license was granted
at 81 600 per year to saloons. Three
applicants for licenses were handed in
and granted. The town voted temper
ance by a large majority last April,
but by the resignation of two of the
trustees the change came
about. a petition was circulated ask
ing the board not to grant a license.
and was signed by majority Of the
voters. but was unheeded.
The Indians of San Felipe and Santo
Domingo and the PueblOs of Berna-
lilo county have won the cases they
appealed to the United States Court Of
Private Land Claims. These grants
were confirmed by the court. but with
areas much less than claimed by the
Indians. In case No. 1874 the grant
GAINED embraced 10000 acres. In
case No. 1874. the claim was for 25,OOO
acres, and in case No. 1S5 the San Fe-
lipc PueblOS claimed over $4,000 acres
A promising gold discovery is report
ed at Bnford. Il station on the line of
the Union Pacific railroad about %
miles west of Cheyenne. The discov-
cry was made May l by the O'Reilly
brothers of Buford who have since
that time been sinking prospecting
shaft on the ore body. They are now
down 30 feet. where they have cut q
vein from which the ore assays over
5000 per ton in gold. A number of
residents of Cheyenne have staked out
claims adjoining the O'Reilly property
Manager Voorhees, of the Hartvillc
iron mines has received instructions
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pnny to close down the mines at Hart
vile. Wyoming. at once. This throws
between 100 and $50 miners and ore
haulerS out of employment and de-
strOys a number of good business en-
terprises in the Badger-Hartville sec
ton. 1t is believed that the order to
close down will also delay the building
of the spur from Badger to Hartvillp.
work upon which was commenced
some weeks ago.
The insurance companies have begun
their fight on the Denver & Rio Grande
road to recover losses OccasiOned by
the disastrous fire at Colorado Springs
last October. 1t will he remembered
that the cause of the fire was al
legged to have been due to the explosion
Of car of powder on the Denver &
Rio Grande tracks. and suits have been
started by the small property owners
on HuerfanO street to recover damages.
The suit as filed is an exceedingly vol
luminous one. 1t involves over $2OOOO
and others similar in nature may fol-
low it. ..
Wyoming has been notified by the
that equipment to take the
place Of that furnished the volunteers
from that state has been shipped from
the government supply depots and
should arrive in Il few days. When
the Wyoming volunteers left for the
Philippines they took with them al
most all of the military equipment in
the state. When the state militia was
reorganized and recruited there was
little or no equipment for the new
troops. In the consignment from the
general government are number of
cannon. two or three hundred Spring
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