The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1899-11-04
WESTERN NOTES.

Victor plasterers are striking for IS
q day.
George seaver. postmaster Of Pueblo.
died on the 18th.
Twenty-Five houses arc being built at
Hartsville, Wyoming.
The Lamar posto6ice was robbed of
s276 the other night.
Several cases Of smallpox are report
ed at Leadville.
The State Sunday School Convention
met at Boulder on the 10Th.
The old Brainard 4 Beebe hotel at
Creede burned on the 21st.
General Miles and Buffalo Eli are
on a hunting trip In the Big Horn
mountains.
new reservoir holding 10000 gal
Ions Is to be added to the 1Fimoao
water system.
The Cripple Creek Star wants home
mining company organized there to de-
yelop the veins under the town.
The second annual lion hunt was b.
gun at Rife on the 28th. Three hun
bred men are out after lions, bear. elk
and dear.
Jesus Maria Garcia, sometimes
spoken ot'as the king Of Las Animal,
and prominent In the political and 30
cial life Of DSs Animas county, died on
the oath.
Fourteen Carloads Of machinery
from the abandoned car shops OF the
Santa Fe railroad at San Marial have
been placed In be Ration car shops,
where the force will be greatly IN
creased.
John Baldwin, wealthy ranchman
Of Colfax county, New Mexico, believes
the greater portion q that part OF the
territory Is above an underground
stream, and will drill several artesian
wells to test his Theory.
The Indian office is preparing plans
and specifications for = school on the
Jicarilla reservation, New Mexico, to
accommodate 100 pupils. There are
5000 children of school age on the res
ervation and no school facilities.
Sheriff Layne Of Ogden has captured
one and probably two Of the robbers
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
ger train ut Wilcox, Wyoming, on June
End, at which time they blew two OF
the cars to pieces, and escaped WIN
large amount Of booty.
The enormous traffic Of the Union
Pacific, caused by unprecedented fruit
and cattle shipments, ID taxing the re-
sources of the road to it's utmost An
idea Of the business done can be gained
from the fact that nifty trains, nverag-
ing thirty cars to train, pass over
Sherman hill daily. Upon the Wyom-
Ing division alone there are seventy
i've train movements . day.
A phenomenal onion yield Is report
ed from Greeley. On the farm Of
Charles Camp, consisting Of thirty
Tires acres, In Pleasant Valley, 1900
srAeAs- Ut ynsaas isavs hsen 0atAsevas
s1,0o6 Of which were grown ON hve
acres. These onions bring on an av-
eRnge 70 cents a sack. The waste in
the culling alone would supply le-
Giop Of rain belters with flne onions
Tor the winters use.
4 After eight days devoted to hearing
testimony, the case Of James ]. Doyle
aeainst the Mt. Rosa Company was
Anished In the land ONCE at Pueblo on
the 2lth. The testimony amounts to
over 100, 1000 words and 1t will be about
one month before the stenographer can
extend his notes. The register and re-
ceiver will then examine the testimony
and prepare . decision which will
doubtless not be rendered for two
months thereafter.
The beet sugar plant At Grand juno
ton u to be started in a few days.
All the machinery has arrived on the
grounds, according to latest reports,
and men are engaged night and day In
putting the intricate parts together.
The delay was occasioned by din.
Guilty in having orders hlled by the
eastern manufacturing companies.
while the output Of beets In the valley
Of the Grand and neighboring Gullies
d not rs large - desired by the com.
many, 1t is thought good start will b.
made for the frst year.
Colorado College will send fns ~
Lection of specimens a. samples to the
I Paris exposition. The collection will
b quite q large one and will include
very rare minerals. w. 8. Ward, Unit
( ed States commissioner, has been In
the city and examined the collection
which he pronounced one Of the best
he had ever seen. The cost of making
the collection has been necessarily
large and has been raised by subscrip
tons and through the generosity of the
railroads.
There is great indignation among
the miners In the Mogollon district OF
account Of an order Of the Department
81 the Interior limiting the cutting Of
timber ON the Gila river forest reserve
to 500 worth for mining purposes
| Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut all the timber necessary for the
development of the mines. The MINER
viii continue to cut timber freely fol
that purpose and II arrested will make
q test case, which, II necessary, will
be carried to the United States gu.
prema Court
Work was begun Wednesday BY
Cloush & Anderson on the new line
to connect Colorado Springs and Grip
pie Greek, and as many men a. could
be employed were put to work. q. W
Giddings, Irving Howbert and II. =
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