The Elbert County tribune., 1899-05-25
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION. !

| 300 men nre thrown out Of employ
| uenf. md n the mine does mot reopen
within several weeks suffering Will en-
snc. because many OF the employees
only have n few dolinrs coming and
can get no credit. The business ele-
pent LIS naturnlly y greatly depressedl.
This is the first Instance III the history
I-of the mine that II has been closed
| down except for strikes. becifuse the
coal and coke produced here are Of
superior quality and are In grcat de-
tmani..., .us.s.,-
II II not generally known that nt the
! last term of the Court OF Private Land
| Cinims the atiorneys for the claimants
of the san Rafael grant dug mp an
old Spanish law giving. the grantee Of
n concession for land. where he had cs.
tnblisbed meets and bounds 10 his
grant which included an excrss OF
| land larger tlinn the area specified. the
right TO pay the government for the
| land In excess. and receive title there
fore. Under that old inv the .attor-
neys for the grant rendered the court,
1 for the United States government. Ms
4 successor to tho government OF Spain,
l which made the original grant, money
! TO pay for the thirty-threer ''sltios' of
| lnnd In excess OF the four ''eltios"
l WHICH Hlt fOuttith nf tnf ktfttft-
| mcnt to have been originally granted.
| II that point is made to,stick the grant
1 claimants may get nll the country they
4 clnim.--Nogalcs Oasis. ~
The snow fighters are still nt work
I, with dynamite aud shovel on two
branches of The mountain system OF
i the Colorado and Southern road. Above
| Breckenridge. in the direction Of Lead
4 VILE, two gangs OF men are hammer
| ing AWAY on nvnlnnches whieh left
| twenty-five feet Of ice 'nnd snow In
\ their track. Two gangs are. also ham
mering nj grent snow' hunks In the re-
| gion OF Alpine pass. The difficulties
nre 30 great that the report OF one day
1 this week showed only Jweniy-fve feet
progress ns the result- Of the entire
1 days Operations Without the mid OF
4 dynamite II II claimed the banks would
J not disappear before the Fourth of
\ July, NO hard have they become. Ad.
1 vices last evening gave encouragement
4 that the line between Como and Cum
nson would be open for traffic fo-inor-'
| row. Officers Of the railway nre max
Ing mo promises II Is probable TINT
steel snow sheds VIII be erected before
! the siinw illes IN the fall Insurance
cou,panies refuse TO Insure wooden
4 s"euN III 4f4t Haa.. n
| Every niine In the Coeur trAlcnc dis
! trict cToacd down Thursday except the
lRunSer Hi. which employs non-union
fmincrs. II f. expected that tile new
prison will he completed Saturday and
| IN II VIII he confined 3D5 prisoners WHO
are now herdcd In mn lmprovised cor
ini Two hundred union miners left
| Wallace to-day. ns with the present
u . - Irt utt pu1
military II Is hopeless for union miners
,, to expect work In Coeur d'Alene. Cen
lernI Mcrrinm's order requires that amy
miner working nftcr to-dny must Sc
Icure permit. 10 obtnin. this permit
he must renounce nlleginnee to the
nhlon. only i50 men now working ut
4 the bunker i Iill mime haze taken out
these permifs. Other mine owners
have not eyncied pcrmiis III fact, they
seem TO he very lukewarm In the anti
union crusade, Tie result Il that 10.
day all thosenmines had 10 be shut
down. In the-I.ast Chance -ic0 mem
Were turned ont. In Canyon Creek 200
men We're lni1soH and atrWallace 800
lrore werc discharged Yatf s@
II is Is,reported. that radical changes in
the clIrrIculnn OF the Colorado lissri,
cultural College are ~contcnplnfctK IT
Is claimed, says the. Denver Post. by
those who question the wisdom OF the
present adninistrntion that while there
has been an apparent advancement In
the institution, the educational stand
ard has been lowered: lint the net re,
suits of. the large Expenditure of mon
cy In salaries, apparatus and new
buildings. as shown In The number OF
graduates turned out, is far from be-
ing satisfactory They also claim that
while the annual attendance has shown
an increase II has been accomplished
by Industrious and persistent drum
ming for new students throughout the
state and adjoining stntes. md by the
constant admission of students in the
preparatory and sub-firshnan classes.
who, m Tact. by,eFeason ofsthcir ex-
treme youth. are entirely out of place
in such an Institution. For instance,
there has for years existed In Fort Col
llns n strong antagonisin between the
college and the high school in conse,
quence of n constant effort on the part
OF the former to build up its fortunes
mt the expense of the latter. The instl-
| tuition of n commercial department In
| also commented upon unfavorably as
entirely out of place in an Agricultural
college The number OF students at-
| tending the preparatory. subfreshman
and commercial departments. accord.
| ing to the last annual catalogue, was
| 1S1 out of n total Of 344. or nearly 81
| per cent. of the entire attendance Yet
with all the boosted increase in attend
nnce, the number Of graduates turned
out In 1898 was only thirteen, while as
| far back ns 1890. nine were turned out.
1t is also claimed that In fact the in
stitution Is not popular among Tho.
students. and those making the claim
cite the lnrge number of fisfndents who
| nut the Institution before completing
| the course. The changes that, are Mt
present forcehsted ffrrfudc the abolition
of tho commercial department, the rals-
ing OF the grade. OF the propnfatory
class. and the complete reorganization
of the agricultural department.. 1t is
claimed that flie primary object of the
| Institution has gradually been lost sight
| Of until commercial and military ethics
| far overshadow the moro prosnic hnt
more useful methods OF agriculture.
II. W. Bryan of AIaybcll, Colo. had a
lively fight with big grizzley bear the
other day that nearly resulted fatally.
Armed with revolver and n rifle. for
which he had but two cartridges. he
struck the trail of the bear In Crooked
Wash CANON He had followed 1t only;,
few hundred yards when he heard \
noise IN the brush directly In front of
him. He Immediately dropped behind
u log and wns surprised 20 see n large
mountain lion step into view aud
crouch low Ms II about to spring. As
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