The Springfield herald., 1899-02-10

Edward Rogers was killed in snow
slide near Silverton on the Bird.
The Rio Grande railroad is boarding
ITO storm-bound passengers at hote
at Glenwood.
Fort Worth cattleman won 1i,OOt
In Denver gambling resort druing the
recent convention.
Harry G. Falkenbury of Denver, who
mas been a musician at Manila, dieo
last month of smallpox.
Judge Victor A. Elliott, formerly q
judge of the Supreme Court, died sud
denly at Denver on the 9th.
The preliminary hearing at Greeley
of Frank Herald. the alleged murderer
OF the OHnrns, resulted in his Delns
held to the district court.
The Midland broke through the
drifts on the 9TH but the Rio Grande
required a few days longer TO remove
the numerous avalanches on Its track
above Glenwood.
Greeley's Indebtedness. amounting to
10000, has been refunded and new
loan made at -four and n half per cent.
per annum. The rate of interest on the
former loan was six per cent.
The first fatal results near Lead
vile from the big snow storm occurred
OH the 1st. when William Manning met
with instant death on Mt. Ebert above
Twin Lakes through snowslide
While trainmen were clearing a
snow slide from the d. & II. G. tracks
near Glenwood Springs Thursday they
were overwhelmed by an avalanche
that killed three and injured four.
The bounty bill nppropriating S40,-
| 900 has passed the lower house of the
| Wyoming legislature by n large ma
| jority. 1t provides 81 for wolf scalps
and 81 for coyotes.
The Catron capitol bill to provide
100000 in bonds for the completion of
the territorial capitol building passed
the New Mexico House without dis
senting vote.
Citizens from the western part of
New Mexico are lobbying the Legisla-
| ture for the creation of n new county
TO be taken from Bernalillo and Va
lencia counties. with Gallup as the seat
OF government.
President L. T. Jeffery of the Denver
& Rio Grande has contracted while In
the East, with the Brooks locomotive
works for the ten large locomotives
which are needed by the railway. The
new locomotives are to be delivered in
April
The town of independence, near AS
pen, is cut of from communication
with the outside world by the heavy
SHOWS. The stock of food and fuel Is
running low, and it is feared that the
people will suffer before the blockade
Is raised
A special to the Salt Lake Tribune
from Cokeville, Wyoming, says: a
snowslide mile long occurred on the
Both, burying several men and teams
All the men We're taken out alive with
the exception of Burt Handy, who was
dead when found
Reports from the southern part OF
New Mexico intimate that there Is
proposition on foot down there to or
ganize new territory of the southern
half of New Mexico, part of Arizona
and the western tongue of Texas, Will
Ell Paso as the capital city.
]. H. Miles, president of the Ere
mont Hot Springs Company of Wyo
ming, has gone East to press his Offer
of $4,000 for the Sharkey-F y-FitZsimmons
fight. He says he is fully able to dem
onstrate his ability to pull off the fight
without interference at that point
and also to give any guarantee desired
ms to the financial end Of the affair.
Oscar Strand, locomotive engineer
on the Missouri Pacific railway, run
ming between Hesington, Kansas, and
Pueblo, Colorado, was shot and NOR
tally wounded at Salida Thursday.
The shooting occurred in the rotunda
Of the Hotel Huckins. l.. L. Hindman,
better known ns the "Honeygrove
Kld,' an alleged gambler, is accused of
killing Strand.
Sixteen horses which were carrying
food to the distressed inhabitants in
the vicinity of Independence, are
buried in great snowslide, nine miles
from Aspen. Two boys, who had been
sent In charge OF the relief outfit, mar
rowly escaped being overwhelmed in
the tremendous avalanche, which
completely blocks the road and which
threatens to cause intense privation
among the miners at Independence.
Twenty-six inches of new snow in
thirty-six hours is the latest record
from the higher attitudes Of the noun.
tains, as received at headquarters of
the Colorado and Southern road Sun.
day. The report came from Brecken
ridge. The snow fell over great area
of the backbone of the continent, and
last night the plows and Hangers were
Que In full force in the unequal combat
against the elements. AT Breckenridge
snow on the level was reported to be
eight feet deep.
A movement has been inaugurated
to have the first annual reunion of the
Rough Riders of the late war with
Spain held, and the place thus faI
mentioned Is FL Paso, from the fact
that the city furnished great mum
ber of riders. Governor Roosevelt has
notified Ex-Governor Prince Of New
Mexico that he will visit that territory
this year and while down in the great
southwest the effort will be made tt
hold the reunion of his Rough Riders
The snow is general over Wyoming
ranging in depth from two and n hall
feet In Big Horn county on level
down to foot on the Laramie plains
In the Medicine Bow and Sierra Madrt
mountains the fall of snow has beer
unprecedented being five or six fee
on the level. The most conservative