, 1899-10-12

near Cheyenne, has been recovered.
Preciliano Monero of Las Cruces
has been appointed by Governor Otero
n member of the Board of Regents of
the New Mexico Agricultural college
at Mesilla, to succeed X. l.. Twitchell
of Las Vegas, resigned.
Longmont ~iDaugurated n new festi-
val on the 5th-Pumpkin Pie Day. Five
thousand old-fashioned New England
pies are reported to have disappeared
within II short space of time, besides
gallons of cider. A great crowd WIS.,
tied the town.
j. 1. Carson. manager of the Pardee
Live Stock Association of Rawlins,
Wyoming, is now in Oregon to pur-
chase 25,OOO read of sheep. He drove
10000 head of wethers over the trail
last spring. He thinks sheep are held
too high in that country to make buy
ing profitable to the shipper.
j. \. Eddy has decided to build large
water works mt Cloudcroft, near Ala
mogordo. The water will be pumped
from the head of james canon, we
miles from Cloudcroft and feet be
low II. Two artificial lakes will be
created ut the summer resort. The
Holly water system will be used.
The parole of II prisoner who pre-
tended TO be serving his first term was
cancelled by wire by Governor Thomas
Thursday when he learned the man
had been in the ~penitentiary before.
Thus Il. Il. Glazier. convicted in Dem
Yer in 1892 and sentenced to ten years,
was forced to turn backward just as
he reached the prison door.
The Rio Grande Western and con
Meeting lines to Chicago, the Denver &
Rio Grande, Rock Island and Burling-
ton, are preparing to put on n new
train TO connect with the Southern Pa
citic fast rains mt Ogden. The local
roads will run n light fast train be
tween Ogden and Denver. consisting of
five or six cars only. No local stops
VIII be made on the fast train unless
absolutely necessary.
The work of rebuilding the business
section of Victor. consumed by the
fire of Aug. ~, continues. Many hand
some structures are springing up, and
in several cases the walls have been
completed. Pressed brick is being
used almost exclusively. The streets
are being graded, and in n few
months the business sections In point
of beauty and volume of business
transacted will compare favorabiy
with many larger cities of the state.
Hundreds of men are Mt work.
The federal sanltarium for the navy
recently established Mt Fort Stanton,
New Mexico, has imported a small
herd of Jersey cows from Kansas for
the use of the invalids. The milk Is
first to be sterilized and given TO the
patients and then given to the patients
in increasing amounts and DIR. Cobb,
the physician in charge, thinks that be
tween the climate mt the Jersey milk,
properly administered. he VIII lose few
patients unless they reach Fort Stan
ton in n state of disease thai is too far
advanced TO be affected by any sort Of
treatment, no matter how careful or
enlightened 1t might be.
Freight rates between the Atlantic
coast and Denver will be advanced in
all the classilications on the 18th of the
present month. The sO-called 205 scale
will be advanced to 2 and lower
clas%sitications will be raised according
ly. The return of he old tariff is due
to the decision of the Federal our in
the boycott case of the Kansas City,
Pi,tsburg u Gulf railway. The court
ordered the pittsburg Il Gulf to re-
turn 10 the old schedule existing before
inc IIElll. anu NV lOllE llitN lllllllthl-
atcly tool advantage of the Opportun-
ity to restore the former basis.
The arrest of Theodore Craig. II shift
boss at the hex mine, Leadvillc, re
vealed n plot having for its object the
stealing of n quantity Of valuable ore.
Not long ago the IbcN opened II very
rich pocket of ore carrying nearly 1000
ounces in gold to the ton. \ consid-
.n,I v.,.,.V 81 thIs NNb. tnIE.t .,tV
but acting under instructions from the
foreman it was not placed in sacks. y
few days ago n sack was found les
the pile Of rich mineral which later
disappeared. Suspicion fastened on
Craig and to-day his house was
searched, resulting in thed~iscOycry Of u
sackful of ore valued at about 1000.
1t is announced that Richard Ash
worth of otto. Wyoming, will contest
The will of his late son, Richard Ash
worth, Jr. The will gave IL few leGa-
cics 10 several persons in this part of
Wyoming and in Montana and the bulk
of the property. about 100000 was
willcd TO Jack Frazer of Billings. Mon
tana. Mr.. AshwOrth claims that at
various times he advanced MONEY to
the support of the estate, to the
amount of $4,000. and thai the prop
crty should have been willed to him
in payment of the debt. The bench
Charles of the will are going to make II
hard fight To keep 1t intact, and the
contest, from II legal standpoint, will
he an exceedingly interesting one.
State warrants will no longer De ped
died among scalpers by state employees.
This was the announcement made 10y
Attorney General David Nj. Campbell,
who took the Initiative In the matter,
after n conference with the heads of
departments. The attorney general
has all along protested against the
throng of warrant buyers which how
crs around the capitol ON pay day, and
buys up the warrants of janitors,
guards and other employees by paying
n few cents premium-genernlly about
! per q lie says that this prevents
the treasurer from securing them and
saving the state the interest which
warrant buyers secure under the pres
rnt system. Attorney General Camp
bell So strongly presented his case to
the officials at the meeting that they
ull usrpp,I IN untIfy tlpIr nmninVns nnf