Gilpin observer., 1899-05-11


The wedding of Hon. w. F. Mondell,
the congressman from Wyoming, to
| Miss Ida Harris, the only daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. William Harris, will oc-
cur Saturday morning, May 18th, in
Laramie.
| The presence of Edwin Boice of
Idaho, president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. will be feature of
the fourth annual convention of the
State Federation of Labor, which will
be held in Denver June 9th next.
A force of fifty miners has been add
ed to the working roll of the Diamond
vile, Wyoming, mines during the past
week, bringing the total number en-
| ployed up to 500. Three thousand tons
of coal per day are being shipped, and
as the demand is much greater than
this the capacity of the mines will be
| still further increased.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Fow-
Ter, Colorado, on the 9th Frank Bo-
hanan shot his father to death as the
result of quarrel over wages due to
tne son. a posse started after the mur-
derer at once and his capture seemed
certain. The guilty man is one of the
Two brothers who gained notoriety by
killing a deputy sheriff who was try
ing to arrest them at. Leadville
Ex-senator Carey has returned from
wyoming station on the Union Pacific,
where he has been perfecting the de-
tails for the building of the great Lar
annie river reservoir. The big steel
sluice gates are ready and the work
of building the reservoir will soon be-
gin. The preference in all work upon
the big dam is to be given to the resi-
dent users of the water at Wheatland
Six hundred and five thousand
pounds of wool have been sold by
Rawlins sheepmen during the past
week at prices ranging from 10 to II
cents per pound. The practice of con-
signing the product to Boston and 9TH
er eastern houses for storage and sub
sequent sale is being abandoned, the
producers preferring the certainty of
direct sale TO the uncertainty of future
prices.
Colorado can produce beets contain
ing greater percentage of sugar than
can be grown in New York. Tests
made with carload of sugar beets
raised at Grand Junction showed that
the Colorado beets yielded 10 7-1O SUI
gar, of .S5 purity. The result obtained
from tests made at the experimental
college in New York showed percent
age of sugar IA 2-10 of 50 purity. The
standard of excellence in sugar beets
is - sugar and rs purity.
The owners of the Ferris Haggerty
copper mine, near Rawlins, Wyoming,
have refused an offer of S000,000 cash
for the mine made by n Wall street
firm. representing the trust. The price
asked by the owners is 81 10000 and
1t will not be sold for less than this
amount. The mine has proven to be
one of the most wonderful copper pro-
ducers in the country. The ore is pay
ing big profit in spite of the fact
that it has to be hauled by sled and
wagon to the railroad, seventy miles
distant
In division B of the District Court at
Pueblo. before Judge Voorhees,, Will
lam Hastings, white man, was found
guilty of unlawful marriage. Lima
Bradger. a negress. who has claimed
Hastings as her husband, withdrew
her former plea of not guilty and
pleaded guilty. Both were fined $50
and costs. The couple We're married
there September 2, 1897, and have lived
together until their arrest. Another
case of the same nature Is now pending
trial in the District Court, wherein it
is alleged the woman is of white par
entage and the man is n negro. Both
are deaf mutes.
The annual encampment of the G. A.
X. was held at Denver last week. The
following officers We're chosen: Depart
ment commander, Andrew Royal, Pu-
eblo; senior vice commander, Harper
NJ. Orahood. Denver; Junior vice COM
mander. G.. c. Washburn, Rocky Ford;
medical director, DIR. George w. Curf-
.lAY, n,.t,,, I-,,
Rev. John l.. Boyd, Denver. The most
hotly contested election was that of
department commander of the G. A. r.,
Andrew Royal of Pueblo and II. G.
Watson of Greeley being the candi-
dates. Royal won by vote of ia to
112. Commander Royal was captain of
the Twenty-seventh Missouri. First
brigade. First division. Fifteenth Army
Corps. during the Civil war.
This month will witness the innugur-
alton of number of important Trini-
dad enterprises. One of the most i'm
portant Is the extension of the branch
of the Colorado * Southern road from
the mouth of Longs canon up the river
to the beautiful Stonewall valley, and
then over into New Mexico to the Ponil
park. on the Maxwell land grant n
section heavily timbered. 1t Is under
stood that corps of engineers will be-
gin surveying this route next week.
and that active work of construction
will follow. In connection with his en-
terprise IL n branch road to tap n large
body of coal lands near Stanford. The
road to Ponil park Is to be built with
the ultimate intention of extending the
line to the San Luis valley, by way OF
Coseilla pass.
Sixty-ive carloads of seventy pound
steel rails. which had been gathered up
along the Wyoming division. have
passed through Cheyenne on route to
Hershey. Nebraska. where hundreds of
carloads of rails and ties ure being I'M
loaded every few days. This would in