The state herald., 1899-10-27
WESTERN NOTES.

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Manzanola, Colorado, held 4 very
successful autumn festival last week.
S. p. Graybill, n Rio Grande fore
man at Pueblo, was run over and Kill
ed on the Goth.
| The cattlemeno of Chaves county have
raised fund from which they Will pay
special bounty on coyotes and wolves.
Fourteen carloads of machinery
from the abandoned car shops OF the
Santa Fe railroad mt San Marial have
been placed in the Ration car shops,
where the force will be greatly in
creased.
John Baldwin, wealthy ranchman
of ColfaX county, New Mexico, believes
the greater portion of 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 oil the res
ervation and no school facilities.
Game Commissioner Johnson has re-
ceived n letter from the fish king
of Durango, who says that next year
his fish hatcheries will be much en-
larged and that he will be enabled to
donate 100000 fish to the state.
Sheriff Layne of Ogden has captured
one and probably two of the robbers
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
In n Wtlnny WrnmfnU lima
md, ut which time they blew two of
the ears TO pieces, and escaped with n
large amount Of booty.
The circumstances surrounding the
escape of James X. Stratton from the
pcnitcntiary on the night of October
10th will be sifted to the bottom. Both
Warden Hoyt and the board of peni-
tcntiary commissioners have decided
upon an investigation.
Senator Clark of Montana has de
cided to increase the output of his coal
mine at Clarksville, New Mexico, fully
% per cent. The force now employed
mt the mine numbers 100, but by spring
will be increased TO 800. There Is not
saloon at Clarksville or within a mile
of Ii.
An accurate test made of the flow of
the large artesian well recently bored
In the Pecos Valley n Northwestern
yards at Roswell shows that the well
discharges 2,GG4 gallons n minute. or
has velocity of LOO feet per minute,
making 1t by far the largest and most
powerful artcsian well in New Mexico.
Some eastern capitalists who have
been attracted to this state by the rosy
accounts of Colorado MS Il beet sugar
country Will construct at a town to
he known as Sugar City Il sugar beet
plant Ms large again MS the one now In
successful operation at Grand June
tion. The new town will be located In
the Arkansas valley.
Years may elapse before the provis-
Ions In the will of the late George W.
Clayton, who bequeathed million dol
lars for the establishment OF an or
phan boys school In Denver can be
carried out. Litigation will be insti-
tuted which promises TO continue at
length and possibly through all the
courts OF the state. A brother of Clay
ton intends to contest the will.
A phenomenal onion yield Is report.
ed from Greeley. ON the farm OF
Charles Camp. consisting OF thirty
three acres. In Pleasant Valley. 1900
sacks of onions have been gathered.
1.s93 Of which We're grown on five
acres. These onions bring on an av-
erage 30 cents sack. The waste in
the culling alone would supply le-
gion of rain bcltcrs with fine onions
for the winters use.
A trust Is being formed 10 control the
output OF all the turquoise mines In
New Mexico. Hon. j. l.. Victory of
santa Ee Is working up the combina-
tion, TO which most OF the turquoise
mine owners have already subscribed
and which viii practically control the
output OF the world. as the turquoise
mines In Saxony, Egypt and Persia
have pinched out. The headquarters
OF the trust VIII be Mt Boston.
Southern Santa Fe county mining In.
terests are enjoying boom such ns
they have never experienced before.
II has been known for years that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Compay held
controlling Interest In the coal mines
at Cerlllos. and IL IL now stated upon
reliable authority that the company
Will expend Sl.oO0.0OO next year In I'M.
proyemcnts and that there VIII bc n
complete change In management and
that work will be prosecuted upon n
much larger scale than heretofore.
There Is great Indignation among
the miners In the Mogollon district on
account OF nm order OF the Department
OF the Interior limiting the cutting OF
timber ON the ella river forest reserve
to 500 worth FOR mining purposes.
Heretofore the miners were allowed 10
cut all the timber necessary for the
development OF the mines. The miners
Will continue 10 cut timber freely for
that purpose and II arrested VIII make
n test case, which. n necessary, viii
be carried TO the United States Su.
prcmc Court.
The beet sugar plant Mt Grand June,
tlon is 10 be started In n few days
| All the machinery has arrived on Ia,
grounds, according 10 latest reports
and men are engaged night and day In
putting the Intricate parts together
| The delay was occnsioncd by dlin
Guilty In having orders filled by th,
eastern manufacturing companies
While the output Of bccts IN the vale,
OF the Grand and nclglborlng guile,
is not ns large Ms desired by the com
pany, II is thought good start win b,
made for the first ycnr.
Pearl Hart. the noted female bandit
OF the Mexican border. who ON Mn,
30th with one mnlc companion held NJ
and robbed the Globe and I'loronc,
conch npd after arrest broke jnlI nj
Tucson nnd mndc good her escape
was captured ~ Dcmlng by Unite,