, 1899-08-24

lllSItd HIS HDSlEltI VI Nv
roll of Gilpln county, showing the to-
tai valuation to be 81 .833,9T3, an In
crease of S30,474 over the roll of 1895.
The Porter Fuel Company, the lar
gest coal operator in La Plata county,
has resumed work. About seventy old
employees were put or, and the num-
Der will be increased from day TO day
until all are employed.
4 new bank opened its doors ut
Creole last week. 1t has every promise
of being a sound and permanent insu-
tuition. 1t is operated by Tonmkins
Bros Hardware Company, n large
concern with numerous branc estab-
lishments.
Mrs. Sylvanus Budd, wife of a
wealthy farmer and stock raiser, COM
mitted suicide by incinerating herself
nj her home near Nj Wot. Colorado, or
the 14th. 1t Is supposed that her mind
had become unbalanced by n protract-
ed illness from which she had suffered.
An enterprising laudholder in Du-
range county offers 100 acres of land
TO the man who raises this season the
best display of bects, showing the
largest per cent. of sugar; and DaN
Day throws up his hat IL hurrahs
because he started the sugar beet boom
over there.
G. L. Wellington will succeed =. j.
Flynn as chairman of the Colorado
Lines Terminal Association, joint
agent of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation. Joint agent of the Denver Blu
reau of Coal Statistics and the various
other positions in which Mr.. Flynn has
served the railroads of h state.
Active steps are being taken in Wyo-
ming looking to the returning home OF
the volunteers in n special train fur
nished by the citizens of the state. En-
tertainments are being given in all OF
the larger towns IL private subscrip-
tions are being added to the money
thus raised toward defraying the eN-
penses of the returning soldiers.
Judge Hallett has Issued an order
for the sale of the Denver paper mills
to satisfy two mortgages 10
100000, held by the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company. The property IN
cludes the large factory on the line OF
the South Park branch of the Colorado
& Southern and sawmills in Park and
Chaffee counties. The property has
beer operated by a receiver for several
years
The Forty-fst Street Presbyterian
congregation of Chicago has extended
a unanimous call to DIR. w. ii. w.
Boyle, now pastor of the First Presny-
terlan Church of Colorado Springs.
| Since last January the pulpit of the
Forty-first street Presbyterian Church
has been vacant. 1t is understood that
DR.. Boyle will accept h invitation.
He will receive $1,000 Il year and Will
take his new charge about the middle
of September.
A bold jail delivery occurred at the
Albuquerque Jail on the 18th. Jailer
Schaffer ordered his assistant TO put
the prisoners in the cells and lock them
up for the night. He had just entered
the corridor of the cells when he was
overpowered by n number of prisoners.
-Four of the worst criminals escaped
through the building and out of the
front gate, among the lot being Jose
Ruiz, who shot and killed a little boy in
this city last year. and another muir
derer. Ruiz was wounded n captured.
The busy season for Game Commits
sioner johnson has commenced. The
latest complaint made to him sets forth
hat the MeXicans in the vicinity of
Stonewall are absolutely ignoring the
game law. Word has been received
by the commissioner that a doe had
been killed by a party of Mexican
hunters in that vicinity, n that yio-
lations of the law We're of almost
daily occurrence. The penalty for kill
ing deer without horns is n fine of $500
or six months Imprisonment. Com
missioner johnson will have the mat
ter investigated mt once.
The investigations of the sub-com-
mission on mines and mining of the
IuI,tStFfaI Tnp1n1isAfnn f1t1pfDr tic trim
to Wardner and Salt Lake City, have
cleared up several disputed points. The
testimony taken at Wardner brought
out the fact that General Merriam did
not overstep his powers in his admin
istration of martial law in Shoshone
county. Idaho. and that the county and
state officials We're in the main respon,
sible for every step AIKEN. The com
mittee was unable to hld any facts for
the charges of cruelty TO prisoners.
The Thirty-fourth regiment Is filed.
No more recruits will be taken and the
enlistment has ceased. The recruiting
officers have been called in. The sub
stations are closed and the regiment is
filed and there are nearly fifty men to
spare. Lieutenant Howe, who com
mands the regiment pending the com
ing of Colonel Kennon, will begin at
Nv " AAA ~ ''AAAlfhhs hhb III htAA
move will he to weed out undesirable
men. The men who are discharged
will be replaced.
The state convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association, which
was in session ut Glen Park last week.
was one of the best that has been held
In the state. The best addresses were
given by c.. NJ. Hobbs. president of the
Denver Association, ON The Source of
Power" in which he emphasized the
spiritual side of association work ms all
essential; "Bible Study" by General
Secretary g. G. Huntington of Pueblo.
and "Evangclistic Meetings" by +. Il.
Smith of Chicago. In the evening SEES
sion The Worldwide Movement" was
presented in three short addresses hy
w. X. Taggart of Pittsburg. Lester No
Lean of Denver, and Fred Il. smith of
Chicago, who spoke of the army and
navy work,
Wyoming's Frontier Day viii be eel.
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