Gilpin observer., 1899-10-19
WESTERN ! NOTES.


The taxpayers of Jefferson county
are to vote on the proposition to erect
n county high school building.
Christopher l.. Funk of Pueblo was
murdered in cold blood on the 10th.
There is no clue to the assassin.
The body of an unknown man who had
been lynched was found the other day
on the road from Canon City to Grip
pie Creek.
The Standard tunnel at Cripple
Greek struck big flow of water the
other day. For a while it amounted to
10000 gallons per minute.
The Santa Fe railroad has decided to
remove its railroad shops from San
Marcial, Socorro county, New Mexico,
and to make Rincon the division head
quarters.
Dick" Holmes, who won fame as
color bearer of the Colorado volun-
teers, was given rousing welcome at
his old home in Phillipsburg, New
Jersey.
The career of John Carter, alias Kid
Adams, who attempted to rob Teas-
has been cut short by a bullet. he
was shot and killed near Placerville by
Deputy Sheriff George Kinchen, While
resisting arrest.
While sinking an arteslan well at
the Vineyard stock farm. in Eddy
county New Mexico, traces OF Oil
We're discovered at depth of $40 feet.
Several veins of good water We're
struck also, but not of Sufficient flow.
The well will be sunk 1000 feet.
1t is stated that the fund used to de-
fend McGinniS was secured by q col
lection among the cowboys of the Mo
gollon district in SocorrO county, among
whom McGinnis was very popular.
They appointed e. A. Cunningham to
attend the trial and to do everything in
his power to get McGinnis free.
What is presumed to be an organized
gang of plunderers forced an entrance
into the postoffice and store of A. Nc
late hour Sunday night. The thieves
secured $14O in postage stamps, $50
in coin and various pieces of the stock
convenient to carry.
w. II. Kerr has made arrangements
for running daily stage from Santa
Fe to Bland, cutting down the distance
to less than thirty miles. At present
people from Santa Fe must go by rail
to Thornton, stay a night there and
take n stage the next morning for
twenty-five miles.
Ex-Mayor Lucius Anderson. who left
Carlsbad two years ago for Klondike,
returned home unexpectedly. After
nine months of prospecting and dig
ging near Dawson City he gave up in
disgust and went to work Mt his trade
as carpenter at which he made more
money than his companions did at gold
digging.
Judge Leland has ordered all saloons
closed on Sundays at Las Cruces, and
Judge Crumpacker received a petition
to order the saloons Of Albuquerque
closed Sundays. In nearly all other
cities and towns of New Mexico the
Sunday law is now being enforced and
has resulted in the reduction of arrests
for petty offenses.
For more than n week n snow storm
OF unprecedented severity for this time
OF the year has been raging in the
mountains surrounding Leadville. One
band of 1.4OO sheep and the herder
with them are lost. Other large fiOcks
have reported heavy losses and no
word has been received from many
others known to be still in the noun
tain pastures.
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 lie 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.
1t is stated positively that the United
Oil Company has struck oil in large
quantities east of Trinidad in the San
Francisco basin, and that the hole has
been plugged up, the machinery moved
to another part of the land and that
another well will be at once put down.
1t is stated that oil has been found at
depth of little less than 1900 feet.
The Union Pacific is doing land of.
fee business In its land department
1t is selling at the rate OF 1.OOO,OOC
acres year the land II secured in gov
ernment grants and which have been
cnusing some threats of litigation with
the government. During the years of
depression this road has been holding
fast to It's remaining S.5OO,OOO acres OF
the original 12,OOO,OOO acres granted II
by the United States government. but
now that good times are again in sight
1t Is unloading Mt prices that are good
yet lower than the market figure.
The government seems to be in earn.
est about establishing II forest reserve
of over 100000 acres in Lincoln coun.
ty, despite the decided opposition to
the project. An order has been issued
by the Interior Department withdraw.
Ing the land within the proposed forest
reserve from settlement for the pres.
ent. There are twenty-seven town.
ships In the proposed reserve and ev.
cry town in Lincoln county excent