The state herald., 1899-07-21

pTeStIlt HliuHCl;tl tTOuDles WHICH luCt
the state institutions. 1t was decided
to ask expressions of opinion from the
other chambers of the state, and il
favorable responses are made Il con-
vention of ten delegates from each
chamber will be held in Colorado
Springs to bring the matter before the
State Board of Equalization.
President Georg w. Ristine of the
Colorado Midland has accepted the Of
flee of vice president of the Chicago &
Alton road, and will Immediately re-
sign his office on the Colorado line.
Mr.. Ristlne Is at Glenwood Springs
with his family. He will remain there
n few days and then come to Denver
and close up his affairs and lenve for
his new position. 1t is likely that
some of the general officers of the Col
orado Midland will be taken to Chi
cago to accept higher positions with
the Alton line. Who will follow Mr..
Ristine into the executive management
Of the Midland is not yet announced,
but II is more than likely that Mr.. l..
q. Cannon, the present comptroller
and executive manager, will step into
the higher position.
The westbound Denver express on
the Union Pacific, due Mt Sterling
Sunday morning. was ditched about
eight miles west of there. No one was
killed or seriously injured. The cause
of the wreck was washout. Inc
Pawnce ditch was over It's banks and
sent a torrent of water down against
the track. washing the dirt from under
n section about thirty feet In length.
The train was made up OF two baggage
ears, two chair ears and the sleeper
Turquoise. The engine and first bag
gage car passed over the weak spot
safely. but the second baggage car
containing the safe. broke the rails.
was stripped of its trucks, showed
along the track three car lengths ana
deposited on the south side. topping
nearly over. The first chair car Went
across the break minus its trucks, and
stopped standing at an angle across the
track. About forty passengers Were
aboard, twenty of whom occupied the
sleeper. II is little short of miraculous
that not n person was killed or seri.
ously injured.
Swift Bear and his party of Sioux
Indians, having eight wagons loaded
with vcnison resisted arrest on Buck
creek, Wyoming, for killing game CON
trary 10 law. Amos Dcmming, deputy
sheriff of Converse county, and n
posse left Lusk Wednesday with war
rants for the arrest of the Indians and
overlook them AT Buck creek Thurs
day morning. After reading the war
rants the Indians refused 10 90 with
the sheriff. drew line and told him If
he crossed the line there would be war.
Being outnumhercd the sheriff came TO
Edgemont to get help and papers for
the arrest Of the Indians in South Da-
kota. as they had crossed the line.
Deputy Sheriff George Miller of Edge
mont viii 20 out with an increased
force. Dcmming telcgraphed the In
dian agent at Pine Ridge TO have
force OF Indian police go out TO Inter
cept the Indians II they got away from
the Edge mont and Wyoming posse,
and IL h expected the Indians VIII be
overtaken somewhere near the agency.
One of the most terrible cloudbursts
and floods known In the history of the
section occurred five miles west OF
Pine Grove at about $50 p. IN. on the
18th. The electrical display was vivid
beyond description. A dark cloud ap-
pearcd from the north which was met
the giants began. The water fell In
torrents, filling Pine Grove gulch and
Rowlcn gulch TO n depth of fifteen to
twenty feet When the flood struck the
Platte river at point half n mile west
of this place, II swept the railroad
bridge and tracks into the river for
about eighty feet. AT Clin, five miles
further west, the railroad track was
i.l fa.slss lAl u
for length OF 800 feet ana depth OF
from two TO six feet. The wagon road
In Pine Grove gulch. which was built
by the Stewart 4 Mcconnell Lumber
Company three years since. nj n cost
OF $1,000. Is nearly destroyed. Every
bridge for four miles is gone. The
Colorado & Southern Company imme-
dlatcly placed force OF fifty men mt
work and trains are running regularly.
Some transferring OF passengers was
necessary last night.
Warden G. 7. IIoyt Of the state ponI.
Tertiary advocates an addition to that
institution. The pcnltcntlary. he says.
Is oyercr0wdcd. I'VE have $50 cells
and 5sI convlcts. This neccssltatcs
putting two men In many of the cells.
When you consider that the cells are
only iSI feet II can readily he seen
what II means to put two men Into one
Of them. II is simply outrageous that
this must he done. I'M, there Il no hclp
FOR II until we build nn addition. We
ought 10 have cell room for NJ least 200
more prisoners, \ building Of this
kind would cost us about $4,000. This
X figuring On the roofing and Iron
work. The labor. stone lime. brick and
everything In that line we could fur.
nlsh ourselves. out Of the ISL conyIets
49, are at work making brick. quarry.
Ing rock and laying water mains. We
are extending our water works sys-
tenn. About leo feet of mnlus IL he.
Ing laid and we shall tap the Afknn.
sns twelve feet below It's bend, thus
insnrlng absolutely pure water. An.
other important enterprise ON which
III" prisoners ARE now ut work * the
building Of n stone wall around TWEEN.
ty'two acres OF land adjacent 10 the
penlienilnry and n part Of the ponltcn.
tlnry grounds"
! The smaller Heron site for the now
public building nj Lrndyllle has been
recommended by Special Agent Mr.
lowell The entire site IL offered for
Ss5No, embracing property nj the
corner Of Harrison avenue aud Eighth
street, 1O5Nlha feet The smaller nor
tlon N offered the government for St2.
on The latter proposition II recon.
mondcd by Mr. Mcdowell. This viii
give room for building GnSiOO feet.
with streets on two sides aud forty
feet Epnco on the other side. The las,
Congress appropriated $4,000 for n
building IN lcniylllc hut II IL doubt
fnl whether u building OF the nisu
proposed cnn he erected with thia