, 1899-11-09

vocation.
The Florence & Cripple Creek road
is trying TO block the entrance OF Inc
new Colorado Springs electric line INTO
the gold camp.
An iron foundry md blast furnaces
will shortly be placed in operation AT
Cheyenne in connection with the Union
Pacific shops
A branch of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be
started at Leadville within a few
weeks. OF the 500 members needed,
0 have already been secured.
The open town" question at Grand
Junction has been settled for the next
six months, the council ut its last meet
ing deciding to issue licenses on the
basis of $1,000 n year.
Alphonso Dockweiler of Tesuque,
New Mexico, has brought more of the
remains of the gigantic prehistoric ami
mai discovered Mt Tesuque. Thus far
only the head of the animal has been
found. Local naturalists cannot class
ify the remains, although the finding
of some petritied fins shows that the
animal was amphibious and perhaps
resembled the ichtyosaurus. The jaws
were enormous, with twenty rows of
teeth each.
At Red Fork, of Powder river, near
Buffalo, Wyoming, saturday night,
ONE one placed n quantity of giant
powder, fused and capped, in the fire
box of George Garland's sawmil boiler.
The mex morning, after starting the
fires, the our men present went to a
house a short distance away for break
fast. While eating the meal they were
startled by n lOud explosion which scat
tered the boiler and engine. Had the
men remained in the mill n few min
utes longer they would have been
killed.
John Russell. n ranchman living on
Trout creek. twelve miles north of
Woodland Park. Colorado, was frozen
to death least night within half n mile
of his home. 1t is supposed that he be
came bewildered in the storm. He I'M
hitched his team, tied the horses TO the
wagon, and wrapped himself up in
some blankets and laid down beside his
wagon. This morning an early passer-
by found him dead. Russell had been
for supplies and was late in starting
home. He was about 80 years of age,
and leaves n wife and several childI en-.
Frank f. Tyler. n well-known mining
man, was burned TO death in n fire
which destroyed his cabin at Alpine,
late Monday night. Two brothers,
Robert n James Caskie, who We're in
the cabin with Tyler, say they w
their lives to n neighbor who was at
tracted by the fire and rescued them
after considerable difficulty. Tyler
had just returned from a three-weeks'
stay at his mine. situated on Chalk
creek, and ii is commonly reported that
the fhran mon ho1 laap Iriulyinu mona
or less in the cabin prior to the break
ing out Of h fire.
Governor Murphy of Arizona, in his
annual report to the secretary of the
interior, renews his plea for statehood,
saying 1t has been denied to Arizona
because of sectional prejudice, ignor-
ance, imaginary partisan policy and
seltishness." Other recommendations
are for the cession of all the public
lands within Arizona to the territory
or state. pending which the territory
should be authorized to lease them as
grazing lands; survey of all lands with
in the territory, especially the railroad
grants, for taxing purposes, and the
establishment of n mint or assaying
office.
The Salado coal mines of New Mex
leo are now making regular shipments
of two cars Of coal per day to FL Paso.
The Mexican Central railway has CON
tracted ahead for the Salado coal out
put in such extent that no coal will be
placed oil the local market for some
months. A new coal vein has lust been
opened that is five feet thick. Work in
every opening is being pushed as rap
idly as possible and the fuel company
cannot secure enough miners to prose
cute the work as rapidly as they would
like. The SaladO fields are thirty miles
long by thirty wide. and the quality of
the product for cOking and steam pur-
poses cannot be exccIled.
Ogden last Wednesday witnessed the
spectacle of United States soldiers beg
ginE in the streets for something to
eat. They We're members of n party
of the Firty-siXth United States volun-
teer infantry, and came from South
birmingham, Massachusetts, in COM
mand of Colonel Schuyler. When they
marched through the streets, while
they made n good military appearance.
they all acted tired. After their march
they scattered through the city, and
many little purses We're made up for
them by the citizens whom they hap
pened to meet. They ook the money
and bought bread. They stated that
they had been fed on bareback and
canned beef with coffee from the time
they started. The regiment went west
over the Southern Pacific tonight.
There have been n number of deser-
tions since the regiment started.
White River Utes to the number of
fifty or more have left the Uintah res.
~ervntiOn and crossed The line into Colo
RADIO, where they are now slaughtering
game. Indian Agent Nyton of White
Rocks, has received n telegram from
the prosecuting attorney of Rio Blan-
co, telling of the depredatiOns of the
Indians. Mr.. Nyton says that this liz
not nm official notification. and he will
not act until some one of the Colorado
game wardens advises him of the facts.
Before he left the agency Mr.. Nyton
refused n number of the Indians Der-
mission TO cross over into Rio Blanco
county To hunt. II is supposed that ms
soon ms he left by stage for Price the
reds set out for the hunt. Adyices
from Nernal. Utah. are that there are
Ola in the mountains TWENTY-FIVE
miles north pf that I1a., all 1'iut,.-