The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-04-11
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

Denver people are discussing the ad-
visibility of slaughtering the English
sparrows.
Governor Thomas has appointed
James T. Smith of Leadville to be la
Dor commissioner. ,
The Union Pacific may build
branch south from Fort Steele into
Routt county, Colorado.
The Colorado & Southern is building
hotels at Bailey's and Slaght's in Platte
canon for the benefit of summer tour
lists.
The trouble between the Colorado &
Southern Railway Company and its
telegraphers is in fair way to be
settled.
Albert Greek. who has been in Jail at
Canon City, charged with killing his
father, has escaped twice, but has been
recaptured both times.
Jack Edwards. the former sheep
king, has purchased from ROCK
| Springs and Saratoga parties twelve
copper claims on Big creek in the Up
per Platte mining district, paying for
| the same the sum of $4,000.
In all probability monument will
be erected in Pueblo to the memory of
Captain John Showers Stewart of the
First Colorado volunteers, who was
killed in an engagement in front of Ma
nila, March 25th. The monument will
also be in honor of the other brave
boys who met death in the Philippines.
The following Colorado soldiers have
been sent home from Manila on ac-
! count of sickness: Claude b. Hooper,
William T. Byrne, Herbert A. d. Lowe,
Charles G. Drake, d. A. Cutting, A. II.
Rogers, William @. Saxon, George A.
Carmechel, Jonathan De York, Archie
Blair, G. B. Bailey, A. Westfall, John
T. Horsman, o. II. Heinroth, NJ. ]. Nc
Glynn, and E. Van Coraigh.
The Utah Beet Sugar Company has
just declared a dividend of % per cent,
payable in stock, and decided to ex-
pend 100000 in the improvement and
extension of its plant at Lehi. Two
branch factories are to be erected. One
this year and another next year.
tug and line of scows will also be
placed on Utah lake for the transporta-
ton of lime rock from the company's
qnarries to the factory.
The stock firm of CosgriY Bros. of
Rawlins, Wyoming, has closed deal
with the Union Pacific for the pur-
chase of 2S.OOO acres of company land,
and has also leased from the company
81, 900 acres, lying on the east side of
the Platte river and extending from
Fort Steele to Medicine Bow. The
firm states that II Is not the intention
to crowd out small ranchmen who had
prior location, and they will be given
sub-leaso%. on such lands as they may
require. ..4
Governor Thomas, Nn the 3rd. sub
mitted his appointments to the Denver
boards, as follows: Fire and Police
Board, r. W. Speer Democrat, fire
commissioner; Daniel Sayer, Demo
crat police commissioner; ex-Super
visor Charles l.. Burpee, Silver Repub-
lican, excise commissioner. Police JUS
tice, w. ]. Thomas, Popullst. Board of
Public Works, Joel w. Shackelford,
Democrat, president; Andrew ]. Wood
side, Populist; W. d. Todd, Silver Re
publican.
The citizens of Loveland are max
| ing q strenuous effort to secure at that
place the establishment of a beet sugar
factory. At present they are endeavor-
| ing to raise a bonus In consideration Of
which a company of capitalists stands
ready to put in the plant. This con-
sists of $4,000 in cash and 1,5OO acres
|
Should this be proffered the company
pledges itself to put up 100000
plant and operate it. 1t is understood
that 5000 in cash and 100 acres of
land have been pledged.
The passage of the Bell anti scrip bill
means perhaps more to Las Animas
county than any other measure that
has ever passed the Colorado Legisla-
ture. Such bill has been demanded
by the people there for several years.
The bill will do away with the truck
store business whereby the coal COM
panies are enabled to beat the miners
out of half their wages by forcing them
to buy at exorbitant prices everything
they may need at the stores owned by
the coal companies. 1t is a matter of
fact that at the company stores mer-
chandise of almost every kind costs the
miners much more than when bought
at Trinidad, or at any store not con-
trolled by the coal companies.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming met
at Cheyenne on the 3rd and handed
down decisions in at least two import
ant cases. In the case of John Rob
erts ct al. treasurer of Laramie coun-
ty, it was decided that the bondsmen
of the county treasurer were not liza
BILE to the county for funds lost by the
treasurer in the bank of Thomas A.
Kent In the case of the Standard
Cattle Company against the treasurer
of Weston county, Wyoming, some in
teresting questions relating to the tax
alton of the stock interests were de-
cided. 1t was held by the Supreme
Court that the cattle were taxable only
in the county in which the company
had It's home range, and not in another
county into which the cattle had stray
ed.
A trainload of grading machinery ar
rived in Wyoming from Nebraska a
few days ago. The outfit will be used
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