The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-02-14
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.


David II. Moffat is credited with hav
ing cleared $250.0OO by the recent rise
In Isabella stock.
Judge Victor A. Elliott, formerly a
judge of the Supreme Court, died sud
denly al Denver ON the 9th.
The New Mexico House has passed
bill appropriating $1,000 for complet-
ing and furnishing the Silver City
normal school.
of Frank Herald, the alleged murderer
of the O'Haras, resulted in his being
held to the district court.
The Midland broke through the
drifts on the 9th. but the Rio Grande
required a few days longer to remove
the numerous avalanches on its track
above Glenwood.
The bounty bill appropriating $4O,-
600 has passed the lower house of the
Wyoming Legislature by a large ma
jority. 1t provides S4 for wolf scalps
and 81 for coyotes.
The Catron capitol bill to provide
100000 in bonds for the completion of
the territorial capitol building passed
the New Mexico House without dis
senting vote.
Citizens from the western part of
New Mexico are lobbying the Legisla-
ture for the creation of new county
to be taken from Bernalillo and Va
lencia counties. with Gallup as the seat
of government.
Governor Thomas ON the Sth received
reply to his cablegram TO General
Hale. asking who was injured or killed
in Saturdays fight at Manila. The re
ply was: "Shot and instantly killed in
action, Charles Carleson, l.; Cass White,
d; Doran. l; slightly wounded in ac-
tion. Haughwout; wounded in action,
Boyce, L; Weaver, b"
Pueblo is now said to be free from
smallpox. Not n suspected case or
quarantined house is TO be found in
the city and but three patients remain
al the pest house. Universal vaccina-
tion taking in not less than 10000 peo-
pie and the free expenditure of money
for quarantine and isolation have
stamped out what threatened at one
time to be an epidemic.
An appreclablc increase is apparent
| in the receipts Mt the Denver postofiice
for the first month of the present year
over 1898, as regards the sale of stamps
and stamped paper. Ii amounts to a
tri1e over sixteen per cent, January re-
ceipts from these sources being S33,OS3,
which is S4.T4S more than for the same
month in 1898. The increase from the
rental of boxes has been four per cent.
A bill has been introduced providing
for the reorganization of the New
Mexico militia, which is to consist of
one full regiment of cavalry and one
full regiment of infantry OF twelve
troops and companies each, and one one
patteiy VI uftliiery. lhe huJuiaht gen
eral is made brigadler and his pay in
time of peace is placed at Sf,200 and
at 81 800 in time of war.
By statements obtained from the
local banks 1t is learned that the people
of Ouray have S350,000 on deposit sub
ject to check. AS the population of
the city is $500, this would be n per
capita deposit of $780, showing per-
haps no other city in the state can
make. There is not an empty house
or store room in the city, and n healthy
demand for real estate exists.
A movement has been inaugurated
to have the first annual reunion of the
Rough Riders of the late war with
Spain beld, and the place thus far
L
that the city furnished great num-
ber of riders Governor Roosevelt has
notified Ex-Governor Prince of New
Mexico that he will visit that territory
this year and while down in the great
southwest the effort will be made 10
hold the reunion of his Rough Riders
The most heroic incident of the
storm in Wyoming was Mrs. Holmes
leaving the Ferguson ranch, near Sill
yer Crown, to go to Iron Mountain,
twenty miles, losing her way in the
storm and laying out two nights. The
first night she spent between the two
| horses of her team, and the second in
an old dry well. She had some food in
the wagon. She got home safely, but
is sick from the hardships endured.
Governor Richards of Wyoming has
written to Russell Mason, manager of
| the Alcora hot springs. who is trying to
get the next Sharkey fight pulled off in
wyoming, that lie has no sympathy
with his efforts. He does not think
the benefits suggested by Mason will
compensate for the damage to the repu-
tation of the state should the fight be al
| lowed. He also states that the laws
| will be rigidly enforced if any effort is
made to have the fight in Wyoming.
The funeral services at Denver over
the remains of Rev. Myron w. Reed
were remarkable for great out
pouring of people of all classes. The
| throng was immense. 1t filled the
| Broadway Temple to overlooking. A
| thousand men and women stood in the
street outside, cold as the weather
was, unable to see or hear any of the
ceremonies. but 10th to leave the build
| inc whore thp last honorS yprp beinp
paid the man they loved. In the serv-
| ices a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic clergy
man and several Protestant ministers
participated.
The expenses of Johnson county,
| Wyoming, in connection with the cat
| tlemen's invasion for indemnitication,
| ..f