The silver lance., 1899-05-19

| Sixty-fve carloads of seventy-pound
steel rails, which had been gathered up
along the Wyoming division, have
! passed through Cheyenne en- route to
Hershey, Nebraska, where hundreds Of
carloads of rails and ties are being un-
loaded every few days. This would in
dicate that the recent trip overland in
wagons made by President Burt. Gen
! eral Manager Dickinson and Chief En-
| gineer Berry of the Union Pacific, who
Travelled up the North Platte river to
! Hartville, then ON west through the
Laramie mountains to Rock creek, was
for purpose 1t has been stated quite
often of late that the Union Pacific
! would build a line of road from the
main line somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of Sidney, up the Platte river to
| the line of the Cheyenne & Northern,
| near Hartville.
| In beautiful glade in the Sacramen-
to mountains, near Albuquerque,
which is surrounded by dark pine for
ests, at an elevation of 5000 feet above
sea level, preparations are being made
| for a summer school, to be opened
June 1st. A commodious building is
going up, around which will be
grouped fifty comfortable, well furn-
| ished wall tents. An able faculty has
been secured, and a large attendance
of New Mexico and Texas teachers is
assured. There will be three depart
ments. One will be devoted to pri-
mary methods. 1t is proposed to make
this school a permanent one. in order
that the educators of the Southwest
may have, within easy reach, the facil
tiles for an annual outing that will
combine in full measure. work and
pleasure. The spot is an ideal one
the atmosphere delightful. the scenery
superb, and the opportunity for scien-
tific investigation unsurpassed.
Frank Bohannon, who killed his faith
er at Fowler last Saturday, was arrest
ed by Sheriff Barr about / O'Clock
wednesday morning. The sheriff, with
posse, had been searching the west
ern part of the county for days and
had guards placed at all the railroad
stations. He concluded to come home
and took train No. at Fowler. He
entered a compartment car. Bohan-
non was in the front end of the same
car, but the sheriff did not know it. AS
the train was pulling into La Junta
the sheriff was on the steps and no
ticed somebody step off the front end
and run back. The sheriff also stepped
off, and, following the man. pulled his
gun down on him. Taking the prison
er under an electric light, he immedi-
dlely TecOSulZeu 0l1n us Une Iudu ne
wanted. He was placed in the county
Jail. Bohannon claims he was goaded
into shooting his father and seems to
regret it now. He refused, however,
to go into any details
The contract has been let for the con-
struction of the observatory tower on
| Pixies Peak. and work will be com
menced at once. The iron tower will
| rise forty-fiye feet in style somewhat
| after that of the Eiffel tower, having
| little balcony at the top. The summit
of the tower will be fitted with three,
and possibly four fine adjustable tele-
scopes, which will bring into clear
view everything within horizon
marked by Denver, Florence and Mt.
Rosalie. This area is, approximately,
10000 square miles. BY the placing of
the telescopes at the top of this obser-
walton tower. one is enabled to see ev-
J erything near the base of the peak,
| objects which are not visible with the
| present arrangement, unless one makes
| a circuit of the twelve acres at the
| summit of Pixies Peak. 1t is the inten-
| tion of the management of the accom-
modations at the summit to push the
work to completion by June 1st, al
| though the time allowed in the con-
tract does not expire until June 10Th.
| The observation tower will be an ac-
cessory of the hotel on the summit.
The hotel is also to be enlarged this
| spring
d. Nj. Hyman. the well known mine
owner of Aspen, was interviewed by
Denver paper the other day and said:
81 shall not be surprised if silver
reaches 20 cents an ounce before the
close of the year. The existence of the
great smelter trust is the reason for
it. For number of years past clique
| of London manipulators have had COM
| plete control of the silver market.
These fellows have had it all their own
way. They have put prices up or
down-generally down-to please their
whims and there was no power to say
nay. Now conditions have taken
| turn and the London fellows are be-
coming alarmed They find they have
a rival in the field which may test their
steel and the London manlpulators are
buying and storing silver for an 1nev-
liable rise. OF course the smelter COM
bine is not going to lie idle and the
smelter men will soon be in the field.
Then look out for a see-saw game, put
one which will surely cause a general
advance in the price of the white met
al / look on the organization or the
smelter trust as sure fOrerunner OF
an advance in silver-an advance whlch
can be depended upon to hold the price
much higher than it has been since
the panic"
Under the recently enacted game law
individuals and associations may cor
raj the game of the state, keep it with
in an enclosure to suit themselves, and
kill it from such enclosures according
to their sweet will. This was demon
.,+r tod hn ntb bor da " when Came Com
missioner johnson issued to d. @. Bea-
man, the father of the bill, a license on
behalf of the Glen Beulah Park Esso-
ciation. authorizing that associat ton to