The silver lance., 1899-06-16
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

/ where much good land has been prac.
| tically ruined by accumulations of al
| kali. Professor Whitney and the Off
| GERS of the soils division believe that
| much of this land can be restored by
intelligent irrigation.
More range Troubles have occurred
near Saratoga, Wyoming. Richard
| Savage, well-to-dO fiockmaster. re-
ported to the county authorities that
| twenty-five masked and armed men
| visited his sheep camps, south of Cedar
| creek, and by using force, abusing and
beating his herders moved his bands
of sheep and the camp equipage across
| to the north side of Cedar creek.
| Cedar creek was made the dividing
| line by the cattle men over a year ago.
and at that time the sheep men were
| warned to keep their flocks on the
| north side of the creek, as the south.
side belonged to the cattle men, and
| they would not permit sheep to Craze
on that range. A majority Of the
sheep men respected the order of the
cattle men, but in several instances the
fockmaster has run short of feed and
| has moved his sheep to the south side
of the creek. The cattle men are de
termined In the matter and will avoid
serious trouble as long as possible, but
| IL the sheep men persist, there may be
| trouble.
| Miss Eva Pomeroy of New York
killed d bear within eight miles of
Glenwood the other day. She is one of
| the Stuyvesant Fish party of New
York, which is making tour of the
| West, and has been in Colorado for a
week or more, travelling about the state
| as guests of President Jeffery of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway. Miss
Pomeroy, in company of other mem
bers of her party, went out early this
morning on hunting expedition. Re
| ports of bear having lately been seen
| in that neighborhood have been current
| at Glenwood for several days, and
hence this hunt was made up with the
purpose in view of baggihg one or
more of them. Miss Pomeroy is an ex-
| pert rifle woman, and was delighted at
| the chance of getting n shot at a
Rocky Mountain bear. The party pro
| ceeded from Glenwood on horseback
| and soon reached the section from
| which had come the bear reports
| There the party separated. Miss Pom
| eroy was fortunate to meet bruin early
| in the search. She had a good shot at
| the animal and improved the oppor
| tunity, bringing the bear down at the
| first shot. Miss Pomeroy is the hero
| of Glenwood.
General Manager Dickinson, Mr.,
buckingham and Superintendent Har-
ris of the Union Pacific went to Chey-
! enne on the 9th by special train from
| Casper, where they have been direct
| ing the chase after the men who dyna-
mlted the company's express train a
week ago. They report that the rob
| bers were last seen near a ranch about
seventy miles north of Casper. where
they compelled the proprietor to give
them breakfast. From this ranchman
an accurate description of the outlaws
was obtained. making it pretty certain
that they were George Curry and the
Roberts brothers, all noted characters
in Central Wyoming. and implicated in
robbing the Belle Fourche bank and
committing similar depredations in
various parts of Montana and Wyom-
ing. Provisions and supplies are being
| sent out to the officers, who will make
a systematic and thorough pursuit af-
ter the outlaws. Mr.. Dickinson said:
1--WE are going to follow these men
until we catch them' The company
posse is working in conjunction with
the United States marshal. who holds
warrants for the three outlaws. The
railway officers brought with them
from Casper the horses captured from
the outlaws in Mondays fight
The English syndicate which Super
intendent of Irrigation J. ]. Armstrong
is accused of favoring. lost in the Gree
ley irrigation war. State Engineer Nc
Cune has reversed Armstrong; decis-
ion. Mr.. Armstrong himself was
obliged to so notify the indignant Gree
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of their water in order to favor the
English irrigation syndicate of Greeley
Governor Thomas took an active inter
est in the case in behalf of the protest
ing farmers, and it is understood that
he advised a reversal of the Armstrong
opinion. The reversal. as made by
State Engineer McCune. simply de
clared that the new irrigation law was
not retroactive. and Mr.. Armstrong;
endeavor to make it so was fundament
ally wrong. The law provided that nc
water transfers could be made with
out state grant. and Mr.. Armstrong
attempted to go back several years and
declare void those transfers made
without state leave prior to the pas
sage of the law He turned the water
from such bitches back into the river
which was to the syndicate's advant
age. In short time. if the decision
had not been reversed. the farmers say
that the syndicate would practically
have had a corner on water. and tho
crops of many of the Greeley farmers
would have been ruined.
The state convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor Union of Colorado met
at Greeley on the 2nd. In his address
to the convention Mr.. Sweet. state
president, said: I'm this state, where
loose ideas prevail regarding the sane
tity of the Sabbath, and where oul
Legislature will dare insult the decent
people of the state by the passage of q
bill leagalizing prize fighting, we need
men who will not bow the knee mol
| cringe before q goddess press. or d