The Elbert County tribune., 1899-06-22

pOnding reduction in pay This was
carried almost unanimously. The ma
Iority against strike was about 10 TO
I. 'rhc action OF the miners was re-
ceIved with satisfaction by the people
Of the community. II was resolved
10 start work mt o. N. and quit ut II
n. M. this TO constitute half "A days
work. and to start ut a. IN. and quit
Mt 3:30, with half an hour Tor dinner.
this TO constitute full days work.
About 300 men are working IN this dis
trict.
A private Telegram from Washington
sintes TINT Major Becker. editor OF the
Billings Gazette. has been removed rs
agent OF the Grow Indians. He had
been requested to resign and refused.
John T.. Edwards has been appointed
in his place. Charges OF various kinds
had been made against Major Becker.
and nm Inspector was sent from wash
Ington to Investigate. but he refused TO
conduct the inquiry in public. ms or
'iered by the President. and the inves-
tigntion has been temporarily sus-
pended. II is evident that sufficient
facts were laid before the department
to justify Beckcrs removal. He Is
Republican and one OF tho few edi-
tors who supported Mckinley IL Mon
tana.
Two prisoners escaped from the pen
| itentlnry Mt Canon City the other after
noon. They were William Lewis. No
4l0S, and Fred Price. No. 1926. Their
vacation was brief. Warden Hoyt has
instituted n new ruling since he took
charge by which the whole town Is
aroused when there Is mn escape. Inc
signal. which Is prolanged blast from
the steam whistle. sounded ut o'clock
and within fifteen minutes 100 men
and boys were In pursuit OF the refu-
gees At ) o'clock the convicts We're
back In the pen, having been captured
by Chaplain Rhudolph aud two boys
WIN HannIgan and Paul Forney. The
captors had 500 divided between
them. this being the amount offered by
the warden. The men were only four
blocks from the penitentlnry when they
We're captured. having taken refuge In
an old adobe house. The men were
working ON the limestone duarries and
quietly walked away while the guard
was not looking In their direction.
A dispatch from Crested Butte on the
| 18th snid: For the past eighteen hours
Crested Butte has been inundated with
| II How ~ water The excessively warm
| weather OF the past several days has
cnuscd the snow In the high bnsins to
melt very rapidly with the result that
all the streams In this vicinnge have
been swelled to high degree. Coal
Creek, which runs through the town
In diagonal course. hns been swollen
to an abnormal degree and has gone on
n rampage through the principal
streets, filling them with debris. wash
| ing AWAY culyerts and sidewalk foun-
dntions and flooding n number OF
houses. The streets are practically
impassnble and the depot unapproach-
| able a force ofsmcn has been work
| Ing for the last week In an effort to
stem the tide of the water, but their
efforts were unavalling to any great
extent Every team In town aud n
large force OF men are now nt work.
but the winter will be higher tonight
than ever.
The Miners Bank OF Creede closed
| Its doors Mt ola o'clock Wednesday.
Later II was announced that the banks
nt Monte Vista and Hooper. operated
under the same management. Ind also
closed. Whether the failures are due
to the threatened business conditions
caused by the smelter strike is not
known. but that IL commonly nc-
ccptcd ns the cause. The three banks
are under the management OF ID. ].
Mnben. who Is president of each con-
cern. He Is absent In Denver. and for
4 this reason II IL announced no figures
cnn now be made public MS to the as
sets and liabilities OF the several in
stitutions Great excitement prevailed
In Creede. MS the Miners was the only
bnnk In that place. and many mer-
chants md mining companies had de-
rosits there. The cashier would give
no Information other than to state that
tho fnntu nj .In m nrIn
President Maben from Denver. Presl-
dent u. j. Maben was at the Albany
yesterday and left on last evenings
i early train for Crecdc. In response, he
said, TO n telegram. Later the news
of the three banks closing was made
public In Denver.
Adjutant General Sitter and Gov
ernor Richards of Wyoming have re-
ccived messages from Buffalo, advising
them that detail of mounted militia
had been sent across the Big Horn
mountains by way of Spring Greek and
Red Bank TO Thermopolis to intercept
the train robbers should they cross the
-..g Horn basin. Another detail was
sent TO the Hole-in-thc- Wall country,
from there to 20 across the Big Horn
range by the y II trail. The combina-
tion which has set out to run the BAN
dts to earth is n powerful one. The
general government has instructed the
United States marshal of Wyoming
TO employ all the men necessary and TO
continue the chase ntil the outlaws
are captured. The Wyoming state au-
thoritIes have called out the state mi
litia. equipped them In cowboy style,
and sent them to the assistance of the
marshal The Union Pacific has n large
force of officers and n pack of blood
hounds in the field. while nearly every
sheriff of eastern and northern Wyo.
ming is serving with some one of the
possess Ii has been decided 10 make IL
n fight to finish. and the chase will
be prolonged II II reaches across Wyo-
ming and Montana into the British pos
sessions.
A dispatch from Casper Wyoming.
on the 11th said: \ messenger reached
Casper to-day from the posse which Is
chasing the Union Pnciflc train dyna-
mlters with the news that two of the
men had been seen Thursday Mt Bar G
ranch. owned by Robert Tisdale. sew
enty-fivc miles north of Casper, and
about thirty miles from the Hole-in-
the Wall. The fugitives were seen by
Al Flood, assistant foreman for lis
dale. who recognized George Curry
and one of the Roberts brothers The
men were on foot and apparently much
worn by their long struggle to evado
capture The officers In pursuit are
in the same region with the fugitives
and their capture Is reasonably certain.
Extreme care must he exercised. how
ever, In the hunt TO avoid a repetition
of the ambush by which Sheriff Hazen
lost his life. The Union Pacific com
pany Is sending out provisions. sup
piles and fresh horses TO the posse, SO
thnt there will he no hindrance in con-
tinuing the search for the outlaws. 1t