La Junta tribune., 1899-02-11
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

The Colorado & Southern broke the
blockade to Dickey on the 3rd.
Edward Rogers was killed in snow
I slide near SIiver;on on the 3rd-
| The Rio Grande railroad Ia boarding
1I0 storm-bound passengers at a hotel
at Glenwood.
A Fort Worth cattleman won $1,000
In Denver gambling resort druing the
recent convention.
Harry C. Falkenbury of Denver, who
has been musician at Manila, died
last month of smallpox.
Judge Victor A Elliott. formerly
judge OF the Supreme Court, died sud
denly at Denver on the 9Th.
The preliminary hearing at Greeley
Of Frank Herald, the alleged murderer
OF the O'Haras- resulted in his beihs
held TO the district court.
The Midland broke through the
drifts on the 9TH. but the Rio Grande
required n few days longer 10 remove
the numerous ayaianches on It's track
above Glenwood.
Grceiey's Indebtedness. amounting TO
ST., 5,G0O, has been refunded and new
loan made at four and half per cent
per annum. The rate of interest on the
former loan was six per cent.
The first fatal results near Lead.
Vile from the big snow storm occurred
Oh the lst. when William Manning met
with instant death on Mt. Eibert above
Twin Lakes through snowslide.
While trainmen were clearing
snow slide from the ID. & X. q. tracks
near Glenwood Springs Thursday they
We're overwhelmed by an avalanche
that killed three and injured four
President +. T. Jeffery of the Denver
4 Rio Grande has contracted While IN
the East, with the Brooks locomotive
works for the ten large locomotives
which are needed by the railway. The
new locomotives are to be delivered IN
April.
The town of Independence, near AS
pen, is cut Off from communication
with the outside world by the heavy
SHOWS. The stock OF food and fuel is
running low. and 1t Is feared that the
people will suffer before the blockade
Is raised
A special TO the Salt Lake Tribune
from Cokeville. Wyoming, says: A
snowslide mile long occurred on the
Both, burying several men and teams.
All the men We're taken out awe Win
the exception of Burt Handy. who was
dead when found.
Reports from the southern part Of
New Mexico intimate that there Is a
proposition on foot down there to or
ganize new territory of the southern
half Of New Mexico, part OF Arizona
and the western tongue of Texas, Win
FL Paso as the capital city
]. II. Miles, president of the Fre-
mont Hot Springs Company of Wyo-
ming, has gone East to press his offer
of $4,000 for the Sharkey-F -Fitzsimmons
fight. He says he Ia fully able to dem
onstrate his ability to pull on the fight
without interference at that point,
and also to give any guarantee desired
as to the financial end Of the affair.
Oscar Strand, a locomotive engineer
on the Missouri Pacific railway, run
ming between Heisington, Kansas, and
Pueblo, Colorado, was shot and NOR
tally wounded at Salida Thursday.
The shooting occurred in the rotunda
Of the Hotel Huckins. l.. e. Hindman.
better known us the '.Honeygroye
Kid" an alleged gambler, is accused of
killing Strand.
Sixteen horses which were carrying
food to the distressed Inhabitants In
the vicinity of Independence, are
buried in a great snowsiide, nine miles
from Aspen. Two boys, who had been
sent in charge Of the relief outfit, mar
rowly escaped being overwhelmed in
the tremendous avalanche, which
completely blocks the road and which
threatens to cause intense privation
among the miners at Independence.
| A movement has been inaugurated
| to have the first annual reunion of the
Rough Riders of the late war with
| Spain held. and the place thus far
mentioned is Ell Paso, from the fact
| that the city furnished n 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 TO
hold the reunion of his Rough Riders.
| Tweuty-six inches of new snow in
I, thirty-six hours is the latest record
| from the higher attitudes of the noun
tains, as received at headquarters of
| the Colorado and Southern road Sun
| day. The report came from Brecken.
ridge. The snow fell over great area
Of the backbon of the continent, and
last night the plows and Hangers were
Que in full force in the unequal combat
against the elements. At Breckenridge
snow on the level was reported to be
eight feet deep.
The snow is general over Wyoming,
ranging in depth from two and half
| feet in Big Horn county on n level.
down to a foot on the Laramie plains.
In the Medicine Bow and Sierra Madre
mountains the fall of snow has been
unprecedented, being five or six feet
on the level. The most conservative
basing their opinion on the depth of
snow, the absence of wind to clear It
from the field for almost week, and