The silver lance., 1899-10-20
WESTERN NOTES.

| Walter Barnes, his wire anu cniiu,
We're found dead in their home near
Grant, Colorado. Suicide due to pov-
erty and i'll health was the cause.
A. W. Rucker has been offered and
! has accepted the presidency OF the
United States Monetary League ana
will soon reopen headquarters in Den
YER.
It is estimated that fully 5000 cars
of potatoes will be shipped from Gree
ley district this season. Some of the
freight agents place the output as high
as 5000 cars.
Joseph I. johnson of Victor has COM
menced war against dance halls and
other places of i'll repute in the city up
on the ground that he is kept awake
nights by the noise.
The Pacific Express Company has
forwarded to Governor Richards OF
Wyoming a check for 81 900 as its con-
tribution to the relief fund being raised
for the family of Sheriff Hazen, the
Wyoming officer who was killed while
in pursuit of the Union Pacific train
robbers.
While there are 100 artesian wells in
the town of Roswell, New Mexico, it
is but recently that efforts have been
made to secure them upon farms. On
the Chisum farm, the pioneer ranch of
the valley, a spouter was obtained re-
Gently that flows 1,200 gallons per min
ute.
In the District Court at Fort Collins,
before Judge Broughton, Marie Lafitte
was convicted of selling liquor in vio-
lation of the prohbiitory laws of the
city, and was fined the sum of $500
and costs of suit The accused was
committed to Jail in default of the
amount of the fine.
On the Alliance Hartville
line now being constructed, 115 miles
of rails are being laid at the rate of
5000 feet per day. the steel gang now
being about eighteen miles from ALI
| ance When the Platte valley is reach
ed, which will be in a few weeks. the
town of Bridgeport will be established,
and the road that far will be used for
commercial purposes as well as for
construction.
1t was a pandemonium of color
rather than a confusion of noises that
greeted the returning campaigners
from the Philippines Wednesday after
noon as they took possession of Colo
rado Springs and enjoyed the festivi-
ties of the carnival. Flowers were the
reignlng element and they We'd among
| themselves with the weapons of beauty
for the honor of being cast beneath the
revered feet of the volunteers.
Thursday, the third of the Peach day
| celebration at Grand Junction, was the
greatest of all in point of numbers and
entertainment. The business houses
all closed and the city was turned
over to the visitors. who seemed to
make full use of the privilege. The
main thoroughfares in the afternoon
were one surging mass of people, fully
eight thousand people enjoying Grand
functions hospitality. The event of
the day was the masque carnival, in
which fully 1000 people participated.
| Arrangements have been made and
Longmont will celebrate October 5tl.
as Pumpkin Pie Day. 1t will occur
on the first day of the Agricultural
Fair and race meeting. Mammoth ta-
bles will be spread in the City park,
and the people will be RECALLED on
pumpkin pie, apple cider and sand
wiches. The railroads will make lib
eral rates from all points in northern
Colorado and arrange schedule so all
| can return home on the day of the
feast.
There is more trouble between the
cattle men and sheep men of Logan
county. A courier reached Sterling
| Monday morning from the northern
|
! part of the county with the report that
sixty sheep, the property of the War
ren Live Stock Company of Cheyenne,
| had been killed Sunday evening. the
herders being seriously beaten and
other damage done. Sheriff Ayres left
for the scene of the trouble with war
rants for the arrest of Hunter Smith,
| VIII Reagan and two McIndaffer boys,
all said to have been implicated in the
killing. The complaint was filed by C.
c. Lemm, foreman for the Warren COM
pany in Logan county. More trouble
| is expected to grow out of this.
1t is almost a certainty that by Octo-
| ber l, 1900, a sugar beet factory will
| be in operation in the Arkansas valley
u few miles west of Rocky Ford. The
| new enterprise will have a capacity OF
| 1000 tons of sugar beets per day. and
will cost upwards of S6OO,0OO. Fifteen
hundred acres will be planted in sugar
beets as soon as the deal is consum-
mated. Henry Il. Oxnard president of
| the American Sugar Beet Company of
New York, one of the largest corpora
tiOns of its kind in the United States,
and which controls four immense SUI
| gar beet factories, proposes to put up
the factory. Mr.. OXnard is quite enthu-
siastic over the prospects of this sec
ton becoming n great sugar beet pro-
ducing country. He says that the land
embraces every condition for the culti-
vation of the sugar beet and that he
considers it superior to the beet pro-
| ducing districts of OXnard, California
| He believes that enough beets can be
! grown in the Arkansas valley to sup
ply several large factories.
The Indian police will endeavor to
persuade the Indians who are playing
havoc with the game resources of
| Western Rio Blanco county to return
to their reservation without a boost
from the United States troops. At the
governors office Tuesday a telegram