The Springfield herald., 1899-02-17
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

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| Mine operating at Anthracite and
Crested Butte was mt n standstill on
me oth owing to the inability of the
Rio Grnnde railroad to furnish cars.
Communication with outside camps is
practically cut or.
The most heroic Incident of the
storm in Wyoming was Mrs. Holmes
leaving the Ferguson ranch, near sill
YER Grown, to go to Iron Mountain.
twenty miles, losing her way In the
storm and laying out two nights. The
first night she spent between the two
horses of her team. and the second In
an old dry well. She had some food In
the wagon. She got home safely. but
is sick from the hnrdships endured.
The funeral services at Denver over
the remains of Rev. Myron w. Reed
were remarkable for great out
pouring of people of NIL classes. The
throng was immense. 1t filed the
Broadway Temple to overfiowing. A
thousand men and women stood in the
street outside, cold as the weather
was, unable to see or hear any of the
ceremonies, but 10th to leave the build
| ing where the last honors We're being
| paid the man they loved. In the sery-
ices n Jewish rabbi. Catholic clergy
man and several Protestant ministers
participated.
Announcement is made that the east
| iron pipe mills of the Colorado Fuel 4
| Iron Company mt Pueblo will resume
In the course of the next few days
| They have large orders ahead. This
means the employment of about 100
| additional men. 1t Is currently report
ed and generally believed that the com
pany will soon begin the construction
| of fourth blast furnace with capa-
city of 100 tons of pig iron per day. 1t
S ut present impossible for the furnaces
10 supply all the crude iron that is re-
qured in all departments of the plant
in operation on full time as they now
| are.
The judges of the Wyoming Supreme
| Court who. by request of the Leg
islaturc, have been for two weeks eX-
amining the revision of the statutes
repudiated by the Legislature of 1896.
verifying The presence of all statutes
indicated therein. and expurgating for
eign matter incorporated by the revis-
ors. have about concluded their work
and will report tomorrow. The re-
vision verified and expurgated will be
ordered published rs the revised stat
utes of the state. The chapters on
revenue and municipal corporations
INTERCEPTED into the revision by the
former committee have been eNpurS-
ated.
| The Rocky Mountain News says: 1t
is expected that there will be II great
shaking up among mining companies
recently organized and Incorporated
when the books of the secretary of
state have been thoroughly examined
by representative of the internal rev.
cnue collector. The collector decides
that companies should pay govern
ment war tax at the rate of 81 per
1000 shares. whereas some of the new
ly hedgcd companies have tried to get
off with stamps costing only 81 in all.
Under the ruling of the collector. the
company INCORPORATED for SoOO,OOO
should pay government tax to the tune
| of 5000.
A dispatch to the Rocky Mountain
News from Salt Lake City says: Moses
Thatcher, formerly an apostle of the
Mormon church. has declined II Unit
ed States senatorship rendered him by
! the Democratic members of the Utah
Legislature. Thirty-three members
petitioned Mr.. Thatcher. asking him to
become II candidate and pledGing him
their support. Thirty-two would
elect. Thatcher is n polygamist and
has four wives. his status being SINH
lar to that of Brigham II. Roberts, re-
Gently elected 10 Congress. and IT was
because of this status that he declined
the senatorship. In an Interview lie
said he did not want to antaSonize
Christian people OF the country.
\ dispatch from I<okomo on the Sth
| said: Yesterday ut noon the snow
storm resumed and has been showing
and blowing increasingly ever since. y
quarter of beef and IL mutton We're
brought from the snow-bound train Mt
Wheeler yesterday. and was all sold be
! fore II arrived at 30 cents per pound for
mutton and - cents for beef. There
is no butter in town. Ham sells nj 81
Il pound The business men contcm-
plate cutting off the supplies of unmar-
rled men and make them get out for
grub thus leaving something for the
families Numbers have gone to Lead
Vile and every day takes more. Things
are approaching Il crisis when some
thing will have to be done or people
viii suffer.
writ dismissed and petitioner re
! manded." was the decision of the SUI
premc Court at Denver last "Wednesday
in the original application of james
| Doyle for Il writ of habeas corpus.
Doyle had been directed by Judge l.unt
of Colorado Springs not 10 prosecute n
suit in Iowa against the Portland Min
ing Company. He violated the order
and obtained judgment for over $500
600. The court therefore held him III
contempt, and from that Judgment he
sued out writ of error to the Court OF
Appeals and applied for supersedeas
| which was denied. After this denial
further proceedings We're had in the
case in the El Paso District Court and
the petitioner was placed in jail. He
! then asked the Supreme Court for II
writ of habeas corpus. which the court
refused. He will go back to jail.
The Colorado supreme Court has de
cidcd against Assessor Ames of Arapa-
hoe county in his contest with the State
Board of Equalization. Assessor Ames
refused to extend the tax of 1896 OF
the State Board of Equalization ON rail
road. telegraph and telephone proper
ty in this county aud proceeded to make
an assessment of his own. In so doing
he bad the interests of the county
finances in consideration, rs his taS
would have brought in much more rev
enue. The STATE Board values all the
railroad property in the state, lcves q
general tax and divided it among the
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