Gilpin observer., 1899-06-22
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

Amos M. Cooke of Colorado has been
admitted to West Point.
Polly Coats Of Leadville is charged
with having deliberately murdered her
baby.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
Mexico on the 10th, being the hrst
in several months.
The Union Pacific lost $4,000 by n
fire at La Sale, Colorado, which burn
ed the ore chutes and several cars.
The city council of La Junta has or
dered new reservoir with capacity
of 100000 gallons to be built as an ad-
dition to the city water plant.
Two lads, named Pring and Lee, in
hay rack, were killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The two
horses hitched to the wagon were
killed and the wagon demolished. Two
other young men standing by the wag-
on talking to them were uninjured.
Unless the convicts at the peniten-
tiary are soon put to work and made
partly self-supporting there will be n
shortage at the end of the term of
from 100000 to $4,000, according to
G. p. Hoyt, the warden. He says it Is
not only proper but absolutely neces-
sary that the men be placed at work,
as if they are allowed to remain in idle
ness the institution will find itself head
over heels in debt.
At an adjourned meeting of the town
trustees, of Evans license was granted
at $1,000 per year to saloons. Three
applicants for licenses We're handed in
and granted. The town voted temper
! ance by a large majority last April,
but by the resignation of two of the
temperance trustees the change came
about. A petition was circulated ask
ing, the board not to grant license,
and was signed by a majority of the
voters, but was unheeded.
The Indians of San Felipe and Santo
Domingo and the Pueblos of Berna-
lilo county have won the cases they
appealed to the United States Court of
Private Land Claims. These grants
were confirmed by the court. but with
areas much less than claimed by the
Indians. In case No. 134 the grant
claimed embraced 10000 acres. In
case No. 1874. the claim was for 25,OOO
acres. and in case No. 1856 the San Fe-
lipe Pueblos claimed over 25.OOO acres.
Manager Voorhees, of the Hartville
iron mines has received instructions
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany to close down the mines at Hart
vile, Wyoming, at once. This throws
between 100 and $50 miners and ore
haulers out of employment and de-
srroys n number of good business en-
terprises in the Badger -Hartville sec
tion. 1t is believed that the order to
close down will also delay the building
of the spur from Badger to Hartville.
work upon which was commenced
some weeks ago.
The insurance companies have begun
their fight on the Denver & Rio Grande
road to recover losses occasioned by
the disastrous fire at Colorado Springs
last October. 1t will be remembered
that the cause of the fire was al
legged to have been due to the explosion
of a car of powder on the Denver &
Rio Grande tracks, and suits have been
started by the small property owners
on Huerfano street to recover damages.
The suit as filed is an exceedingly vol
luminous one. 1t involves over $4,000
and others similar in nature may fol-
low it.
The new 1,5OO class engines which
We're recently sent to Cheyenne from
the East to be used between Cheyenne
and Sidney. Nebraska, are not proving
as satisfactory as was expected. 1t
was claimed that the locomotives,
which are the largest in use by the
Union Pacific. would haul sixty-five
loads from Sidney to Cheyenne. but
thus far they have only been able to
| haul fifty loads. Trainmen are of the
opinion now that the new locomotives
will not materially affect the working
| force of train and enginemen on the
Union Pacific.
A dispatch from Chicago says: An
! agreement has been reached in the long
| standing suit between the Colorado
Midland and the Busk tunnel bond
holders. The tunnel bonds, amounting
TO 81. .25O,OOO. are to be exchanged for
Colorado Midland 2. 3 and 4 per cent.
bonds. The tunnel bondholders are al.
so to receive 4 per cent. interest, less
legal expenses, for the period of the re-
ceivership, equal to from $40 to $50
per bond. The tunnel. which is located
at Hagerman Pass. has been idle for
about n year. owing to differences in
regard to rental. the Colorado Midland
in the meantime operating its old
switchback track over the mountains
Governor Richards syas advised by
the War Department on the 10Th that
the troops at Fort Washalkie. in the
Shoshone reservation. and Yellowstone
in the National Park, have been placed
at the disposal of the civil authorities
to aid in pursuing the Union Paciti,
robbers. Deputy Marshal Morrison
with four YELLOWSTONE scouts, cap
tured three men at Riverside station
near the west line of the park. who IN
swer the description of Curry and tn,
Roberts brothers. Morrison will reacl
Mammoth Hot Springs with his prison
ers Tuesday. when they will be ex
amlned before Commissioner Meldrum
Should these men not prove to be tn,
hold-ups. the chase will be kept III
with vigor until the robbers are rul
down and captured. The robbers wer'