The Elbert County tribune., 1899-08-03

piHccn IN i-nlfuef LIKE
Marcus DAILY OF Butte war reported
seriously III on the 2sth.
Captain Coghlan OF tho Raleigh lee
turcd Mt the Boulder Chnutauqun on
the battle OF Manila last week.
Horse and cattle thieves are operat-
Ing around Springer and ranchmen are
organizing to captuc the thieves
Santa Fe people have decided to issue
bonds for new school building TO cos,
about $4,000.
The Burlington has large corps OF
surveyors looking for good route
from western Colorado TO Ogden
The Santa Fe Rnllroad Company is
building n large sheep shearing and
sheep dipping plant at Springer. Over
1900 sheep viii he sheared and dip
ped at that plant this season yet.
The opening session OF the Rocky
Mountain Medical Association began
ON the 18th at Salt Lake when Presi-
dent Charles Pickncy Hough of SAT-
Lake chilled the meeting to order ~
Salt Lake.
The annual meeting OF the National
Irrigation Congress will be held this
year at Missouln. Montana, September
18th. 2Gth and 2Ith. State, municipal
and scientific organizations VIII be en-
titled to send delegates.
Wyoming has been given four ap-
polntments In the newly organized vol
unfeer regiments, the selections having
all been mnde from members OF the VA
rious organizations recruited In Wyo-
ming which have seen service during
the war.
II has been given out that August LIST
the Gulf. Colorado 4 Santa Fe rail-
road Will operate It's trains direct to
Denver. via the Fort Worth & Denver
City roads track. The new deal Will
enable the Santn Fe TO get into Den
yer at saving OF nearly thousand
miles.
John Doyle. engineer of the Garfield
Grouse mine. Cripple Creek. was car
ried on by twenty masked men Mt nm
early hour Tuesday morning. The
victim, who was released after being
severely beaten, cannot or will not
give any reason for the treatment he
received
The prize recruiting record Is be-
lleved TO be held by First Lieutenant
Max Luna of the Thirty-fourth regi-
ment. who has In two dnys in Phoenix,
Arizonn. enlisted fifty-two recruits for
his regiment. The men We're sent to
Fort Logan and were given royal
send-on by the town people.
The dnirymen OF Colorado Springs
have organized to protect themselves.
They say they are compelled to ad-
vance prices systematically because of
the advances In the price of grain and
hay. Some people fenr the combina-
tion is a trust and that its main pur
uose 1t to push milk prices sky-high. f.
Simon Rodriguez was found Mt 3
o'clock I'm the morning on the Pecos
Valley & Northeastern Railroad, near
Roswell. with three knife wounds In
his side and his two hands cut off
by switching engine running over
him. A Mexican was arrested on
suspicion OF having committed the
crime. Wf
The Santa Fc and the Colorado &
Southern. have completed the time
, schedule of passenger trains between
, Denver and Pueblo. The new arrange
ments give the combined roads six
passenger trains a day each way.
Tickets of either Santa Fe or Colo
RADIO & Southern are good on the trains
OF either road between Denver and
| Pueblo.
County Attorney Putnam of Salt
Lake City has Issued complaint,
| charging Apostle Heber j. Grant OF
the Mormon Church with unlawful CO.
! habitation. The affidavit filed against
I Grant by G. NJ. Owens. who Is working
/ up these cases, charged Grant with
adultery, but County Attorney Putnam
did not think the evidence sufficient
to warrant prosecution under this
charge.
I
The movement begun by the Sol
diers' Relatives Union of Denver to
bring the Denver volunteers home
from San Francisco free of cost TO the
soldiers themselves is gaining ground.
Funds of similar nature have been
raised In Pueblo. Leadville and other
towns. A similar movemen. is now
on foot in Cripple Creek. and the city
council OF that town has already mp
proprinted $1,000 for the Relatives
Union of Cripple Creek to cnrry out Its
project.
Canon City citizens now believe thai
there is no question but that that town
Will be the terminus of the Florence
& Cripple Greek railroad Railroad
men say that the Florence & Cripple
Greek line will unquestionnbly build
the extension and that In reality II
is meant as block TO the Santa Fe
which has contemplated building into
Cripple Greek for some time. The
committee from Canon City say the
line will be built, II believes, and In
operation within four months.
Out OF total force OF GOO men usu.
ally employed at the Arkansas Valley
smelter at Leadvllle, there are said to
be 200 at work under the new twelve
and ten-hour scale. There seems to be
no Indication of trouble. and Manager
Weddle expects TO have Mt least eight
furnaces In blast by the end of the
week. II is possible also that the Union
smelter. which belongs to the trust
will be started up. This plant is mod
ern and capable OF handling from 300
to 400 tons per day.
A dispatch from New York SAYS
President Trumbull OF the Colorado &
Southern is said 10 have in his pos
session plans and surveys for the
building of short line from Denver
TO Cripple Creek. Under the plans
the short line would connect with the
Colorado Midland. or in lieu OF thai
have very close agreement with tho
Florence & Cripple Greek road, and
thus open up prolific country south
OF the Arkansas river. Mr.. Trumbull
is said to he a warm advocate OF
carrying the original plans to compile
tlon now, as the freight income would
be about 81 a ton for haul of scarcely
150 miles on nm even grade.
Stephen NJ. Easton OF Santa Fe has
been granted a pension OF S25 month
by the United States government He
was n Rough Rider from Abiguiu, a
small place near here. While before
Santiago a shell from Cervera's fleet
exploded n few feet from him and the
power of the explosion lifted him sixty
feet in the air. He was picked up fol
dead. but revived and Il was found