The Meeker herald., 1899-10-28

twenty-five houses are being built At
Hartsville. Wyoming.
Tho old Brainard & Beeb. Motel at
Creole burned on the 21st.
Manzanola, Colorado, held D very
successful autumn festival lat week.
8. P. Graybill. Rio Grtnde fore
man at Pueblo, was run over md kill
ed on the 10th.
The cattlemen of Chaves coupty have
raised fund from which they viii pay
special bounty Oh coyotes AMI wolves.
Fourteen carloads Of machinery
from the abandoned car shops OF the
Santa Fe railroad at San M,rial have
been placed In the Ration ear shops,
where the force Will he greatly in
creased.
II COlfax county, New Mexico, believes
the greater portion of that part of the
territory Is above an Underground
wells to test his theory.
The Indian office is preparing plans
and specifications for a schOol on the
Jicarilla reservation, New MssicO, to
accommodate $50 pupils. TNre are
5000 children of school age on the res
ervation and no school fecilities
Game Commissioner johnson has re-
ceived letter from the ''fish king
OF Durango, who says that next year
his fish hatcheries VIII be much en-
largcd and that he will be enabled to
tn ~ -,
Sheriff Layne Of ogden has captured
one and probably Two of the robbers
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
ger train Mt Wilcox, Wyoming, on June
md, at which time they blew two of
the cars to pieces, and escaped with u
large amount OF booty.
The circumstances surrounding the
escape Of James X. Stratton from the
penitentiary on the night Of October
10th will be sifted to the bottom. Both
Warden HOyt and the hoard of peni
tertiary commissioners have decided
upon an investigation.
Senator Clark of Montana has de
eided to lncrense the output OF his coal
mine at GAINESVILLE, New Mexico, fully
IS per cent. The force now employed
ut the mine numbers $50, but by spring
will be increased to 800. There IL not
u saloon at Clnrksville or within a mile
of 1t.
An accurate test made Of the flow of
the large artesian well recently bored
in the PecOs Valley 4 Northwestern
Yards at Roswell shows that the well
discharges 2.6G4 gallons minute, or
I'm a va1noitr. ~
making 1t by far the largest and most
powerful artesian well In New Mexico
Years may elapse before the provis-
ions ln'the will Of the late George w.
Clayton, who bequeathed a million dol
lars for the establishment Of an or
phan boys school in Denver can be
carried out. Litigation will be insti-
tuted which promises to contiIue at
length and possibly through all the
courts Of the state. a brother OF Clny-
ton intends to contest the will.
A phenomenal onion yield is report
ed from Greeley. On the farm Of
Charles Camp, consisting Of thirty
three acres, In Pleasant Valley, 1900
sacks Of onions have been gathered,
1888 Of which We're grown on five
acres. These onions bring on an av-
erage 20 cents n sack. The waste In
the culling alone would supply le-
gion Of rain belters with fine onions
for the winters use.
A trust Is being formed to control the
output Of all the turquoise mines in
New Mexico. Hon. j. p. Victory of
Santa Fe Is working up the combina-
ton, to which most of the turquoise
mine owners have already subscribed
and which will practically control the
output of the world, as the turquoise
mines In Saxony, Egypt and Persia
have pinched out. The headquarters
Of the trust will be at Boston.
Southern Santa Fe county mining In
terests are enjoying boom such as
they have never experienced before.
1t has been known for years that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron COmpay held
a controlling interest In the coal mines
at Cerillos, and 1t is now stated upon
reliable authority that the company
will expend 1000, 900 next year in indq
provements and that there will be A
complete change In management and
thdt work will be prosecuted upon a
much larger scale than heretofore.
Vnefe ID great indignation among
the miners in the Mogollon district on
account of an order of the Department
Of the Interior limiting the cutting of
timber on the ella river forest reserve
to 800 worth for mining purposes.
Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut all the timber necessary for the
development Of the mines. The miners
will continue to cut timber freely for
that purpose and il arrested will make
test case, which, If necessary, will
be carried to the United States Su-
preme Court.
The beet sugar plant at Grand juno
ton Is to be started In a few DAYS,
All the machinery has arrived on the
grounds, according to latest reports,
and men are engaged night and day in
putting the intricate parts together.
The delay was occasioned by din
Guilty In having orders filled by the
eastern manufacturing companies.
While the output of beets In the valley
Of the Grand and neighborins guIlies
is not as large as desired by the COM