The silver lance., 1899-01-20

The Pueblo steel mills have enough
work contracted to keep them busy six
months.
Morris Mecklenburg of Como, Park
county, has been appointed postmaster
vice A. J. Wallace. removed.
A pedestrian was shot in the arm In q
central part Of Denver by hold-up
few nights ago. The hOld-up escapeo.
Tn Arapahoe commissioners and the
Denver police board have refused 10
grant any more saloon licenses u
women.
Engineer Mart Wright was instantly
killed while running his engine near
Rock Creek, Wyoming, last week. Ane
side rod broke and struck him.
James Doyle was ordered before tne
Supreme Court at Denver Monday as
result of babeas corpus proceedings
The Supreme Court. will consider DIE
case on its merits.
The retiring superintendent or puDnc
instruction has certified to the stare
auditor the apportionment OF state
school funds for the six months Just
closed. The total amount to be distrlD-
uted is about $4,000 of which Arapa-
hoe county gets $11.921. The money Is
derived from the sale and rentals OF
school lands, etc.
Articles of incorporation Of the Du-
chesne Railway Company have Deeh
filed at Salt Lake. The incOrporators
are attorneys of the Rio Grande West
ern Company. and the purpose Is to
build branch line from Cotton, on the
Rio Grande Western, into the asphalt
um fields of the Duchesne country, a
distance of fifty-one miles. The capital
CT to ba
doubtedly be profitable feeder.
Katie Greenwood, postmistress at
Goldfield, has been deposed from office
and NJ d. Vincent placed in charge.
Inspector Fredericks of the depart
ment happened in the office Monday
morning and checked up the money or
der drawer to find about $500 missing.
John Greenwood, husband of the ap-
pointee, has been in charge of the Of
flee and is accused of having embez-
zIed funds. The United States mar
shal was at once communicated with,
and the officer sent down to arrest him.
G. B. Eddy, president and general
manager of the Ell Paso 4 Northwest
ern Railway, has wired from New
York to the contractors to proceed at
once with the work of preparing to
grade the extension of the main line of
the road from La Cuz to Salado, near
White Oaks, New Mexico, distance
of 80 miles. At Salado are located the
extensive coal fields which were dis
covered about twelve years ago. The
extension is to be completed by May
Both next.
Representative Shafroth made a
strong speech in the House in Opposi-
ton to the proposition to abandon all
the assay offices in the mountain states.
This was made in the interest of the
Philadelphia and San Francisco mints.
1t was proposed by Chairman Cannon
Of the appropriation committee and
supported by Loud of California. Mr..
Shafroth forcibly pointed out the dis
advantages Of the change and the lack
of economy in the proposition, and was
successful In defeating 1t.
A legal hitch has come in the nego-
tiations for the control Of the Victor
company, in the southern part Of the
state. by the Coloredo & Southern
road. The negotiations towards this
end have been on for several months
and last week 1t was found that pOssi-
bly, the road could not go into the busi-
ness of coal mining or even hold stock
in a company doing such work. The
matter has been placed in the hands of
a view of formulating some plan
whereby the deal will not be dropped
entirely.
A disastrous confiagration occurred
at Crested Butte on the 7th. A fire
broke out in Quinn's saloon, with de
fective fiue as the probable cause. The
fire was burning for some time before
its discovery. The fire department and
citizens worked heroically for two
hours to save the fine Kofp building
which was divided from the burning
structure by only fifteen feet. The sa-
loon was totally destroyed. Jack Ken
nedy was suffocated In the building
where he was sleeping. He was about
As years of age, and it is supposed he
was under the influence of intoxicants.
Last Friday Sergeant Preston Of the
Twenty fourth infantry, stationed at
Fort Russell, was shot and instantly
killed by Pearl Thornton, a notorious
woman in the west end of Cheyenne.
Preston had revolver, which he said
was not loaded, and handing 1t to the
Thornton woman, asked her to try it.
She took the weapon, which was point
ed directly at Preston. She pulled the
trigger and the bullet passed through
the soldiers heart. The girl came to
the police station and gave herself up.
Her story is corroborated by witnesses.
The dead soldier was not in the Cuban
campaign, being on detached duty in
the United States.
A federation of the commercial bodies
| Of Colorado is proposed. The decision
| is to secure concerted action upon ques-
tions of state interest. The scheme
originates with the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce. The Denver
chamber has received notice of a con-
vention to be held in Colorado Springs
at 2 p. m. Wednesday,, January 25th,
with an invitation to select ten dele
gates to represent Denver at that time
The Colorado Springs Chamber of Com
merce at its annual meeting appointed
a committee to invite concerted action