The Elbert County tribune., 1899-01-26

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| A vein Of pnrafflne has been dIscov-
cred near vernal. Utah. 1t is very
valuable.
Henry C. Charpiot hns been appoint
ed by the French government consular
agent at Denver.
d. l. Gordon lost his life In the
burning OF the Cardiff shaft house,
rear Ward. last Friday.
A joint committee of the legislature
Is Investigating the management OF
the Insane Asylum at Pueblo.
A coal mine OF the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, near Glenwood. 10 be-
Ing flooded TO extinguIsh n fire.
Mrs. J. B. Belford has been appoint
ed trustee Of the State Normal School.
She takes the place OF Governor
Thomas.
Denver sportsmen want change In
the game Inws that will permit the
shooting OF more than twenty ducks
ia day during the open season.
Ex-Govcrnor Job A. Cooper died at
his home. In Denver. on the Goth. He
WINS only sick a day, the cnuse of his
death being peritonitis. He leaves a
widow and four children, among
whom his lnrRe estate will be divided.
Frank H. Snow, who has obtained
the contract for the 5OO-foot tunnel at
the Goose creek reservoir, above Buff
probably give employment for from
200 TO 800 men for several years.
A bill has been introduced In the Wy
oming Legislature providing for the re-
moval OF the state prisoners from the
present occupied penitentiary Mt Lara
mie to the newly erected penitentiary
nj Rawlins.
The platform holding Colonel and
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan and
400 others nt Coliseum hnll, Mt Den
yer. fell with terrific crash, and the
silver leader and his wife, with those
who occupied posts OF honor, mar
rowly escaped death or serious In
jury.
Alfalfa seed is now shipped from
Denver to the South and East In quite
large quantities. Mr. @. II. Root, the
entcrprising manager of the Colorado
Seed House. mt Denver. says that nl-
falfa is now grown quite extensively
In Texas and In some of the eastern
states.
Detective George A. Scarborough, ex-
Texas state ranger, who killed Kid
Johnson and shot and captured Bron-
sho Bill, most notorious desperate
and train robber is In Santa Fe working
for the captaincy of the troop Of New
Mexico rangers about to be created by
the territorial Legislature.
The social breach which has so long
existed between the families Of Sena-
tor Cushman X. Davis and former
Governor Merriam of Minnesota is
said to have been closed up. The
wives of the two men are said to have
clnsped hands and become reconcIled,
md the social war has come to an end.
A. ]. Boutwell, OF Wyoming viii
read u paper before the National Live
Stock Association on the "Extermina-
tlon of Wolves" and will Illustrate his
talk by producing on the stage a pack
of real live gray wolves, captured on
the range in Wyoming, and as savage
and untamed as brute creation ever
gets to be.
The city engineer of Cheyenne says
that the charges OF the electric light
plant to the city are higher than In any
western city or town except Lendville,
Colorado. Cheyenne pay $162 each for
her thirty-two arc lights. He SAYS that
an adequate city plant would cost $14,-
900. He advises that unless the pres
ent extort!onnte charge is remedied the
city ought to build its own plant.
Colonel w. II. Combs is the origi-
nator OF a proposition calculated to
employ the convicts of Colorado prof
itably to the state. The colonel's prop
osition is, In brief, to use the convict
labor of the state in the construction
IL - L. t~<r. Il. a
transportation tunnel, starting at
point near Malta, extending thence
under the city of Leadville and on to
the Mosquito range.
The contract for grading the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad standard gauge
over the Veta pass into the San Luis
valley has been awarded to Clough 4
Anderson of Colorado Springs. The
work is OF the heaviest type known In
mountain construction and Is expected
to cost 100000. The necessary force
will be secured at once. as the contract
requires for the running of trains by
October 1st.
The Moon-Anchor mine has been
sold to an English company. The old
stockholders receive $4,000 shares of
fl each, one-seventh of the capitaliza-
tion of the new company. and a mini
mum of f1SOOOO In cash. The Battle
Mountain property is not included In
the deal. The directors of the Noon
Anchor Gold Mining Company met
this afternoon and issued circular to
the stockholders, giving the facts
about the deal which Werner 2. Reed
made with British capitalists on his
recent visit to London.
The opening Of the new Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe depot and Harvey
dining station, constructed at cost Of
$4,000. took place at East Las Vegas
the other day. There were hundreds
of visitors The hotel and the depot
are OF brick, two stories high, in the
old Spanish mission style of architec-
ture, and finished in the very perfec-
tion Of the builders art. Each is heat
ed by steam and lighted by electricity,
and eaeh is provided with the latest ap-
pliances suitable to Its purposes.
The city council of Florence has
awarded the water works contract to
the Geddes and Seerie Stone Company
of Denver for the sum of $97 300, and
an intake dam In the canon at SO per
square yard. the estimated cost of
which is $1,000. The company agrees
to begin work upon the system inside
of twenty days and complete the work
by June list. The figure ls considered
a very fair price for the city and the
time required for construction remark
ably short. MS over sixteen miles of
pipe must be laid
Increased bitterness has been inject
ed Into the senatorial contest in Neva-
da by the action OF the state central
committee of the Silver party, which
has deposed Chairman w. Z. Sharon,
who is managing Frank Newlands'
fight for senator. and then read out Of
the Silver party both Newlands and
Sharon. The chief charge against both