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twenty-five houses are being built at
Huntsville, Wyoming.
The Lamar postoffice was robbed OF
S2I5 the other night.
Several cases of smallpox are report
ed at Leadville.
The State Sunday School Convention
met at Boulder on the 18th.
The old Brainard & Beebe hotel at
Creole burned on the 21st.
General Miles and Buffalo Bill are
on a hunting trip in The Big Horn
mountains.
A new reservoir holding G0,OoO gai.
Ions is to be added to the Irlhluau
water system.
The Cripple Creek Star wants a home
mining organized there to de-
yelop the veins under the town.
The c annual lion hunt was be-
gun at Rifle on the 26th. Three nun
dred men are out after lions, bear, elk
and deer.
Jesus Maria Garcia, sometimes
! spoken of as the king of Las Animas,
and prominent in the political and So
cial life of Las Animas county, died on
the 9th.
Fourteen carloads of machinery
from the abandoned car shops of the
Santa Fe railroad at San Martial have
been placed in the Ration car shops,
where the force will be greatly in
creased.
John Baldwin, n wealthy ranchman
of ColfaX county, New Mexico, believes
the greater portion of that part of the
fnpr.itArr "a. aI.@-n ,tn1nIDrnI1nn
stream, and will drill several artesian
wells to test his theory.
The Indian office is preparing plans
and specifications for n school on the
Jicarilla reservation. New Mexico, to
accommodate $50 pupils. There are
5000 children of school age on the res
ervatior and 40 school facilities.
Sheriff Lavne of Ogden has captured
one and probably two of the ID
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
ger train at Wilcox. Wyoming, on June
2nd, at which time they blew two OF
the cars to pieces. and escaped with n
large amount of booty.
Senator Clark of Montana has de
cided to Increase the output of his coal
mine at Clarksville. New Mexico, fully
10 per cent. The force now employed
Mt the mine numbers $50, but by spring
will be increased to 300. There is not
a saloon at GAINESVILLE or within q mile
of it.
The enormous traffic of the Union
Pacific, caused by unprecedented fruit
and cattle shipments. is taxing the re-
sources of the Dad to It's utmost. An
idea of the business done can be gained
from the fact that fifty trains, averag-
ing thirty cars to n train, pass over
Sherman hill daily. Upon the Wyom-
ing division alone there are seventy
five train movements II day.
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 IN five
acres. These onions bring on an av-
erage 30 cents n sack. The waste in
the culling alone would supply a le-
gion of rain belters with fine onions
for the winters use.
After eight days devoted to hearing
testimony, the case of James j. Doyle
against the Mt. Rosa Company was
finished in the land office at Pueblo on
the oath. The testimony amounts to
over 100000 words and it will be about
one month before the stenographer can
extend his notes. The register and re-
ceiver will then examine the testimony
and prepare Il decision which will
doubtless not be rendered for two
months thereafter.
The beet sugar plant ut Grand juno
ton is to be started in n few days.
All the machinery has arrived on the
grounds, according to latest reports.
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putting the intricate parts together.
The delay was occasioned by diff
Guilty in having orders filed by the
eastern manufacturing companies.
While the output of beets in the valley
of the Grand and neighbOring gullies
is not as large rs desired by the com
pany, ii is thought n good start will be
made for the first year.
Colorado College will send n fine Sc
lection of specimens rs samples to the
Paris exposition. The collection will
be quite n large one and will include
very rare minerals. w. s. Ward, Unit
ed States commissioner, has been in
the city and examined the collection.
which he pronounced one of the best
he had ever seen. The cost of making
the collection has been necessarily
large and has been raised by subscrip-
tons II through the generosity of the
railroads.
There is 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 500 worth for mining purposes.
Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut all the timber necessary for the
development of the mines. The miners