The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-07
WESTERN NOTES.

A new reservoir holding 6O,0OO gal
Ions is to be added to the Trinidad
water system.
large number of serious or fatal ac-
cidents occurred at Cripple Creek dur
ing the past week.
The Cripple Greek Star wants home
mining company organized there to de-
velop the veins under the town.
William c. Parker, justice of the
peace at Leadville, was fatally shot by
Mike Muller the other day without pro-
vocation.
The second annual lion hunt was be-
gun at Rifle on the 26th. Three hun
dred men are out after lions, bear, elk
/ and deer.
An iron foundry and blast furnaces
will shortly be placed in operation at
Cheyenne in connection with the Union
Pacific shops
The Florence & Cripple Creek road
is trying to block the entrance of the
new Colorado Springs electric line into
the SoIu camp.
a branch of the Y. NJ. C. A. will be
started at Leadville within Il few
weeks. OF the 800 members needed,
300 have already been secured.
The "open town" question at Grand
Junction has been settled for the next
six months the council at its last meet
ing deciding TO issue licenses on the
basis Of $1,000 year.
At Red Fork. of Powder river, near
Buffalo, Wyoming, Saturday night
some one placed n quantity of giant
powder, fused and capped, in the fire
box of George Garland's sawmill boiler
The next morning. after starving the
fires, the four men present went to
house a short distance away for break
fast. While eating the meal they We're
startled by loud explosion which scat
tered the boiler and engine. Had the
men remained in the mill n few min
utes longer they would have been
killed.
Frank f Tyler, n well-known mining
man. was burned TO death in n fire
which destroyed his cabin at Alpine,
late Monday night. Two brothers,
Robert and Jxmes Caskie, who We're in
the cabin with Tyler. say they owe
their lives to n neighbor who was at
tracted by the fire and rescued them
after considerable difficulty. Tyler
had just returned from a three-weeks'
stay at his mine. situated on Chalk
creek, and it Is commonly reported that
the three men had been drinking more
or less in the cabin prior to the break
ing out of the fire.
The Salado coal mines of Otero coun-
ty, New Mexico, recently tapped by
the Ei Paso X Northeastern railway,
are now shipping coal regularly at the
rate of 200 tons per day. More orders
are on hand than can be filed, owing
to n shortage of miners, but 100 more
miners are now on their way to Salado.
When they arrive the output will be
heavily increased. Another vein five
feet thick has been uncovered. The
coal folds are thirty miles long and
eleven miles wide, and situated 100
miles north of El Paso.
John Fussell n ranchman living on
Trout creek. twelve miles north of
Woodland Park, Colorado. was frozen
to death least night within half n mile
of his home. 1t is supposed that he be
came bewildered in the storm. He un-
hitched his team, tied the horses to the
wagon. and wrapped himself up in
some blankets and laid down beside his
wagon. This morning an early passer-
by found him dead. Russell had been
for supplies and was late in starting
home. He was about 30 years of age,
and leaves wife and several children.
Governor Murphy of Arizona, in his
annual report to the secretary of the
interior. renews his plea for statehood,
saying 1t has been denied to Arizona
because of sectional prejudice, ignor-
ance, imaginary partisan policy and
selfishness." Other recommendations
are for the cession of all the public
lands within Arizona to the territory
or state, pending which the territory
should be authorized to lease them as
grazing lands: survey of all lands with
in the territory. especially the railroad
grants, for taxing purposes, and the
establishment of a mint or assaying
office.
Last Saturday morning n terrible ac-
ident happened mt the Joe Dandy mine,
Cripple Creek district. in which two
men lost their lives. They are William
Van Why, aged 33 and married, and
w. l.. Lambert, aged 40. The men
We're being hoisted from the bottom of
the Joe Dandy shaft, where they had
lighted the fuse on four shots they had
just finished loading. The shaft is 130
feet deep. They had been raised about
sixty feet when the pin that holds the
drum of the hoist in place came out in
some unaccounta BILE manner: the weight
of the men at once reversed the drum
and they dropped to the bottom of the
shaft. Almost simultaneously with
their alighting the shots exploded and
both were instantly killed. Lambert's
head and body We're horribly mutilat-
ed, the chest being blown full of holes.
Ogden last Wednesday witnessed the
spectacle of United States soldiers beg
ging in the streets for something to
eat They We're members of party
of the Firty- sixth United States volun-
teer infantry, and came from South
birmingham, Massachusetts, in COM
mand of Colonel Schuyler. When they
marched through the streets, while
they made a good military appearance,
they all acted tired. After their march
they scattered through the city, and