The silver lance., 1899-07-21
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.


]. Bryan a warm reception on the llth.
Railroads in Nebraska, according to
advices received in Denver, are press
ed for cars to move the grain in the
state. Agents of the roads in Denver
have received orders to hasten the un-
loading and return of cars to that
city.
The June report of the Rio Grande
Southern and that for the fiscal year
has been issued. The June report
shows decrease in receipts below
those of the two preceding years. Inc
report for the fiscal year shows big
increase in earnings.
The highest price received for wool
at Fort Benton. A clip of 1900
pounds sheared by John Washesha
was sold at 1875 cents. The average
price of the sales at that point was
1875 cents. Buyers from all over the
state had appointed the day to go to
that point to make purchases and
twenty wool buying houses were rep
resented.
The working time of the employees of
the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne
and five days per week to forty-five
hours, five and one-half days. Here
tofore the shop men have worked five
eight-hour days per week and the in
crease, which gives them nine hours
work per day and half of Saturday is
hailed with delight. The increase af-
fects 500 men.
Mrs. Mary Preston Slosson, a gradu-
ate of Vassar and wife of one of the
professors of the State University at
Laramie, has been appointed chaplain
of the state penitentiary at Laramie.
Mrs. Slosson is a member of the Pres
byterian church and is an active Chris
tian worker. Her work among the
prisoners during the past few months
has demonstrated her ability to fill the
position and the appointment is salts
factory TO everybody.
Advocacy of free silver and income
tax and denunciation of Imperialism
and trusts were the chief elements of
a brilliant speech by William Jennings
Bryan at the Temple theater, Colorado
Springs, Monday night. For over two
hours he held the immense audience
spellbound by his magnetic power. The
theater was packed in every part,
making the largest gathering in this,
the largest auditorium in the state, in
many months.
There was a lively battle at the jail
and ON the streets at La Junta the
other day, as the result of a desperate
attempt at wholesale Jail delivery.
Peter Schmer, a Santa Fe fireman, re-
ceived ball in his left wrist, and Guy
Gibbons, a teamster, was shot on the
point of the chin, the ball shattering
the jawbone and lodging in the side OF
his neck. DR.. Ragsdale reports his
condition critical. None of the prison
ers got away, thanks to the prompt ac-
tion of citizens, who came to the aid
of the officials.
Governor De Forest Richards is ar
ranging to have a day declared as
state holiday when the Wyoming bat
TALON reaches Cheyenne from the Phil
ippines. 1t is believed the troops will
reach here about the middle of August
and an effort will be made to have
them remain and participate in the
Frontier Day celebration, August 23rd
Governor Richards has secured half
rate transportation for the wives of the
officers of the battalion from this city
to San Francisco, a number of the Ia
dies having signified desire to go to
that city and meet their husbands.
The crop bulletin issued this week
by the Colorado section of the United
States Department of Agriculture
states that the weather has been gen.
orally favorable to the development of
crops throughout the state since July
1. The outlook is now much more en-
couraging than ever before this sum
mer. Moderately heavy showers have
fallen in the north central section of
the state, along the South Platte, in
Cheyenne, Otero and Pueblo counties,
and the central part of the San Luis
valley. Light rains have also fallen
on the Arkansas-Platte divide and
along the southern border of the state.
and heavy showers are reported over
areas in Garfield and Rio Blanco coun-
ties.
At meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce a letter
was read from Albert A. Reed,
chairman or the Boulder citizens
committee, asking the Colorado
Springs Chamber of Commerce to call
a convention of the chambers of COM
merce throughout the state for the pur-
pose of suggesting a remedy for the
present financial troubles which face
the state institutions. 1t was decided
to ask expressions of opinion from the
other chambers of the state, and if
favorable responses are made con
vention of ten delegates from each
chamber will be held in Colorado
Springs to bring the matter before the
State Board of Equalization.
The sheriff at Canon City made an
important arrest the other day when
he took into custody Charles Wilson,
an ex-convict, caught in the act of
smuggling opium into the penitentiary.
For some time the officials have been
greatly annoyed by opium finding its
way to the interior of the prison
through the instrumentality of an out
slider. Finally trap was laid and Will
foll int L. IL