The silver lance., 1899-10-13

TeCOuIHenudtlOu OI SeHdtor WoiCotl.
The body of Charlie yolker, who was
accidentally drowned in Sloan's lake,
near Cheyenne, has been recovered.
Longmont inaugurated new festi-
val on the 5th--Pumpkin Pie Day. Five
thousand oldfashioned New England
pies are reported to have disappeared
within short space of time, besides
gallons of cider. A great crowd Wis.,
tied the town.
The parole of a prisoner who pre-
tended to be serving his first term was
Cancelled by wire by Governor Thomas
Thursday when he learned the man
had been in the penitentiary before.
Thus b. f. GlaZier, convicted in Den
yer in 1892 and sentenced to ten years,
was forced to turn backward just as
he reached the prison door.
After looking at three different
points with view to securing the
most advantageous place for its mill,
the Elkton Milling Company has de-
cided to locate in Florence. The com
pany will erect a 30O-ton plant at
cost of $25O.OOO, and will give en-
ployment to $50 men.
j. l. Carson, manager of the Pardee
Live Stock Association of Rawlins,
Wyoming. is now in Oregon to pur-
chase 25,O00 head Of sheep. He drove
$4,000 head of wethers over the trail
last spring He thinks sheep are held
too high in that country to make buy
ing profitable to the shipper.
J. A. Eddy has decided to build large
water works at Cloudcroft, near Ala
mogordo. The water will be pumped
from the head of James canon, two
miles from Cloudcroft and 200 feet be-
low it. Two artificial lakes will be
created at the summer resort. The
Holly water system will be used.
The Rio Grande Western and con-
Meeting lines to Chicago, the Denver &
Rio Grande, Rock Island and Burling-
ton, are preparing to put on new
train to connect with the Southern Pa
cific fast trains at Ogden. The local
roads will run light fast train be-
tween Ogden and Denver, consisting of
five or six cars only. No local stops
will be made on the fast train unless
absolutely necessary.
The federal sanitarium for the navy
recently established at Fort Stanton,
New Mexico, has imported small
herd of Jersey cows from Kansas for
the use of the invalids. The milk is
first to be sterilized and given to the
patients and then given to the patients
in increasing amounts and DIR. Cobb,
the physician in charge, thinks that be-
tween the climate and the Jersey milk,
properly administered. he will lose few
patients unless they reach Fort Stan
ton in a state of disease that is too far
advanced to be affected by any sort Of
treatment, no matter how careful or
enlightened it might be.
Freight rates between the Atlantic
coast and Denver will be advanced in
all the classifications on the 18th of the
present month. The so-called 205 scale
will be advanced to 233 and lower
classifications will be raised according
ly. The return of the old tariff is due
to the decision of the Federal Court in
the boycott case of the Kansas City.
Pittsburg & Gulf railway. The court
ordered the Pittsburg & Gulf to re-
turn to the old schedule existing before
the fight, and the long lines immedi-
ately took advantage of the Opp0rtun-
ity to restore. the former basis.
The arrest of Theodore Craig, shift
boss at the Ibex mine, Leadville, re-
vealed plot having for its object the
stealing of quantity of valuable ore.
Not long ago the Ibex opened very
rich pocket of ore carrying nearly 1000
ounces in gold to the ton. A consid-
cradle amount of this was taken out,
but acting under instructions from the
foreman 1t was not placed in sacks. A
few days ago a sack was found near
the pile of rich mineral which later
disappeared. Suspicion fastened on
Craig and to-day his house was
searched, resulting in thediscovery of a
sackful of ore valued at about $1,000.
1t is announced that Richard Ash
worth of Otto, Wyoming, will contest
the will Of his late son, Richard Ash
worth, Jr The will gave few lega-
cies to several persons in this part of
Wyoming and in Montana and the bulk
of tire property, about 100000, was
willed to Jack Frazer of Billings Mon
tana. Mr. Ashworth claims that at
various times he advanced money to
the support of the estate. to the
amount of $4,000. and that the prop
erty should have been willed to him
in payment of the debt. The benefi-
ciaries of the will are going to make a
hard fight to keep it intact. and the
contest. from legal standpoint, will
be an exceedingly interesting one
Test is to at once be made in the
courts at Pueblo of the validity of a
liquor clause i'll all deeds to proper
ty at one time owned by the Colorado
Coal & Iron Company which acquired
practically all of what is now in Pueb-
10 south of the river through purchase
of an old Mexican land grant. In sell
ing such of its property as lies on the
mesa the Colorado Coal & Iron Com
pany inserted clause by which the
grantee agreed not to use the land ac-
quired for saloon purposes or for the
sale of liquor in any manner. The
clause has generally been observed, but
a few breaches of it have passed un-
noticed. The Collier Investment Com
pany, which laid out subdivision
known as City Hall place in Bessemer,
has now begun suit to recover posses
sion under this clause of lots which