, 1899-08-03

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Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh lee
tured at the Boulder Chautauqua oil
b battle of Manila last week.
Santa Fe people have decided to issue
bonds for n new school building TO cos
about $4,000.
The Burlington has n large corps OF
surveyors looking for a good route
from western Colorado to Ogden.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company is
building n large sheep shearing ano
sheep dipping plant at Springer. Oyel
5000 sheep will be sheared and dip
ped at that plant this season yet.
The opening session of the Rocky
Mountain Medical Association began
on the 18th ut Salt Lake when Presl'
dent Charles Pickney Hough of Sail
Lake called the meeting to order al
Salt Lake.
The annual meeting of the National
Irrigation Congress will be held this
year at Missoula, Montana, September
18th, Goth and 9th. State, municipal
and scientific organizations will be en-
titled to send delegates.
Wyoming has been given our ap-
pointments in the newly organized vol
unteer regiments, the selections having
all been made from members of the va
rious organizations recruited in Wyo-
ming which have seen service during
the war.
1t has been given out that August LIST
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail
road Will operate its trains direct to
Denver, via h Fort Worth & Denver
City roads track. The new deal will
enable the Santa Fe to get into Den
yer at a saving of nearly a thousand
miles.
John Doyle, engineer of the Garfield
Grouse mine, Cripple Creek, was car
ried off by twenty masked men at an
early hour Tuesday morning. The
victim. who was released after being
severely beaten, cannot or will not
give any reason for the treatment he
received.
The prize recruiting record is be-
heved TO be held by First Lieutenant
Ma Luna of the Thirty-fourth regi-
ment, who has in two days in Phoenix,
Arizona, enlisted fifty-two recruits for
his regiment. The men were sent to
Fort Logan and were given n royal
send-off by the town people.
Simon Rodriguez was found at 3
O'Clock in the morning on the Pecos
Valley & Northeastern Railroad. near
Roswell, with three knife wounds in
his side and his two hands cut off
by a switching engine running over
him. A Mexican was arrested on
suspicion of having committed the
crime.
The Santa Fe and the Colorado &
Southern have completed the time
schedule of passenger trains between
IDanyars n nd Dtrahln Tho nrt.a =
ments give the combined roads six
passenger trains a day each way.
Tickets of either Santa Fe or Colo
RADIO & Southern are good on the trains
of either road between Denver and
Pueblo.
County Attorney Putnam of Salt
Lake City has issued n complaint,
charging Apostle Heber J.. Grant of
the Mormon Church with unlawful CO.
habitation. The affidavit filed against
Grant by c. NJ. Owens, who is working
up these cases, charged Grant with
adultery, but County Attorney Putnam
did not think the evidence sufficient
to warrant prosecution under this
charge.
The movement begun by the Sol
diers' Relatives Union of Denver to
bring the Denver volunteers home
from San Francisco free of cost to the
soldiers themselves is gaining ground.
Funds of n similar nature have been
raised in Pueblo. Leadville and other
towns. A similar movement is now
on foot in Cripple Creek. and the city
council of that town has already APP
~proprlated $1,000 for the Relatives
Union of Cripple Creek to carry out its
project.
Canon City citizens now believe that
there is no question but that that town
will be h terminus of the Florence
d Cripple Creek railroad. Railroad
men say that the Florence & Cripple
Greek line will un~questionably build
the extension and that in reality it
is meant as n block to the Santa Fe,
which has contemplated building into
Cripple Creek for some time. The
committee from Canon City say the
line will be built. ii believes, and in
operation within four months.
A dispatch from New York V
President Trumbull of the Colorado &
Southern is said to have in his pos
session plans and surveys for the
building of a short line from Denver
to Cripple Greek. Under the plans
the short line would connect with the
Colorado Midland, or in lieu of that
have II very close agreement with the
Florence Il Cripple Creek road, and
thus open up a prolific country south
of the Arkansas river. Mr.. Trumbull
is said to % n warm advocate of
carrying the original plans to compile
ton now, ms the freight income would
be about 81 a ton for n haul of scarcely
$50 miles on an even grade.
Stephen NJ. Easton of Santa Fe has
been granted II pension of SD n month
by the United States government. He
was a Rough Rider from Abluuiu, a
small place near here. While before
Santiago a shell from Cervera's feet
exploded n few feet from him and the
power of the explosion lifted him sixty
feet in the air. He was picked up for
dead, but revived and ii was found
that he had lost all his faculties. He
has regained his power of speech and
sight, however, but remains completely
deaf, his ear drums having been burst
by the explosion.
The strike in the Baldwin mines. be-
longing 10 the Citizens Coal Company.