The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-02-28
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

The Denver Hebrews have just dedi-
Gated Il handsome new synagogue.
A Fort Worth cattleman won ST. 900
in a Denver gambling resort druing the
recent convention.
The South Park line is tied up by
terrible snow storms in the vicinity of
Como and Breckenridge.
Harry c. Falkenbury of Denver, who
has been musician at Manila, died
last month of smallpox.
Greeley's indebtedness, amounting to
$4,000, has been refunded and u new
loan made at four and half per cent.
per annum. The rate of interest on the
former loan was six per cent.
The first fatal results near Lead
vile from the big snow storm occurred
on the 1st, when William Manning met
with instant death on Mt. Elbert above
Twin Lakes through snowslide.
While tralnmen were clearing a
snow slide from the ID. x X. G. tracks
near Glenwood Springs Thursday they
We're overwhelmed by an avalanche
that killed three and injured four.
President f. 4. Jeffery of the Denver
& Rio Grande has contracted while in
the East, with the Brooks locomotive
works for the ten large locomotives
which are needed by the railway. The
new locomotives are to be delivered in
April.
A special to the Salt Lake Tribune
from Coleville, Wyoming, says: a
snowslide a mile long occurred on the
Both, burying several men and teams.
All the men We're taken out alive with
the exception of Burt Handy, who was
dead when found.
Reports from the southern part of
New Mexico intimate that there Is a
proposition on foot down there to or
ganize a new territory of the southern
half of New Mexico, part of Arizona
and the western tongue of Texas, with
Ell Paso as the capital city.
The Douglas, Wyoming, oil fields are
the scene of great activity. Over 100
oil locations have been fled in the
office of the county clerk this month.
The receipts to the county amount to
over 81 900 from this source alone.
The Pusey-Howe oil syndlcates have
secured most of the locations.
Charles Anderson and Nils Berg
dahl have been arrested at Telluride
charged with stealing ore valued Mt
81 800. One of the men has been en-
ployed as an ore sorter at the Snug
gler Union mines for several years.
The manager of the mine thinks that
a great deal of stealing is being done.
Oscar Strand, n locomotive engineer
on the Missouri Pacific railway, run
ming between Heisington, Kansas, and
Pueblo, Colorado, was shot and NOR
tally wounded at Salida Thursday.
The shooting occurred in the rotunda
of the Hotel Huckins. l.. II. Hindman,
better known as the "Honeygrove
Kid" an alleged gambler, is accused of
killing Strand.
Mrs. William Rudolph and two
children were buried beneath a snow
slide and killed Sunday morning, at
Apex, in the Pine Creek district. An
other child of Mrs. Rudolph was also
caught beneath the slide, but was not
dangerously injured. This snowslide
is said to be the first ever known in
Gilpin county, at least the first hav-
ing disastrous results.
Sixteen horses which were carrying
food to the distressed inhabitants in
the vicinity of Independence, are
buried in great snowslide, nine miles
from Aspen. Two boys, who had been
sent in charge of the relief outfit, mar
rowly escaped being overwhelmed in
the tremendous avalanche, which
completely blocks the road and which
threatens to cause intense privatiOn
among the miners at Independence.
Twenty-six inches of new snow in
fhirty-six houfS is the latest record
from the higher attitudes of the noun
tains. as received at headquarters of
the Colorado and Southern road Sun
day. The report came from Brecken-
ridge The snow fell over Il great area
Of the backbone of the continent, and
last night the plOws and Hangers We're
Que in full force in the unequal combat
against the elements At Breckenridge
snow on the level was reported to be
eight feet deep.
The snow is general over Wyoming,
ranging in depth from two and half
feet in Big Horn county on level,
down to Il foot on the Laramie plains.
In the Medicine Bow and Sierra Madre
mountains the fall of snow has been
unprecedented, being five or six feet
on the level. The most conservative
basing their opinion on the depth of
snow, the absence of wind to clear it
from the field for almost n week, and
the lean condition of cattle, estimate n
large loss of both cattle anad sheep.
Attorney J. ID. Pitcher and Acting
Mayor Frank Sinner of Creede have
been notified officially by the register
of the Del Norte land office that pat
ent for the Amethyst town site, which
is n part of the city of Creede. and
which has been pending since 1892.
would be issued to the mayor of the
city. in trust for the citizens. This is n
matter of much interest to the citi-
zens of this city and of residents
throughout the state of Colorado who
have owned property but up to the
present time could not secure title to
same.
The funeral services ut Denver over