The Elbert County tribune., 1899-07-20

The drought in New Mexico 10
broken.
The Cripple Greek miners gave W
j. Bryan n warm reception on the ii'"'
Railroads in Nebraska, according 10
advices received In Denver are pfesa.
ed for cars TO move the gram III .'is
state. Agents OF the roads III i,enNe'
have received orders 10 hasten the un
loading and return of cars 10 'na'
city.
The June report of the Rio Granue
Southern and that for the fiscal yea.
has been issued. The June fepor.
SHOWS n decrease in receipts below
those Of the two preceding years. Inc
report for the fiscal year shows DIE
increase In earnings.
In the land contest Of W. w. HUI
lngs VS.. Townsite of Ward. Colorado
the secretary of the interior to-day az
1rmed the land office decision IN so IN, ,
as 1t directed the rejection OF duings
protest against allowing the towhsi.e
application. The commissioner Is o.
rected. however, to exclude from the
townsite patent all tracts applied ior
by 1t, but patented to other parnes.
The highest price received for wool
In Montana for five years was pnlu
mt Fort Benton. A clip OF 1i,oVo
pounds sheared by John Washesha
was sold Mt 1875 cents. The average
price of the sales at that point was
1Sss cents Buyers from all over the
state had appointed the day to go TO
that point to make purchases ana
twenty wool buying houses were rep
resented.
The working time of the employees OF
the Union Pacific shops Mt Cheyenne
has been increased from forty hours
and five days per week TO forty-hve
hours, five and onc-haif days, Here
tofore the shop men have worked hve
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 al
fects 800 men.
Advocacy of free silver and income
tax and denuncintlon of imperialism
and trusts We're The chief elements OF
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 TINS
the largest auditorium In the stnte, IN
many months.
Mrs. Mary Preston Slosson, d 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 member of tile Pres
byteran church and is an active Chris
tian worker. Her work AMONG tile
prisoners during the past few months
has demonstrated her ability to fill the
position and the appointment Is salts
factory to everybody.
There was lively battle at the jail
and on the streets nt La Junta the
other day, as the result of desperate
attempt at wholesale jail delivery.
Peter Schmcr. Santa Fe fireman. re-
ceived ball In his left wrist, and Guy
Gibbons, teamster, was shot on the
point of the chin. the ball shattering
the jawbone and lodging in the side of
his neck. DIR. Ragsdale reports his
condition critical. None of the prison
ers got away. thanks to the prompt ac-
ton of citizens, who came to the aid
of the officials.
The Union Pacific land department
has closed deal with the Uintat
County Wool Growers Association OF
Utah for the lease of 10S.00O acres OF
raiirond land TO the sheep owners OF
that section. The lease IL one of the
outgfowths of the fight between the
sheep and cattle men for possession OF
that territory and this lease, with the
land already owned by the sheep men
gives them control of large scope OF
country. Previous holdings with this
lease gives the sheep owners prac
tlcal monopoly of the grazing In Tin
tab county, Utah. ff
Governor De Forest Richards is ar
ranging to have 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 Angus
and an effort will be made to hav,
them remain and participate In thu
Frontier Day celebration. August 23rd
Governor Richards has secured half
rate transportation for the wives of tn,
officers of the battalion from this city
TO San Francisco. a number of the Ia
dies having signlfied a desire to go t,
that city and meet their husbands.
The crop bulletin issued this weel
by the Colorado section of the United
States Department of Agricultur,
states that the weather has been gen
orally favorable to the development o.
crops throughout the state since Jul,
1. The outlook is now much more en-
couraging than ever before this sum
mcr. Moderately heavy showers hav,
fallen in the north central section O
the state, along the South Platte. ii
| Cheyenne, Otero and Pueblo counties
and the central part of the San Lui
valley. Light rains have also fallel
on the Arkansas-Platte divide an,
along the southern border of the state
and heavy showers are reported owe
areas in Garfield and Rio Blanco coun
ties.
At a meeting OF the board of di
rectors of the Colorado Spring
Chamber of Commerce Iette
was read from Albert A. Reed
chairman or the Boulder citizens
committee. asking the Colorad
Springs Chamber of Commerce to cal
n convention of the chambers of com
merce throughout the state for the pur
pose of suggesting n remedy for tn
| present financial troubles which fac
the state institutions. 1t was decide,
to ask expressions of opinion from til
other chambers OF the state, and
favorable responses are made a con
vention of ten delegates from eacI
chamber will be held in Colorad
Springs, to bring the matter before tn
State Board of Equalization.
The sheriff Mt Canon City made nj
important arrest the other day whe
he took into custody Charles Wilson