The Holly chieftain., 1899-11-03
WESTERN NOTES.


day.
Several cases of smallpox are report
ed at Leadville.
George seaver, postmaster of Pueblo,
died on the 25th.
The Lamar postofi1ce was robbed Of
$215 the other night
The State Sunday School Convention
met at Boulder on the 9th.
General Miles and Buffalo Bill are
on hunting trip in the Big Horn
mountains
A new reservoir holding 60,0O0 gal
Ions is TO be added TO the Trinidad
water system.
The Cripple Creek Star wants home
mining company organized there to de-
yelop the veins under the town.
| The second annual lion hunt was be
gun at Rifle on the Goth. Three hun
dred men are out after lions, bear, elk
and deer.
An iron foundry and blast furnaces
will shortly be placed in operation at
Cheyenne in connection with the Union
Pacific shops
The Florence & Cripple Creek road
Is trying to block the entrance of the
new Colorado Springs electric line into
the gold camp.
A branch of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be
started at Leadville within few
weeks. OF the 500 members needed,
300 have already been secured.
Jesus Maria Garcia, sometimes
spoken Of as the king of Las Animas,
and prominent in the political and So
cial life of Las Animas county, died on
the oath.
| After eight days devoted to hearing
testimony. the case of james ]. Doyle
against the Mt. Rosa Company was
finished in the land office at Pueblo on
the oath. The testimony amounts to
over 200.O0 words and it will be about
one month before the stenographer can
extend his notes. The register and re-
ceiver will then examine the testimony
and prepare decision which will
doubtless not be rendered for two
months thereafter.
Colorado College will send fine Sc
lection of specimens as samples to the
Paris exposition. The collection will
be quite large one and will include
very rare minerals. w. S. Ward, Unit
ed States commissioner, has been in
the city and examined the collection,
which he pronounced one of the best
he had ever seen. The cost of making
the collection has been necessarily
large and has been raised by subscrip-
tions and through the generosity of the
railroads.
There is great indignation among
the miners in the Mogollon district on
account of an order of the Department
of the Interior limiting the cutting of
timber on the ella river forest reserve
to 500 worth for mining purposes,
Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut all the timber necessary for the
development of the mines. The miners
will continue to cut timber freely for
that purpose and IL arrested will make
a test case, which, If necessary, will
be carried to the United States Su-
preme Court
Frank E. Tyler. well-known mining
man, was burned 10 death in a FIRE
which destroyed his cabin at Alpine,
late Monday night. Two brothers,
Robert and James Caskie, who were in
the cabin with Tyler, say they owe
their lives to neighbor who was at
tracted by the fire and rescued them
after considerable difficulty. Tyler
had just returned from a three-weeks'
stay at his mine, situated on Chalk
creek. and it Is commonly reported that
the three men had been drinking more
or less in the cabin prior to the break.
ing out of the fire.
Work was begun Wednesday by
Clough & Anderson on the new line
to connect Colorado Springs and Grip
pie Creek, and as many men as could
be employed were put to work. Il. w.
Giddings, Irving Howbert and II, E.
Woods signed bonds to the extent of
$3.50, 600 that the work would be paid
for. This line is the electric road
which is to take in all the mines of
the camp and work in conjunction with
the big reduction works to be estab-
lished at Colorado City In addition
to the plant that Is already In operation
at that point.
The Salado coal mines Of Otero coun-
ty, New Mexico, recently tapped by
the Ell Paso 4 Northeastern railway,
are now shipping coal regularly at the
rate OF 200 tons per day. More orders
are on hand than can be filed, owing
to shortage of miners, but 100 more
miners are now on their way to Salado.
When they arrive the output Will be
heavily increased. Another vein five
feet thick has been uncovered. The
coal fields are thirty miles long and
eleven miles wide, and situated 100
miles north Of Ell Paso.
Governor Murphy of Arizona, in his
annual report to the secretary of the
interior, renews his plea for statehood.
saying 1t has been denied to Arizona
because of sectional prejudice, ignor.
ance, imaginary partisan policy and