, 1899-10-26
WESTERN NOTES.

The Presbyterian synod of Colorado
convened at Pueblo on the 18th
Manzanola. Colorado. held n very
successful autumn festival last week.
S. P. Graybill, n Rio Grande fore
man at Pueblo, was II over ana XIII
ed on the 10th.
The taxpayers of Jefferson county
are to vote on h proposition to erect
a county high school building.
The cattlemen of Chaves county have
raised a fund from which they will pay
special bounty on coyotes n wolves
Game Commissioner Johnson has re
ceived a letter from the fish king,
of Durango, who says that next year
his fish hatcheries will be u en-
larged and that he will be enables to
donate 10000 fish to the state.
The circumstances surrounding the
escape Of James X. Stratton from the
penitentiary on the night of October
10th will be sifted to the bottom. Both
Warden Hoyt and he board OF penl-
Tertiary commissioners have decided
upon an investigation.
An accurate test made of the flow OF
the large artesian well recently bored
in the Pecos Valley 4 Northwestern
yards at Roswell shows hat the well
discharges 2.6tH gallons a minute, or
has a velocity of LOO feet per minute,
making 1t by far the largest and most
powerful artesian well in New Mexico.
What is presumed to be an organized
gang of plunderers forced an entrance
into the postoffice and store of y. Nc
Clintock at Rincon, New Mexico. at n
late hour Sunday night. The thieves
secured $40 in postage stamps, 500
in coin and various pieces of the stock
convenient to carry.
w. II. Kerr has made arrangements
for running n daily stage from Santa
Fe to Bland, cutting down the distance
to less than thirty miles. At present
people from Santa Fe must go by rail
to Thornton, stay a night there n
take a stage the mex morning for
twenty-five miles.
Some eastern capitalists who have
been attracted 10 his state by the rosy
accounts of Colorado rs n beet sugar
country will construct mt n town TO
be known as Sugar City II sugar beet
plant as large again as the one now in
successful operation nj Grand June
ton. The new town will be located in
the Arkansas valley.
Years may elapsc before h provis-
ions in the will of the late George W.
Clayton. who bequeathed a million dol
lars for the establishment of an or
phan boys school in Denver can be
carried out. Litigation will be insti-
tuted which promises to continue mt
length and possibly through all the
courts of the state. \ brother of Clay
ton intends to contest the will.
IN,r ,,,a,, ,tn- ,,n,l- n enn,,- etn.p,
of unprecedented severity for this time
of the year has been raging in the
mountains surrounding Leadville. One
band of HOO sheep and the herder
with them are lost. Other large fiocks
nave reported heavy losses II no
word has been received from many
others known to be still in the noun
tain pastures.
A trust is being formed to control the
output of all the turquoise mines in
New Mexico. Hon. j. Z. Victory of
Santa Fe is working up the combina-
ton, to which most of the turquoise
mine owners have already subscribed
and which Will practically control the
output of the world. as the turquoise
mines in SaXony, Egypt and Persia
have pinched out. The headquarters
of the trust will be Mt Boston.
The Union Pacific is doing n land of
fee business in its land department.
1t is selling at the rate of 1,OOO.OOO
acres n year the land il secured in gov
eminent grants and which have beer
causing some threats of litigation with
the government. During the years of
depression this road has been holding
fast to its remaining S,5OO,OOO acres of
the original 12,000,O0O acres granted 1t
Iv .1- I~,ftAl Stnta. -.
now that good times are again in sight
it is unloading at prices that are good,
yet lower than the market figure.
Southern Santa Fe county mining in
terests are enjoying n boom such as
they have never experienced before.
1t has been known for years that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Compay held
a controlling interest in the coal mines
at Cerillos. and 1t is now stated upon
reliable authority that the company
will eNpend Sl,OOO.0OO mex year in i'm
prOvements and that there will be n
complete change in management and
that work will he prosecuted upon a
much larger scale than heretofore.
The thirty-first annual session of
the Grand Lodge. the eighteenth an
nual session of the Grand Encamn-
ment. the ninth annual session of the
Rebekah Assembly, and the thirteenth
annual Cantonment of the Patriarchs
Militant. 10. O. f.. convened in Cripple
Creek on the 10th for a four-day's ses.
sion. Probably the most important and
interesting feature of the big event
was the dedication by the Grand Lodge
of the new and magnificent /. o. o,
+. temple on Bennett avenue. COnsld.
cradle business of Importance was
transacted.
Pearl Hart. the noted female bandit
of the Mexican border, who on Nav
Both with II male companion held up
and robbed h Globe and Florence
coach and after arrest broke jail nj
Tucson and made good her escape.
was captured ut Deming by United
States Deputy Marshal George Scar
borough. With her was Il male com
panion whose identity is not known.
but who on his description is wanted
by Arizona officers. The two were I'M
armed when taken. but boosted that
had they n gun there would have been
n killing before they would have sur
a