Gilpin observer., 1899-07-20


Railroads in Nebraska, according to
advices received in Denver, are press
ed for cars to move the grain in the
state. Agents of the roads in Denver
have received orders to hasten the un-
loading and return Of cars to that
city.
The June report of the Rio Grande
Southern and that for the fiscal year
has been issued. The June report
shows decrease in receipts below
those of the two preceding years. The
report for the fiscal year shows a big
increase in earnings.
In the land contest of w. w. HUI
ings VS.. Townsite of Ward, Colorado,
the secretary of the interior to-day af-
firmed the land office decision in so far
as it directed the rejection of Hulings'
protest against allowing the townsite
application. The commissioner is di-
rected, however, to exclude from the
townsite patent all tracts applied for
by 1t, but patented to other parties.
The highest price received for wool
in Montana for five years was paid
ut Fort Benton. A clip of 1900
pounds sheared by John Washesha
was sold at 1875 cents. The average
price of the sales at that point was
1875 cents. Buyers from all over the
state had appointed the day to go to
that point to make purchases and
twenty wool buying houses were rep
resented.
The working time of the employees of
the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne
has been increased from forty hours
and five days per week to forty-hve
hours, five and one-half days. Here
tofore the shop men have worked five
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 af-
fects 500 men.
Mrs. Mary Preston Slosson, 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 a member of the Pres
byterian church and is an active Chris
tian worker. Her work among the
prisoners during the past few months
has demonstrated her ability to fill the
position and the appointment is salts
factory to everybody.
The Leadville gamblers have won
their case in the Supreme Court and
Judge Frank Overs of the Lake coun-
ty District Court cannot interfere with
them. Mary Henderson, president of
the Leadville Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. instituted an action in
the District Court against G. A. Liable
and forty others, to enjsin them from
gambling in Leadville. This injunc-
ton was granted by Judge Overs, but
the Supreme Court decides that Mrs.
Henderson failed to formulate cog
nizable case.
A decision has been rendered by the
general land office in the case of VIII
ford w. Harvey. n sawmill owner OF
Piney, to the effect that persons en-
titled to free lumber from public lands
would not be allowed to exchange or
trade any part so taken for other ma
terial, such as finished lumber, lath
or shingles, entering into the construc-
ton of buildings. The ruling declares
that sawmill man will not be allowed
to take his pay in lumber for saving
timber taken from the public lands or
forest reserves.
The Union Pacific land department
has closed n deal with the Uintah
County Wool Growers Association of
Utah for the lease of 1OSOcc acres of
railroad land to the sheep owners of
that section. The lease is one of the
outgrowths 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-
teal monopoly of the grazing in Uin-
tab county, Utah.
Governor De Forest Richards is ar.
ranging to have day declared as a
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 August
and an effort will be made to have
them remain and participate in the
Frontier Day celebration, August 23rd
Governor Richards has secured half
rate transportation for the wives of the
officers of the battalion from this city
to San Francisco. n number of the Ia
dies having signified desire to go to
that city and meet their husbands.
The crop bulletin issued this week
by the Colorado section Of the United
States Department of Agriculture
states that the weather has been gen
orally favorable to the development OF
crops throughout the state since July
|. The outlook is now much more en-
couraging than ever before this sum
mer. Moderately heavy showers have
fallen in the north central section OF
The state. along the South Platte, IL
Cheyenne, Otero and Pueblo counties
and the central part of the San Lui,
valley. Light rains have also faller
on the Arkansas-Platte divide ant
along the southern border of the state
and heavy showers are reported ovel
areas in Garfield and Rio Blanco coun
ties.
At n meeting of the board Of di
rectors of the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce a lette