The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-04-18

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A complimentary dinner was ten
dered Senator Francis Il. Warren by
the citizens of Cheyenne last week.
Reports are in circulation that the
Missouri Pacific, Rock Island and ILL
| nols Central are planning to Dullo 10
the coast by way of Denver.
The District Court of Arapahoe
county has decided that owners OF
property must file their schedule of
property with the assessor according
to law.
After blockade of nearly three
months the Midland railroad has sue
ceeded in clearing Hagerman's Pass
of snow and traffic will be resumed
across the range.
The Santa Fe city council has voted
to ask President Mckinley to give to
the city the abandoned Fort Marcy
I reservation of seventeen and one-half
acres for school purposes.
Mrs. Lillian NJ n. Stevens, national
president of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, is soon to visit
Colorado. She will speak in Denver
April II and %. For nearly twenty
y
idency of the Maine union without one
ballot for any other candidate.
William Hall, the murderer of L. &.
Grump, has been found guilty of mur-
der in the first degree, and will be
hanged at Santa F'e. The date of exc
cution has not been set yet. Theo.
Vick, who shot and killed his guardian,
DR.. Parish, last winter in Roswell, re-
ceived a sentence of eighteen years in
the penitentiary.
The disbursement of the state boun-
ty on wolves and coyotes under the
lately enacted Wyoming law and APP
preparation has just begun. The appro-
priation for two years was S2o,OOo. Ihe
old appropriation having been exhaust
ed for three months, the presentation
of n great number of scalps accumu-
lated in the interim is expected.
1t has been discovered that the water
of Lake Minnehaha, which forms part
of one of the Cheyenne city parks,
froze solid in many parts of the lake
during the past winter. The lake was
stocked two years ago with bass and
pike, and thousands of these fish, many
of them from twelve 20 eighteen inches
long, have been frozen solid in the ice.
Commissioner Hermann says that
sheep grazing on the forest reserves
will be permitted in the southern part
of Wyoming and in Colorado and New
Mexico. In Colorado and New Mexico
the reserves have already been thrown
open. In Wyoming they will be open
ed next week. Grazing will be re
stricted to 100000 head of sheep on
each reservation.
The Colorado Court of Appeals has
given n ruling that county sheriff
may take prisoners to the penitentiary
or reformatory one by one, If he de-
sires. The only provisions are that the
sheriff must act according to his own
discretion, which is unlimited, with the
exception that he must not practice
fraud by making unnecessary trips and
thus creating useless expenses.
The Union Pacific gravel mine at
Sherman has been placed in charge of
f. Z. Edwards of Illinois. 1t is the in
tention to commence work shipping
gravel at once. Two steam shovels and
a large force of men will be employed
in the work. The shipments will ag-
Cregate 5000 tons per day during the
entire summer season. \ rotary plow
is now clearing the gravel pits of snow
and ice, and shipments of gravel Will
comence in n few days. The shipments
of gravel from Sherman will cause the
employment of several additional train
crews.
The Denver superintendent of the
Pullman Palace Car company has re-
ceiyed word that the proposed reduc-
tions in berth rates will take effect on
April IL. The reduction will affect the
country from New York to San Fran
cisco and throughout the south. From
Denver to Ogden the former rate was
81. IL will be 81 State rooms will be
reduced from S14 to S11.50, and draw
ing rooms from SIS to S14. From Den
yer to Oakland the berth rate of S11
will be cut to $3.50, and drawing rooms
from $40 to S34. Similar reductions
will be made on the lines to the east.
An official in close touch with the
Colorado & Southern railroad recently
stated that there would be. develop
ments by that company in Wyoming
within ten days which would be of
great Importance to the industrial de-
yelopment of the state. The reference
was undoubtedly to the early com
mencement of the Hartville spur.
With the building of that spur and the
daily shipment of 600 tons of iron ore
an era of prosperity for the Cheyenne
& Northern road will begin. 1t will
also mean employment for GOO men at
least at Hartville and open up also the
copper and onyx mines.
BY vote at the recent election the
people of Leadville refused to buy the
present water works plant The result
was 236 for purchase to 343 against,
thus defeating the proposed buying of
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five appraisers passed on the value of
the water plant This value was placed
Mt 100000. and the question for the
taxpayers to decide was whether they
wanted to own the water works at
that figure. The decision being in the