The silver lance., 1899-04-28
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

pany $4,000 to clear its tracks of snow
during the past winter.
A complimentary dinner was ten
dered Senator Francis i. Warren by
the citizens of Cheyenne last week.
Reports are in circulation that the
Missouri Pacific, Rock Island and I'LL
nois Central are planning to build 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 10
the city the abandoned Fort Marcy
reservation of seventeen and one-haiI
acres for school purposes.
The Pythians of Denver will erect
handsome stone temple of modern de-
sign at cost of from $4,000 to $780,
600. There will be mt least four large
halls, one of which will be set apart for
banquets.
The funeral services over the body
of ex-senator Tabor were held at Den
yer on the 18th. They were partici-
pated in by prominent citizens, public
officials, the militia and a great throng
of friends.
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 "a and 25. For nearly twenty
years she has been elected to the pres
idency of the Maine union without one
ballot for any other candidate.
1t has been discoyered 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 to eighteen inches
long, have been frozen solid in the ice.
Chester l.. Ainsworth, deputy sher-
iff Of Cochise county, Arizona, and a
brother of Charles f. Ainsworth, attor-
ney general of Arizona, was killed and
Edward Moore, n young cow boy, was
mortally wounded Saturday at VIII
gus, in the Chracahua mountains.
They We're killed by the Halderman
brothers, whom the murdered men
were trying to arrest.
The Colorado Court of Appeals has
given a ruling that a 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 newly elected Prohibition mayor
of Colorado City has issued an order
to the marshal that all saloons in Col
RADIO City must be closed and kept
closed from II o'clock midnight on
Saturday night until Monday morn
ing. This action upon the part of
Mayor George is not accepted with
great favor. but as the mayor Is en-
forcing state law the council can
not interfere.
The Wyoming Medical Board has
made an effective application of the
medical law, passed by the last State
Legislature A firm of travelling ply
sicians advertised to give a series of
public lectures and treat chronic dis
seases at Cheyenne. The secretary of
the State Medical Board served notice
upon them that they must submit their
diplomas. or failing in this, submit to
an examination. The proposed lee
lures were at once abandoned and the
parties left the city for Colorado.
The Chicago & Southern will spend
$500, 900 in improvements on the line in
the immediate future. A portion of the
Platte Canon track will be relaid and
a large force of men will be employed
there within few weeks. Several
thousand dollars will be used in re-
building the coaches in use on the
South Park line. New platforms will
be built for them, and they will be re-
vanished and fitted up with new seats.
Five new standard gauge coaches will
be built for the road, probably by the
Pullman Palace Car Company.
With the acquiescence of the state
land board, the Great Plains Land and
Water Storage Company will take i'm
mediate steps to bring into Colorado a
colony of 1000 families, comprising
about 10000 people. For some weeks
the company has been negotiating with
the land board for the purchase of
1900 acres of school land in the Arkan-
sas valley near Lamar, but such deter
mined opposition to the project has ap-
peared that the completion of the
transaction has been delayed. Repre-
sentatives of the company have ap-
peared before Register Chipley and
laid bare the plans of the concern for
the colonization of that portion of the
Arkansas valley in which the school
land mentioned is located. 1t was de-
cided that the board shall make an ex-
animation of the land under discussion,
and to do that n trip to Lamar was ar
ranged The members, accompanied
by representatives of the company and
by a committee representing the oppo-