The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-21
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

The new 1.5OO class engines which
were recently sent to Cheyenne from
the East to be II ed between Cheyenne
and Sidney. Nebraska. are not proving
as satisfactory as was expected. 1t
was claimed that the locomotives,
which are the largest in use by the
Union Pacific. would haul siXty-tive
loads from Sidney to Cheyenne, but
thus far they have only been able to
haul fifty loads. Traiumen are of the
opinion now that the new locomotives
Will not materially affect the working
force of train and englnemen on the
Union Pacific.
A mass meeting Of the miners of the
northern district was held at Lafayette
Wednesday. The following resolution
was adopted: "That eight hours shall
constitute a days work. with cores
ponding reduction in pay This was
carried almost unanimously. The ma
jority against a strike was about 10 to
1. The action of the miners was re-
ceived with satisfaction by the people
of the community. 1t was resolved
to start work at Z a. III. and quit ut II
n. m.. this to constitute half a days
work. and to start at II. m. and quit
at $3.50. with half an hour for dinner.
this to constitute full days work.
About 500 men are working in this dis
trict.
Two prisoners escaped from the pen
itentiary at Canon City the other after
noon. They were William Lewis No.
41OS. and Fred Price. No. 1926. Their
vacation was brief. Warden Hoyt has
instituted new ruling since he took
charge by which the whole town is
aroused when there is an escape. The
signal. which is a prolanged blast from
the steam whistle sounded at 4 o'clock
and within fifteen minutes 100 men
and boys were in pursuit of the refu-
gees. At 5 o'clock the cOnvicts We're
back in the pen. having been captured
by Chaplain Rudolph and TWO boys.
VIII Hannigan and Paul I'orney. The
captors had 500 divided between
them. this being the amount offered by
the warden. The men were only four
blocks from the penitentiary when they
were captured having taken refuge in
an old adobe house. The men were
working on the limestone quarries and
quietly walked away while the guard
was not looking in their direction
dispatch from Crested Butte on the
18th said: For the past eighteen hours
Crested Butte has been inundated with
a flow of water. The excessively warm
weather of the past several days has
caused the snow in the high basins to
melt very rapidly with the result that
all the streams in this vicinage have
been swelled to a high degree. Coal
Creek which runs through the town
in diagonal course, has been swollen
to an abnormal degree and has gone on
a rampage through the principal
streets, filling them with debris, wash
ing away culverts and sidewalk fOll-
dhtions and flooding number of
houses. The streets are practically
impossible and the depot unapprOacl-
able. "A force of men has been work
ing for the last week in an effort to
stem the tide of the water, but their
efforts were unavailing to any great
extent. Every team in town and
large force of men are now Mt work.
but the water will be higher tonight
than ever.
The Miners Bank of Creole closed
its doors at 9: : o'clock Wednesday.
Later ii was announced that the banks
at Monte Vista and Hooper. operated
under the same management, had also
closed. Whether the failures are due
to the threatened business conditions
caused by the Sinelter strike Is not
but that is commonly ac-
cepted as the cause. The three banks
are under the management of D. J.
Maben, who is president of each con
Germ. He is absent in Denver. and for
this reason it is announced no figures
can now be made public as to the as
sets and liabilities of the several i'll
stitutiOnS. Great excitement prevailed
in Creede. as the Miners was the only
bank in that place. and many mer-
chants and mining companies had de-
pOsitS there. The cashier would give
no information other than to state that
the doors were closed on orders from
President Maben from Denver. Presi-
dent ID. J. Maben was at the Albany
yesterday and left on last evenings
early train for Creede. in response, he
said. to Il telegram. Later the news
of the three banks closing was made
public in Denver.
Adjutant General Sitter and Gov
ernor richards of Wyoming have re-
ceived messages from Buffalo, advising
them that Il detail of mounted militia
had been sent across the Big Horn
by way Of Spring Greek and
Red Bank to Thermopolis to intercept
lile train robbers should they cross the
--.g Horn basin. Another detail was
sent to the HOls-in- the-Wall country.
from there to go across the Big Horn
range by the n II trail. The cOmbina-
ton which has set out to run the BAN
dts to earth is Il powerful one. The
general government has instructed the
United States marshal of Wyoming
TO employ all the men necessary and to
continue the chase until the outlaws
are captured. The Wyoming state au-
thOrities have called out the state mi
litia. equipped them in cowboy style.
and sent them to the assistance of the
The Union Pacific has large
force of officers and pack of blood
hounds in the field. while nearly every
sheriff of eastern and northern Wyo-
ming is serving with some one of the