The Meeker herald., 1899-04-15
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

Governor Thomas mas appointed
James 7. Smith of I.eadville to be la
tor commissioner
The Union Pacific may build
branch south from Fort Steele into
Routt county. Colorado.
Frank Springer, d. & r. G. brake
man, was run over and killed at Puep-
10 while switching cars.
The Colorado & Southern is building
hotels at Bailey's and Slaght's in Platte
canon for the benefit of summer tour
! lists.
The trouble between the Colorado
Southern Railway Company and It's
photographers is in fair way to be
settled
Albert Creek, who has been in Jail at
| Canon City, charged with killing his
father, has escaped twice, but has been
recaptured both times.
In all probability monument will
be erected in Pueblo to the memory Of
Captain John Showers Stewart of the
| First Colorado volunteers, who was
killed In an engagement in front Of Ma
Mia, March 25th. The monument will
| also be in honor of the other brave
boys who met death in the Philippines.
William Hall, the murderer of Il. @.
Grump has been found guilty of mur-
der In the first degree, and will be
hanged at Santa Fe. The date of exc
cution has not been set yet. Theo.
Wick, who shot and killed his guardian,
Or. Parish, last winter in Roswell, re
ceived a sentence of eighteen years in
The penitentiary.
The following Colorado soldiers have
been sent home from Manila on ac-
count of sickness: Claude B. Hooper,
William Il. Byrne, Herbert A. d. Lowe,
Charles @. Drake, d. A. Cutting, A. II.
Rogers. William C. Saxon, George A.
Carmechel. Jonathan De York. Archie
Blair c. B. Bailey, A. Westfall. John
4. Horsman, o. ii. Heinroth, NJ. j. Nc
Glynn, and f. Van Coraigh.
The Utah Beet Sugar Company has
lust declared a dividend of % per cent,
| payable in stock, and decided to ex-
pend 100000 In the Improvement and
extension of its plant at Lehi. Two
branch factories are to be erected. One
this year and another next year. A
tug and line of scows will also be
placed on Utah lake for the transportn-
tion of lime rock from the company's
luarries to the factory.
! The citizens of Loveland are max
| ing n strenuous effort to secure at that
place the establishment of beet sugar
| factory At present they are endeavor
| ing to raise bonus In consideration of
which a company of capitalists stands
ready to put in the plant. This con-
sists of $4,000 in cash and 1,5OO acres
Of land within six miles of Loveland.
should this be proffercd the company
pledges itself to put up 100000
plant and operate it. 1t is understood
that $1,000 in cash and 100 acres Of
land have been pledged.
The Union Pacific gravel mine Mt
Sherman has been placed in charge Of
T. p. Edwards OF Illinois. 1t IL the In
tention to commence work shipping
gravel at once. Two steam shovels and
| n large force of men will be employed
in the work. The shipments will ag-
gregate 5000 tons per day during the
entire summer season. A rotary plow
is now clearing the gravel pits of snow
and Ice, and shipments Of gravel will
comence in few days. The shipments
Of gravel from Sherman will cause the
employment of several additional train
crews.
The passage Of the Bell anti-scrip bill
means perhaps more to Las Animas
county than any other measure that
has ever passed the Colorado Legisla-
ture. Such bill has been demanded
by the people there for several years.
The bill will do away with the truck
store business whereby the coal COM
panies are enabled to beat the miners
out of half their wages by forcing them
to buy at eXorbitant prices everything
they may need at the stores owned by
the coal companies. 1t is n matter Of
fact that at the company stores mer
chandise of almost every kind costs the
miners much more than when bought
at Trinidad, or at any store not con-
trolled by the coal companies.
| Seventeen Union Pacific surveyors
left Cheyenne for the purpose Of max
ing n survey of branch line Of road
proposed to be built from Sidney, Ne
braska, into eastern Wyoming by way
of Crawford Nebraska. This exten-
sion is planned to secure the stock and
farm shipments from the valley of the
North Platte in western Nebraska and
eastern Wyoming as against the Bur
| lirgton system, which has a corps of
surveyors in the field surveying a pro-
posed line into the district from Brush,
Colorado. The district has n number
of prosperous towns which have been
built up without railway communica-
tion, which Will be Connected with out
side markets should the proposed lines
be built.
The Supreme Court Of Wyoming met
Mt Cheyenne on the 3rd and handed
down decisions in at least two import
ant cases. In the case Of John Rob-
erts ct al. treasurer of Laramie coun-
ty, it was decided that the bondsmen
Of the county treasurer were not lia-
BILE to the county for funds lost by the
treasurer in the bank of Thomas A.
Kent. In the case Of the Standard
Cattle Company against the treasurer
of Weston county, Wyoming, some in
teresting questions relating to the tax
alton of the stock interests were de-
cided 1t was held by the Supreme