The Meeker herald., 1899-06-24
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

The little girl lost in Gilpin county =
still missing.
Polly Coats of Leadville ID CHARGED
with having deliberately murdered her
baby.
Wilmot d. Lake Of Central City was
drowned In South Boulder Greek On tAs
10th.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
Mexico on the 18th, being the INST
in several months.
The Union Pacific lost $4,000 BY q
fire at La Sale, Colorado, which burn
ed the ore chutes and several cars.
A three-year-old girl wandered away
from her home in Russell gulch. Gil
pin county, on the 10th and had not
been found Monday night.
The city council of La Junta has or
dered new reservoir with capacity
OF 100000 gallons to be built as an Id
dition to the city water plant.
J Sam Roberts Of Canon City shot ed
killed his wife and her mother and
then killed himself. He was dissolure
and his wife had obtained divorce.
A message from Buffalo, Wyoming.
on the 18th states that courier has
| come In from Powder river with the
report that the officers have the Union
Pacific train robbers surrounded at u.
X. mountain and capture is regarded
as certain to follow.
Two lads, named Pring and Lee, in
hay rack, were killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The two
| horses hitched to the wagon were
killed and the wagon demolished. Two
other young men standing by the wag-
on talking to them were uninjured.
Oliver Lee and James Gilliland were
acquitted of the murder Of Henry
Fountain on the 10Th. The Jury was
| closeted but seven minutes. There was
| great applause in court when the YER
dict was read and the prisoners were
warmly congratulated. In their argu-
ments the attorneys have been bitter
| toward each other at times and toward
the witnesses for the other side.
Unless the convicts at the peniten-
tlary are soon put to work and made
| partly self-supporting there will be a
shortage at the end Of the term Of
| from 100000 to $4,000, according to
| G. p Hoyt. the warden. He says II Ia
net only proper but absolutely neces-
| sary that the men be placed at work,
as II they are allowed to remain in idle
ness the institution will find itself head
| over heels in debt.
At an adjourned meeting Of the town
| trustees of Evans license was granted
| at $1,000 per year to saloons. Three
| applicants for licenses were handed in
| and granted. The town voted temper
ance by large majority last, April,
but by the resignation Of two Of the
| Temperance trustees the change came
about. A petition was circulated ask
ing the board not to grant license,
and was signed by a majority Of the
voters but was unheeded.
The Indians Of San Felipe and Santo
Domingo and the Pueblos Of Berna-l
lilo county have won the cases theY
appealed to the United States Court d
Private Land Claims. These grant
were confirmed by the court, but viii
areas much less than claimed by tt
Indians. In case No. 1874 the graft
claimed embraced 10000 acres. IN
case No. 1S4, the claim was for $500
acres, and In case No. 1856 the San Fe-
lIpe Pueblos claimed over 25.OOO acrss
A promising gold discovery is repot-
ed at Buford, station on the line Of
the Union Pacific railroad about Is
miles west Of Cheyenne. The discov-
cry was made May 1 by the O'Reilly
brothers of Buford, who have since
that time been sinking prospecting
shaft on the ore body. They are now
down IS feet, where they have cut 4
vein from which the ore assays over
$500 per ton in gold. A number of
residents of Cheyenne have staked >ut
claims adjoining the O'Reilly properly.
Manager Voorhees, of the Hartvale
iron mines has received Instructions
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany to close down the mines at Hart
Vile, Wyoming, at once This throws
between 100 and $50 miners and ore
haulers out of employment and de-
stroys a number of good business en-
terprises In the Badger -Hartville SEC
tion. 1t is believed that the order to
close down will also delay the building
Of the spur from Badger to Hartville,
| work upon which was commenced
some weeks ago.
The insurance companies have begun
their fight on the Denver & Rio Grande
road to recover losses occasioned by
last October 1t will be remembered
that the cause Of the fire was al
legged to have been due to the explosion
| of car Of powder on the Denver &
Rio Grande tracks. and suits have been
started by the small property owners
on Huerfano street to recover damages.
The suit as filed is an exceedingly vol |
luminous one. 1t involves over 5000 |
and others similar in nature may fol- |
low It.
Wyoming has been notified by the
government that equipment to take the |
place of that furnished the volunteers |
from that state has been shipped from
the government supply depots and
should arrive in few days. When
the Wyoming volunteers left for the
Philippines they took with them al
most all Of the military equipment in
the state. When the state militia -.