The silver lance., 1899-10-20
Denver GOSSIP.

regiment. though enlisting in Colorado
belonged in other states, and now the
men are making their way homeward
Their addresses will be kept and the
medals forwarded to them when fin
ished. which will be about November
LIST. Over forty men have left the city
in the past few days for New York and
Pennsylvania alone, and still larger
number to the nearer states. But few
soldiers remain in the city. The en-
ployment bureau has been able to get
places for number of men, and has
been especially helped by the nearness
of the Carnival many men having tax
EN- small jobs on decorating buildings
The Rio Grande has a number of men
out as carpenters, and places for sew
eral have been found in the city in
hotels and business houses. There are
seventy men registered as applicants
for work. In the book of the regiment
500 have put their names down.
A tribute of honor to Colorado's fall
len soldiers was paid in the memorial
service held upon the Capitol grounds
Sunday afternoon. Sixteen months
ago the Colorado Society Sons of the
Revolution presented to the departing
regiment silken flag. Under this
banner the First Colorado fought its
way to glory. The last gaze of many
brave boy fell Oh it's stars and
stripes. The tattered remnants of the
flag. held high by the strong arm of
Richard Holmes, the giant color-bear-
er were displayed again yesterday be-
fore the eyes of those who had a part
in the presentation. Cheers arose
from 5000 throats, cheers for the stars
and stripes, and then the cheers gave
place to silence. The people were
thinking of the dead The flag
pole erected by the Sons of the
revolution in memory of the fall
en- heroes was profusely decorated.
The space surrounding the pole was
filled with petted plants and flowers,
and above the brass plates bearing the
names of the men who died, smilaX
was trailed. The big flag which has
been kept flying every day since the
pole was put up, was at half-mast dur
ing the day. Speeches were made by
General Hale. Colonel Mccoy, Sena-
tor Teller and others.
Representatives of the owners of the
Maxwell land grant recently applied
to United States Marshal Bailey at
Denver to eject the squatters from the
grant. Accordingly thirteen deputy
marshals have been sworn in and have
the campaign, which may last two or
three months. have been completed A
camping outfit and cook are now at
Trinidad. awaiting the arrival of Mar
shal Bailey's warriors. From Trinidad
the force of deputies will take quiet
departure on horseback, with their eff
fects packed in wagons, southwark,
twenty-eight miles to Stonewall creek
There they will make a permanent
camp, or at least it will be their head
quarters until the squatters have been
driven out of that portion of the Max
well land grant lying within the bor-
ders of Colorado. This tract of land
lies to the south and southwest of Trim
idad, ranging east and west from the
Sangre de Cristo mountains to a line
on which Ration mesa is the chief land
mark. 1t is understood that the Den
Yer flying column will operate over the
New Mexican line after their work in
this state is ended. No close estimate
of the number of persons to be evicted
summarily from the free holdings that
have for years been their homes can be
made here. The number of sQuatter
families is given as 800, so that the to-
tai individuals is likely to be from
800 to 1000 Many of these families, it
is stated, exc out no better than a bare
living from. the soil on which they are
settled, and desperation may drive
some of their menfolk to physically
resist eviction. If fight is made at
all it is looked for on the Colorado
side, where there are many Americans
among the squatters. One of the latest
pieces of advice given the squatters by
Oliver Z. McMains, their lifetime
champion, at time when he knew the
law had gone against him, was to fight
eviction. His injunction may be re-
membered and given effect by some
of his followers. A former attempt at
eviction proved fruitless.
The correspondent of the Denver Re
publican, writing from Colorado
Springs, says: Nikola Tesla is well
satisfied with the progress he is max
ing at his experimental station on
East Pixies Peak avenue. He said.
when asked as to the truth or false
ness of Il report that he is soon to go
back to New York City, that he has on
ly begun his work here, and that he is
hot contemplating return to New
York for at least two months. with the
exception, probably of a business trip,
as short as he can make it. There were
two objects that brought him to Colo
RADIO Springs. One of them was to de-
velop, perfect ana manufacture ma
chine by which he intends to transmit
messages to Paris next year without
the use of wires. The other was to
work out "A theory on which he has
been studying for some FIVE or six
years, that there are electrical currents
in the strata of air at various attitudes
from which tremendous electrical pow
er can be generated. Most of the elec-
trician's time. since he completed his
barn-like experimental station, has
been devoted to the development of
the apparatus for sending the mes
sages to Paris. AS far as the sending
of the messages itself goes, that stage
of the experiment has not yet been
reached. ''Some years ago." said Tes-
In, Il discovered the principle that
power can be transmitted to any dis
tance without wires. The transmits