Gilpin observer., 1899-07-13
NEWS FROM THE
NWESTERN REGION.

smuggling opium into the penitentiary.
For some time the officials have been
greatly annoyed by opium finding its
way to the Interior of the prison
through the instrumentality of an out
slider. Finally trap was laid and Will
son fell into it. He was caught in the
act Of turning over quantity of
opium to trusty, whose duty it is to
keep the streets clean in front of the
prison, and when the trusty was strip
ped and search made, the drug was
found upon his person. Wilson was
taken before Justice Minor for trial
and acknowledged his guilt. Sixty min
utes was given him to leave town.
The trunk lines between the Missouri
river and the Colorado and California
summer resorts are now handling an
extraordinary. passenger traffic, which
for the most part is moving westward.
1t Is estimated that n carload OF this
business originates at Omaha every
day. and that fully 1000 tourists reach
Denver daily. This business scatters,
some of 1t going to California and some
to the Puget Sound country Eastern
passenger men report the movement Is
bound to continue for at least thirty
days. They are making a speciality Of
the mountain resorts this year, and say
they are engaged in campaign of
education to induce eastern people to
go to the Rocky mountains rather than
take n sea voyage. The summer tour
ist business this year is certain to at
tain proportions never before reached
in the history of American railroads.
dispatch from Helena says Judge
Knowles, in the United States court,
has signed warrant for the. removal
of David Putty and Bud Nolan, the
two outlaws who were captured in
Beaverhead county and are believed to
have been implicated in the hold-up of
the Union Pacific train near Wilcox,
Wyoming. Officers will leave for Og-
den at noon tomorrow to convey the
prisoners to Cheyenne. They have
been positively identified as Putty and
Nolan, and are being taken East to
answer to charges of robbing post
offices at WOolton and Big Piny. Re-
cent advices, however, are to the ef-
feet that the Wyoming authorities have
a card up their sleeves, and that the
men when safely lodged in the Chey-
enne Jail will be informed against for
the robbery of the train. District At
torney Timothy Burk thinks the gov
ernment will be able to connect them
with that outrage, although they are
admitted now not to be the original
Roberts brothers, whom the officers
were looking for when they set out.
Secretary of State Chatterton of
Wyoming, who is secretary of the new
railroad company known as the Wyo-
ming Southern, which is now engaged
in building line from Fort Steele, on
the Union Pacific, to Saratoga. has re-
I'm md n
for several days in consultation with
officials of the Union Pacific relative to
traffic arrangements between the two
roads. The Wyoming Southern has
consummated the purchase of 10000
railroad ties which were seized from
j. G. Teller of Denver last spring, as
the latter had cut them from govern
ment land The railroad company paid
cash for the ties at the rate of 35 cents
per tie, the transaction amounting to
$4,000. This deal dispels all doubt
which may have prevailed heretofore
regarding the building of the Wyo-
ming Southern. The work of grading
the line will be commenced at once and
the steel will be laid as soon as the
grade is completed. II Is safe to say
the road will be in operation not later
than October 1st
The grading of the new Burlington
railroad from Alliance, Nebraska, to
Hartville, Wyoming, is being pushed
rapidly. Between Alliance and Camp
Clark, on the North Platte river. men
and teams are as thick and busy as
flies. Some heavy work is necessary
on this portion of the line, especially
Just this side of Camp Clark, where
fills of seventy feet deep will have to
be made. From Camp Clark up the
river through Scotts Bluff country, the
grading is practically completed to the
Wyoming line, n distance of sixty
miles. From the Wyoming state line
to Hartville the cross-sectioning has
been completed and the grading work
will begin at once The road from AL
lance to Bartville will be in running
operation by the LIST of September
some say the Goth of August. 1t is un-
derstood here that grading will begin
on the line to Brush. Colorado. via Sid
ney, Nebraska, and Sterling, Colorado,
by the 1st of August. from both ends
of the line, and that the list of Novem-
ber will see the Burlington & Missouri
trains of the new line entering Denver.
The garding OF the Brush line would
be now In progress had II not been for
the sudden necessity confronting the
Burlington & Missouri of heading Off
the Union Pacific from Hershey by an
immediate building Of the Hartville
branch.
In his report to the penitentiary com.
missloners Warden HOyt gives us the
following figures: "December 30. 1898.
there were In the penltentiary 500
prisoners. During the six months end
ing June 30. 1890. 1lS We're committed
to the prison, 10S We're discharged on
expiration of sentence. and 1 was par
doned. -Four We're transferred to the
insane asylum mt Pueblo. s 10 the re-
formatory at Buena Vista, and 8 died,
while % cOnvlcts are employed on the
state roads.. From this gang there