Gilpin observer., 1899-09-28

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resigned.
At the inquest held at Florence by
DR.. James A. Baker, coroner of Ere
mont county, in the investigation of
the wreck which occurred Mt Reno Sat
urday afternoon, the verdict rendered
places the blame upon the crew Of the
freight train.
The carnival and street fair at AL
buQuerque ended in a blaze of glory
on the 23rd. This kind of fall festivi-
ties were new to the Southwest, but in
this instance it has proved the most
perfect success of any that could have
been undertaken.
In the District Court at Fort Collins,
before Judge Broughton, Marie Lafitte
was convicted of selling liquor in vio-
lation of the prohibiitory laws of the
city, and was fined the sum of $500
and costs of suit. The accused was
committed to Jail in default of the
amount of the fine.
The Black Range Railway Company
has filed incorporation papers at San
ta Fe. The capital stock is S2,O0O,O00,
and the headquarters at Santa Fe. Tie
company proposes to construct nine
ty-mile railway from Magdalena, So
corro county, to Chloride, Sierra coun-
ty. 1t will traverse rich mining and
stock country.
w. n. Kight, w. A. Hunter and w.
G. White. Incorporated as the Farm
ington Gas and Oil Company, are sink
ing well at Pennington. New Mexi-
co, having purchased the Geoglin drill.
Fesley Kight. an experienced oil man,
will have charge of the workings.
There are indications of both gas and
oil in that section.
Charles A. Scheurich of Taos, New
Mexico, presented to Carleton Post. G.
A. r., n fine flag, which had waved
over the grave of Ex-Governor Charles
Bent, a grandfather of Mr.. Scheurich.
Bent was the first American governor
of New Mexico and fell in the Taos
massacre. His grave is in the national
cemetery DIT Santa Fe.
The District Court at Santa Fe is
busy with the trial of Cristine Trujillo.
Trujillo is accused of numbering Juan
Espinosa, August 10Th last. Espinosa's
body was found below the railroad
bridge as Espinola. The questions to
be decided by the jury will be whether
he fell from the bridge while intoxi-
Gated or had been killed and thrown
from the bridge, and whether Trujillo
did the deed.
On the Burlington-Al Alliance- Hartville
line now being constructed, 115 miles
of rails are being laid at the rate Of
5000 feet per day, the steel gang now
being about eighteen miles from ALI
ance. When the Platte valley is reach
ed, which will be in few weeks, the
town of Bridgeport will be established,
and the road that far will be used for
commercial purposes as well as for
construction.
Governor Otero has consented to de-
liver the chief address to the Terrific
rial Horticultural Fair which opens at
Santa Fe October 4th. Exhibits for
the fair are beginning to arrive. The
exhibit made at Albuquerque by the
Agriculture College. Mr.. Casa. Mr..
Stockton and others, was shipped here
directly. Mr.. Cast has returned to Me-
silla to obtain fresh supply of fruit
before the fair.
The Wyoming troops. battalion and
battery, assembled at the Ferry build
ing, San Francisco. at o'clock Satur-
day, amid a throng of San Francisco
acquaintances which the boys have
made here during their stay at the
Presidio. The train which will bear
them home pulled out from the Mole
| at $3.50 o'clock. 1t consisted of two
baggage cars, eight tourist sleepers
and n regulation Pullman sleeping car.
The Casper refinery is now prepared
to put out illuminating oil at any time
demanded by the market and refinery
conditions. At present the refinery's
oil schedule profitally consumes the
crude oil supply. The valve oil of this
refinery has now Il passenger locomo-
tive record of 2S4 miles per pint and of
156 miles per pint Tor a freight loco
d IL. Al. .
any other oil in locomotive lubricating
use.
Two well-known Cripple Creek min
ing men have been in Florence investi-
eating proffered sites for new reduc-
ton plant to be erected mt that point.
| Two sites were looked at one on the
north side of the Arkansas river and
one on the south side. The company
is well pleased with that place as n
milling point for Cripple Creek ores. 1t
will eXpend in the erection of plant
S2JO,00O. Whichever site Is selected.
the citizens of Florence will donate
the ground.
Extensive improvements are being
made all along the line Of the Cnion
Pacific. both on the Colorado aud Wy
oming divisions. Two gangs Of mascns
are mt work on the Colorado division,
replacing all small wooden bridges
with stone culverts. These will arch
over the small gulleys and dry creeks.
More than n hundred are being put in
on the system. This. the officials say,
will improve the safety and the
smoothness OF the roadbed. On tue
larger bridges masons are putting in
new stone abutments. This will make
the washing out of bridges much less
frnnnant thnn hapntafnpn SnunrnI
bridges are being built. and for the six
already begun In Weber canon. Utah,
the steel is already on the ground.
The miners Of the Alpine Coal Com
pany at Baldwin are again on strike