The silver lance., 1899-08-18
WESTERN NOTES.

Salida has furnished twenty-five re-
cruits for the army.
Good fishing is reported in the
streams near Gunnison.
There is a big crop of hay in the
| Grand and Eagle valleys.
There will be a large quantity or ap-
pies shipped from Canon City TINS year.
There is reported to be an excellent
opening for q good hotel man at Grand
Junction.
James Burns has decided to permit
the release from Jail of James Doyle
of Victor.
The Florence and Cripple Creek rail-
| road track is being relaid with heavy
| steel rails
Florence is making great prepara-
| tions for the meeting of the kn1ghts
of Pythias.
| -Four hundred miners will be put to
work at the Baldwin coal mines within
a few weeks.
| Ex-Mayor James Doyle was given
warm welcome when he reached Victor
after being released from jail
There are enough idle men in the
| state penitentiary to improve the roaus
| of the state at a small expense.
Several brick buildings are being put
up at MOntrose. A first t-class mineral
| artesian well is one OF the attractions
there.
Miss Mary McLearn, living near
| Rifle, Colorado. was burned to death
| the other day while lighting fire with
| kerosene.
Victor Is bound to be one Of the sub
stantial towns of the West. Several
| large stone and brick buildings are
| being built this season.
Governor Thomas, in an address be-
| fore the Boulder Chautauqua, con-
demned the present policy of the gov
ernment in relation to the Philippines
Bob Blair of the Delta Independent
is one of the successful farmers OF the
western slope. He has a standing inv1-
tation to all newspaper men to stop
and see him and fill their pockets with
fruit.
Dan Connell, the agent from the
| Coeur dAlene district, who has been
| miners for the mines at Wardner, was
attacked by party of men, beaten and
driven from the camp.
A wooden snow shed / 800 feet long,
on the Union Pacific. eighty miles west
of Laramie, Wyoming, caught fire from
sparks from an enginne and was total
ly destroyed. The heat warped tine rails
and a new track had to be laid. Traf-
fic was blocked several hours.
A dispatch from Price, Utah, says
disastrous wreck occurred on the Rio
Grande Western road sixty miles east
of there last Thursday night. Freight
| train No. 16 ran into washout near
Solitude. The engine tOppled over.
instantly killing Engineer Frank Nc
Mahon and Fireman James Whelen.
The Board of Governors of the Min
| ing Stock Association of Colorado
Springs has passed sentence on six
brokers charged with cutting commits
| sions. n. Leipheimer is expelled; A. Z.
| Wagy, A. G. Howland, w. w. Price,
! +. ID. White and J. X. Miller are sus-
pended from the. exchange for one year
and are also fined $500. Others may be
punished.
| Engineer John Mack, whose negli-
gcnce caused the awful wreck at VOL
colt last Saturday, has reached his
home in Laramie. After the wreck he
went to Hanna, where he remained in
| hiding for several days, as he feared
the consequences of his carelessness.
| His friends say Mack's watch stopped,
and he miscalculated the time of trains
| by one hour.
Leadville sportsmen have taken up
| the cudgel against the Twin Lakes
Reservoir Company and will probably
| bring n contest in the courts question
| ing the right to construct a reservoir
on meandering stream or to raise and
lower the water. The opinions of sew
| eral Denver and Leadville lawyers
have been obtained to the effect that
according to the federal statutes this
i right is prohibited.
Colorado is threatened with another
| passenger rate war. which may posSi-
bly, assume the ruinous proportions of
the famous conflict some five years ago
between the Denver & Rio Grande and
the Colorado Midland roads. when the
fare to all parts of the state was but %
cents. The impending conflict will be
between the same roads, and due to
the threat of the Rio Grande to put on
another fast train to Grand Junction.
At a meeting of the citizens of Love
land contracts were signed for the bal
ance of the beet acreage required for
the proposed sugar factory at that
place. The bonus of $50 acres of land
and $4,000 cash asked by the company
was secured some weeks ago. Since
that time the Loveland committee has
been pushing the work of contracting
$500 acres of beets to supply the fac,
tory when started. 1t now only remains
for the factory people to do their part
and the beet sugar factory will be an
assured fact for 1900. There is no
doubt but that the company will come