The Springfield herald., 1899-06-23

folly Coats of Leadville is charged
with having deliberately murdered her
baby.
Wilmot ii. Lake of Central City was
drowned in South Boulder Creek on the
10th.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
Mexico on the 10th, being the first
in several months.
The Union Pacific lost $4,000 by n
fire mt La Sale. Colorado. which burn
ed the ore chutes and several cars.
\ 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 Juntn has or
dcred II new reservoir with IL capacity
of 100000 gallons to be built as an hu-
dition TO the city water plant.
Sam Roberts of Canon City shot and
killed his wife and her mother anu
then killed himself He was diSsolute
and his wife had obtained n divorce.
A message from Buffalo. Wyoming,
on the 18th states that IL courier mas
come in from Powder river with the
report that the officers have the Union
Pacific train robbers surrounded at ~;
X. mountain and capture is regarded
as certain TO follow.
Two lads, named Prng and Lee, in
hay rack. were killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The two
horses hitched to the wagon were
knied and the wagon demolished. Two
other young men standing by the wag-
on talking to them We're uninjured.
Oliver Lee and James Gilliland We're
acquitted of the murder of Henry
Fountain on the 18th The jury was
closeted but seven minutes. There was
great applause in court when the YER
diet was read and the prisoners were
warmly congratulated. In their argu-
ments the attorneys have been bitter
toward each other mt times and toward
the witnesses for the other side.
Unless the convicts ut the peniten-
tiary are soon put to work and made
partly self-supporting there Will be II
shortage ut the end of the term of
from 100000 to $4,000, according to
c. p Hoyt. the warden. He says ii is
not only proper but absolutely neces-
shry that the men be placed ut work,
as if they are allowed to remain i'll 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 We're handed in
| and granted. The town voted temper
ance by IA large majority last April,
| but by the resignation of two of the
| temperance trustees the change came
| about \ petition was circulated ask
ing the board not to grant license,
and was signed by II majority of the
voters. but was unheeded.
| The Indians of San Felipe and Santo
Domingo and the Pueblos of Berna
lilo county have won the eases they
appealed TO the United States Court of
Private Land Claims. These grants
We're confirmed by the court, but with
areas much less than claimed by the
Indians. In case No. 13l the grant
claimed embraced 10000 acres. In
case No. 1S4. the claim was for $4,000
acres. and in case No. 1S5 the San Fe-
lipe Pueblos claimed over 25.OOO acres.
A promising gold discovery Is report
ed at Buford. n station on the line of
the Union Pacific railroad about %
miles west of Cheyenne. The discov-
cry was made May by the O'Reilly
brothers of Buford. who have since
that time been sinking Il prospecting
shaft on the ore body They are now
down 30 feet. where they have cut
vein from which the ore assays over
! 5000 per ton in gold. number of
residents of Cheyenne have staked out
claims adjoining the O'Reilly property.
Manager Voorhees, of the Hartvillc
| iron mines has received instructions
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany TO close down the mines mt Hart
| vile. Wyoming, nj once. This throws
| between 100 and $50 miners and ore
] .1..,. =.
stroys a number of good business en-
J terprses in the Badger-Hartville sec
| ton. 1t is believed that the order to
| close down will also delay the building
| of The spur from Badger to IIartvillc,
work upon which was commenced
| some weeks ago
The insurance companies have begun
their fight on the Denver Il Rio Grandc
road to recover losses occasioned by
/ the disastrous fire mt Colorado Springs
| last October 1t will he remembered
| that the cause of the fire was al
| legged to have been due To the explosion
of II car of powder on the Denver e
! Rio Grande tracks. and suits have been
started by the small property owners
on Hucrfano street 10 recover damages
| The suit us filed is an exceedingly vol
luminous one. II involves over 100000
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 n 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 was
! reorganized and recruited. there was