The Meeker herald., 1899-01-28
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION

ID. L. Gordon lost his life in the
burning OF the Cardiff shaft house,
near Ward, last Friday.
A joint committee of the legislature
Is investigating the management of
the Insane asylum mt Pueblo.
A coal mine Of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. near Glenwcod, is be-
ing flooded 10 extinguish a fire.
Mrs. ]. B. Belford has been appoint
ed trustee of the State Normal School.
She takes the place Of Governor
Thomas.
Denver sIortsmen want a change in
the game laws that will permit the
shooting Of more than twenty ducks
in day during the open season.
E.-Goyernor Job A. Cooper died at
his home. iu Denver. on the 10Th He
was only SICK Il day. the cause of his
death being peritonitis. He leaves
widow and four children, among
whom his large estate Will be divided.
Frank f. Snow. who has obtained
the contract for the 5Do-foOt tunnel at
the Goose creek reservoir, above Buf-
falo. has begun work This work Will
probably give employment for from
2Dp to 800 men for several years
4 bill has been introduced in the Wy
oulng Legislature providing for the re-
m0yal Of The state prisoners from the
present occupied peniienuary at Lara
NILE 10 the newly erected penitentiary
al Rawlins.
Colonel William J. Bryan. accom-
panied by Mrs. Bryan, visited Denver
on the 10th, and was given a warm
welcome. He put in a busy day, hold
tns reception. talking 10 politicians
snd reporters and accepting the hospl-
tality Of private citizens.
The platform holding Colonel and
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan and
400 others at Coliseum hall, at Den
yer, fell with terrific crash. and the
silver leader and his wife. with those
who occupied posts of honor. mar
rOwly escaped death or serious in
Jury.
Alfalfa seed is now shipped from
Denver TO the South and East in quite
large quantities. Mr.. c. K. Root. the
enterprising manager of the Colorado
Seed House, al Denver. says that al
falfa Is now grown quite extensively
III ItAis anu III SUM vi Nus thHiti IL
states
Detective George 4. Scarborough, ex-
Texas state ranger, who killed Kid
Johnson and shot and captured Bron-
,ho Bill. n most notorious desperate
and train robber is in Santa Fe working
FOR the captaincy of the troop of New
Mexico rangers about to be created by
The territorial Legislature.
The social breach which hns 80 long
existed between the families of Sena-
tor Cushman X. Davis and former
Governor Merriam Of Minnesota Is
snid TO have been closed up. The
wives of the two men are said to have
clasped hands and become reconciled,
and the social war has come to an end.
A. ]. Bothwell of Wyoming will
read paper before the National Live
Stock Association on the ''Extermina-
tion of Wolves" and will illustrate his
talk by producing on the stage pack
Of real live gray wolves, captured on
the range in Wyoming, and as savage
and ATTAINED as brute creation ever
gets to be.
The city engineer of Cheyenne says
that the charges of the electric light
plant to the city are higher than in any
western city or town except Leadville.
Colorado. Cheyenne pay Sl62 each for
her thlrty-two arc lights. He says that
an adequate city plant would cost S14,-
600. He advises that unless the pres
ent extortlonate charge is remedied the
city ought to build its own plant.
Colonel w. II. Combs is the origi-
nntor Of a proposition calculated to
employ the convicts Of Colorado prof
itably TO the state. The colonel's prop
osition l., in brief. to use the convict
labor of the state in the construction
OF q biz double-track drainage and
transportation tunnel. starting at a
point near Malta. extending thence
under the city of Leadville and on to
the Mosquito range.
The contract for grading the Denver
& Rio Grandc railroad standard gauge
over the Ncta pass into the san Luis
valley has been awarded to Clough ~
Anderson of Colorado Springs. The
work is Of the heaviest type known in
mountain construction and is expected
to cost 100000 The necessary force
will be secured ut once. as the contract
requires for the running of trains by
October 1st.
The MoOnAnchor mine has been
sold to an English company. The old
stockholders receive $4,000 shares of
II each, one-seventh of the capitaliza-
tion of the new company. and n mini
mum Of f1SO,OOO in cash. The Battle
Mountain property is not included in
the deal. The directors of the Noon
Anchor Gold Mining Company met
this afternoon and issued circular to
the stockholders, giving the facts
about the deal which Werner Y. Reed
made with British capitalists on his
recent visit to London.
The opening of the new Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe depot and Harvey
dining station. constructed at n cost of
took place at East Las Vegas
the other day. There We're hundreds
of visitors. The hotel and the depot
are of brick, two stories high, In the
old Spanish mission style OF architec-
turc, and finished In the very perfec-