The silver lance., 1899-07-21

DAYS. They are making a specid1ty u
the mountain resorts this year, ana say
they are engaged in campaign OF
education to induce eastern people TO
90 to the Rocky mountains rather than
take a sea voyage. The summer tour
ist business this year is certain to at
tain proportions never before reached
in the history of American railroads.
A dispatch from Helena says Judge
Knowles, in the United States court,
has signed a warrant for the removal
of David Putty and Bud Nolan, the
two outlaws who were captured in
Reayerhead county and are believed to
have been implicated in the hold-up or
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 Plny. He-
cent advices however, are TO tne Ell
feet that the Wyoming authorities nave
a card up their sleeves, and that the
men when safely lodged in the Chey-
enne Jail will be informed against Tor
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.
Swift Bear and his party of Sioux
Indians, having eight wagons loaded
with venison, resisted arrest on BUCK
creek, Wyoming, for killing game con-
trary to law. Amos Demming, deputy
sheriff of Converse county, and a
posse left Lusk Wednesday with war
rants for the arrest of the Indians ana
overlook them at Buck creek Thurs-
day morning. After reading the war
rants the Indians refused to go with
the sheriff, drew a line and told him II
he crossed the line there would be war.
Being outnumbered the sheriff came to
Edgemont to get help and papers for
the arrest of the Indians in South Da-
kota, as they had crossed the line.
Deputy Sheriff George Miller of Edge
mont will go out with an increased
force. Demming telegraphed the In
dian agent at Pine Ridge to have a
force of Indian police go out to inter-
ceDt the Indians if they got away from
the Edgemont and Wyoming posse,
and it is expected the Indians will be
overtaken somewhere near the agency.
One of the most terrible cloudbursts
and floods known in the history of the
section occurred five miles west of
Pine Grove at about 2:30 p. m. on the
18th. The electrical display was vivid
beyond description. A dark cloud ap-
Deared from the north which was met
by one from the west and battle OF
the giants began. The water fell in
torrents, filling Pine Grove gulch and
Rowlen grlch to a depth Of fifteen to
twenty feet. When the flood struck the
Platte river at point half mile west
of this place, it swept the railroad
bridge and tracks into the river for
about eighty feet. At Cliff, five miles
further west, the railroad track was
buried under sand, rocks and debris
for a length of 300 feet and a depth of
from two to six feet. The wagon road
in Pine Grove gulch, which was built
by the Stewart & Mcconnell Lumber
Company three years since, at cost
of $4,000, is nearly destroyed. Every
bridge for four miles is gone. The
Colorado & Southern Company imme-
diately placed a force of fifty men at
work and trains are running regularly.
Some transferring of passengers was
necessary last night.
Warden G. P. Hoyt of the state peni-
tentiary advocates an addition to that
institution. The penitentiary, he says,
is overcrowded. 1--WE have $50 cells
and 5S7 convicts. This necessitates
putting two men in many of the cells.
When you consider that the cells are
only 4x7 feet 1t can readily be seen
what 1t means to put two men into one
of them. 1t is simply outrageous that
this must be done. but there is no help
for 1t until we build an addition. We
ought to have cell room for at least 300
more prisoners. A building of this
kind would cost us about $4,000. This
Is figuring on the roofing and iron
work The labor. stone. lime brick and
everything in that line we could fur
nish ourselves. Out of the 5S7 convicts
552 are at work making brick, quarry
ing rock and laying water mains. We
are extending our water works sys-
tenn. About 1,20O feet of mains is be-
ing laid. and we shall tap the Arkan-
sas twelve feet below its bead, thus
insuring absolutely pure water. An
other important enterprise on which
the prisoners are now at work is the
building of a stone wall around twen-
ty-twO acres of land adjacent to the
penitentiary and part of the peniten-
tiary grounds"
In his report to the penitentiary coin.
missioners Warden Hoyt gives us the
following figures: December 80, 1898.
there were in the penitentiary 500
prisoners. During the six months end
ing June 3O 1899. 11S were committed
to the prison, los We're discharged on
expiration of sentence, and 1 was par
doned. Four were transferred to the
insane asylum at Pueblo, 8 to the re-
formatory at Buena Vista, and 5 died,
while % convicts are employed on the
state roads. From this gang there
have been three escapes, but all have
been recaptured. During the first four
months of 1899. before took possess
sion of the institution, $40, ,721. .76 was
expended for operating expenses.
Since that time about 81 900 has l,e...