The Monte Vista journal., 1899-10-28

eSA1cs wyoming.
The old Brainarti & Beebe hotel st
Creede burned on the 2lst.
Manxanola, Colorado, held a very
successful autumn festival last week.
8. p. Graybill, a Rio Grnnde fore
man at Pueblo. was run over and kill
ed on the 10th.
The cattlemen Of Chaves county have
raised fund from which they will pay
special bounty on coyotes and wolves.
Fourteen carloads Of machinery
from the abandoned car shops OF the
santa Fe railroad at Sun Marial have
Deen placed In the Ration car shops,
where the force will he greatly In
creased.
John Baldwin. a wealthy ranchman
OF Colfax county, New Mexico, believes
the greater portion OF that part Of the
territory In above an underground
stream. and will drill several artesian
wells to test his theory
The Indinn Office is preparing plans
and specifications for n school on the
Jicarilla reservation. New Mexico, to
accommodate 100 pupils. There are
o,OOo children OF school age Oh the res
ervation and no school facilities.
Game Commissioner Johnson has re-
ceived letter from the fish king"
OF durango. who says that next year
MS fish hatcheries will be much en-
ihrged and that he will be enabled to
donate 1.0OO.O0O fish 10 the state.
Sheriff Laync OF Ogden has captured
one and probably two OF the robbers
who held up the Union Pacific passen-
ger train At Wilcox. Wyoming, on June
md, mt which time they blew two OF
the cars to pieces. and escaped with II
large amount of booty.
The circumstances surrounding the
escape of James X. Stratton from the
penitcntiary on the night of October
10Th VIII be sifted To the bottom. Both
Warden Hoyt and the board Of peni-
tentinry commissioners aave decided
1pon an Investigation.
Senator Clark OF Montana hns de-
cided to increase the output Of his coal
mine NJ Ciarksville. New Mexico, fully
20 per cent. The force now employed
at the mine numbers 100. but by spring
VIII be Increased to 800. There Is not
saloon at Clarksvillc or within u mile
of II.
An accurate test made OF the flow Of
the larg" arte>ian well recently bored
In the Pecos Valley X Northwestern
yards nj Roswell shows that the well
discharges o,6,I gallons n minute. or
has velocity OF l.!,Oo feet per minute.
making 1t 10y far the largest and most
powerful artcsian well In New Mexico.
Some eastern capitalists who have
been attracted to this state by the rosy
accounts of Colorado ns beet sugar
country Will construct at II town to
be known as Sugar City "A sugar beet
plant as large again as the one now In
successful operation at Grand juno.
tion. The new town will be located In
the Arkansas valley.
Years may clapse before the provis-
ions In the will OF the late George W.
Clayton. who beQuenthed n million dol
lars for the establishment OF an or
phnn boys school In Denver can be
carried out. Litigation will be insti-
tuted which promises TO continue at
length and possibly through all the
courts OF the state. 4 brother OF Clay
ton Intends to contest the will
A phenomenal onion yield Is report
cd from Greeley. On the farm OF
Charles Camp. consisting OF thirty
three acres, In Pleasant Valley. 1900
sacks Of onions have been gathered,
1,Ss1 OF which were grown OH i've
acres. These onions bring on an NV
ernRe 30 centx sack. The waste In
the culling nlonc would supply a Ie-
Eion OF rain beltcr~ with fine onions
for the winters use.
A trust ir being formed TO contro, the
output OF NIL the turquoise mines In
New Mexico. Hon. J. T.. Victory Of
Santa Fe Is working up tac combina.
tion, TO which most OF the turquoise
mine owners have already subscribed
nnd which will practically control the
output OF the world. as the turquoise
mines In SaSony. Egypt and fcrs.s
have pinched out. The hcn,ilu uarter,
Of the trust Will bc at Boston.
Southern Santa Fe county mining in.
tcrests are enjoying II boom such as
they have never experienced bcforc
II hns been known for years that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Compay held
controlling interest In the coal mines
at Ccrillos. and II Is now stated upon
reliable authority that the COMPANY
will expcnd Sl.U1o.OOO next y.nr in i'm.
provcmcnts and that there will In, n
compl,<e change In management and
that work will be prosecuted upon n
much larger scale than heretofore.
There Is great Indignation among
the miners In the MoIolion district on
account OF nm order of the Department
of the Interior limiting the cutting Of
timber on the ella river forest reserve
To xlD worth for mining purposes.
Heretofore the miners were allowed to
cut all the timber necessary for the
development OF the mines. The miners
Will continue To cut timber freely for
that purpose and II arrested viii make
u test case. which. II necessary, will
bc carried 20 the United States Su.
prcmc Court.
The beet sugar plant Mt Grand June.
tiou iu 10 br started In n few days.
All the machinery has arrived ON the
grounds. according TO latest reports,
and men nrc engaged night and dpy In
putting the Intricate parts together.
The delay was occnsionei by difli.
Guilty In having orders filed by the
enstcrn manufacturing companies.
While the output OF hct- In the valley
OF the Grand and ncighhoring guiiIcs
IL not Ms large ms desired by tn. com.
Uany. II II thought II good start viii t~
made for the first year.
Pearl Hart. the noted female bandit
of the Mexican border. who on Ntny
10th with one male companion held up