Gilpin observer., 1899-03-23
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

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Work on Boulder's electric street rail
way will be commenced soon.
a telephone line is being put up be-
tween Pueblo and La Junta.
Twenty-Five Indian territory families
have arrived to settle in Eddy.
Mrs. Il. O. Wolcott has returned to
Denver, but the senator is still in Wash
ington.
1t is stated that Mrs. Wolcott will
take up her residence at Colorado
Springs.
Leadville miners got out and cleaned
the track to IbeX so that the mines
might start up again.
DR.. T. A. Hughes has resigned his
position as secretary of the Colorado
Board OF Medical Examiners.
The imprisoned Leadville miners
have not yet been released and 1t may
be some time before they get out.
The Democratic candidates at Ridg-
way Colorado. demand the enforce
ment of saloon and gambling laws.
The Denver militiamen returned
from Lake City Tuesday morning. only
one company being left on guard there
A murderer and cattle thief who had
been convicted, sawed their way out OF
the Arapahoe county Jail Il few days
ago.
Roswell is proving the center of n
great artesian well region. A. ID. Gar
rett has Just struck a 250-gallon n min
ute well at DO feet.
Contracts have been let and work
begun on fifteen miles of the grade of
the Rio Grande Westerns Park City
extension up Provo canon.
At the meeting of the sovereign
camp. Woodmen of the World. mt
Memphis. f. A. Falkenburg of Denver
was elected sovereign adviser
Reports have reached Santa Fe of an
outbreak of smallpox among the Jicar-
lila Apaches in the Dulce sub-agency.
Agent Walpole is on the ground in
vestigating and directing the fight
against the disease.
AT the coming municipal election
Rocky Ford will vote upon the propo-
siton of issuing water bonds in the
sum of $1,000. for the purpose of tax
ing on $1,000 seven per cent. bonds and
providing funds for the extension and
improvement of the water works.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that stockholders in savings
banks operating under the laws Of
Colorado must consider themselves liza
BILE personally for double the amount
of their holdings and answerable TO the
depositors of the institution for that
amount.
The Cimarron mail driver reports
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what is known as the Corremopa coun-
try east of Clayton. The adjoining
country was burned over II few weeks
ago and the damage to the stock inter
ests will be very great.
AS a rider to the appropriation bill,
the Arizona Legislature. previous to
adjournment sine die. abolished all eX-
penditures for the National Guard.
The guard. which consists of ten we'll
equipped companies, with Il strength
of $40 men, will be ut once disbanded.
Rev. Jonathan Wood has been grant
ed n divorce in the County court at
Aspen. Rev. Wood has been pastor
of the Baptist church there for two
years past and both he and his wife
have been held in high esteem. Rev.
Wood alleged extreme cruelty and the
evidence showed the wife to be so in
sanely jealous that the jury thought
him justified in seeking n divorce.
The Wyoming State Board of Equali-
Zation has raised the valuation upon
live stock for purposes of taxation thir'
ty per cent. over last years rates.
Range cattle are raised from S15 to $40
per head; range sheep from S1.I5 to
S2.25, and other classes of stock, eX-
cepting horses. which are unchanged,
are raised in the same proportion. The
raise in these valuations will increas.
the assessed valuation of the state II
million dollars.
The United States grand jury at
Butte returned indictments against DR..
J. l.. Atkinson, surgeon; Charles Nc
Intire, irrigating engineer, and Frank
A. Hunter. clerk at the Fort Peck In
dian reservation, for soliciting n cam
paign fund for the 1896 election. The
money is alleged to have been collect
ed on November 30, 1896. to help
make good deficit in the campaign
fund of the National Committee of the
Democratic party.
A Leadville dispatch of the Goth says:
The Rio Grande reached Kokomo to-
day, and tomorrow morning will start
running passenger trains on the Blue
river branch on time. a train of freight
cars filed with supplies will also be
rushed into the town. The principal
food will he potatoes, -four butter and
eggs. of which the town is badly in
need. This is the first of the blockad-
ed towns in that section of the country
to be opened up, they having been iso-
lated from the outer world for over two
months.
BY the terms of n contract signed in
Denver. the Wclls-Fargo company will
on May LIST place its service in opera
tion over the lines of the Colorado 4
Southern railroad. BY this change
600 miles of railroad service Is added
to the Wells-Fargo system. thus super
sedng the service of the Pacific En-
press Company. and giving IL n direct
cunnnGllnn with lln unrl horn uul