The silver lance., 1899-07-07


| Polly Coats of Leadville is charged
| with having deliberately murdered her
/! baby
| Wilmot III. Lake of Central City was
drowned in South Boulder Creek on tne
10th.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
| Mexico on the 10th, being the nrst
/ in several months.
! The Union Pacific lost $4,000 by
| fire at La Sale Colorado, which burn
ed the ore chutes and several cars.
A three-year-old girl wandered away
from her home in Russell gulch, un
| pin county ON the 10th and hau hot
been found Monday night
The city council of La Junta has Or
| dered a new reservoir with Il capacl'y
| of 100000 gallons to be built as an 'io
J ditiOn to the city water plant.
Sam Roberts of Canon City shot ana
killed his wife and her mother anu
/ then killed himself. He was dissolute
/ and his wife had obtained divorce
A message from Buffalo, Wyoming,
! on the 18th states that a courier mas
/ come in from Powder river Win the
report that the officers have the mon
I Pacific train robbers surrounded AT II.
( X. mountain and capture is regarded
as certain to follow.
Two lads, named Prng and Lee, III
! a hay rack, We're killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The TWO
! horses hitched to the wagon were
kiiied and the wagon demolished. Two
| other young men standing by the wag-
! on talking to them were uninjured.
Oliver Lee and James Gilliland were
! 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
! dict was read and the prisoners were
warmly congratulated. In their afgu-
ments the attorneys have been bitter
I toward each other at times and toward
the witnesses for the other side.
Unless the convicts at the peniten-
! tiary are soon put to work ana MADE
partly self-supporting there will be
shortage mt the end of the term OF
from 100000 to $4,000, according to
| G. r. Hoyt. the warden. He says 1t is
not only proper but absolutely neces-
sary that the men be placed at work,
| as if they are allowed to remain in idle
ness the institution will find itself head
, over heels in debt.
trustees of Evans license was granted
at 81 900 per wear to saloons. Three
! applicants for licenses We're handed in
and granted The town voted temper
ance by large majority last April,
but by the resignation of two of the
temperance trustees the change came
about. A petition was circulated ask
ing the board not to grant a license.
and was signed by a 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 cases they
appealed to the United States Court OF
Private Land Claims. These grants
were confirmed by the court. but with
areas much less than claimed by the
Indians. In case No. 1874 the grant
clamed embraced 10000 acres. In
case No. 1874. the claim was for 25,OO0
acres and in case No. 1875 the San Fe-
lipe Pueblos claimed over 25.OOO acres.
A promising gold discovery is report
ed at Buford. station on the line of
the Union Pacific railroad about 25
miles west of Cheyenne. The discov-
cry was made May 1 by the O'Reilly
brothers of Buford, who have since
that time been sinking prospecting
shaft on the ore body. They are now
down 30 feet. where they have cut a
vein from which the ore assays over
5000 per ton in gold A number of
residents of Cheyenne have staked out
claims adjoining the O'Reilly property.
Manager Voorhees, of the Hartville
iron mines has received Instructions
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany to close down the mines at Hart
vile, Wyoming. at once. This throws
between 100 and $50 miners and ore
haulers out of employment and de-
I stroys a number of good business en-
terprises in the Badger Hartville sec
tion. 1t is believed that the order to
close down will also delay the building
of the spur from Badger to Hartville.
work upon which was commenced
some weeks ago.
The insurance companies have begun
their fight on the Denver & Rio Grande
road to recover losses occasioned by
the disastrous fire at Colorado Springs
last October. 1t will be remembered
that the cause of the fire was al
legged to have been due to the explosion
of a car of powder on the Denver &
Rio Grande tracks. and suits have been
started by the small property owners
on Huerfano street to recover damages
The suit as filed is an exceedingly vol
luminous one. 1t involves over $50, 900
and others similar in nature may fol-
low 1t.
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 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
little or no equipment for the new
troops. In the consignment from the
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