The silver star. (Dolores, Colo.) 1897-1901, 1899-06-23
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

The little girl lost in Gilpin county is
still missing
Polly Goats of Leadville is charged
with having deliberately murdered her
! baby.
wilmot H. Lake of Central City was
drowned in South Boulder Greek ON the
10th.
Scattering rains fell throughout New
Mexico ON the 10th. being the first
in several months.
The Union Pacific lost $4,000 by n
fire at La Sale. Colorado. which burn
ed the ore chutes and several cars.
4 three year-old girl wandered away
from her home in Russell gulch, Gill
pin county, ON the 10th and had not
been found Monday night.
The city council of La Junta mas or
dered new reservoir with a capacity
of 100000 gallons TO be built rs an 'id-
dition to the city water plant.
Sam Roberts of Canon City shot and
killed his wife and her mother anu
then killed himself. He was dissoiute
and his wife had obtained divorce.
A message from Buffalo, Wyoming.
on the 18th states that courier mas
come I'm from Powder river with tne
report that the officers have the Union
Pacific train robbers surrounded at ~.
*. mountain and capture is regarded
as certain to follow.
Two lads, named Pring and Lee, in
a hay rack, were killed by lightning
near Monument Tuesday. The two
horses hirched TO the wagon We're
kliled 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 We're
warmly congratulated. In their argu-
ments the attorneys have been bitter
toward each other at times and toward
the witnesses for the other side.
Unless the convicts ut the peDiten-
tlary are soon put to work and made
partly self-supporting there will be n
shortage mt the end of the term Of
from SG0.0OO TO $4,000, according TO
c. j. 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.
AT an adjourned meeting OF the town
trustees of Evans license was granted
ut $1,000 per year to saloons. Three
applicants for licenses were 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 n license.
and was signed by 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
We're confirmed by the court. but with
areas much less than claimed by the
Indians. In case No. 1874 the grant
GAINED embraced 1000 acres. In
ease No. 1874. the claim was for $4,000
acres. and in ease No. 1876 the San Fe.
lipe Pueblos claimed over 81 900 acres
A promising gold discovery is report
Ut u Sthtlon OI tilt line oil
the Union Pacific railroad about q
miles west of Cheyenne The discov.
cry was made May by the O'Reilly
brothers of Buford. who have since
that time been sinking a prospecting
shaft on the ore body. They are now
down 81 feet. where they have cut q
vein from which the ore assays over
500 per ton in gold. A number OF
residents OF Cheyenne have staked out
claims adjoining the O'Iicllly property
Manager voorhees, of the Hartyills
iron mines has received instruction,
from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany to close down the mines mt Hart
Vile, Wyoming. nj once. This throw,
between 100 and 100 miners and ore
haulers out of employment and de
strOys a number 81 good business en-
terprIses In the Badger Iartville sec
tlon. II Is believed that the order Il
close down will also delay the building
Of the spur from Bndgcr to Hnrtvillc
work upon which was commenced
some weeks ago.
q The Insurance companies have begu,
their fight on the Denver & Rio Grand,
road to recover losses occasioned h,
the disastrous fire nj Colorado Springs
last October. II will be remembers,
that the cause Of the fire was nj
legged Ia have been due 10 the explosion
OF car Of powder on the Denver
Rio Grande tracks. and suits have beer
started by the small property owner
on Huerfnno street 10 recover damages
The suit M filed " nm exceedingly vol
luminous one. II Involves over x20,OO'
and others similar In nature rpny fol
low II.
Wyoming Inns been notified by III,
government That equipment 10 take III,
plncc OF TINT furnished the volunteer
from That state Inns been shipped from
the government supply depots ans
should arrive In IL few days. WheI
the Wyoming volunteers left for tn
Philippines they took with them nj
most NIL Of the military equipment h
the stnte. When the state militia wa
reorgnnixed nnd recruited. there VA
little or mo equipment for the ney
troops. In the consignment from In
general government nrc q number q
cannon. two or three hundred SprInp
ne1d rifles mud N large n,tfnlor NJ tn,,ts