, 1899-10-26

kinds wanted for this purpose are kept
principally by owners of SINAI
ranches. A few districts are now de.
voted entirely to dairymen. Some of
these make in clear profit several hun
dred dollars n month with compare
lively small facilities, besides being
able to raise crops
There was a great gathering of Odd
Fellows at Cripple Greek on the 10Th
and 18th. The cantons In uniform
rank made a fine display and there
was a big parade. The Patriarchs
militant and the military dress parade
occurred Tuesday afternoon. The
space surrounding the drill ground
was crowded with spectators. The
drill of each canton occupied about hf-
teen minute and as the difficult evolu-
ions were performed they drew
rounds of applause. The judges, Cap
tain Howard. First Lieutenant Gowdy
of Colorado Springs and General Klee
decided that Canton Rogers of Denver
was the winner of the 1925 prize; Can
ton Trinidad No. Is, the S115 prize;
Canton Arapahoe No. the S125 prize
and Canton Cripple Creek No. II the
ST5 prize. Each captain of the drill
teams taking part in the competition
Two men on horseback held up the
stage from Sneffies at 3 o'clock Mon
day afternoon about three miles south
of Ouray, up the mountain road, at the
second watering trough, n place well
fitted for such n deed. "he men pre-
sented revolvers at the -four occupants
of the open stage and endeacored to
get out the iron safe, but could not
break the fasteninEs. The bandits
were after the gold bags brought down
daily from the Camp Bird mine, but
Nvnrn pnnNyOrn that thn hnpg arc al
ways placed in an iron safe with an
armed guard TO protect 1t. A telephone
message from Sncfiies shows that the
men kept up on the road and passed
through Snefiies. Sheriff Edgar is us
ing the wires and will dispatch n posse
to endeavor TO capture the highway
men. The occupants of the stage were
not molested and no property was TAX
en- from the stage. which carries he
United States mail.
The railroads have been having con.
siderable trouble in the mountains with
slides of now and mud. \ dispatch
from Glenwood on the 18th says: 1t
has now been thirty-six hours since
n train has passed over the Rio Grande
Junction track. The slide at Morris
fills in as fast as removed inc new
slides are reported tonight. The
storm has now lasted five days, and
tonight il shows no indication of
abatement. All w~est-bound trains are
being held here. Two passenger trains
left here this afternoon. but only went
down the o as far rs Debeque. Both
the Midland and Rio Grande sent out
stub trains eastward from here to-
day. Reports from the hills indicate
serious trouble to several parties of
hunters who have recently left here.
On the northern mesas snow is report
ed from two to four feet deep. This
leaves the hunters stock without food
and makes travelling almost impossible.
The temperature is not severe and n
cessation of the storm would soon set
matters right.
Governor Thomas will personally
investigate the manner of the escape
of James X. Stratton. the notorious
mail robber, who walked out of the
penitentiary n week ago. and he will
endeavOr to place the responsibility. 1t
is freely stated thai Warden Clarence
+. Hoyt will he deposed after the in
vestigation is concluded. This state
ment is partly prompted by a letter
written by Night Captain James Glib
bons, who vas deposed without any
explanation by Warden Hoyt immedi-
ately after the escape of the desperate
'AA SAaA - AfAN H'N" n
tiuence with many influential officials.
In this letter, which was received yes
terday by Hon. James T. Smith. state
labor commissioner. the deposed night
captain talks plainly and TO the point.
He tells the whole story of Stratton's
Facent treatment at the p~enitentiary
and most emphatically asserts that he
had many privileges. He says that
Warden Hoyt neglected to put STRAIT
-. ,.,1aV .AN.-,
when warned by the guards that he
should do so. That's all right is
what the letter reports Hoyt to have
said. "Stratton will not run away.
arc Twill be responsible for him."
and l will be responsible for him.
What promises to be one of the most
extensive II systematic cases of
counterfeiting railway tickets has re-
Gently been discovered by the passen-
ger department of the Colorado Mid
land railroad. j. Il. Wigginhorn, chief
clerk in General Passenger Agent Bal
lcy's office, with several other mem
bers of the force, has been working on
the case for n lumber of weeks and
have mt last obtained conclusive evil
dence of the fact of the forgery and
specimens of the counterfeited tickets.
The extent of the issue has not MS vet
bt'h lAllN 'itA'l III II WIS luIEN
enough to excite suspicion some time
ago, but the imitation was so cleverly
made, INT the method of issue so in.
genious, and so in accordance with the
regular railway methods. that most of
the tickets passed through the conduc.
tors and even the main offices without
being detected. They have beer hon
Ored whenever presented. and the clos
est vigilance was necessary to bring to
light the wholesale fraudulent issue
which has bee going On for several
months. What the monetary value of
the tickets Is. and how much loss IL
will mean TO the o upon which they
We're issued, cln not as yet he calcu-
lated. As the tickets We're MS a rule
made ont TO points In the east. some To
the Atlantic coast, the total will prob
ably be large.
Bias Lucero, 1t is reported, was muir
dered near Chaperito, New Mexico.
Saturday night, presumably by the