The silver star., 1899-04-20

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A complimentary dinner was ten
dered Senator Francis T. Warren by
the citizens OF Cheyenne last week.
Reports are in circulation that the
Missouri Pacific. Rock Island and I'M
nois Central are planning TO buiio 10
the st by way Of Denver.
The District Court Of Arapahoe
county has decided that owners OF
property must file their schedule OF
property with the assessor according
to law.
After blockade of nearly three
months the Midland railroad has sue
ceeded in clearing Hagerman's Pass
Of snow and traffic will be resumed
across the range.
The Santa Fe city council has voted
TO ask President Mckinley to give 10
the city the abandoned Fort Marcy
reservation OF seventeen and one-han
acres for school purposes.
The Pythians OF Denver will erect
handsome stone temple of modern de-
sign at cost Of from $4,000 to S1Oo.-
GO There will be at least four large
halls. one of which will be set apart for
banquets.
The funeral services over the body
Of ex-senator Tabor were held at Den
yer on the 18th. They were partici-
pated In by prominent citizens, public
officials. the militia and great throng
of friends.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. y. Stevens, national
president of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. Is soon to visit
Colorado. She will speak in Denver
April - and -. For nearly twenty
years she has been elected TO the pres
idency of the Maine union without one
ballot for any other candidate.
1t has been discovered that the water
OF Lake Minnehaha, which forms part
OF one Of the Cheyenne city parks.
froze solid In many parts OF the lake
during the past winter The lake was
stocked two years ago with bass and
pike, and thousands Of these fish. many
Of them from twelve 10 eighteen inches
long, have been frozen solid in the ice.
Chester l.. Ainsworth, a deputy sher-
in of Cochise county. Arizona. and a
brother of Charles Il. Ainsworth, attor-
ney general OF Arizona, was killed and
Edward Moore. n young COW boy, was
mortally wounded Saturday at VIII
gus. In the Chirncahua mountains
They were killed by the Halderman
brothers, whom the murdered men
were trying to arrest.
The Colorado Court OF Appeals has
given n ruling that n county sheriff
may take prisoners to the penitentiary
or reformatory one by one, II he de-
sires. The only provisions are that the
sheriff must act according TO his own
discretion, which Is unlimited. with the
exception that he must not practice
fraud by making unnecessary trips and
thus creating useless expenses.
The newly elected Prohibition mayor
OF Colorado City has issued an order
10 the marshal that all saloons In Col
rado City must he closed and kept
closed from IL o'clock midnight on
Saturday night until Monday morn
ing. This action upon the part Of
Mayor George. is not accepted with
great favor. but as the mayor is en-
forcing state law the council can
not interfere.
The Wyoming Medical Board has
made an effective application OF the
medical law, passed by the last State
Legislature. \ firm OF travelling ply
sicinDs advertised to give series OF
public lectures and treat chronic dis
eases at Cheyenne. The secretary Of
the Stnte Medical Board served notice
upon them that they must submit their
diplomas. or falling IN this. submit 10
an examination. The proposed lee
lures were nj once abandoned and the
parties left the city for Colorado.
The Chicago Il Southern will spend
x3OO,OJO In improvements on the line In
the Immediate future. portion Of the
Platte Canon track will bc relald and
n large force of men VIII bc employed
there within a few weeks. Several
thousand dollars will be used In re-
building the coaches In use on the
South Park line. New platforms will
he built for them. and they will Ike re-
vanished and fitted MP with new seats.
Five new standard gauge coaches will
bc built for the road. probably by the
Pullman Palace Car Company.
with the ncquiesccnce OF the state
land bonrd, the Great Plains Land and
Water Storage Company will take i'm
mediate steps 10 bring into Colorado n
colony OF 1000 families comprising
about 10000 people. For some weeks
the company Inns been negotiating with
the lnnd board for the purchase of
1000 acres Of school land In the Arkan.
mas valley near Lamar. hut such deter.
mined opposition 10 the project hns np-
penred thnt the completion OF the
transaction hns been delayed. Repre-
sentntives Of the company have mp
penrcd before Register Chiplcy and
laid bare the plans Of the concern for
the colonization of thnt portion Of the
Arkansas valley in which the school
land mentioned is located. II was de-
cided TINT the board shall make mn ex-
animation Of the land under discussion.
nnd TO do that trip ~ Lamar wns ar
ranged. The members. accompanied
by representatives of the company md
by n committee representing the Oppo-
sltion. will mako the journey In few
days.
Stntc Examiner u. B. Henderson
and Attorney General j. a. Van Ors.
dell hnvc been Mt Evanston. Wyoming.
examining the accounts mud investI gnt.
ing the acts Of John W. SalnniOn. c0,ip.
~ attorney for I'iutu county Thov