The Monte Vista journal., 1899-08-05
WESTERN NOTES.,


Hx thousand young trout have been
placed In Palmer Lake.
Marcus DAILY Of Butte was reported
ssrseusay III on the 2Sth.
Captain Ooghlan Of the Raleigh leo
tared at the Boulder ChautauQua on
Tie battle Of Manila last week.
Governor Thomas, in an address be-
toro the Boulder ChautauQua, con-
dsPned the present policy Of the gov
sfnment In relation TO the Philippines
The opening session Of the Rocky
Mountain Medical Association began
on the 18th At Salt Lake when Presi.
cent Charles Pickney Hough Of Salt
Lake called the meeting to order at
Salt Lake.
II has been given out that August LIST
the Gulf. Colorado 4 Santa Fe rail-
road will operate Its trains direct to
Denver. via the Fort Worth 4 Denver
Sity road's track. The new deal will
enable the Santa Fe to get into Den
yer At saving Of nearly q thousand
miles.
John Doyle. engineer of the Garfield
Grouse mine. Cripple Creek, was car
ried on by twenty masked men at an
early hour Tuesday morning. The
victim. who WAS released after being
severely beaten. cannot or will not
give any reason for the treatment he
received.
The prize recruiting record is be-
lleved TO be held by First Lieutenant
Max Luna Of the Thirty fourth rcgi-
ment, who has In two days in Phoenix,
Arizona, enlisted fifty.two recruits for
his regiment. The men were sent TO
Fort Logan and were given royal
sehd.on by the town people.
Simon Rodriguez was found at 3
O'Clock In the morning on the pccos
Valley d Northeastern Railroad. near
Roswell, with three knife wounds In
his side and his two hands cut OF
by switching engine running over
MN. Mexican was arrested on
suspicion OF having committed the
crime.
The Santa Fc and the Colorado &
Southern have completed the time
schedule OF passenger trains between
Denver and Pueblo. The new arrange
ments give the combined roads six
passenger trains day each way.
Tickets OF either Santa Fe or Colo
RADIO Il Southern are good on the trains
OF either road between Denver and
Pueblo.
County Attorney Putnam of Salt
Lake City has issued complaint,
charging Apostle Hebcr ]. Grant OF
the Mormon Church with unlawful CO.
The affidavit filed against
Grant by c. NJ. Owens, who is working
up these eases. charged Grant with
but County Attorney Putnam
did not think the evidence sufficicn:
to warrant prosecution under this
charge.
Leadville sportsmen have taken up
the cudgcl against the Twin Lakes
Reservoir Company and will probably
bring n contest In the courts question
Ing the right to construct n reservoir
on n meandcring stream or TO raise and
lower the water. The opinions OF sew
eral Denver and Lcadvilic lawyers
have been obtained to the effect that
according to the federal statutes this
right is prohibited.
Colorado Is threatened with another
passenger rate war. which may posi-.
Ply assume the ruinous proportions of
the famous conflict some i've years ago
between the Denver 4 Rio Grande and
the Colorado Midland roads. when the
fare to all parts OF the State was but 81
cents. The impending conflict will be
between the same ronds, and due 10
the threat Of the Rio Grnnde to put on
another fast train TO Grand Junction.
The movement begun by the Sol
diers' Relatives Union OF Denver to
bring the Denver volunteers home
from San Francisco free Of cost to the
soldiers themselves Is gaining ground.
Funds OF similar nature Lave been
raised In Pueblo. Lradvilic and other
towns. A similar movement Is now
on foot In Cripple Greek. and the city
council Of that town has already ap.
propriated $1,000 for the Relatives
Union Of Cripple Greek 10 carry out Its
project.
Canon City citizens now believe tina,
there Is no question but that that town
Will he the terminus of the Fiorcnc,
a Cripple Creek railroad. Railroad
men say that the Florence 4 Crippl.
Greek line will unlucsiionably build
the extension and that In reality 4,
Is meant ms n block 10 til. Santa Fc
which has contemplated building into
Cripple Creek for some time. The
committee from Canon City say The
line will bc built. II believes, aud IN
operation within four months.
A dispatch from New York SAYS
President Trumbuli OF the Colorado 4
Southern II said 10 have In his pos
session plans and surveys for the
building OF short line from Denver
TO Cripple Creek. Under the plan,
the short line would connect with the
Colorado Midland, or In lieu Of tina,
have very close agreement with the
Florence 4 Crippl. Creek road. and
thus open up n prolific country south
OF the Arkansas river. Mr.. TrumbulI
IN said TO liz warm advocate OF
carrying the original plans to compile.
uon now. as the freight income would
bc about - u ton for haul Of scarcely
100 MILES on nm even grade.
~. Louis people hav. been In Spring.
er. New Mexico. looking for n trnct OF
land of $1,000 acres In one body. II II
understood that they are Negotiating
with tho Maxwell Land Grant Com.
pnny for that amount Of lnnd adjoining
the city ON the north nnd east. South.
crn New Mexico people have also been
looking NJ a tract Of GOOD acres lsr.
longing 10 the grant on the west and
north. md other eastern buyers have
made nn offer for 100000 acres also In
one tract. AZ this rate the Maxwell
Land Grant Company will soon own
very little land In southern Coifnx
county. Whnt Use this land II 10 l,e pu,
to is not known. II II known 10 t,c tho
best agricultural land ON the grant.
Inc State University will open Sep.
tetnbcr iith. with private funds al.