The silver star., 1899-07-07
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

1erlnR from drought
Mrs. Edna Higgins of La veta, the
well-known temperance worker OF
Colorado died on the 9th.
The President has appointed Louis
A. Knackstedt of Colorado to be agent
Of the Southern Ute Indians.
The Buckeye mill. located near Mag
nolia, Boulder county, was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Boulder celebrated Strawberry Day
on the oath. and also the completion
Of the new electric road to the Chau-
tauqua grounds.
Clarence i. tombstone OF Cheyenne
has been appointed an assistant in the
irrigation department of the Agricul-
tural Bureau at salary of $500 year
ly.
The pipe organ presented TO the First
Presbyterian church of Boulder by An
drew Carnegie, the iron king. has ar
rived The organ is the only instrument
of its kind In the city.
Rural free delivery postal service has
been established at Morrison. Jeffer-
son county, with one carrier. George
G. Strickland, to take effect July 9th.
The service will cover an area of
eight miles and serve 400 persons.
As an experiment the Santa Fe rail
road is employing Navajo Indians as
section men on its road near Gallup.
About 100 men have been employed.
and thus far the experiment has been
pronounced success by the railroad,
which will probably engage several
hundred more of them.
Officers of the Western Slope Hunt
ing Association are arranging elabo-
rate plans for their second annual lion
hunt. to be held at DeBeque. and they
have called upon General Passenger
Agent Bailey of the Colorado Midland
to announce that the hunt will be held
October 25th this year, instead of in
December. as in 1898.
Jesse NJ. Smith of Layton, Utah,
president of the Utah Wool Growers
Association. and Senator Arthur
Brown of Salt Lake City are on their
way to Washington. where they ex-
pect to protest to the Interior Depart
ment against the recent order of the
government forbidding the pasturing
of sheep on the forest reserve of the
Uintah reservation.
Thomas Tobin, one of the most eff
cient guards ever employed at the
Colorado penitentiary, was fatally
wounded at 1915 o'clock Wednesday
morning, in most unfortunate en-
counter with two officers from Flor.
ence, all parties being in search of
Charles Nichols, the escaped convict
who was captured by still another par
ty and Is now safe in his old cell.
The police report that there is more
petty stealing going on in the hills
around Cripple Creek and even In the
city itself than ever before in the his
tory Of the present administration. says
the Star. The deprcdations consist
In the hills, of a general breaking into
cabins. during the absence of the own
ers. the invasion of subterranean
places of storage and the theft of pow.
der, steel and miners implements.
Something peculiar in the monthly
report Of the Board Of Health, which
will be issued in few days, is the
fact that for June the number OF
deaths of women about equaled those
Of men This is very unusual, as q
glance through the records Of the
Health Department will show. In
May eighty-four males and fifty-Ons
females composed the deaths, and II
April the ratio was Ill to sixty-six.
The workings of the Vulcan mine Al
Newcastle are becoming so hot thai
work Is almost impossible. The i'm
mense fans are running at full speed
to drive out the great volumes of gas
thrown on. The fire In the vein \
liable to break out mt any moment
The management Is rushing the work
men In IN attempt to get out all thu
! coal possible, but the danger Is very
| great and a shutdown must come
soon.
The Salvation Army colony neal
Granada has been the center Of attrac
ton for several days. owing to tn,
presence there of Commander Booth
Tucker The commander found mat
tiers at the colony in very satisfactor,
condition. The people nre doing wei
and making the experiment n success
Fifty more families VIII he sent to tn,
colony this summer. The commando
expects to visit the colony at no dis
tant date.
! 1t now seems possible that the Strict,
Ter tunnel, TO supply water for Colornd,
SpTiHSs, Hhy De completed by tn
time snow flies. II IL announced tina
the work on the west end, which wa
abandoned last fall. will bc commence,
again. It Is thought that the watc
now In the tunnel can be pumped GU
In about ten days. The present short
age OF city winter IL considered by man
us n proof that the tunnel should b
finished without delay because O
financial Observation-Disclosures or an,
other cause.
Trnin No. on the Midland Terminal
which left Colorado Springs mt 7:2
Monday morning. was brought to
complete stnndstIll by caterpillars. !
was on n steep grade a few miles fron
Cripple Creek. The train was movin
slowly. the engine putting great cloud
Of black smoke out upon the mountain
air. when suddenly the wheels begal
to revolve with grent rnpldity. TN
train stopped. and the engineer nm,
fireman discovered that immense cntei
pillars covered the rails completely 10
. distance Of about 100 yards.
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