The silver star., 1899-10-20
WESTERN NOTES.

50 @Oous WV uoutu III Iee&
Christopher L. Funk Of Pueblo was
murdered in cold blood ON the 10th.
Inere ID no clue to the assassin.
The bod carriers at Victor have
struck for higher wages. They have
peen getting IS and $3.50 per day Of
eight hours.
The. Standard tunnel at Cripple
Greek struck a big flow Of water the
other day. For while 1t amounted to
10000 gallons per minute.
The Santa Fe railroad has decided to
remove its railroad shops from San
Marcial, S0corrO county, New Mexico,
anq to make RincOn the division head
quarters.
Dick" Holmes, who won fame MS
color bearer of the Colorado volun-
teers, was given n rousing welcome at
his old home In Philllpsburg, New
Jersey.
Ex-United States Senator John J. In
gals spent several hours In Albu-
querque last night. He is in very
poor health, being scarcely able to
speak above n whisper. He Is on his
way to Las Cruces In search Of relief.
Llewellyn and Greenway Of Las
Cruces, have located $4,000 acres Of
soda placer mines in the vicinity of
White Sands, near the Dona Ana Otero
county lines. The location is on pro
posed branch line of the Santa Fe rail-
road from Las Cruces to Tularosa.
The career of John Carter, alias Kid
Adams, who attempted to rob a treas
ure coach near Mt. Sneffels last week,
has been cut short by n bullet. He
wns shot and killed near Placerville by
Deputy Sheriff George Kinchen, while
resisting arrest.
While sinking an artesian well at
the Vineyard stock farm, in Eddy
county, New Mexico, traces Of oil
were discovered Mt depth Of $40 feet.
Several veins of good water were
struck also, but not of sufficient flow.
The well will be sunk 1000 feet.
1t is stated that the fund used to de-
fend McGinnis was secured by a col
lection among the cowboys Of the Mo
gOllOn district in Socorro county, among
whom McGinnis was very popular.
They appointed p. A. Cunningham to
attend the trial and to do everything in
his power to get McGinnis free.
An appropriation Of $4,000 was
made by the last Congress to Increase
hAAV CAhCAcnCy VI Tue bClIOOA bCA VACO a.
Fort Lewis, Colorado. The money will
probably be used In the purchasing OF
school supplies and hiring more teach
ers. No additions to the school will be
made. ~ the appropriation is insufn-
Client.
Norman Newman, an outlaw and fu-
gitive from Justice from Greer county,
Oklahoma, was shot and killed at Cox's
ranch, at San Augustin. New Mexico,
BY Jose Espalin, q deputy sheriff.
Newman In November Of 1893 murder
ed and robbed his partner. BE was
arrested and kept In jail until July !
last, at which time he escaped.
Ex-Mayor Lucius Anderson, who left
Carlsbad two years ago for Klondike.
returned home unexpectedly. After
nine months Of prospecting and dig
ging near Dawson City he gave mp IN
disgust and went to work at his trade
a. carpenter. at which he made more
money than his companions did at gold
digging.
Judge Leland has ordered all saloons
closed ON Sundays at Las Cruces, and
Judge Crumpacker received q petition
to order the saloons oe Albuquerque
closed Sundays. In nearly al other
cities and towns Of New Mexico the
Sunday law 10 now being enforced and
has resulted In the reduction Of arrests
for petty ofrenses.
It is stated positively that the United
OIL Company has struck oil In large
quantities east of Trinidad In the San
Francisco basin. md that the hole has
been plugged up. the machinery moved
to another part Of the land and that
another well will be Mt once put down.
It II stated that oil has been found at
q depth Of little less than 1900 feet.
Senator Wheeler, who for nearly
twenty years has published the Daily
and Weekly Times at Aspen. has
leased the paper and plant for one
year to A. 3. Thompson and w. II.
Breach. secretary and st0ckholder. re-
spectively, In the Times Publishing
Company. Senator Wheeler will spend
o portion Of his time In the Cripple
Greek district. where he has recently
become interested In some promising
gold properties.
The case Of tho Territory versus Will
liam II. McGinnix. the train robter, on
trial all this week for the killing Of
Sheriff Edward Fmrr Of Wnlsenburg,
CmAh1U " p ChOuG Ws Ae&stSss s,sstWAstmys = $50
judge instructed the Jury ut . O'Clock.
and at 0 o'clock the Jury retired. The
Jury at 1910 brought In a verdict OF
guilty Of murder IN the second degree.
Counsel for defendant entered gen.
eral exception to the Judges charge to
tho jury and especially to tho special
charges suggested by counsel for the
state.
The government seems to bc In earn
ct about establishing forest reserve
Of over 100000 Acrc~ In lincoln c0un-
ty. despite the decided opposition to
tho project An order has been issued
By the Interior Department Withdraw
ing the land within the proposed forest
reserve from settlement for the pres-
ent. There nrc twcnty-scven town.
ships IN the proposed reserve and ev-
cry town In lincoln county. except
White Oaks, is situated upon II, To-
gether with the N0gnl and Bonit0 min
Ing districts nnd tho Salado coal fields.
Developments In Denver and Ouray
throw = now and sensational light On
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