The Elbert County tribune., 1899-07-20
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.


| In the history of American raiiroaus.
Swift Bear and his party OF sioux
Indians. having eight wagons loaded
| with yenlson, resisted arrest on buck
creek. wyoming. for killing game con-
trary TO law. Amos Demming' oepu'y
/ sheriff OF Converse county, nhu u
| posse left Lusk "Wednesday WIN VIII
rants for the arrest of the lndlhms nnu
overlook them at Buck creek Ihurs-
| dov morning. After reading the war
rants the Indians refused TO go Win
/ tho sheriff, drew line and tolu MN IL
he crossed the line there would DE war
Being outnumbered the sheriH came 10
Edremont to get help and papers Tor
| tbe nrrest of the Indians In south Dh-
| kota. as they had crossed the line.
| Deputy Sheriff George Miller OF Euge,
mont will go ont with an increhseu
force. Demming telegrapheu ,he IN
| dian agent at Pine Ridge TO nave
force ~ Indian polce go out to inter-
cent the Indians IL they got AWAY from
! The Edgemont and Wyoming posse
and II is expected the Indians VIII oe
! oyertaken somewhere near tine agency.
A dispatch from Helena says Judge
Knowles, In the United States court,
| hns signed n warrant for the removal
| of David Putty and Bud Nolan. the
| two outlaws who were captured In
| Beayerhead county and are believed 10
| have been implicated in the hold-up OF
| the Union Pacific train near WILCOX,
| wyoming. Officers will leave for Og-
/ den at noon tomorrow 10 convey tne
| prisoners to Cheyenne. They nave
| been positively identified as Putty and
| Nolan, and are being taken East to
| answer to charges OF robbing post
| offices at Woolton and Big Piny. ne
/ cent advices, however, are to tine er-
| feet that the Wyoming authorities nave
| d card up their sleeves. and that the
| ineb when safely lodged in the Chey-
enne jail wifi be Informed against for
| the robbery of the train. District At
| torney Timothy Burls thinks the gov
| ernment Will be able to connect them
with that outrage, although they are
| admitted now not to be the original
| Roberts brothers, whom the ofhcers
were looking for when they set out.
| One of the most terrible cloudbursts
and floods known in the history of the
| section occurred five miles west or
| Pine Grove at about 2:30 p. IN. on the
18th. The electrical display was vivid
| beyond description. A dark cloud ap-
peared from the north which was met
by one from the west and a battle OF
the giants began. The water fell in
torrents. filling Pine Grove gulch and
Rowlen gulch to n depth of fifteen to
twenty feet. When the flood struck the
Platte river at Il point half mile west
of this place. 1t swept the railroad
bridge and tracks into the river for
about eighty feet At Cliff. five miles
further west. the railroad track was
buried under sand. rocks and debris
for length of 300 feet and a depth of
from two to six feet. The wagon road
In Pine Grove gulch. which was built
by the Stewart & Mcconnell Lumber
Company three years since, at cost
of $4,000. Is nearly destroyed. Every
bridge for four miles is gone. The
Colorado & Southern Company imme-
diately placed force of fifty men at
work and trains are running regularly.
Some transferring of passengers was
necessary last night.
Warden C. p. Hoyt of the state peni-
tentiary advocates an addition to that
institution. The penitentiary, he says,
Is overcrowded. I'VE have 450 cells
and 5S7 convicts. This necessitates
putting two men in many of the cells.
When you consider that the cells are
only 4xT feet 1t can readily be seen
what 1t means to put two men into one
this must be done, but there is no help
for 1t until we build an addition. We
ought to have cell room for at least 300
more prisoners A building of this
kind would cost us about $4,000. This
Is figuring OH the roofing and iron
work. The labor. stone, lime. brick and
everything In that line we could fur
nish ourselves. Out of the 5S7 convicts
552 are at work making brick. quarry
ing rock and laying water mains. We
are extending our water works sys-
TEN. About 1.200 feet OF mains Is be-
ing laid. and we shall tap the Arkan-
sas twelve feet below its bead, thus
insuring absolutely pure water. An,
other important enterprise on which
. the prisoners are now at work Is the
building of n stone wall around twen-
ty-two acres of land adjacent to the
peniientiary and a part of the peniten-
tiary grounds"
In his report TO the penitentiary CON
missioners Warden Hoyt gives us the
following figures: "December 80, 1898
there We're in the penitentiary 500
prisoners. During the six months end
ing June 80, 1s99 lis were committed
to the prison, los We're discharged on
expiration of sentence, and was par
doned. Four were transferred to the
insane asylum at Pueblo. 8 to the re-
formatory Mt Buena Vista, and died,
while % convicts are employed on the
state roads From this gang there
, have been three escapes, but all have
been recaptured. During the first four
months of 1899, before | took posses.
, sion of the institution, $40, ,T21.7G was
expended for operating expenses.
, Since that time about 5000 has been
put into improvements and repairs.
, The water works and sewer systems
have each been greatly improved, sew
eral hundred feet of new ten-ipcl,
water mains have been laid. the reser-
voirs cleaned and repaired, and filter
ing apparatus provided. Heretofore
the water used was pumped direct
from the river. placing in jeopardy the
! lives OF every inmate of the institution.
A new stone wall 300 feet long. 80 feet
/ high and 3 feet thick is being built
around the brlckynrd and lime kiln.
When finished 1t VIII give the penitep-
, tiary frontage of about 1000 feet
! The warden also dwells at length upon
, the work done at the stone quarry tine
,, brickyard and elsewhere, making his
+ report valuable and interesting docu-
ment.
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