The Meeker herald., 1899-08-05

placed in Palmer Lake.
Marcus DAILY Of Butte was reported
seriously Ill on the 18th.
Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh lee
tured at the Boulder ChautauQua on
the battle Of Manila last week.
Santa Fe people have decided to issue
bonds for new school building to cost
about $4,000.
The Burlington has large corps Of
surveyors looking for good route
from western Colorado to Ogden.
Horse and cattle thieves are operat-
Ing around Springer and ranchmen are
organizing to capture the thieves.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company is
building a large sheep shearing and
sheep dipping plant at Springer. Over
5000 sheep will be sheared and dip
ped at that plant this season yet.
The opening, session of the Rocky
Mountain Medical Association began
on the 18th at Salt Lake when Presi
dent Charles Pickney Hough of Salt
Lake called the. meeting to order at
Salt Lake. a.
The annual meeting of the National
Irrigation Congress will be held this
year at MissOuln. Montana, September
25th, 28th and 9th. State, municipal
and scientific organizations will be en-
titled to send delegates.
1t has been given out that August 1st
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
road will operate its trains direct to
Denver, via the Fort Worth & Denver
City roads track. The new deal will
enable the Santa Fe to get into Den
yer at saving of nearly a thousand
miles.
John Doyle. engineer Of the Garfield
Grouse mine, Cripple Creek, was car
ried of 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-
lieved to be held by First Lieutenant
Max Luna of the Thirty-fourth regi-
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 a royal
send-off by the town people.
SIMON Rodriguez was found at 8
O'clock In the morning on the Pecos
Valley & Northeastern Railroad, near
Roswell. with three knife wounds in
his side and his two hands cut of
by switching engine running over
him. A Mexican was arrested on
suspicion of having committed the
crime.
The Santa Fe and the Colorado &
1I..k4 <IHo
schedule of passenger trains between
Denver and Pueblo. The new arrange
ments give the combined roads six
passenger trains day each why.
Tickets of either Santa Fe er Cob
RADIO & Southern are good on the trains
of either road between Denver and
Pueblo.
County Attorney Putnam of Salt
Lake City has issued n complaint.
charging Apostle Heber ]. Grant Of
the Mormon Church with unlawful co
habitation. The affidavit filed against
Grant by C. NJ. Owens, who Is working
up these cases, charged Grant with
adultery, but County Attorney Putnam
did not think the evidence sufficient
to warrant prosecution under this
charge.
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 a similar nature have been
raised in Pueblo. Leadville and other
towns. A similar movement Is now
on foot in Cripple Greek. and the city
council of that town has already ap-
tod fou -, rp.0r
Union Of Cripple Creek to carry out its
project.
Canon City citizens now believe that
there is no question but that that town
will be the terminus of the Florence
& Cripple Creek railroad. Railroad
men say that the Florence & Cripple
Creek line will unquestionably build
the extension and that in reality it
Is meant as block to the Santa Fe,
which has contemplated building into
Cripple Greek for some time. The
committee from Canon City say the
line will be built, 1t believes, and in
operation within four months.
A dispatch from New York says:
President Trumbull of the Colorado 4
Southern is said to have In his pos
session plans and surveys for the
building of a short line from Denver
to Cripple Creek. Under the plans
the short line would connect with the
Colorado Midland, or in lieu of that
have a very close agreement with the
Florence & Cripple Greek road, and
thus open up prolific country south
of the Arkansas river. Mr.. Trumbull
is said to be warm advocate Of
carrying the original plans to compile
tion now, as the freight income would
be about 81 ton for haul of scarcely
$50 miles on an even grade.
st. Louis people have been in Spring
er, New Mexico, looking for a tract Of
land Of 10000 acres in one body. 1t is
understood that they are Negotiating
with the Maxwell Land Grant Com
pany for that amount of land adjoining
the city on the north and east. South
ern New Mexico people have also been
looking at a tract of 10000 acres be-
longing to the grant on the west and
north, and other eastern buyers have
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