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NEWS FROM THE WESTERN REGION. e is year was $17,450,000. while the same Boulder celebrated Strawberry Day d products aggregated a value of a little on the 24th, and also the completion of the new electric road to the Chauless than $28,000,000 in the combined tauqua grounds. states of Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona. Nevada and Idaho. W. B. Askew, postmaster at Russell This makes the products of Colorado Gulch, Colorado, and a member of the equal to about two-thirds of all the grocery firm of Wagner & Askew, comothers. The Colorado wheat crop was mitted suicide by shooting himself. one-third of the total of all the other The trial of the men charged with bestates mentioned, the oats and barley t ing principals in the notorious opera one-half, the hay two-thirds, and the house riot in Colorado Springs in Seppotatoes one and a half times as much. tember last began in the district court Among the states of the union, Coloon the 21st and they were acquitted. rado was twenty-ninth in the list in A tornado visited Akron, Colorado, the vield of corn per acre, third in on the 21st, and wrecked the dwellings, wheat, eighteenth in oats. seventh in a barns and sheds on Dole & Gillette's barley, first in rye, twelfth in potatoes, a sheep ranch six miles northeast of Akand fourth in hay. Her yield per acre ron. Charles H. Abbott, who was was as follows: Corn. 21.3 bushels; working at the ranch. was killed by wheat, 19: oats, 27.9: barley, 26: rye, $ lightning while milking. 16.7: potatoes, 92; and hay, 1.78 tons. 1 The second annual Strawberry Day The chase after the men who held up for Glenwood was one of the happiest and dynamited a Union Pacific mail events in the history of the place. The train at Wilcox bridge June 2 has been weather was perfect and the attendabandoned. They were followed across ance at least 1,000 ahead of the most Laramie plains, the Casper mountains sanguine expectations. Four thousand through the Hole-in-the-Wall country, people at strawberries, cream and cake across the main range of the Big Horn to repletion. Three-fourths of this mountains and into the Big Horn ba number spent an hour or more in the sin, where the trail was lost. Twice mammoth pool. during the pursuit the officers were ambushed, Sheriff Hazen being killed Caterpillars are destroying all the in one fight. Friends of the outlaws foliage on the Pecos Valley forest reaided them to escape by furnishing serve, especially on the quaking aspen them fresh horses and keeping them 1 trees. Shovelfuls of the caterpillars posted as to the movements of the offi are picked up every morning by the cers. The trail was lost in the Owl rangers and burned, but the plague is Creek mountains. and it is believed the increasing, and makes it very disagreebandits reached the Wind River mounable for visitors, who find themselves tains, where there is an immense reand their horses literally covered with gion almost unexplored, and affording the caterpillars after a few miles of countless hiding places. Realizing the travel. futility of further pursuit, the various posses maintained by the railroad comThe police report that there is more pany. the federal and state govern petty stealing going on in the hills ments have been withdrawn. It is around Cripple Creek and even in the city itself than ever before in the histhe opinion of Marshall Hadsell's posse tory of the present administration, saya that the only way to capture the robthe Star. The depredations consist, bers is by a still hunt, conducted by in the hills, of a general breaking into men thoroughly familiar with the coun cabins, during the absence of the owntry. ers, the invasion of subterranean places of storage and the theft of powTo illuminate the point of Pike's der, steel and'miners' implements. Peak, to paint the entire state of Colorado and parts of Kansas and NeJohn Haines, oldest son of M. S. braska red, is the purpose of those in Haines, was killed in the Mitchell charge of the Fourth of July celebramine at Lafayette, Colorado, on the tion at Cripple Creek. The undertak21st. while pulling top coal a large ing is one of the largest and most amount of coal and rock falling and unique in the history of Independence burying him completely. The miners Day celebrations in Colorado. It is prouncovered his head and found him to posed to place on the summit of Pike's be alive and able to talk. but more Peak 300 pounds of red fire. At an coal and rock fell and a large force hour to be fixed later the entire mass of men was put at work to rescue him, will be ignited by electricity and will which took about an hour, when he burst forth into flames. The promotwas found to be dead. ers of the illumination of Pike's Peak Five pounds of giant powder were say that the light will be seen over exploded by Cripple Creek people on the entire state east of the range and the side of Big Bull mountain for the its reflection on the heavens will be purpose of ascertaining the quantity visible on the Pacifie slope. The idea that can be safely used in the big was suggested by Mayor Johnson of earthquake or. the Fourth of July. The Denver. The people of Cripple Creek, test was entirely satisfactory. The and neighboring towns and in Colorado earth and smoke were forced into the Springs and Manitou will be asked to air for hundreds of feet. The comcontribute money for the fire. The mittee in charge of the earthquake cog wheel railway company has offerscene will now go ahead and make ed to haul the fire free of charge to the complete arrangements as originally summit of the peak and half a dozen planned. The general committee for electricians have volunteered to conthe big celebration have adopted plans nect the huge mass with a storage for a big pavilion to be erected on battery and guarantee that it will be Second and Victor avenues. The pavilexploded without difficulty. ion will be the largest ever erected in this city. Around the four sides will A dispatch from Cheyenne says Mr. E: P. Snow, secretary of the State be upraised seats with a capacity for seating 1,100 people. Board of Sheep Commissioners, returned this morning from the western Assignee Chapman of the failed State part of the state, where he has been Bank of Monte Vista has just made inspecting several bands of sheep bepublic the following statement of asing trailed into the state from Oregon. sets and liabilities of the bank and its Under the new law passed by the last two branches. the Miners' Bank of Legislature all sheep trailed or shipped Creede and the Farmers' Bank of by rail into the state are to be inHooper. Liabilities: Open deposits, spected at the border. Among the $42,903.30: certificates of deposit, $11. shipments being made into the state 976.64; due First National Bank of at the present time are the following: Denver, $24,991.14: unpaid taxes, J. W. Blake, 1.000 head, shipped by $780.56. Total, $80,651.64. Assets: rail from Oregon to Montpelier, Idaho, Overdrafts, good, $6,740.27 real esand trailed into Wyoming from that tate and fixtures, $14,500: Chase Nn. place: J. K. Fitzwater, 4,000; Barker tional Bank. New York, $106.19; loans Bros., 3,000; E. Boetteher, 14,000; W. and discounts, considered good. $48. J. Blake, 12,000: L. P. Southworth, 20.533.26; cash and cash items. $732.70; 000; Platte Valley Sheep company. 30,rents, etc. due. $215.65. Total, $70. 000 head. These sheep will nearly all 828.07. The assignee is hopeful of be driven over what is known as the making an early dividend. This happy Lander trail and will be ranged in result will depend upon his ability to various parts of the state. About 40.turn the overdrafts. real estate and 000 will be ranged in Central Wyoloans into cash. ming, about 15,000 will go to the Laramie Plains, and the remainder will Denver Lodge No. 46 of the Brothergo to the Big Horn basin. Sheepmen hood of Railroad Trainmen has with of the state are apprehensive that the drawn from the State Federation of advent of many sheep into the state Labor. The lodge has more than 400 will result in serious overcrowding of members, and is one of two lodges in the ranges. the state to be affiliated with the Fed eration. The other is in Pueblo and The summer session of the Colorado has a membership of more than 200. As Editorial Association met at Glenwood a result of a recent meeting the officers on the 23rd. At the afternoon roll-call of the Federation have been served with notice of withdrawal by the offithe following were found to be prescers of the lodge. Included in the noent: Halsey M. Rhoads, Press, Dentice is' request for a card of honorver: W. P. Kennedy and wife, Reveille, Rifle: E. Price, A. C. Newton, able withdrawal and an expression that if necessary the members were Press, Denver: W. P. Kennedy and prepared to vote a contribution to the wife. News, Grand Junction: F. A Haimbaugh, Sentinel, Denver; L. H. smeltermen's strike. No specific reaJohnson, Herald-Democrat, Leadville son is given for the withdrawal, but it Howard T. Lee and wife, Republican, is stated that the radical expressions Denver: J. L. Berry. Facts, Colorado of the federation concerning the Idaho Springs: C. F. Liggett. Press, Sheridan mine troubles is responsible for the withdrawal. Lake: Leo Vincent and wife, Representative, Boulder: A. Roberts and wife. A telegram has been received nt Press, Montrose: S. D. Brosius and Trinidad to the effect that one of the wife, Mail, Pueblo: W. L Thorndyke gang of safe blowers who cracked the and wife. Reporter, Loveland A. safes of the Colorado & Southern and Sechrist, Times, Wray: J. D. Lawless and wife, Sparks, Lamar: C.O. Finch, Santa Fe offices in that city on the Journal. Castle Rock: W. E. Pabor, night of the 13th. had been arrested Grand Junction C. T. Rawalt. Cham at Albuquerque. N M. Cashier Fredpion, Gunnison: J. F. Greenawaldt erley of the Colorado & Southern furnished the clue that led to the arrest. Tribune, Florence: Howard Russell, Express, Fort Collins: George O. Blake, Some time ago, among the money ta-
