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a CITlEb AND TowN nipj anjfD TWO antes i L RAWLINS It Carries Nearly 10 in Gold An Elopement Interesting Surgical Operation FafaJ Railway Accident Acci-dent The Alice Company Mr BarOcIIQZ efirnrBaroeJtef4e1 of KasvliDs is in the city on business The Urm is the fortunate owner oL an Iron mine about two miles from Rawlins that bids fair to become a regular mint to Its owners The lion has been contracted for in considerable quantities by Denver smelter men who utilize it for fluxing purposes The ore Is quite rich in gold idle last assay running 310 to the ton Nearly fifty car loads have already been shipped Denyer but as the ore has to be hauled bj wagon to the railroad the process Is slow and the coat considerable Jhe owners of the mine ate now engaged in an attempt to get the railroad company com-pany to build a spur to the mine The company has surveyed the branch which will be < two miles in length and active work will be begun as soon as an ar1 ran ement can be entered into Pending the building of this spur the Denver smelter operators have offered to contract for 20030 tons of the ore as soon as the track is built so that the ore can be shipped npi31y Under this contract as In the past the value of the ore will be returned to the mine operators Twelve mit ers and a number of teamsters team-sters have been employed in the work and if the spur is built thenumber of miners will be increased at once lo at least sixty Cheyenne Leader Joseph Martin of Placervllle Cal courted Miss Amelia Gnlvln daughter of Mr and Mrs M C Gaivhi of Franktown The girls parents were not favorably dls posed to their daughters suitor The young people were not discouraged how ever and one day last week while the oldfolks were absent In Virginia City the Young folks made up their minds to elope They came to Reno took the night train for the west and Beat > day were married at Sacramento No doubt ere j this they have informed the brides par ants of their whereabouts and implored their forgiveness Nevada State Journal The Chronicle states that Charles A Allen of Sacramento had removed by the surgeons knife the arches of three of his lower etebrae and that he is now rapid ly recovering The hlttory of the case is interesting About ten years ago Allen while work ing as a brakeman slipped from the frosty roof of a boxcar and fell In a sit ting posttre astride of a rail As a dl rect result his legs were Paralyzed and gradually they began to waste away At first Allen thought little of his Injury and it was years before the full effects began to pe leit Any attempt to straighten out his legs caused the sufferer intense a agony From the time of the accident until re IIwal afforded by the surgeons knife the suitercr vas not free from pain n single minute day or night I Joseph R Saqle was killed and Patrick Oraney badly injured Saturday evening about 10 oclock in the freight yard ol the Montana Central depot Both men n ere employed as switchmen and were on night duty Switch engine No 25 in charge of Engineer Pete Leery was Switching cars from one track to ana Ti er with Sagle and Ganey dong the coup ling Both men were standing on the foot boaijd of the tender whale the engine was backing up with four cars The night was dork and the men evidently forgot that there was a train of heavUy loaded cars only a short distance up the track The engine was going at a pretty high rate of speed when the cars in front struck the loaded cars on the track The force of toe collision was such that the tender of the engine telescoped the first empty car Sagle was caught in the wreck and instantly crushed to death Ganey escaped with a broken and botfly crushed leg Sagls body was so firmly wedged between the car and the tender that it could not be moved until the car nod been rased by means of jackscrsws Every bone in his body from his waist j up was broken Sagle was about 33 years of age aid of fine phys que He leaves a wife and a 10yearold child In Butte Sagle joined he A O U W at Glendlve and his wife will receive S2COO from that order Butte Inter Mountain 1 The board of directors of the Alice company met in Salt Lake list week and as a result of the meeting forty stamps are now dropping in the Alice I mill at Walkerville Which Is an increase of ten The increase was made nec s sary by the unusually large amount of custom ores whch the energetic leasers who are at work on the Alice properties and taround Walkprville have been send tug In recently The owners of the Alce express themselves through the Silt Lake Herald as bencr Well pleased w li I the naaner In whch Superintendent Thomas W Buzzo who succeeded Can tain Hall is conducting their affairs In WalkerJlle Anaconda Standard j J J Hinton of Hamilton returned from a trip to Uklah last Friday To a Long Creek Eagle reporter lie stated an experience he met with between the north fork of the John Day rivet and Ukdali At the head of the North Fork grade there resides a rancher < who for some time has honed signs of Insanity Meeting Mr Hinton a short distance this side cf Ukialh ihe sprang upon the wagon seat and informed Mr Hinton that he was a prisoner and compelled him to turn his team and start back to Uklah Mr Hinton being unarmed and havIng a fiery team was compelled to comply with the Insane unans request Before proceeding pro-ceeding very far the lunatic told his story to Mr Hinton staMng that he was an United States deflective and that ihe was the man he was after and that he would have to be taken back to Ukiah for trial At this Instance he drew a dirk and taking hold of Mr Hintons arm stated that Tie had better pro along quietly if he did not wish to be hurt Before they hod gone many miles they met two hunters who on learning the situation prevailed on the crazy man to release Mr Hinton This Tie finally did and Mr Hinton turned on his road homeward home-ward thankful trot while he was in the custody of a lunatc hs escaped without injury Baker City Democrat |
