The Holly chieftain., 1899-12-29
COLORADO ITEMS.


A telephone line has been completed
to Slcnwood Springs. and will be car
r!e1 west to Grand junction.
Richard Holmes color bearer OF the
Fist Colorado. Is on his way TO Den
ver, where he will enter q railroad Of
nee He intends TO make this city his
home, in order 10 oe near his late COM
rades Of the regiment he accompanied
to Manila.
Some time last Saturday night fire
broke out Id the Eldor7do tunnel house
at Sunshine, and finally. about 2.5o
O'Clock II worked into the office, where
there were some 200 pounds of powder,
which exploded, tearing the building to
pieces, damaging the machinery con-
s!de-ably and destroying the compress
sor, hose. etc. IL appears that the
men had left the tunnel in the evening
and did not intend TO return until
after Christmas and there was no per-
son around.
The water works election at Lead
willie Tuesday was 4 Waterloo for the
water company. Quite hard fight has
been made the past two weeks by the
water company in hopes Of winning
this election. but the vote resulted 465
10 90 in favor of the city owning its
own water plant The Board of Trade
and the City Council have both been
working to win this election. and de
spite the efforts Of the water company,
they came out on top. Just what the
mex: move will be in the water stu
alton is not known. but it is believed
that the Leadyille Water Company will
not place such 4 high value on its plant
as il has in the past.
The state hoard OF health. advised by
several leading physicians and health
authorities OF the state. has in
augurated campaign against tuber-
culosiS and Will solicit the assistance
OF public authorities and private citi-
zenS 10 prevent the spread OF the dread
tubercular germs. Public eNpectora-
ton, tubercular dairies and meat sup
ply are the three causes Of consumption
which the board agrees must be pre-
vented in order TO reach this desired
end. The sentiment of the physicians
was expressed rs opposed TO the least
persecution Of the afflicted and their
object solely To enforce necessary sani-
tary measures. lit would be an in
justice to the community and TO the in
dividualS to debar them from the
state said Secretary Tyler, for
thousands Of cOnSumrtiyes who regard
sanitary measures do not endanGer the
public and are some OF our best citi-
zens.''
\ peculiar accident occurred 1T An
acouda last Wednesday, A heavily
loaded ore wagon drawn by four horses
did considerable damage to the house
OF j. J. Monaghan. just below the
Midland tracks. The big wagon was
Iai I,A
lease on Gold hill, and was being
hauled to the Arequa mill In conl-
ing down the steep hill the chain OF
the rough lock broke, letting the heavy
wagon down on the horses. The teams
started to run. and the driver stayed
with them until the turn in the road
was reached. The horses were IN
able TO stop. The driver jumped ard
the horses and wagon WEI oyer the
tracks. MonashAn'S house -SSeeyeral
feet below. The horses and wagon
landed in confused mass upon the
west end Of il, smashing II to kindlinC
wood Two horses We're killed, one
leader and one wheeler. The other lead
er was standing in the center OF Mr..
Monachau's bedroom. The wagon
was partially in the house and ore was
mixed up with the bsdclothes and fur
niture. l; took several hours to clear
the wuec6ace. IL is remarkable that
no one was injured in the accident.
Twenty minutes before child was
asleep in the bed that was demolished.
Another disastrous rear end wreck
occurred on the Rio Grande near Red
Clln. Friday. \ passenger train was
Ragged. owing 10 broken rail \ flag
man was sent hack and stopped light
engine. He did not. however, know
that heavy freight train was coming
only short distance back. and when
the engineers and fremen Of the
freight turned the curve and saw an
accident ahead they jumped. The
freight train had fourteen cars drawn
by two engines. and WAS on a down
grade. II crashed with fri-hrfuI force
into the light engine. which was dou-
blei Up and jamElei into the sleeper.
Every psiS>ence- irJhe train was thrown
from the seat. and fifteen or twenty
were injured. but not seriously. The
fact that the light engine was struck
first WAS all that saved 4 repetition OF
the terrible accident near Salids = few
weeks ago. As the freight train would
have undoubtedly crashed into the
Passenger cars The light engine. how
ever. served as q bumper. but was
crushed bseyocd the s+lnblance OF an
engine by the terrible shock The
pcops-7y damage was heavy
Three-quzrtsrs Of $ million dollars
vii be spent by the Colorado & South
ezp Railway Company rext year in i'm
pUoveneuI ~ lis Lines. for new rolling
stock s2d for building Of the great reN
pair snd constructSea shops that viii
Sooa l. under cols-TDctSc-l- At the ~
cent meeting OF the directors all az the