The Springfield herald., 1899-06-23

Thirty thousand men i'll Colorado
Will be out of work within the heA'
three days. unless steps are taken 10
end the strike of the smelter emplo!eS'
The Omaha and Grant and the Glope
in Denver. the BimctIllic and the AT
kansas Valley at Leadville, the Eilers
and the Colorado smelters mt fueplo
are closed.
The Argo smcltcr in Denver has com
piled with the eght-hour law ana Is
still running. The Guggenheim smelt-
er at Pueblo also is running. The
closed works are under guard, but no
where have the men made any demon
Stration.
At Central City the men employed III
the stamp mills are expected to strike
at noon to-day. These mines nave al
ready closed: The Commodore, Alhe,
thyst Bachelor. Bachelor No ana
Last Chance mines, in the Creede ms
trict; the Calliopc and the Hagerty con
centrating mills, NJ Ouray: the Carip-
bean and Montezuma. neur Ophlr; the
Iron Mask and Black Iron, at Red
Gin; the Smugglcr. M Aspen; Gillctt
mill, Cripple Creek. The Porter Fuel
Companyat Durango has closed. throw
ing 100 men out of work. From all
parts of the state come reports that
mines are reducing forces. At Lead
vile 900 men have been discharged,
and in view of the orders to ship no
more ore to the closed smelters little
except development work is going on.
The loss in wages to the men at Du-
range by the twelve days closing of
the smelter is 100000.
Should the mines close all over the
state 5000 railroad men will be thrown
out of employment,
The danger of II coal strike seems TO
he small, rs the sales of this staple
outside the state are large enough TO
make its mining profitable.
An attempt to get test case up to
the supreme Court to determine the
constitutionaity of the cIght-hour law
will be made.
The Denver High School cadets are
spending II week in camp mt Green
Mountain Falls.
The government has finally decided
10 allow j. a. Mcintyre TO complete
his contract on the Denver mint.
on the 10Th every indication In the
sme!ter situation pointed to the conclu-
sion that Il strike would come WITHIN
the next two or three days. and that
the result would be the closing down
IL
the state.
State Insurance Commissioner Eddy
has appealed to the postmaster gener-
al of the United States asking his ;iG
in the prosecution of insurance com
panies who are securing business ana
adjusting losses through the mails. The
commissioner has asked the co-opera-
ton of all other state commissioners
in the matter Commissioner Eddy
holds that the companies are evading
the law and nj the same time violating
! the federal laws.
! The quarterly report of the state
treasurer gives some interesting facts
about state finances at n time when
that subject is one of the leading top
les. The total amount of money that
Treasurer Fesler has charge of is ST.
T6T. .5SS.14. Ii appears that Mr.. Moffat
is the largest surety on Mr.. Feslers
bond also, rs The report shows that the
First National Bank has on deposit
state funds i'll the sum of S256.S .So1 "A
or nearly one-half of the combined de
posits of all the other banks. The
amount of money ON deposit in banks
is 1924, ,293.T1. The balance of the
funds are invested in the following
state securities: Agricultural College,
] bl,b'.b.'t', lnltTuul llllptuN tlHtul- ST.
1902: internal Improvement, income,
500, ,S21.1 10: public school, 81. O62. pa -;
university. S33,lTS.G5.
Saturdays Republican says mil
lion in solid gold representation of
Pixies Peak on base of layers of
iron. lead. copper. zinc and silver.
topped with "old glory" bearing the
name of Colorado. is the dazzling dis
play proposed for the central figure of
the Colorado exhibit mt the Paris eN
position. At Yesterdays meeting of
the commissioners the plan was an
nounced and Senator Sanborn says
that the cooperation and aid of Unit
ed States Senator Henry NJ. Teller and
David ii. Moffatt now in the east. is
assured. for some such plan-either
mountain representation. an obelisk or
some form of Sl.OOO0Oo gold exhibit
This sum of gold weighs 10000 ounces
troy Commissioner w. c. Edwards
presented the plan. which was received
with most favor ut yesterdays meet
ing. 1t includes representation i'll
frosted silver of the mountains and
rivers and Pixies Peak cog road on
the gold base.
Dean Hart bought his famous stain
ed glass window last Friday. 1t was
profitable deal, too. and the dean
beat the government on it after all.
The duty ON the window amounted to
S32S50, and tile dean bought it for
$50 The window was shipped from
England about year ago ms n gift to
st. Johns cathedral while the Wilson
bill was in force and while there was
no duty on such goods. but reached
American shores Immediately after the
Dinrlay hill went into effect As n re-
suit. the duty was entirely too high
for the dean,s pocket book. He re
fused to pay the tax and the window
tr.n fnr,...l from tLc freimh nffic.