The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-02-14

is at present impcssible for the furnaces
to supply all the crude iron that is re
quired in all departments of the plant
in operation on full time as they nov
are.
J After thirty-two years in the harness
rs editor of the Colorado Transcript,
published at Golden, General George
West retired from active service last
Tuesday at the age of &c years. He
came to Colorado from Boston during
the Pixies Peak excitement in 80. He
aided in building the first house in
Golden and was prominent in the early
development of the town. In the fall
of 80 he established the western
| Mountaineer," one of the first Lews-
papers in the state. In the spring of
1862 he entered the army as captain
of Company ii, Colorado infantry, and
served in Arkansas and the Indian Ma
tion. He served throughout the war.
A dispatch from Kokomo on the Sth
| said: Yesterday at noon the snow
storm resumed and has been showing
and blowing increasingly ever since. a
| quarter of beef and n mutton We're
| brought from the snow-bound train ut
| Wheeler yesterday, and was all sold be-
fore it arrived at 80 cents per pound for
mutton and % cents for beef. There
is no butter in town. Ham sells Mt 81
n pound. The business men contem-
plate cutting off the supplies of unmar-
ried men and make them get out for
grub, thus leaving something for the
families. Numbers have gone to Lead
| vile and every day takes more. Things
are approaching n crisis when some
thing will have to be done or people
will suffer.
| Governor Thomas has revived an old
law that has been in disuse for several
gubernatorial administrations He has
appointed II. NJ. Fosdlck. Jr, of
Fowler and Fields Il. McMlllen and
w. L. Calhoun of Undercliffe roundup
commissioners for roundup district No.
=. There is no salary connected with
the position of roundup commissioner.
Persons bearing that title are expected
to aid the cattle inspectors by super
vising the general round-ups in their
districts, discovering any infrngements
upon the brand law which may have
been practiced. In most parts of the
state where the cattle industry thrives
these officers of the state are left with
out an occupation, the ranchmen band
ing together and appointing n roundup
foreman to suit themselves. For many
years the governors of the state have
made no appointments Of roundup
, commissioners.
Joseph y. holmes, prospector, was
frozen to death while wandering on
Pixies Peak Friday night. Holmes
and n. ]. Thorpe started from Cripple
Creek five days ago, and Were caught
in II blizzard on the peak. For four
days they wandered in the snow, for
two days on Big Horn mountain and
two days in the gulch near the Strick-
Ter tunnel. Holmes succumbed Friday
night and sank down in the snow.
| Thorpe watched over him until day-
light and then found his way to a
cabin near the Strickler tunnel. He
told the story of the wanderings of the
two men, and directed the tunnel en-
ployes to the body of his friend. Sat
urday morning Delos Durfee, city en-
glneer at the tunnel found Holmes
body. Mr.. Durfee Informed Coroner
| Hallett who went to investigate
Thorpe is badly frozen, but lie will re-
cover.
William Wood. the insane heir of
| William j. Wood. who Is represented by
| Attorney Il. j. Mott, gained very i'm
portant point in the United States cir
cult court at Denver Saturday. James
o. Wood, n brother of the insane heir.
had levied ON all of the property of
the Aspen Mining and Smelling COM
pany, and the same was authorized to
be sold on the 9TH. Attorney Mott pre-
sented the situation to the court and
asked that the execution be Quashed
because of Irregularities, and further
urged that this sale was being made
| under an agreement with the mining
company and would deprive the in
sane heir of his rights TO have his judg-
ment paid from the property of the
mining company. Judge Hallett sus-
tained this contention of Attorney Mott,
ordered the execution quashed and the
sale stopped, and held the property
should be sold to pay the claims of
both heirs
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided against Assessor Ames of Arapa-
hoe county in his contest with the State
Board of Equalization. Assessor Ames
refused to extend the tax of 1896 of
the State Board of Equalization or rail
road, telegraph and telephone proper
ty in this county and proceeded to make
an assessment of his own. In so doing
he bad the interests of the county
finances in consideration, as his tax
would have brought in much more rev
cnue. The State Board values all the
railroad property in the state. levies
general tax and divided it among the
counties according TO The number of
miles of track in each county. Mr.
Ames levied tax upon all the
switches. tracks. yards, terminals.
buildings. round houses and other prop
erty in the county owned by railroads.
He calculated that in this manner the
county would greatly benefit from Il
D., financial point of view
Dispatches from Leadville on the Sth
stated that a coal famine was imminent.
Nothing but the most heroic efforts on
the part of the railroads entering
Leadville will prevent the fires from
freezing in the smelter stacks and dy-
ing under the boilers of the mines that
are forced to pump constantly and in
which the drawing of the pumps would
cost months of time and enormous
sums of money Since the storm COM