Gilpin observer., 1900-03-08
COLORADO NOTES.

his wife as they left their store last
Monday night in the town Of Ash, a
small village near Ouray. The at
tempt was made by two masked men.
They knocked Mrs. Mcclellan down,
but her cries frightened them away.
Considering that the month just end
ed has only twenty-eight days, the pro-
duction record of the Cripple Greek dis
trict was good one. While not a rec
ord breaker, it by no means scored a
backward step. The figures show that
46, 800 tons were treated, the gross bull
lion value Of which was $2,O99,95O.
On his way home from the Pueblo
insane asylum, William Arundale, q
Middle Park ranchman, was crushed
under the Silver Plume train on the
Colorado & Southern railroad at Elk
creek. There was no witness to his
death. The conductor, in his report,
says that Arundale crawled under the
train, deliberately intending to commit
suicide. Mrs. Arundale is sure it is an
accident.
Another large lot of Fort Collins
lambs We're sold on the Chicago mar
ket Wednesday at S7.35 per hundred
weight, being the highest price on rec
ord. Charles f. Blrnck, Drake & MOrs-
man and Scott & Strachan on Monday
sold four car loads at $7.20 to $7.25 per
hundred weight. The lambs weighed
from seventy-seven to eighty-one
pounds each. Feeders are much elated
over the prospects of continued high
prices.
A war is one among the hardware
merchants of the Cripple Creek dis
trict. For over two years an agree
ment on prices has existed between
all dealers. Recently it was ascer-
tanned that a large firm there was
quoting prices to several of the large
mines and In retaliation one house an
nounced reduction of ten per cent.
on the price of powder, caps, fuse AMI
candles. All of the dealers have met
and cut and a merry war is now on.
The American Beet Sugar Company.
otherwise known as the OXnard COM
pany, because its president and prin-
cipal owner bears that name, is con
templating a Rocky Ford addition,
something on the order of Pullman
before it was declared to be an illegal
ly-conducted institution. But the Ok
nard company will avoid such proceed
ings as will give its enemies any
ground for making the same complaint
against it. The addition will be on the
$40 acres of land secured from the
state board at its recent meeting.
The Burlington people are doing all
in their power to rush the grading on
their Brush-Alliance line north of
Sterling. Every train from the East
adds to the laborers and grading out
fits now ut work in the canon south of
Sidney, at which point there is much
heavy work to be done. Shaffer &
Green's large force of men, teams,
scrapers and supplies, five cars in all.
arrived there this morning from Ne
braska. They go to work at once on
a two-mile contract of heavy grading
on the Cedar. ten miles northeast of
Sterling. Work is expected to COM
mence soon on the line west of Ster-
ling.
The Denver & Rio Grande has de-
cided to do away with narrow gauge
trains on the first division. Beginning
Sunday night train No. 10, which
leaves at 9:45 o'clock in the evening
will be made up entirely of standard
gauge cars. 1t will be split at Pueblo,
part of it making connections with the
Marshall pass narrow gauge train, GO
ing west by way of Salida. and part of
it going over La Neta pass to Alamosa,
connecting at that point with the Du-
range narrow gauge train. Train No.
16, which will now be on the broad
gauge rails, will leave Salida at 1915
p. M. and arrive in Denver at I o'clock
the following morning. No other
changes are contemplated.
There is rumor that the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad has entered the
Platte canon controversy in earnest.
thereby complicating more than ever
the dispute between the Colorado Il
Southern Railway Company and the
Denver Power Il Irrigation Company.
The Rio Grande surveyors have return
ed recently from the canon. where they
have line over the route which the
Power company has asked the Colo
RADIO * Southern to select. The pur-
pose of the survey is not given out, but
railroad men say that should the Rio
Grande company file on it. and the
Colorado Il Southern road be defeated
in its right of way through the rcser-
voir site, the Cripple Greek short line
would prove expensive to build
Colonel Macarey and Lieutenant Col
onel Nerdeckberg conducted an exam
ination of the charges preferred
against Captain Lew Walsh of com
pany IL. y. G. G. at Boulder on the 2nd
The examination lasted from T:45 until
1:1J n. m. The charges preferred were
that the captain was incompetent: that
he has misappropriatcd company funds
and finally that he was conniving with
members of company III, Colorado vol
unteers, which was formerly the mill
tia company of Boulder. to throw the
control of the company officers In their
hands. From all these charges the
captain stands vndicatcd. Upon re-
ceiving this judgment he Immediately
resigned his commission. The dis
charge of the ringlcadcrs of the attack
upon Captain Walsh was considered.
but it was finally decided to administer
II severe reprimand. This reprmand
was given by Colonel Macarey to the
entire company.