The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-09-29
COLORADO NOTES.

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Last week three oil wells were struck
ut Florence.
Snow fell on the foothills near Den
yer on the night Of the 18th.
Knights Templar of Colorado were
In convention at Denver on the 2lst.
The Denver Galveston relief funds
now aggregate f13,O01, with the sub
scriptlons still coming In.
-Four men were severely injured and
$4,000 damage resulted from a head
end collision between two Denver u
Rio Grande freight trains at Spike
Buck at 1910 o'clock last Friday night.
The collision was caused by the failure
Of the operator at Echo to deliver or
ders. He disappeared Immediately fol-
lowing the wreck.
While Colorado is not such an extern
sIve producer of petroleum as Wyom-
ing, yet during the year 1880 the state
made a good showing, as compared to
previous years The output of Colo
RADIO last year, while smaller In guam
tity than that Of the preceding year,
was greater in value. In 1903 Colorado
produced 444,3S3 barrels Of petroleum
and in 1909, hut 39O,27s barrels. but the
value Of the 1890 product was 4l,11O,
or S1.O3 per barrel, while In 1898 the
larger output was valued at 1851 ,oo7'
or 1927 cents per barrel
BENJAMIN l.. Winchell, vice president
and traffic manager Of the Colorado q
Southern railroad, has resigned to be-
come president of the Kansas CITY,
Fort Scott & Memphis railroad. He
will take his new place about OCTOBER
Goth, and Will remove from Denver TO
Kansas City. Mr.. Winchell five years
aRo was assistant general passenger
agent of the Fort Scott road under j..
T.. Lock wood, general passenger agent.
He now returns to the road as Its pres
ident over the man formerly his SUI
perior. He succeeds the late Edward
8. Washburn.
As a direct result of the anthracite
coal miners strike and in anticipation
of a demand for coal. Colorado roads
are rushing coal to central points. Hun
dreds of thousands of tons are now
stored and additional trains are rush
ing coal from the mines to storage
places. The Colorado l.. Southern has
more than 2OO,O0O tons stored In Den
yer; the Santa Fe 100000 tons in Pu-
ehlo: the Colorado Midland, nearly
2Uv,OO0 tons in Colorado City, and the
Denver & Rio Grande has about 30O,-
600 tons at Burnham. About 100000
tons are stored at other points along
their lines.
The cantaloupe season is making a
happy close for those interested in
that Industry in the Arkansas valley.
The shortage of water in some OF the
bitches has cut the crop short, but on
the whole the farmers will realize
much more than they did last year.
The demand of the past week has been
much greater than the supply. The
growers for the past week have been
able to turn the last pickings into cash
from their wagons at 81 10 to $1.2O per
crate. Five buyers have been on the
sidetrack the . past week bidding
against each other for the loads as
they came In, and instead Of the grow
err hunting q buyer, 1t was the reverse
As the season draws to 4 close some
interesting figures are given: From
eight acres e. W. New6efry picked l.
700 crates, for which he received FL.
2S1.76. This is about an average OF
what all have done, the cantal0upe
ground netting about $40 per acre.
William G. Bowser, Philippine
veteran, met with an unusually pain
full and perhaps fatal accident on the
Mariposa property at Cripple Creek
He was working In the bottom of the
2OOLfoot shaft when scraper or min
ers' SPOON, which was being loaded In
to the bucket at the surface slipped
from the hands of fellow workman
and fell to the bottom. The spoon is a
steel rod four feet In length, sharpened
at one end, and 1t fell the distance like
an arrow, striking Bowser In the right
shoulder near the base Of the neck and
penetrating his body for distance OF
over a foot. He displayed unusual
nerve, kept his head and pulled the
projecting spoon from the wound and
gave the signal for the bucket on
which his companions came down and
into which he was placed and hoisted
to the surface. He was taken to ply
sician's office, where It was found that
the spoon had penetrated lung. Sc
far no hemorrhage has resulted and
there is possibility that he may re-
cover.
The threatened trouble at the indie.
pendence mine at Victor over the mat
ter Of changing clothes has been avert
ed. Under compromise agreement
the men at the Independence will en-
ter one room of the change house, re
move tutlF WoIhiuS Siothco anu poSs
! into the other clad In one thickness OF
undertaking, their socks and shoes
There Is a tacit understanding that the
company Waterman shall have the
privilege Of searching any one whose
appearance or conduct Is suspicious.
Daniel f.. Sherman, postmaster nj
Montrose, Colorado. and his Immediate
predecessor, James r. Kyle, will have
TO nav back to the POstOffice Depart
ment 81. 147.37. which they are accused
Of having misappropriaited. The al
legged misrepresentation is not charac
terized as a criminal offense. but the
men have been notified that the money
must be paid back to the government
They collected from the government
for rent which was paid by other oc'
cupapts of the store room.
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