North Park union., 1900-03-30
COLORADO NOTES.

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on the 18th.
The companies which had policies
out ON the life OF Frank e. Tyler. the
Kansas City man who was burned to
death near Alpine. Colo, last summer,
have given up the attempt to prove
/ that the case was another Frazer
swindle and will pay up.
The following state agents Of the
Humane Society have been appointed
for the week ending March 10: Hen
~ Parr, Pagosa Springs; William
Walters. Pagosa Springs: 7. Il. Barger,
Silver Cliff; ID. C. luncheon. Vniverde'
Edward j. O'Neill and Charles r.
White, Denver.
Over one hundred residences are now
| under course OF construction at ROCKY
| Ford and arrangements have been
made for the erection Of new business
| blocks. The American Sugar Beet
Company Is pushing work on the sugar
factory, 100 additional men having
been put to work during the week.
The Mutunl Life of New York has
paid its $4,000 policy, held by the
Metropolitan National bank as secur-
ity for debt. to the receiver OF the
bank, and the smaller policies will be
paid In day or two. Detectives have
been working on the case for months,
but have not been able to substantiate
the fraud theory.
Notes and papers representing money
cannot be taxed IN Colorado II they
are the property of one not residing IN
the state, even though the loans were
originally made here. Thit IL the opin-
ion handed down by the Court OF Ap-
penis In the case Of Seth W. Hathaway,
administrator OF the estate of Edwin
French, deceased. appellant. versus AT
mand Choury, treasurer of Costilla
county.
After considerable litigation between
the Colorado Il Southern Railroad Com
pnny and the city OF Pueblo, the for
mer. in consideration of the city va
eating certain ground for Its beneht,
has made nn appropriation OF SoUo
to the city, to be used in the construc-
tion of the First street viaduct across
the Fountain river and the Colorado
n Southern tracks. Work Will be re-
sumed on the new viaduct.
What appears to have been dns-
tnrdly attempt to burn the j. J. Mnher
Mercantile Company's building and
Masonic hall, at Ouray. was made last
Tuesday night. by placing sack satn-
rated with kerosene In some boxes un-
der the rear stairway and setting lire
| to It, About sixty ladies' of the order
| OF Kebeknh We're holding banquet in
the lodge. room, and they discovered
the fire In time to avert II catastrophe.
| The constable of the precinct was NJ
rested on suspicion ut midnight.
| The National Beet Sugar Company.
| now erecting IL half million dollar
| sugar factory. fifty miles east OF Pueb-
10 on the Missouri Pacific railroad.
have 300 ment mt work and expect to
| complete the factory by October 1st.
| This company proposes to raise It's own
beets, and has prepared about 1000
ncres OF ground for this years crop.
| Two tralnloads of experienced beet
| growers will leave April LIST for Sugar
| City, With their arrival will be gin
| the planting of the first beet sugar crop
In Otero county.
| Colorado College has lately been of
fered $5O.OO0 toward the endowment of
n science building. provided 100000 for
building purposes be secured by April
1st. The uneXpcctedness of the oHer
md the shortness OF the time will ne
cessitate great and unceasing efforts
on the part OF the college to meet The
conditions. General Palmer has given
<25OOO. Mr.. Howbert $500. and other
| gifts bring the total up to nearly $3o.-
900. So there remains $4,000 to be
| rIlScu III TWO weeks.
| A series OF suits has been commenced
In the United States courts covering
the taking OF timber. coal and other ma
terials from government land. The
| first OF the suits was filed on February
18th. when the government accused the
Denver Tramway Company of cutting
| ties on government land without per-
mission. This suit includes not only
the Trnmwny company and its officers.
but also the Denver. Leudville X Gun
nison railroad. The suit is n civil one
for the value OF the timber taken. The
damages are placed ut S1O.+S9. Last
Friday second suit was filed for dam
ages against Allen NJ. and f. Il. Ghost.
1t being charged that they had taken
$4,SlO worth Of coal from government
land.
The franchise Of the Ourny and Red
Mountain toll rond. the connecting link
on the Ouray route of the circle trip
so many people from aii parts Of the
| world have travelled, will expire next
month. The people Of Ouray county
expect the company. at the head OF
which is Otto Mears. to give up pos
session ut that time, although new
corporation IL said to have been organ
ized for the purpose OF assuming con-
troll A recent decision in Clear
Creek county case held that no indi-
vidual or corporation could take charge
| OF II toll road after the life of n first
franchise had expired. The Ouray road
has been Travelled for twenty years by
passengers taking the stage Mt Silver
ton, and has been bonanza for the
| owners.
For the first time In eleven years the
state bonrd of equalization Will make
an effort to get an exact taxable val
ue on railroad property. Joseph A.
Israel, former United States marshal,
has been appointed by the board to
make nn Investigation of railroad prop
erty with the object of getting Mt the
case In another manner than that con-
taIned in the reports to the assessors.
| The board will meet in regular session
Mt 10 o'clock the morning of April I'd.
1t can legally consider only the rail-
road assessments. The meetings will
probably continue over two weeks ns
all the railroad representatives Will ap-
pear before the board and will be nj
lowed TO state their cases. The asses
sOr's legislative committee will also
| appear before the board and endeavor
to secure an Increase in the railroad as
sessmcnts, promising. II is snid, to raise
| other assessments In proportion.
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