The state herald., 1900-03-09
COLORADO NOTES.


to hold up and rob Jack Mcclellan and
his wife us they left their store last
Monday night In the town of Ash,
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 weight days. the pro-
duction record of the Cripple Greek dis
trict was n good one. While not rec
ord breaker. 1t by no means scored n
backward step. The figures show that
46,oOO tons were treated, the gross bull
lion value of which was $2,099,95O.
On his way home from the Pueblo
insane asylum, William Arundale,
Middle Park ranchman, was crushed
under the Silver Plume train on the
Colorado & Southern railroad Mt 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 1t is an
accident.
Another large lot of Fort Collins
lambs were sold on the Chicago mar
ket Wednesday Mt $7.35 per hundred
weight, being the highest price on rec
ord. Charles +. Blunck. Drake & Mors-
man and Scott l. Strachan on Monday
sold four car loads at $T.20 10 81 .25 per
hundred weight. The lambs weighed
from seventy-seven to eighty-one
pounds each. Feeders are much Gated
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-
tained that large firm there was
quoting prices to several of the large
mines. and in retaliation one house an
nounced n reduction of ten per cent.
on the price of powder. caps. fuse AMI
| candles. All of the dealers have met
and cut and merry war is now on.
The gentlemen who loaned the
money for the mobilization of the ma
tlonal guard at the outbreak Of the
Spanish-American war are said to be
preparing to demand the repayment
of the loan. Considerable difficulty
has been experienced by the state III
securing the money from the govern
ment About $4,000 of the claim has
been allowed and the remainder is ex-
pected soon. But none Of this money
has been paid to the citizens who ad-
4 vanced the funds for the mobilization
, Hence they are kicking.
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 n Rocky Ford addition,
something on the order of Pullman
before 1t was declared to be an Illegal
! ly-conducted Institution. But the Ok
nard company will avoid such proceed
ings rs 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 at work In the canon south OF
Sidney. at which point there is much
heavy work To be done. Shaffer X
| Green's large force of men, teams.
scrapcrs and supplies. five ears In all,
arrived there this morning from Ne
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n two-mile contract OF heavy grading
ON the Cedar. ten miles northeast Of
Sterling. Work is expected to cont
mencc soon ON the lire west OF Stcr-
ling.
The Denver & Rio Grande has de-
cided to do away with narrow gauge
trains ON the first division. beginning
Sunday night train No. II, which
n.t-
will be made up entirely Of standard
gauge ears. II will bc split at Pueblo,
part Of II making connections with the
Marshall pass narrow gauge train. go.
ing west 10y way Of Salidn, and part Of
II going over In Neta pass to Alnmosa,
connecting nj thar point with the Du-
range nnrrowgaugc train. Train No.
! III. which will now be on the broad
gauge rails. viii leave Snlida nj 1915
y. M, and arrive In Denver nj Z o'clock
the following morning. No other
changes are contemplated.
There Is n rumor that the Denver Il
Rio Grande railroad has entered the
Platte canon controversy In earnest.
thereby compllcailng more than ever
the dispute between the Colorado x
southern Railway Company and the
Denver ROVER " lfflsuiloH company.
| The Rio Grnndc surveyors have return
ed recently from the canon. where they
have n line over the route which the
Power company has asked the Colo
RADIO Il Southern 10 select. The pur.
pose OF the survey Is not given out, hut
railroad men say that should the Rio
Grnndc company file ON II. and the
! Colorado & Southern road be- defeated
In its right OF way through the rcser.
voir site. the Cripple Creek short line
would prove expensive 10 build.
Colonel Mncarey and Lieutenant Col.
onel vcrlcckbcrg conducted nm exam.
| inntlon Of the charges preferred
against Captain Lew Walsh of com.
pany II. \. q. e. nt Boulder on the md
| The examination lasted from 1:i5 untll
l:i5 n. III. The charges preferred Were
that the captain was incompetent; that
/ he has mlsapproprlnied company funds
aud finally that he wns connlving with
members OF company II. Colorado vol.
untccrs. which wns formerly the mill.
tia company Of Boulder. 10 throw the
control of the company officers In their
hands. From all these charges the
captain stands yiniicat.d. Upon re-.
ccivlng this Judgment he Immediately
resigned his commission. The dis
charge Of the rinrlcndcrs Of the niinci
upon Captain Walsh wns considered,
hut II was finally decided Ia administer
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