The Holly chieftain., 1900-02-09
COLORADO NOTES.

Colorado penltenuary.
Colorado railroads are having so lit.
tie trouble with snow thar they are
likely to show good profits on the sea
sons business.
Owing to the fact that during the
past two months there nave been i've
engineers blown up and killed by
thawing powder by the boiler. Eng
neers' Union. No. -. Of Cripple Greek
passed a resolution forl!ddiug i!s meEI-
bers from allowing any powder tO b.
thawed around any boiler of whicA
they have charge.
Weaver * Co., n new oil company op
Grating IN the Florence field. started IL
first well pumping on Friday evening
II has been pumped long enough
determine the permanent How of the
well. the owners placing II at 100 bat-
rels per day. This is the most impe.
tant oil strike made in this district Tor
year. and causes rejoicing through.
out the oil field.
The final act In the construction of
the Canon City extension of the Flor
ence x Cripple Creek railway. prior ga
opening the line for business. WIS per
formed on the 4th, when the transfer
tracks Were put i'll connecting the road
with the Denver x Rio Grande 1t
Canon City. The company has yard
room at this terminus for over 5000
cars, and are laying the yard tracks
as rapidly as possible,
Two Jail deliveries were Effected at
Cripple Creek Wednesday. and 1--WE
burglars and ore thieves are now at
liberty. About o'clock in the morn
Ing four men escaped, and ut = O'Clock
IN the afternoon the fifth man secured
his liberty in the same manner that
the other four had previously. The
names Of the men that broke out are.
Al. Smith, J. VI. SOutcr. Fred Schwan-
beck, Charles Mtten and Pat Carroll
Schwanbeck was caught before night
and il was believed that the others
would soon be taken.
The beet raising Industry in Mesa
county is to be given a substantial
boom by the addition to the farmers OF
Quaker colony in Bucks county.
Pennsylvania. who will come to this
country to grow up with the bects.
he beet tonnage for the past year var
led according TO the ability or arten-
ton to business of the farmers. many
Of whom undertook so large an acre
age that they could not devote proper
attention 10 the speciality. and the su-
gar beet company at Grand junction
is making every effort TO add 10 the till
ers of the soil in that section who will
devote their entire time to beets.
Public gambling at Leadville ceased
at noon Monday, due to orders issued
out of the District Court. For six
months Leadvillc has been n wide
open town. and it is said that sevel.l
hNtn r.I IL
the town their stamping ground. The
CITY Council took the matter up and de-
cided that these people must go. When
the District Court convened Monday
Attorney Jones was delegated by the
court 10 see that the laws in relation
to gambling Were enforced. and every
thing was closed up tightly by noon.
There has been strong agitation here
Tor several weeks against public gam
ping, and this last move has apparent
ly ended the matter. at least for some
time to come.
Following the recent concessions OBJ
salned for Denver through the agita-
tion of the kindell case before the In
terstate Commerce Commission. inter
est in the establishment of state rail
way commission is reviving among To-
side of the offices of freight agents of
late tended TO an enthusiastic indorse-
ment of the establishment of such q
commission. and the feeling seemed TO
I've that, the time was ripe for forward
ing such 4 proposition, and for obtain
lug. In measure. the same protection
Tor the mountain towns. and the agri-
cultural settlements on the eastern
and western slope, as had been OBJ
tained for Denver.
Joseph +. Gallagher, state senator
from Clear Creek county. who has been
in Leadviile for about two weeks. was
Instantly killed mt the Meyer mine on
the LIST Senator Gallagher came to
Lcadville and secured employment
from the lron-Slver Mining Company
working in their Meyer mine on the
force. During the afternoon he put two
blasts In ground where he was work
ing, one of which exploded properly
The other failed 10 go OFF. Later he re
turned TO the place where he had
drilled his holes. to pu, in more giant
but Just as he got there the second
blast went off. he receiving its full
force about the head, face and body. He
was blown some distance and horribly
mangled. both eyes being torn out of
his head. Death was instantaneous.
The insurance companies that paid
the losses resulting from the Antlers
fire at Colorado Springs in 1898 have
filed suit in court charging the Denver
n Rio Grande Railroad Company with
criminal negligence in leaving combus-
tible material about the depot, and
bringing powder into the city. There
are two suits pending and the total
judgment asked is n little more than
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