The Meeker herald., 1900-02-17
COLORADO NOTES.

bonded Indebtedness at four per cent.
Colorado railroads are having so lit
tie trouble with snow that they are
likely to show good profits on the sea-
sons business.
The ceremonies and exercises ut Col
orado College last week, In celebration
| Of its twenty-f1fth anniversary were
very successful. The new hall was
dedicated.
! 1t appears that Mrs. Shute and Pres
ident Brothers of the State Board Of
Horticulture were both asked by the
board to resign as result OF continued
| friction. They both did SO.
At Cripple Greek on the 9Th, Mrs.
Kate Williford shot and killed her hus-
band, ]. +. WillifOrd, and attempted
unsuccessfully to kill herself. Jealousy
IL supposed to be the cause.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company has
arranged with the Colorado Il South
ern to turn over to the latter road
its cars that are to be hauled from
Trinidad and Pueblo to Fort Worth,
this avoiding the long haul through
Kansas.
The city council of Victor has re-
moved A. B. Boylan, police magistrate,
for malfeasance of office, being charg-
ed with appropriating 5000 in fines
collected by him. Night Marshal
| Campbell was removed for refusing
to testify against Boylan.
The Beekeelers Of Garfield, Delta.
Montrose and Mesa counties will
hold q horticultural and beekeepers'
convention in Grand Junction Tues
day and Wednesday, February 18th
and 14th. There will be able papers and
discussion on the subjects Of horti-
culture, Bookkeeping and agriculture.
Samuel Strong the rich mine owner
of Cripple Creek was married on the
9th 10 Miss NJ Resinga Neville. after
| which they started on tour around
the world. Just after the ceremony
Mr.. Strong was served with notice
of a breach of promise suit by Miss
Luella Vance Of Gold Hll. Strong
says 1t is blackmail.
Owing to the fact that during the
past two months there hive been two
engineers blown up and killed by
thawing powder by the boiler, Engi-
neers' Union. No. %, Of Cripple Greek.
passed u resolution forbidding Its men,
bers from allowing any powder to be
tlawed around any boiler OF which
they have charge.
Il. NJ. Allen shot his wife, his daugh-
ter Zula and himself mt Z O'Clock
Wednesday, morning in their rooms In
Black Hawk. The daughter Is still liv-
| ing, but her death is momentarily ex-
pected. Aliens wound Is not necessnr-
lily fatal. The cause Of the shooting is
believed to have been temporary aber-
ration, superinduced by domestic dis
agreements.
An accident occurred on the Flor
ence 4 Cripple Greek railroad Wednes-
day evening at the switch called Glen
brook, by which j. G. Nevips, fireman.
and +. NJ. AlversOn, brakeman, were
killed. The train was leaving siding
and OIL account of the mir brakes refus-
ing to work because of the snow on the
! track, the engineer lost control. 1t raced
| for half mile on steep grade, when
II struck curve and the engine left
| the track. Eleven carloads Of ore were
piled on the engine NIL within n space
Of two car lengths.
The Home Mining Company Of Lead
Vile has secured an extension of its
leases, making them cover a period of
ten years. This important concession
was readily granted by the owners.
who now see before them steady in
come for a decade of yenrs from tho
royalties that Is paid over to them
daily as the smelter settlements are
made. The Home Mining Company
mines are now outputting between 800
and 400 tons of ore per diem, netting
the company an average of 81 per ton
over and above everything
Valuable deposits of crude soda have
been discovered In the small lakes in
COstilla county, not far from Monte
Vista. c. II. PcttibOne appeared be-
fore the land board In support OF his
application for lease upon this land,
and succeeded in securing the lease,
To the board Mr.. Pettibone explained
that he was the promoter of a company
being formed to develop the soda de-
pOsit, which is from six inches to two
and One-half feet in thickness. The
/ company proposes to establish refining
works near the lakes and engage in the
business of producing marketable soda
in large quantities.
Public gambling Mt Leadvillc ceased
at noon Monday, due to orders issued
out OF the District Court. For six
months Leadville has been n wide
open town, and 1t is said that several
hundred gamblers have been making
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
I court to 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
for several weeks against public gam
bling, and this last move has apparent
ly ended the matter, at least for some
time to come.
BY direction of Brigadier General
Hnle, president of the Colorado Society
Army of the Philippines, the cor
responding secretary of that organiza
ton has sent letter to an officer OF
enlisted man in each company Of the
Colorado volunteers outside of Denver
suggesting the immediate forming OF
an organization in each town to pro