The Holly chieftain., 1900-01-05
COLORADO ITEMS.

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| Bud" Taylor. a sawmill hand, ran
/ amuck al Castle Rock the other day
4 and was shot by the sheriff.
| BY the explosion Of ID. & Il. G. loco
motive boiler at Minturn. Samuel II.
! Quackenbush. engineer. was instantly
! killed, and Irwin Salien. fireman, was
/ fatally injured.
The buildings of the Florence cement
/ works are nearing completion. and
four cars of new machinery have ar
rived for the new plant. Boilers and
all Will be put in position as fast as
I possible.
Colorado * Southern officers are con-
sidcring the adyisability of construct
ing iron snow sheds on the Gunnlson
line. over Alpine pass, to insure keep
ing the road open through the whole
winter, so that the mines of the Bald
win district may have an uninterrupt-
ed outlet.
\ coal miner named Peter Falsetto,
employed at the Hastings mine of the
Victor Coal Company. was accidental
ly killed NJ Trinidad Sunday night. He
was seated at the table in his boarding
mouse, reading, when n revolver in his
/ pocket fell TO the floor and was dis
charged, the ball striking Falsetto I'M
der the chin and coming out at the top
Of his head. Death was instantaneous.
The man was 40 years OF age and un-
married
Arrangements have been made for
the TeNas-ColoradO Chautauqua 10
avail itself In the future of the course
OF the New York Chautauqua and other
Ike organizations so that n complete
circuit can be formed and better nttrac-
tions at less cost can be secured than
heretofore. 1t has already been decid-
ed that the 1900 session of the Chau-
I iauqua shall be six weeks and that ev-
erything possible will be done to make
II much greater success than hereto
fore. The grounds will be made more
attractive and more cottages will be
put up.
one of the most prosperous indus
tries OF the state, according TO the re-
port Of the output Of its mills. is the
Colorado Fuel x Iron Company. In
every department OF its manufactures
1t has jumped TO tLe front. while in
some particular lines the increased de-
mand for its goods is astonishing. Dur
ing the past year almost 80 per cent.
more merchant iron was made than in
1888: and in splegel. spikes, bolts and
nuts the Increase was even greater.
| The output OF iron pipe was fourteen
times as great during the year just
, closed as in 1895
The American Beet Sugar Company
has completed the purchase of the
tracts of land near Rocky Ford, on
which il had options. Its total eXpend-
lture for lands is S15O.O0O. 4 corps of
engineers have been busy for several
days surva :lag the site of, the new
factory. which Is adjoining the town
site. The nearnesS to the business CEN
ter is highly pleasing TO the people In
few weeks the busy hum OF prepara-
tions for building will add greatly to
the business activity Of the town Real
estate is active and promises TO take
on booming features in n short time.
The Colorado X Southern Railway
Company. by its attorney. L. Il. Whit
ted, has filed Il petition for cOndemna-
tion in the District Court of Douglas
county. TO secure right-of-way for its
new line up the south fork of the
Platte toward Cripple Creek. That the
railroad intends to build at once as far
as Horse creek. fifteen miles from
South Platte there can be no doubt
Several new mills are going in in that
locality and their owners have been as
will be running as far as Horse creek
by June |. This point is ten miles be-
yond the present terminus Of the
branch. and about half way from
South Platte to Lake George, where the
Midland railroad would be intersected
should the new line be continued on
up the Platte.
bold robbery was perpetrated in
A
o'clock w. ]. Milsap, prominent
stocltman of the northwest part of the
county, was in the act of entering the
Klein hotel TO 20 TO bed when he was
seized by two men and robbed of S12,-
900. The money was mostly in his
coat and vest pockets, and these gar
ments We're torn from him. He imme-
diately gave the alarm and search
was instituted, but up to the present
no trace Of the criminals has been
found. Mr.. Milsap was on his way to
Mexico to buy cattle having recently
disposed of large number he was
feeding near Smith Center, Kansas. A
considerable portion of the money had
been borrowed from bank in Pueblo.
where he came from yesterday, and the
theory Is that he was followed from
that town by men who had seen him
draw the money or knew of his obtain
ing II.
According TO what are considered by
lumber men as official figures, over
100000 feet of logs were. cut in
Colorado and New Mexico last year.
So far as the output of native Colorado
lumber is concerned, Colorado and
northern New Mexico are considered
one by the lumber dealers, for the rea.
son that the forest from which the
logs are secured lies on the boundary
line 1t is estimated that the volume