The Meeker herald., 1900-12-29
COLORADO NOTES.

| "A hONGiucHt IN Oh lOot 1t ohch"ooA
Springs to organize a home company
and run n prospecting tunnel into one
OF the mountains near the city.
The Teller County Bar Association
gave q banquet In the National hotel
in Cripple Greek on the night Of De-
| cember 22nd Covers were laid for 100.
The state engineers report shows
the Taylor state road will be a great
bene..I to the state when completed.
Alrea1y $27 600 has been spent on this
thor0ughLare.
The Bazaar dry goods store on Ben
nett avenue, in Cripple Creek, was bur-
glarized on the morning Of December
18th, and from $70O to $1,000 worth or
furs were stolen.
The Eaton school has opened again,
after being closed a week on account
OF scarlet fever. There are no new
cases In the district and the few cases
were of 4 mild form.
Teller county paid out during the
past year 1880 for Kelley cure to
drunkards, making a total expenditure
for poor Of $s,063.12. Lake county's
bill was $1225O.57 and Morgan 1884 .S5.
The Hoffman Milling Company is
erecting new 1OOsack merchant
Gated three-fourths of n mile south
east Of the pOstotfice and will be driv.
en- by water power.
Florence men have Incorporated in
the office Of the secretary Of state. The
Florence Labor Union Building Asso-
citation. The capital liz $4,000. and
the building will be used for headquar-
ters of all labor unions of Florence.
John Upton, living about seven miles
southwest of Elbert, had his right
in a hay baler. He bandaged the
wound and rode to Elbert In lumber
wagon to reach doctor. He is man
Of family, aged about fifty years.
John Matthews. the man who at-
tempted to rob the Boss saloon on East
Bennett avenue. Cripple Creek. last
fall, and who shot the bartender, has
| been sentenced by Judge Harris to an
indeterminate term in the Buena Vista
reformatory to not exceed fifteen years.
In the criminal court at Denver yes
terday the case of William w. Ander-
son, who shot Fred Bontils and H. II.
Tammen, prOprietors of the Post, came
up on the 10th inst. for a second trial,
but on motion Of defendants counsel
postponement was taken until the next
term.
The Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell, who
has for years done magnificent work
in the slums of Denver, appeals to the
public for funds to complete his new
tabernacle on which $27 800 has al
ready been expended. The sum of &c.
600 Is needed to complete present con-
tracts.
The contract for building twenty-five
miles of railway from Trinidad up the
Purgatoire river was awarded by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to
the firm of Orman & Crook, of which
the governor-elect IL a member. The
road ia mainly built for the Transport
tation of lumber
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right of the state to assess the cars of
foreign corporations doing business In
this state, and thus upheld the State
Board of Equalization, which has as
sumed to take the action questioned by
the American Refrigerator Trainsit
Company as a test suit.
j. ]. Lunsden. IL Grand Junction
contractor, has been awarded the con-
tract to erect the new school building
at the Teller institute. The building
will be one of the handsomest among
the group when completed. 1t will be
built Of brick and stone two stories
high. The contract price is $4,000.
Brighton and Fort Lupton are rivals
in offering sites for condensed milk
factory. A meeting was held in
Brighton recently and the company
that proposes to build the factory was
asked to wait until January 18th for
final offer from Brighton. A commit
tee Of twelve was appointed, each
member of which will try to raise $3.50
George NJ. Huskins, for twelve years
associated with Frank G. Goudy in the
conduct of the affairs of the Rio
Grande Valley Land Company and kim
dred companies, and who had served
as treasurer and deputy clerk In Mesa
county and deputy auditor of state,
died in Denver December 18th, Of con-
sumption. He leaves u wife and five
children.
At Lake City. on the night of De
cember 18th, Jim Harrison got into an
alteration In saloon with Dick Price,
colored, whom he accused Of setaling
provisions from Il cabin. Harrison
stabbed Price In the breast and arm,
and when the city marshal. G. w.
Smeltzer. tried to arrest Harrison the
latter stabbed Smeltzer five times In
the abdomen. Harrison was arrested
The report of State Engineer A. ].
McCune shows that 1,5OO.OOO acres of
land are under ditch in this state and
are now being irrigated and that with
the bitches now In existence 1.OOO,OOO
more acres can be irrigated than at
present A total of 10000 miles Of
bitches is to be found in Colorado.
which is just double the mileage of
six years ago. This shows a wonder.
full advance in the work of Irrigation
in Colorado.
1t is said that Joseph Lesher will es-
tablish his mint for the making of his
referendum souvenirs In Denver IL the
federal government will allow him