Gilpin observer., 1900-03-22
COLORADO NOTES.

charge and left the city. He Will pe
succeeded by Rev. John Kenny, late
chaplain of Montcalm sanitarium.
The companies which had policies
out on the life of Frank Il. Tyler, the
Kansas City man who was burned 10
death near Alpine, Colo, last summer
have given up the attempt to prove
that the case was another fraher
swindle and will pay up.
Over one hundred residences are now
under course of construction at ROCKY
Ford and arrangements have peen
made for the erection of new business
blocks. The American Sugar Beet
Company is pushing work on the sugar
factory. 100 additional men having
been put to work during the week.
The Mutual Life of New York has
paid its $4,000 policy, held by the
Metropolitan National bank as secur-
ity for debt, to the receiver or the
bank, and the smaller policies Will be
paid in day or two. Detectives have
been working on the case for months,
but have not been able to substantiate
the fraud theory.
After considerable litigation between
the Colorado & southern Railroad Com
pany and the city of Pueblo, the for
eating certain ground for its benefit,
has made an appropriation of $1,000
to the city, to be used in the construc-
ton of the First street viaduct across
the Fountain river and the Colorado
& Southern tracks. Work will be re-
sumed on the new viaduct.
What appears to have been a das-
tardly attempt TO burn the j. j. Maker
Mercantile Company's building and
Masonic hall, at Ouray, was made last
Tuesday night, by placing sack SAITH
rated with kerosene in some boxes un-
der the rear stairway and setting lire
to it. About sixty ladies of the order
Of Rebekah We're holding Il banquet in
the lodge room, and they discovered
the fire in time to avert n catastrophe.
The constable of the precinct was ar
rested on suspicion at midnight.
The National Beet Sugar Company,
now erecting n half million dollar
sugar factory. fifty miles east of Pueb-
10 on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
have 300 ment at work and expect to
complete the factory by October 1st.
This company proposes to raise its own
beets, and has prepared about 1000
acres of ground for this years crop.
Two trainloads of experienced beet
growers will leave April LIST for Sugar
City. With their arrival will be gin
the planting of the first beet sugar crop
in Otero county.
Colorado College has lately been of
cered $4,000 toward the endowment of
n science building, provided 100000 for
building purposes be secured by April
1st. The uneXpectedness of the offer
and the shortness of the time will nc-
cessitate great and unceasing efforts
on the part of the college to meet The
conditions. General Palmer has given
$25, 900. Mr.. Howbert $500, and other
gifts bring the total up to nearly $780,
600. So there remains $4,000 to be
raised in two weeks.
A series of suits has been commenced
in the United States courts covering
the taking of timber, coal and other ma
terials from government land. The
first of the suits was filed on February
14th, when the government accused the
Denver Tramway Company of cutting
ties on government land without per-
mission. This suit includes not only
the Tramway company and its officers,
but also the Denver Leadville * Gun
nison railroad. The suit is a civil one
for the value of the timber taken. The
Dluttl 1T HlO,tSc. IsdSl
Friday n second suit was filed for dam
ages against Allen NJ. and Il. T. Ghost,
it being charged that they had taken
$3.50 worth of coal from government
land.
The franchise of the Ouray and Red
Mountain toll road, the connecting link
on the Ouray route of the circle trip
so many people from all parts of the
world have travelled, will expire next
month. The people of Ouray county
expect the company, at the head of
which is Otto Mears. to give up pos
session at that time. although new
corporation is said to have been organ
lied for the purpose of assuming con-
troi. A recent decision in Clear
Creek county case held that no indi-
vidual or corporation could take charge
Of toll road after the life of n first
franchise had expired. The Ouray road
has been Travelled for twenty years by
passengers taking the stage at Silver
ton, and has been bonanza for the
owners.
The Denver Republican says: Grand
Junction will be coloniZed by Nor
mons. An influx of families from the
city of the saints is now certain. For
ty families have already made arrange
ments to take up in the Colorado beet
sugar town. Many other families OF
the same faith are said to have decid-
ed to follow the forty now on the way
to Grand Junction, and that Grand
Junction will soon be so largely popu-
lated by Mormons that they may be
able to control lts politics is now
thought to be highly probable. The
Grand Junction sugar-beet factory Is
preparing to do Il much larger business
this year than last. Grand junction
citizens who were in Denver yester-
day express the fear that too large an
influx of Mornons would take the Do
litical control of affairs out of the
hands of those who have lived in
Grand Junction for yenrs. An effort
Will be mnde 10 gnnrd agninst this