The state herald., 1900-12-28
COLORADO NOTES.

| sugar factory at Denver.
A movement is on foot at Glenwood
| Springs to organize n home company
ana run prospecting tunnel into one
| OF the mountains near the city.
The Teller County Rar Association
| gave banquet In the National hotel
in Cripple Creek OH the night of De-
cember 22nd. Covers were laid for 100.
The state engineers report shows
| the Taylor state road will be n great
| bene..t to the state when completed.
| Already S21 900 has been spent on this
| thoroughIare.
The Bazaar dry goods store on Ben
nett avenue, in Cripple Greek, was bur-
| Slarized on the morning of December
18th, and from 500 to $1,000 worth or
! furs Were stolen.
| The Eaton school has opened again,
after being closed n week on account
of scarlet fever There are no new
cases In the district. and the few cases
We're of Il mild form.
Teller county paid out during the
past year Sl330 for Keeley cure to
drunkards, making total expenditure
for poor of $S,063.12. Lake county's
bill was $1225057 and Morgan $SS4.So.
The Hoffman Milling Company is
| erecting new 100-sack merchant
Touring mill in Fort Collins. 1t is 10.
Gated three-fOurths of mile south
east of the postotiice 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 is $4,000, and
the building will be used for headquar-
ters of all labor unions of Florence.
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
reformatory to not exceed fifteen years.
In the criminal court at Denver yes
terday the case of William w. Ander-
son, who shot Fred Boniils and Ii. II.
Tammen, proprietors of the Post, came
up on the 10Th inst. for n second trial,
but on motion of defendants counsel a
postponement was taken until the next
term.
The Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell. who
has for years done IA magnificent work
in the slums of Denver. appeals to the
public for funds to complete his new
tabernacle on which S21, 300 has al
ready been expended. The sum Of $5,-
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 4 Crook, of which
| the govcrnor-elect Is n member The
road is mainly built for the transpor-
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.
]. ]. Lumsdcn. n Grand Junction
contractor, has been awarded the con-
tract to erect the new school building
at the Teller institute. The building
will he one of the handsomest among
the group when completed. 1t will be
built OF brick and stone two stories
hiSu. lit NohiutN Ihice II S-o,ouV.
Brighton and Fort Lupton are rivals
In offering sites for n condensed milk
factory. a meeting was held In
Brighton recently and the company
that proposes to build the factory was
asked 10 walt until January 18th for n
final offer from Brighton. 4 commit
tee OF twelve was appointed. each
member OF which will try TO raise $3.50.
George NJ. Husklns, for twelve years
associated with Frank c. Goudy in the
conduct OF the affairs of the Rio
Grandc Valley Land Company and kin.
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. lie leaves a wife and five
children.
At Lake City. on the night OF De-
cembcr 1Iih, Jim Harrison got into an
alteration In saloon with Dick Price,
colored. whom he accused OF setaling
provisions from a cabin. Harrison
stabbed Price In the breast and arm,
and when the city marshal. O.. W.
Smcltzer. tried To arrest Harrison the
latter stabbed Smeltzcr five times In
the abdomen. Harrison was arrested.
The report OF State Engineer A. j.
McCune shows that l.5o0OOO acres OF
land are under ditch In this state and
are now being irrigated and that with
the bitches now In existence 1000, 600
more acres can he irrigated than at
present. A total OF 10000 miles OF
bitches Il 10 he found In Colorado.
which Is Just double the mileage of
six years ngo. This shows wonder.
ful advance In the work OF Irrigation
In Colorado.
The Wool Growers Association OF
Montrosc county offers n reward OF
$500 for the apprehension and conyic.
tlon OF the men who recently poisoned
scvcnty-iiyc sheep belonging 10 G. II.
Slccn OF Dry Creek. Last May II, g.
Kcnley OF California Mesa. In the same
neirhborhood lost seven head OF horses
within two weeks from poisoning.
Stockmcn are uneasy and anxious that
means be adopted TO rid the country
OF the poisoncrs.
II N said that Joseph Leshcr will cs.
tnblish his mint for the making OF his
referendum souvenirs In Denver " the
federal government VIII allow him
10 coin his octngonnl money. lie hns
referred the matter Ia District Attor.
ney Greeley w. WhIiford and expects
also TO hear from Secretary Lyman
Gage. The coinage OF the money"