The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01
COLORADO NOTES.

cancy caused by the 0eatn OF George
Seayer.
A Santa Fe helper engine Of the
mountain division ran away Monday
morning just after leaving Morley,
headed for Trinidad. The reverse lever
got caught and the engineer lost con-
troll Of the engine. The fireman jump
ed but the engineer staid at his post
until nearing Starkville, where he was
to meet freight train. when he jump
ed. The freight train had just cleared
the main track and the runaway engine
came on to Trinidad. One of the clerks
of the freight office saw the engine as
! 1t was coming into the yards and sue
| ceeded in getting aboard. With pick
hammer he succeeded in releasing the
lever and stopped the engine.
The outside stockholders in the Col
orado Cooperative colony won vic
tory at the recent meeting of the
stockholders held for the purpose Of
altering the constitution so as to cur
tail the powers of those owning stock
but not living on the lands of the col
Ony. Denver stockholders especially
| objected to the aggressive policy of a
few of those living at the colony, who,
they said, were endeavOring to freeze
them out. 1t was q complete victory
for the outside element and among
other changes the old committee
on engineers was thrown out because
of the allegations that it had not done
any work since last August The col
Ony is located at Pinon in the western
part of the state.
A Pueblo dispatch of the Goth says:
is to oh ha
most atrociOus crime ever committed
in her history. Two innocent children
are lying dead in the morgue and a
colored woman is ut the Pueblo hos
pital with two bullets in her body. Cal
win kimblern, n colored cook in the en-.
ploy of the Fries Orphan home, il
the murderer of the children, and the
wOuld-be assassin of his wife. The
| murder was committed at l 80 o'clock
this morning at cottage No. . of the
Fries Orphans Home in Central Park.
According to the wounded woman's
| story it was the result of insane jeal-
o'lsy Oh the part of the husband, who,
prior to the shooting, had been quarrel
ing with her. lie has not yet been
captured.
Lake county can, by absolutely iden-
cess of the constitutional Indebtedness,
repudiate them except there be a clause
on the face of the bonds stipulating
that the bonds are not issued in excess
of the limitations. This lis the ruling
Judge Riner made in the federal court
yesterday in the case of Flora c. Lucas
against the county commissioners and
involving about $4,000 of the bonds in
dispute. which reach Il total of half a
million dollars, about $4,000 of which
are legal. The ruling of Judge Riner
seems to reverse that Judge Marshall
made several weeks ago from the same
bench affecting bonds of the same issue
| and under the same circumstances.
But there is a great difference in the
value of the evidence submitted and
affecting the vital point.
The government now has noun
tain sheep. Buffalo" Jones on the
22d brought in the first results of his
hunt, fine buck lamb about a month
old. Its capture was very exciting
The camp is in the Coal basin valley,
about eight miles from Redstone where
the sheep have been located for four
days. In the morning the eve and
lamb We're discovered in an accessi-
Bile place. An attempt was being
made to get near them when the eve
| discovered she was being rushed She
at once bounded up the side of the
steep mountain. The lamb followed,
and gaining a good height the mother
and lamb disappeared. Shortly after
wards the eve was seen ascending
still higher. but the lamb had been
hid. 1t was impossible to reach the
point from below where the lamb had