North Park union., 1900-03-16
COLORADO NOTES.

small village near Ouray. lHe
tempt was made by two masked nen
They knocked Mrs. Mcclellan uo"n'
but her cries frightened them away!
Considering that the month Just emu
ed has only twenty-eight days; lne pS ',S
ductIon record Of the Cripple creek u,s
trict was good one. WINE iio'
I ord breaker, 1t by no means seo .h,t
backward step. The ngures snom ,,,,j
46,9OO tons were treated sn .ne 30 s,osS osn '
! lion value of which was $2,39'e'".
: On his way home from the Lueo'o @
insane asylum, William Arunuaie, :,
Middle PARK ranchmnn. was crushed
under the Silver Plume train on IN, .ne
| Colorado q Southern railroad at Elm
creek, There was no witness 10 MS
denth. The conductor. in his report
saws that Arundale crawled uhder ,ne
train, deliberately intending to comm.
suicide. Mrs, Arundale is sure II Is I'LL
| accident.
Another large lot of Fort Collins
lambs were sold on the Chicago mar
ket Wednesday ut ST.35 per hundred
weight. being the highest price on rec
ord. Charles +. Blunck. Drake y Mors-
man and Scott & Strnchhn on MOllaa!
| sold four car loads at S1.2O 10 S'.Zo pc,
hundred weight. The lambs weighed
from seventy-seven to elGht!-on.,
pounds each. Feeders are mucli eiateu
over the prospects of continued hish
prices.
! A war is one among the hardware
/ merchants of the Cripple Creek us
| trict. For over two years an asret
mept on prices has existed between
all dealers. Recently II was ascer-
tanned that large firm there was
quoting prices to several oil the N'rI'
mines. and in retaliation one mousse an
nounccd Il reduction of ten per cent;
on the price of powder. caps. fuse an.
candles. All of the dealers nave me-
and cut and merry war is now Oh.
The gentlemen who loaned the
money for the mobilization of the ma
tionai guard at the outbreak OF th"
Spanish American war are sald 10 nc
preparing to demand the repayment
of the loan. Considerable uincuii!
has been experienced by the state III
securing the money from the govern
mpnt. About $4,000 of the claim has
been allowed and the remainder Is en-
pccted soon. But none of this money
has been paid to the citizens who ad-
yanccd the funds for the mobilization
Hence they are kicking.
The American Beet Sugar Company.
otherwise known as the OXnard com
pany, because Its president and prin-
cipal owner bears that name. is con
tcmplatlng Rocky Ford addition.
something on the order of Pullman.
before it was declared to bc an Illegal
ly-conducted institution. But the OK
nard company will avoid such proceed
ings as will give its enemies any
ground for making the same complaint
against it, The addition will be on the
$40 acres of land secured from the
state board at It's recent meeting.
The Burlington people are doing NIL
in their power to rush the grading on
their Brusl-Alliunce line north of
Sterling. Every train from the East
adds TO the laborcrs and grading out
fits now at work in the canon south OF
Sidney. at which point there Is much
heavy work to be done. Shnffer X
GREEN'S large force of men. teams.
scrapcrs and supplies. five cars in all,
arrived there this morning from No
brnskn. They go 10 work mt once on
n two-milr contract of heavy grading
on the Cedar. ten miles northeast of
Sterling. Work Is expected TO COM
mcncc soon OH the line west of Sicr-
ling.
The Denver & Rio Grande has de-
cidcd to do away with narrow gauge
trains on the first division. Beginning
Sunday night train No. l5 which
leaves at a:iI o'clock in the evening
will he made up entirely of standard
gauge ears. 1t will be split nj Pueblo.
part Of il making connections with the
Marshall pass narrow gauge train. gn-
ing west by way of Salida. and par, of
II going over La Neta pass TO .Alamos;i.
connecting at that point with the pu-
rango nnrrow-gauge train. Train No.
1G. which will now be on the broad-
gauge rails. will leave Salida NJ 1915
p. n., and arrive In Denver nj Z o'clock
the following morning. No other
changes are contemplated.
There is n rumor that the Denver n
Rio Grande railroud has entered the
Platte canon controversy in earnest.
thereby complicaiing more than ever
the dispute between the Colorado 4,
Southern Railway Company and the
Denver Power X Irrigation Company.
The Rio Grande surveyors have return
ed recently from the canon. where they
have II line over the route which the
Power company has asked the Colo
RADIO 4 Southern to select. The pur-
pose of the survey is not given out. hut
railroad men say that should the Rio
Grande company file on it, and the
Colorado 4; Southern road be defeated
in its right of way through the rescr-
voir site, the Cripple Creek short line
would prove expensive to build
Colonel Macarey and Lieutenant Col
onel Nerdeckberg conducted an exam
nation of the charges preferred
against Captain Lew Walsh OF COM
pnny II. n. q. c. nt Boulder on the 2nd.
The examination lasted from 7:45 until
1915 Il. m. The charges preferred were
that the captain was incompetent: that
he has misapprOpriated company funds
and finally that he was connving with
members of company ii. Colorado vol
unteers, which was formerly the mill
tia company of Boulder. to throw the
control of the company officers in their
hands. From all these charges the
captain stands vindicated. Upon re.
ceiving this judgment he Immediately
resigned his commission. The dis
charge of the ringlenders of the attack
upon Captain Walsh was considered,
hut II was finally decided to administer
II severe reprimand. This reprimand
was given by Colonel NIacarey to the
entire company.
The ]. c. Teller railroad tic case tina;
has recently occupied the attention of
the courts in Wyoming has now