Gilpin observer., 1900-02-08
COLORADO NOTES.

Hkeiy 10 snow good profits on the sea-
sons business.
Owing to the fact that during the
past two months there have been two
engineers blown up and killed by
thawing powder by the boiler, Engi-
neers Union, No. %, of Cripple Creek,
passed q resolution forbidding its men,
bers from allowing any powder to be
thawed around any boiler of which
they have charge
Weaver & Co., new oil company op-
Grating in the Florence field, started it's
first well pumping on Friday evening
1t has been pumped long enough to
determine the permanent flow of the
well, the owners placing it at 100 bar
rels per day. This is the most impor-
tant oil strike made in this district for
a year, and causes rejoicing through
out the oil field.
The final act in the construction Of
the Canon City extension of the Flor
ence n Cripple Creek railway, prior to
opening the line for business, was per-
formed on the 4th, when the transfer
tracks were put in connecting the road
with the Denver Il Rio Grande at
Canon City. The company has yard
room at this terminus for over 5000
cars, and are laying the yard tracks
as rapidly as possible.
The beet raising industry in Mesa
county is to be given substantial
boom by the addition to the farmers Of
Il Quaker colony in Bucks county,
pennsylvania, who will come to this
country to grow up with the beets
The beet tonnage for the past year var
led according to the ability or atten-
tion to business of the farmers, many
of whom undertook so large an acre
n fyn how Il Il
attention to the specially, and the su-
gar beet company at Grand junction
is making every effort to add to the till
ers of the soil in that section who will
devote their entire time to beets.
Public gambling at Leadville ceased
at noon Monday, due to orders issued
out of the District Court. For six
months Leadville has been wide
open town, and it is said that several
hundred gamblers have been making
the town their stamping ground. The
City Council took the matter up and de-
cided that these people must go. When
the District Court convened Monday
Attorney Jones was delegated by the
court to see that the laws in relation
to gambling were enforced. and every
thing was closed up tightly by noon.
There has been strong agitation here
for several weeks against public gam
bling, and this last move has apparent
ly ended the matter, at least for some
time to come.
Following the recent concessions OBJ
tanned for Denver through the agita-
ton of the Kindell case before the In
terstate Commerce Commission, inter-
est in the establishment of Il state rail
way commission is reviving among To-
cal shippers. Talk in the crowds out
side of the offices of freight agents of
late tended to an enthusiastic indorse-
ment of the establishment of such
commission, and the feeling seemed to
be that, the time was ripe for forward
ing such a proposition, and for obtain
ing, in n measure, the same protection
for the mountain towns. and the agri-
cultural settlements on the eastern
and western slope, as had been OBJ
tained for Denver.
In the chase after the escaped con-
vict, Wagner, the six guards who
have been securing the Beaver Greek
country separated Friday morning,
each division taking different course,
but all working south. One division
followed the Hardscrabble to its
source and reported from Quereda
this afternoon that it was following
strong trail, and it was believed Wag-
oner was only few miles in the lead.
Another division took route straight
for Trinidad, and the third started to-
ward Colorado Springs, but returned
this afternoon. Warden Hoyt sent
man to Trinidad tonight with instruc-
tions to take n horse and patrol the
country north, in the hope of heading
the convict off.
The insurance companies that paid
the losses resulting from the Antlers
fire mt Colorado Springs in 1898 have
filed suit in court charging the Denver
Il Rio Grande Railroad Company with
criminal negligence in leaving combus-
tible material about the depot. and
bringing powder into the city. There
are two suits pending and the total
judgment asked is II little more than
S21O,OOO. There is n formidable list
of insurance companies named as
plaintiffs in both suits. There are four
causes of action mentioned in the com
plaint, all charging negligence on the
part of the defendant. The plaintiffs
have asked settlement form the Den
yer X Rio Grande but were refused.
The Colorado Springs Hotel Company
and j. ii. Barlow trustee. are also
mentioned with the defendant in the
second suit because they refuse to join
with the plaintiffs. Mr.. Barnett in
the first suit Is placed with the Den
yer * Rio Grande ms co-defendant be-
cause he also refused to join the plain
tiffs. This case promises TO be one of
the iiercest legal battles ever wagcd
on account of the large interests in.
volved.
A large majority of the organized la
boring men of this state believe that
the labor vote should be east for labor
candidates nominated by labor con
vcntions. The executive committee of
the State Federation of Labor has of
ficially canvassed the votes cast by all
| the unions under its cOntrnl on the