North Park union., 1900-02-16
COLORADO MOTIFS.

tie trouble WITH snow tnAt tney AIe
likely to show 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
ueers' Union, No. 70, of Cripple Greek.
passed resolution forbidding It's mem
bers from allowing any powder to be
thawed around any boiler OF which
they have charge.
Weaver Il Co., new oil company op-
Grating IN the Florence field, started ,its
first well pumping on Friday evening.
1t has been pumped long enough to
determine the permanent flow OF the
| well, the owners placing 1t at 100 bar
rels per day. This IL the most impOr-'
| tant oil strike made In this district for
a year, aud causes rejoicing through
out the oil field.
The final act in the construction of
the Canon City extension Of the Flor
ence & 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 mt this terminus for over 1900
cars, and are laying the yard tracks
as rapidly as possible.
The beet raising Industry In Mesa
county IL to be given substantial
boom by the addition to the farmers OF
a Quaker colony In Bucks county.
Pennsylvania. who will come to this
country to grow up with the beets.
The beet tonnage for the past yenr VAR
led according to the ability or atten-
tion to business OF the farmers, many
| Of whom undertook NO large nn acre
age that they could not devote proper
attention to the speciality. and the s,
gar beet company mt Grand Junction
ir 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 I.eadvilIe ceased
Mt noon Monday. due to orders issued
ont OF the District Court For six
months Leadvllle has been with,-
| open town. and 1t IL 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 zee that the laws In relation
to gambling We're enforced, and every
thing WAS closed up tightly by noon.
| Huh uteH htTOuE ukltutiOu
for several weeks against public gam
bling. and this Inst move has apparent
ly ended the matter, at least for some
| time to come.
Following the recent concessions OBJ
tained for Denver through the agitn-
tion OF the Kindell case before ths In
terstnte Commerce Commission, inter
| est in the establishment or Il state rail
way commission is reviving among To-
cul shippers. Talk In the crowds out
side of the offices of freight agents of
| late tended to an enthusiastic indorsc-
ment of the establishment of such II
| commission. and the feeling seemed To
| be TINT, the time was ripe for forward
| ing such a proposition, and for obtain
ing. In II measure. the same protection
| for the mountain towns. and the agri-
| cultural settlements OH the eastern
and western slope, rs had been OBJ
tuincd for Denver.
In the chase after the escaped con-
| Wet, Wagner. the SIX guards who
have been securing the Beaver Greek
country separated Friday morning,
each division taking n different course.
but NIL working south. One division
followed the Hnrtiscrabble to Its
source and reported from Quercda
this afternoon that II was following n
strong trail, and 1t wus believed Wag.
oner was only few miles In the lead.
| Another division took n route straight
| for Trinidad. and the third started to-
ward Colorado Springs. but returned
this afternoon. Warden Hoyt sent II
man to Trinidad tonight. with instruc-
tions to take II horse and patrol the
country north. in the hope OF heading
the convict on.
Joseph r. Gallagher. state senator
from Clear Greek county, who has beer
| in Lendville for about two weeks, was
Instantly killed ut the Meyer mine on
the LIST. Senator Gallagher came tG
Leadville and secured employment
from the Iron-SIlver Mining Company
| working In their Meyer mine on the
force. During the afternoon he put two
blasts In ground where he was work
ing. one OF which exploded properly.
The other failed to go of. Later he ne.
turned to the place where he had
drilled his holes, to put in more giant,
but just rs lie got there the second
blast went on. he receiving Its full
force about the head, face and body. he
was blown some distance and horribly
mangled. both eyes being torn out Of
| his head. Death WINS instantaneous.
The insurance companies that paid
the losses resulting from the Antlers
fire at Colorado Springs in 1893 have
filed suit In court charging the Denver
x Rio Grnnde Railroad Company with
criminal negligence In leaving combus.
tible material about the depot, and
bringing powder into the city. There
nre two suits pending and the total
| judgment asked is a little more than
$21O.OOO. There Is a formidable list
Of insurance companies named rs
plaintiffs In both suits. There are -four
|; causes OF action mentioned In the com.
plant, all charging negligence OH the
part of the defendant. The plaintiffs
have asked settlement form the Den.
yer & Rio Grnnde but were refused.
The Colorado Springs Hotel Company
and J. III. Barlow. trustee, are also
mentioned with the defendant In the
second suit because they refuse to join
with the plaintiffs. MIR. Barnett In
the first suit IL placed with the Den
yer 4 Rio Grande as co-defendant be.
cause he also refused to join the plain.
tiifs. This ease promises to he one of
the fiercest legal battles ever waged.
OH 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 he east for labor