North Park union., 1900-02-09
COLORADO NOTES.

near GunnIson, was caused by burro.
Lendville people are alarmed over the
malicious explosion of giant powder in
the city.
| A boy was killed on the railroad near
Byers the other night 1t IL supposed
| that he was stealing a ride and fell on.
John Bowman. n former policeman.
has been arrested ut Leadville, charged
with being responsible for the recent
| dynamite explosions. He had several
sucks of giant powder In his pocket the
night of the Hunter explosion, and told
Officer Baird that he was the dyna-
| miter. Bowman belonged to Torreys
Rough Riders. He was discharged
from the police force for dlsorderiy
conduct. and it is believed that dyna-
hitting was done for revenge.
A dynamite explosion about IL
| o'clock Wednesday night partially
| wrecked the handsome residence of a.
V. Hunter, the wellknown mining man
and tinancier of Leadville. The dyna-
mite was placed between his house and
that of James Ritchey and almost shat
tered the walls of both buildings, caus-
ing n damage of several hundred dollars.
AS this is the third dynamite explosion
Nltlllll Nteh, lllS 10 nav
uarlly very much worked up over the
circumstance. The police have no the
Dry as to who is responsible for the
outrage. The last explosion occurred
Tuesday night, when bomb was
thrown in the rear of the county jail,
! but no serious damage occurred. A
heavy reward has already been offered
for the perpetrator of the outrage.
AT the recent session of the State Ed
itorial Association Il resolution was
adopted making Wolfe Londoner's "Cy-
clone Cellar. proposed monthly pub
lication in the interest of the profession
the official organ of the association.
The idea. presented apparently as Il
joke. is to materialiZe into Il fact and
the initial number. an eight-page paper,
profusely illustrated and filled with
matter pertaining to the craft. will be
published in season. to be distributed
at the meeting of the National Editorial
Association. to be held in New Orleans
next month. Wolfe Londoner will be
the publisher and w. Il. Pabor. editor
and manager The editorial staff will
be composed of the members of the
state association. all of whom are cN-
pectcd 10 contribute Il paragraph to the
first number.
Washington dispatch says: Applica-
ton for Il writ of certiOrar in the case
of the Central Trust Company versus
the Denver n Rio Grande railroad was
denied by The United States Supreme
Court. This decision practically
means that the Midland must pay dam
ages for deaths on the Rio Grandc in IL
wreck for which the Midland was re
sponsible. The particular wreck in
point is that at Newcastle on Septcm-
Der y, 1897. when II score of persons
were killed and many We're badly In
jured in Il collision between Rio Grande
and Midland trains. The fatalities were
among Rio Grande passengers. but that
road made the claim that the Midland,
being responsible for the wreck. was
responsible for damages. This point
they won in the lower courts and the
decision in the Supreme Court was Il
practical victory also.
The people Of Boulder sent lot of
provisions TO the people OF Ward. who
lost their property in the recent fire.
Several dwelling houses have been con-
verted into temporary store buildings,
and nearly all of the burned-out mer-
chants have ordered new stocks Of
goods. The city council held Il special
meeting Saturday evening to take steps
w" aaAs UP lift ucuElS, anu
so to open up new town books and be-
gin business with clean slate. as all
OF the old records We're totally destroy
ed. Everyone feels that the fire will be
to Ward what the Cripple Creek fire
was TO that great camp, and that here
Is n good place to remain. ns the mines
were never looking better than now.
Everyone is feeling cheerful and firmly
believes Ward will soon recover and be
better mining camp than ever. The
/ town officials will take action to
straighten some of the bends, widen
the streets and encourage the building
of a handsome town.
At two minutes after o'clock Friday
night Il terrific explosion of giant DOW
der occurred in the shaft house of the
| Pixies Peak No. l mine on Bull hill.
Three minutes after the first explosion
took place another heavy blast of Il
smaller quantity of giant powder COM
pleted the ruination of the shaft house.
Engineer j. NJ. Manvillc. on duty in
J the shaft house when the first explo-
sion occurred, was blown through the
building onto the outside of the shaft
house. He received terrible injuries
about the head and his body and limbs
were also badly bruised. He died In n
short time. Two miners who We're in
the bottom of the shaft were mt first
thought to be fatally hurt. but later
they were found to be uninjured. When
the first explosion rent the shaft house,
the lattcr at once took fire and burned
fearfully. The heat was so intense
that 1t burned the steel cable in two.
allowing the bucket to fall into the
shaft. where it dropped until II reached
the incline section of the shaft. and
plunged down to the bottom, where the
two miners were at work. 1t did not
injure them but the bucket was red
hot, and the two men could not stand
the intense heat in the narrow spnce
where they We're confined. They i'm
mediately began climbing and reached
one of the upper levels in safety.
Warden Hoyt is preparing to farm
this year on an extensive scale. To
date he has taken leases Oh land agpre.
eating 500 acres and Is preparing to
till a large acreage. He has secured a
four-year lease on one 2OO-acre tract,
which will in part be seeded to aIfal.
fa. at the same time growing crop of
oats. The rest of the tract and all the
smaller holdings will be devoted to
growing corn and vegetables. No lease
has been entered into for shorter
term than two years, the warden's mol.
ley being to secure the land for ns Ionv