The Grit-advocate., 1900-08-24
COLORADO NOTES.

COlOra0O Will be good for StOpOYer or
thirty days at any point in Colorado.
Heretofore tickets reading through Col
orado for points in the state, Utah or
California have been continuous, per-
mitting no stopover in Colorado.
Efforts have been made by the Colo
RADIO roads to secure an arrangement
by which tourists could stop in Colo
RADIO If they desired, but the efforts un-
til now have been unavailing.
The Chicago 4 Alton will, 1t is re-
ported, be running into Denver before
the first Of next year on its own tracks.
Negotiations are reported to be pend
Ing for the sale to the company Of the
Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pa
cific, the acquisition of which would
give the Alton a direct line from Chica-
60 and Kansas City to Denver, VIA
Kansas City. The directors of the Al
ton and the Union Pacific will, it is
reported, meet in New York City the
LIST of September and conclude nego-
aiations for the transfer.
District Judge Palmer at Denver has
decided that the Board of County Com
missioners has not the power to assess
the franchise of the Denver Union
Water Company. A suit to prevent
taxation was brought by the water
company against the Arapahoe county
commissioners long time ago on the
ground that it's franchise was not as
sessable, but, during the pendency of
the case it paid its tax for 1899 under
protest. The county will now have to
refund to the water company 81, 900,
the amount of the tax, If Judge Pal
mer's decision is upheld by the Su
,rf % tab, he,
taken on appeal.
LabOrers are reported scarce by en-
ployment agents who are after men for
work on western railroads. The Union
Pacific has agents hiring men in Den
yer for work along the line in Wyom-
ing and on Friday eighty men We're
sent over, many of them coming from
farms and ranches in Colorado. The
Union Pacific is said to be having a
hard time securing enough men. The
Denver & Rio Grande railroad is in the
field for men to build the Rio Grande
railroad out of Texas creek. The Colo
RADIO Midland wants men for an extern
sion to Newman tunnel; the Colorado
Springs & Cripple Greek railroad is
short of men on it's construction work,
and the Colorado X Southern cannot get
enough men. All the roads say that
there is scarcity of men, and that the
man who is out of work is idle because
he wants to be-
Fire starting in the Foley hotel, cor
ner of Elm street and Northern avenue,
Pueblo, Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock, destroyed 100000 worth of
property in that vicinity before gotten
under control by the fire department.
The property destroyed consisted of the
Foley hotel and the lumber yard ad
joining, also the property of Il. H.
Foley; the Albany hotel, owned by W.
II, Shower, and thirteen small dwellings
on the east side OF Elm street west of
the lumber yards. The fire is supposed
to have been of incendiary origin, and
according to Mr.. FOley's statement was
started no less than three times during
the day at different points on his prop
erty, the third time being undiscovered
until too late to control. Most of the
dwellings were covered by insurance,
as well as their furnishings. while Mr..
Foley states that he carried but twenty
per cent, of the full value of his proper
ty. He estimates his losses, including
the lumber yard, hotel and furnishings
at $75 600 No lives Cere lost.
Although Congress at the recent ses-
sion authorized the purchase of com
plete set of minting machinery for the
Denver mint, and made a partial ap-
preparation for the same. the Treasury
Department has AS yet taken no steps
toward letting the contract. The su-
pervising architect says that at the
present rate the mint building should
be under roof not later than October.
The interior finish will then be COM