The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-23
COLORADO NOTES.

charge and left the city. He viii be
succeeded by Rev John Kenny, late
chaplain Of Montcalm sanita.iun.
The companies which had policies
out on the life Of Frank T.. Tyler, the
Kansas City man who was burned TO
death near Alpine. Colo, last summer
have gwen up the attempt to prove
that The case WIS another EaEer
swindle and viii pay up.
Over one hundred residences are now
under course Of construction at Rocky
Ford and arrangements have been
made for the erection 0f new business
blocks. The American Sugar Beet
Company is pushing work on the sugar
factory. 100 additional men having
been put 10 work during the week.
The Mutual Life Of New York has
paid its $1,000 policy. held by the
Metropolitan National bank as secur-
ity for debt, TO the receiver Of the
bank, and the smaller policies viii be
paid in day or two. Detectives have
been working on the case for months
bat have not been able To substantiate
the fraud theory.
After considerable litigation between
tie Colorado X Southern Railroad Com
pany anl the city Of Pueblo. the for
mer. in consideration Of the city va
eating certain ground for its benefit.
has made an appropriation OF 5000
to the city, to bc used in the construc-
tion Of the First street yladuct across
the Fountain river and the Colorado
q Southern tracks. Work will be re
suIned ON the new vIaduet-
What appears to have been dIs-
iardly attempt TO burn the ]. j. Maher
Mercantile Company's building an'!
Masonic hall, at Ouray. was made last
Tuesday night, 10y placing sack saju-
rated with Kerosene In some boxes un-
der the rear stairway and setting FIRE
TO 1t. Abont sixty ladies of the ortlcr
OF Rehekah were holding n banque; in
the lodge room. and they discovered
the fire in time to avert a catastrophe.
The constable OF the precinct was ar
rested on suspicion nj midnight
The National Beet Sugar Company,
now erecting half million dollar
sugar factory. fifty miles east of Pueb-
10 on the Missouri Pacific railroad.
have 300 ment at work and expect to
complete the factory by October 1si.
This company proposes 10 raise its own
bcets, and has prepared about 1000
acres Of ground for this years crop.
Two trainloads OF experienced beet
growers viii leave April LIST for Sugar
City. With their arrival will be gin
the planting OF the first beet sugar crop
In Otero county.
Colorado College has lately been Of
fered $4,000 toward the endowment of
science building, provided 100000 for
building purposes he secured by April
LIST. The uncXpecteduess Of the ouer
and the shortness of the time will no
cessitate great and unceasing efforts
on the part of the college TO meet ,he
conditions. General Palmer has given
$4,000, Mr.. Howbert $500. and other
gifts bring the total UP to nearly $780,
600. So there remains $4,000 TO be
raised in two weeks.
A series OF suits has been commenced
In the United States courts covering
the taking Of timber, coal and other ma
terials from government land. The
first of the suits was filed on February
14th, when the government accused the
Denver Tramway Company of cutting
ties on government land without per
mission. This suit includes not only
the Tramwuy company and its officers,
but also the Denver. Leadville & Gun
nison railroad. The suit is a civil one
for the value of the timber taken. The
damages are placed at S1O.4S9. Last
Friday n second suit was filed for dam
ages against Allen NJ and l.. T. Ghost,
II being charged that they had taken
AS1O worth Of coal from government
land.
The franchise of the Ouray and Red
Mountain toll road, the connecting link
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so many people from all parts of the
world have Travelled, will expire next
month. The people of Ouray county
expect the company, Mt the head of
which is Otto Mears, to give up pos
session Mt that time. although a new
corporation is said To have been organ
lied for the. purpose of assuming con-
troll. A recent decision in n Clear
Creek county case held that no indi-
vidual or corporation could take charge
of toll road after the life OF first
franchise had expired. The Ouray road
has been travelled for twenty years by
passengers taking the stage at Silver
ton, and has been a bonanza for the
owners.
The Denver Republican says: Grand
Junction will be coloniZed by Nor
mons. An lnuuN Ol IainllleS from the
city of the saints is now certain. For
ty families have already made arrange
ments to take up in the Colorado beet
sugar town. Many other families Of
the same faith are said TO have decid-
ed to follow the forty now on the way
to Grand Junction, and that Grand
Junction will soon be SO largely popu-
lated by Mormons that they may be
able to control its politics is now
thought to be highly probable. The
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