The Holly chieftain., 1900-04-06
COLORADO NOTES.

March Is $1O2,O3O, this being for five
houses begun during the month. Alto
gether the amount of building going on
In the city amounts to nearly, If not
quite S1,OO0,0OO
A boiler explosion occurred Friday
at Laws upper saw mill on West creek
by which the engineer. Willard Hell
sey, was Instantly killed. The force
OF the explosion threw the unfortunate
man distance of over 400 feet across
deep ravine. Large fragments of
the boiler were blown from 800 to 400
feet. The engine was wrecked. blown
from Its bed and the mill rendered
ruin. A lumber hauler and his team
We're slightly injured. There were no
other casualties. The dead engineers
father resides in Victor. The explosion
was caused by the water being allowed
to run too low In the boiler.
A sugar beet plant Will soon be in
operation In the Arkansas valley under
the control of some of Pueblo's bust
ness and professional men. Over 200
acres of land under the Bessemer ditch
have been selected and will be planted
in beets next May of this year. The
acreage will be increased from year to
year and the farm will be under the
management of S. B. Schmidt. an ex-
pert on sugar beet culture. The Pu-
eblo Farm Company has been incor-
porated for this purpose with a capital
stock of $4,000, divided into 1000
shares. The incorporators are Frank
lin Tuiteman, q. b. Schmidt and Henry
A. Dubbs, who, with John T. Vail and
z. X. McHarg, will act as directors of
the company.
Ex-Governor Alva Adams and Mrs.
Adams are in Washington en- route
from an extended visit in Cuba to their
home in Colorado. Governor Adams,
In an interview, said that his visit to
Cuba had convinced him that the island
should become part of the United
States. 1T is rich" he said, ''in agri-
cultural and mineral resources, and
with the protection of American laws
extended to capital, will become
profitable field for investors. What
impressed me greatly was the cheap
freight rates upon products shipped
from the island to United States ports.
Rates on sugar are but II cents hun
dred pounds from Havana to New
York, marked contrast to our west
ern freight rates. With equitable
laws Cuba should become one of the
greatest wealth-producing regions of
the republic"
An opinion handed down by Erwin
l.. Regennitter, district attorney for the
First judicial district of Colorado, indi-
Gates that next fall students of the
State School of mines and some EN-.
ployes of the State Industrial School at
Golden. will be prosecuted if they at
tempt to vote at the coming fall cleo
ton. The opinion was requested as
an instruction covering the questioned
legality of votes in Jefferson county.
The construction of the state constitu-
ton by District Attorney Regennitter
applies as well to students of every col
lege In the state and employees of ev-
cry state Institution, and should the of
fcinls of the First judicial district
make test case in Jefferson county,
as Is the Intention of the district attor-
ney, the Supreme Court would doubt
less be called upon to construe the con-
stitutional limitations which, ATTORNEY
Regennitter insist are violated in ey-
cry county where state institutions are
located.
]. p. Cleary and Dewitt Cleary. ac-
cused OF cattle rustllng in the western
part of Douglas county, We're tried be-
fore Justice Crawshaw at Castle Rock |
attention. A number of the witnesses |
examined admitted completely In the |
killing of cattle but claimed that the |
Clearys Were the prime movers. I.P.
Cleary, the father, conducted n saw
mill and boarded number of men,
and 1t waste his boarding house that
the stolen beef was taken, but he
swore that he was absent and knew
nothing of 1t until later his son. De-
witt, admitted that he and Newton
Buzbee, son-inaw of Cleary. had
killed the steer. The effort of the de-
fense seemed to be to shift the blame
to young Cleary, who is not yet of age.
l. l.. Cleary was bound over in 5000
bonds and Dewitt Cleary in $1,000.
The father will probably be able to
give bonds. The prosecution was con-
Quoted by the Colorado Cattle Grow
ers' Association, represented by Ralph
Talbot of Denver George II. Dunn
and l.. G. Withaup We're for the de-
fense. If either of the prisoners gives
bail lie will be arrested again on other
charges.
j. j. Frey, who, until January 1st of
this year, was general manager of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad,
has been elected president of the Flor.
encc Il Cripple Creek. the Canon City
4 Cripple Greek and the Golden Circle
railroads, to succeed Sylvester r.
Smith, who resigned the presidency
soon after the roads were sold to the
Colorado & Southwestern Mr.. Frey's
election became effective April LIST, but
was not made public Until Monday,
when he made the announcement at
Topeka. His election, it is said, will
have no bearing on the consolidation
of the several roads of the Cripple
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