The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-03-27
COLORADO NOTES.

succeeded by Rev. John Kenny, late
chaplain of Montcalm sanitarium.
The companies which had policies
out on the life of Frank Z. Tyler, the
/ Kansas City man who was burned to
death near Alpine, Colo, last summer,
nave given up the attempt to prove
that the case was another Fraker
swindle and will pay up.
Over one hundred residences are now
under course of construction at Rocky
Ford and arrangements have been
made for the erection of new business
| blocks. The American Sugar Beet
Company is pushing work on the sugar
factory, 100 additional men having
been put to work during the week.
| Notes and papers representing money
cannot be taxed in Colorado If they
are the property of one not residing in
the state, even though the loans were
originally made here. Thit is the opin-
ion handed down by the Court of APP
peals in the case of Seth w. Hathaway,
administrator of the estate of Edwin
French, deceased, appellant versus Ar
mand Choury, treasurer of Costilla
county.
After considerable litigation between
the Colorado & Southern Railroad Com
pany and the city of Pueblo, the for
mer, in consideration of the city va
eating certain ground for its benefit,
has made an appropriation of $1,000
to the city, 10 be used in the construc-
tion of the First street viaduct across
the Fountain river and the Colorado
X Southern tracks. Work will be re-
sumed on the new viaduct.
james Il. Burns has contributed So
600 toward the 100000 to be raised by
Colorado College before the first of
A rat.H IL q = !
leaves to be raised $4,000 in order to
secure the gift of n friend of the col
lege of $4,000 for the endowment of
scientific building. 1t is expected
that the full amount will be raised in
few days.
Judge Hallett has decided that goods
belonging to a bankrupt, held under
attachment at the time he declared
himself unable to meet his obligations
and had his case formally entered in
the United States Bankruptcy Court,
must be at once turned over to the
officer having the other goods in
charge. The effect of the decision is
that the attachment loses its priority
of claim against the goods of the
bankrupt.
A series of suits has been commenced
in the United States courts covering
, 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 Tramway company and its officers
but also the Denver, Leadville Il Gun
nison railroad. The suit is n 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 E. T. Ghost.
It being charged that they had taken
$3.50 worth of coal from government
/, land.
The franchise of the Ouray and Red
Mountain toll road, the connecting link
| on the Ouray route of the circle trip
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 at that time, although new
! corporation is said to have been organ
| ized for the purpose of assuming con
troll. A recent decision in Clear
Creek county case held that no indI-
vidual or corporation could take charge
of n toll road after the life of a 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.
Deputy Revenue Collector j. d. AL
lard has returned from near La Veta,
where with X. l.. Myers, deputy from
Denver, he Went last Saturday on
chase after an Illicit still. The outfit
was located on Beatty creek eighteen
] m nf a in
shanty covered with canvas. A copper
] still and worm We're found that were
not merely makeshift devices. The ca
pacity was five or ten gallons per day
The plant was destroyed. Nobody was
found at the shack, but it was evident
that moonshine had been made there
recently. Last fall another still was
located and destroyed by Mr.. Allard on
the other side of the Spanish peaks in
Maverick canon. 1t is believed both
stills We're operated by the same men
and arrests in the next few days will
perhaps be made, though on this point
the officers refuse to talk
That the shipments of meat sent to
the penitentiary have not been full
weight, but have been from fifty to
100 pounds short on almost every
| shipment, is claimed by ID. Cognevich,
the former steward of the place. He
was relieved from duty as steward
last month and transferred TO the yard
| work. This work he refused to do,
and left the penitentiary. The stew
ard has memoranda of the weights of
! the meat and says he has shown them
| to Warden Hoyt, each of the peni-
| tentiary commissioners and the gov
ernor According to CoEnevich. who
says he was discharged from his place
as steward because he brought the at
tention of the commissioners to the
meat question, there have been differ
ences in the weights for some months