The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-01-02
COLORADO ITEMS.

"a
employed at the Hastings mine or the
Victor Coal Company, was accidental
ly killed at Trinidad Sunday night He
was seated at the table in his boarding
house. reading, when revolver in his
pocket fell to the floor and was DIS
charged, the ball striking Falsetto un-
der the chin and coming out at the top
of his head. Death was instantaneous.
The man was 40 years of age and un-
married.
Some time last Saturday night fire
broke out in the Eldorado tunnel house
at Sunshine, and finally, about 2:oo
o'clock 1t worked into the office, where
there were some 200 pounds of powder,
which exploded, tearing the building to
pieces, damaging the machinery CON
siderably and destroying the compress
sor, hose, etc. 1t appears that the
men had left the tunnel in the evening
and did not intend to return until
after Christmas and there was no per-
son around.
Arrangements have been made for
the Texas Colorado Chautauqua to
avail itself in the future of the course
of the New York Chautauqua and other
like organizations so that n complete
circuit can be formed and better attrac-
tions at less cost can be secured than
heretofore. 1t has already been decid-
ed that the 1900 session of the Chau-
tauqua shall be six weeks and that ev-
erything possible will be done to make
it much greater success than hereto
fore. The grounds will be made moro
attractive and more cottages will be
put up.
A bold robbery was perpetrated in
Walsenburg on the 9th. About B
~ Nv
stockman of the northwest part of the
county, was in the act of entering the
Klein hotel to go to bed when he was
seized by two men and robbed of S12,-
600. The money was mostly in his
coat and vest pockets, and these gar
ments were torn from him. He imme-
diately gave the alarm and a search
was Instituted, but up to the present
no trace of the criminals has been
found. Mr.. Milsap was on his way to
Mexico to buy cattle, having recently
disposed of n large number he was
feeding near Smith Center, Kansas. a
considerable portion of the money had
been borrowed from n bank in Pueblo,
where he came from yesterday, and the
theory is that he was followed from
that town by men who had seen him
draw the money or knew of his obtain
ing it.
The state board of health, advised by
several leading physicians and health
authorities of the state, has in
augurated n campaign against tuber-
culosis and will solicit the assistance
of public authorities and private citi-
zens to prevent the spreau of the dread
tubercular germs. Public expectora-
tion, tubercular dairies and meat sup
ply are the three causes of consumption
/ l,a lao.
vented in order to reach this desired
end. The sentiment of the physicians
was expressed as opposed to the least
persecution of the afflicted and their
object solely to enforce necessary sani-
tary measures. "It would be an in
Sitfa the SSmmuni!y bq !, and ir6m t2 the Tie tin
state" said Secretary Tyler, "for
| thousands of consumptives who regard
| sanitary measures do not cndanger the
public and are some of our best cti-
| Zens."
1t will not be long before passengers
will be able to ride from Colorado
Springs to Cripple Creek In much
shorter time than at present. This will
he by way of the Colorado Springs *
| Cripple Creek short line. For some
| time the passengers will have to travel
part of the way by rail and then take
stage. Trains are to be run as soon
as twenty-three miles are laid. Until
the completion of the line passengers
are to be staged into the district. Next
week n contract is to be let for the
grading of twenty-three miles of the
proposed route. The graders will COM
mence at the east end of the line and
as soon as the road-bed is ready steel
will be laid. As soon as this contract
Is finished trains will be run. 1t is the
intention to push the work with all
speed. and men behind the project
know how to make things hum. Work
has already commenced on the extern
sions through the district. and in al
most every section gangs of men are at
work grading or building bridges.
The mining camp of Caribou, about
twenty miles west of Boulder, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire We'd
nesday. The fire started in the p,srn-
ing and burned all afternoon and last
night. There are no waterworks in
the town and the citizens only resource
was bucket brigade, which proved in
effectual against the flames. Seventeen
buildings on the north side of the street
were destroyed. The fire started in the
general store of S. w. Richie during
the owners absence from town. 1t
spread quickly and next caught the
two story frame building belonging to
Z. j. Wcrley. The structure was one
of the old landmarks of the town and
was unoccupied. The unoccupied build.
ing of w. G. Grosser. Louis Thorpe,
Mrs. Hannah, Rufus Gray and VIII
liam Brooks, Mrs. Downs Planters
hotel and John Loves house were next
to go. The total loss is estimated at
$4,000. In ALL seventeen houses, front
ing on the main street, were de-
stroyed. There was no insurance. ow-
ing to the high rates charged by the
companies.
Another disastrous rear end wreck