The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-03-24
COLORADO NOTES.

parish Of Manitou, has resigned us
charge and left the city. He Will ne
succeeded by Rev. John Kenny, late
chaplain Of Montcalm sanitarium.
The companies which had policies
out on the life Of Frank +. Tyler, the
Kansas City man who was burned 10
death near Alpine, Colo. last summer,
have given up the attempt to prove
that the case was another FtaKer
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.
The Mutual Life of New York has
paid its $4,000 policy, held by tne
Metropolitan National bank as secur-
ity for a debt, to the receiver OF the
bank. and the smaller policies will be
paid In day or two. Detectives nave
been working on the case for months,
bnt have not been able to substantiate
the fraud theory.
After considerable litigation between
the Colorado 4 Southern Railroad Com
pany and the city Of Pueblo. the Tor
mer, In consideration OF the city va
eating certain ground for Its benent,
has made an appropriation OF *0,Un
to the city, to be used In the cOnstruc-
ton of the First street yiaduct across
the Fountain river and the Colorado
4 Southern tracks. Work will be re-
sumed on the new viaduct.
What appears to have been q das'
tnrdly attempt to burn the J. j. Maher
Mercantile Company's building and
Masonic hall, Mt Ouray, was made last
Tuesday night, by placing sack sat'i-
rated with kerosene In some boxes an
der the rear stairway and setting lire
to it. About sixty ladies' of the order
of Rebekah were holding banquet IN
the lodge room, and they discovered
the fire in time to avert Il catastrophe.
The constable of the precinct was ar
rested on suspicion at midnight.
The National Beet Sugar Company,
now erecting half million dollar
sugar factory, fifty miles east OF Pueb-
10 cn the Missouri Pacific railroad.
have 300 ment Mt work and expect to
complete the factory by October LIST.
This company proposes to raise Its own
beets, and has prepared about 1000
acres of ground for this years crop.
Two trainloads Of experienced beet
growers will 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
fcred $5O.OOO toward the endowment OF
n science building, provided 500, 600 for
building purposes be secured by April
LIST. The unexpectedness Of the O0er
and the shOrtness of the time will ne
cessitate great and unceasing efforts
on the part of the college to meet The
General Palmer has given
$25, 900, Mr.. Howbert $500, and other
gifts bring the total up to nearly $780,
600. So there remains $4,000 to be
rnised in two weeks.
A series Of suits has been commenced
In the United States courts covering
the taking Of timber, coal and other ma
teriaIs from government land. The
first Of the suits was fled on February
18th, when the government accused the
Denver Tramway Company Of, cutting
ties on government land without per-
This suit includes not only
the Tramway company and Its officers,
but also the Denver. Leadville & Gun
nison railroad. The suit Ia n civil one
for the value of the timber taken. The
damages are placed at x1O,4S9. Last
Friday II second suit was filed for dam
ages against Allen NJ. and Il. 4. Ghost,
1t being charged that they had taken
n, $40 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
30 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 ut that time, although new
Is said to have been organ
ixed for the purpose of assuming con-
troll. A recent decision in a Clear
Creek county case held that no indi-
vidual or corporation could take charge
az toll road after the life of first
franchise had expired. The Ouray road
has been Travelled for twenty years by
passengers taking the stnge Mt Silver
ton. and has been. bonanza for the
owners.
III LytlN u uIuuu
Junction will be cOlOnized by Nor
mons. An influx of families 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 snid 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
Grand Junction sugar-beet factory IL
to do n much larger business
this year than last. Grand Junction
citizens who were in Denver yester-
day express the fear that too large ap
influx Of Mormons would take the po-
ltical control Of affairs out of the
hands Of those who have lived in
Grand Junction for years. An efror,
will he made to guard against this.