The Meeker herald., 1900-01-20
COLORADO ITEMS.

Greek refuse to treat ore carrying ieSs
than two ounces OF gold.
A voter has been arrested at Golden
for showing his ballot.
BY the overturning OF truck wnlle
going to fire recently. :
Three Leadville firemen were injured
]. b. Orman, who has the contract
for building the Crystal river railroad,
says that the road will be completed
to Marble this year.
The body Of William laden was
found In well near La Junta the
other day. He had evidently been
murdered. Two Mexicans are sus-
pected.
A disastrous fire broke out Friday
morning in the heart of Colorado
Springs, and before the flames could
be checked about $4,000 worth of
property was destroyed. The greatest
sufferers were the May Clothing Com
pany, w. S. Nichols & Co., wholesale
gracers, and A. II. Whaite & Co.,
clothiers. The losses are covered to
great extent by insurance.
A. L. Humphrey, superintendent of
motive power of the Colorado Midland
railway, Is In Paterson, New Jersey, to
inspect the $4,000 rotary snow plow
ordered several months ago. The ma
chine 10 now completed and will be
delivered us soon as approved by Mr..
Humphrey. 1t Will be the biggest
snow pillow In the West, having a
sweep two feet greater In width than
tnose now In use In the mountains.
By the agreement of the telegraph
ers and the Rio Grande, a new office
Is created, that of manager of the
main telegraph Office, at salary Of
sos a month. ]. T. Fegan has been in
charge of the Rio GrtSnde telegraph Of
flee for ten years, but without official
position. Now that the position il de-
nned, 1t 10 to go to the man who Is
Oldest in line Of promotion, who is j.
w. Brunton of Pueblo, now wire
chief. with headquarters at Pueblo.
Secretary Martha A. shute of the
State Horticultural Society has been in
consultation with the National Paris
Commission as to the display Of Colo
RADIO fruit at the Paris Exposition. 1t
was the intention of the commission to
have fine fruit display In Paris from
Colorado, but the fruit growers of the
state have responded coolly to the ap-
peals In this behalf. Mrs. Shute now
fears that the state will not have any
NAs at MS tlt kEOWCIb VI
colorado do not seem to think that the
effort will bring a fair return for the
expense involved.
The four days from the It'll to the
10th of February are to be gala days
at Colorado College. Preparations have
already been largely completed for a
double celebration-in honor of the
opening of the new Pickens Fine Arts
building, and In cOmmemoratiOn of the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the found
ing OF the college. The exact anniver-
sary date came last May, but it was
decided to postpone Its celebration I'M
til the Perkins building should be fin
ished, and then make the joint cele-
Dration the most notable occasion Of
Its sort in the history Of the college.
A dispatch from Cripple Greek on
the 10th said: A cave-in occurred this
afternoon at 1 o'clock at the fifty-foot
level on the Rose mine, ON Battle
mountain. Two men were working
In the drift In which the cavern oc-
CURED. One Of them, ]. German, hap
pened to be on the shaft side Of the
cave-in and escaped without injury.
His partner, John West was caught by
the cave-in and at late hour tonight
was still imprisoned. The relief corps
80 hnAo a. WIN ICllOtlHk Tie utUTlS
and endeayOring to release him. Much
trouble Is experienced by continuous
caving, but It IL thought that the man
will be at liberty before morning. The
Rose mine is owned by the Rose-Nicol
Gold Mining Company.
The body of man recently found
hanging In the woods near Florence
has been identified as that of Joe
(yr1 linda m
the clothing indicated that he was
shot Two people, suspected of
numbering him have been arrested at
Rockville. Their names are Joe Chevie
and Mrs. Devivers. Both are French.
Relations known to have existed be-
tween the Fictim and his alleged
murderers support the murder theory
and furnish the motives of cupidlty
and Jealousy. 1t develops now that
Graindarge was not a bachelor. He
left . wife and two children in Bel
GUM, but lived with the woman Deyi-
vers. About three years ago Joe
Chevie appeared upon the scene and
In time won the affections of the
woman Graindarge was living with.
Intense jealousy sprung up between
the two men, and 1t ia now alleged
that the woman and her present para
mOuE SnOt Graln04fYe, carried the
body to the desOlate spot in the noun
tains and there suspended 1t from a
tree. The house which belonged to
Graindarge was torn down and the
lumber hauled away and appropriated
by Chevie. Deputy Sheriff Mooney
found Graindarge's horses, harness
and wagon on the premises of the
woman and man. Mr.. Mooney ia
highly commended for his Wink IN
this case.
The application Of the Midland Ter
minal railway, the Florence & Cripple
Greek railway, the Metallic Extraction
Company, and the other companies
that were entoined by Judge Steven
son in November from perfectine their
alleged sale and reorganization ut the
suit of the attorney general, by dirsc-
ton Of Governor Thomas, for the disso-
luton of the injunction, came on in
the District Court before JUDGE N wal