The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-09
COLORADO NOTES.

to hold up and rob Jack Mcclellan and
his wife as they left their store last
Monday night in the town of Ash, a
small village near Ouray. The at
tempt was made by two masked men.
They knocked Mrs. Mcclellan down,
but her cries frightened them away
Considering that the month just end
ed has only twenty-eight days. the pro-
duction record of the Cripple Creek dis
trict was n good one. While not rec
ord breaker. ii By no means scored
backward step. The figures show that
{6,9OO tons were treated, the gross bull
lion value OF which was S2,O99,9JO.
On his way home from the Pueblo
insane asylum, William Arundale, a
Middle Park ranchman, was crushed
under the Silver Plume train on the
Colorado & Southern railroad at Elk
creek. There was no witness to his
death. The conductor. in his report.
says that Arundale crawled under the
train. deliberately intending to commit
suicide. Mrs. Arundale is sure it is an
accident.
\ war Is one among the hardware
merchants OF the Cripple Creek dis
trict. For over two years an agree
iAtIl bh lIlttS udS fAlSAfb btsht'H
all dealers. Recently 1t was ascer-
tanned that n large firm there was
quoting prices to several OF the large
mines, and in retaliation one house an
nounced a reduction of ten per cent
on the price of powder. caps, fuse AMI
candles. All of the dealers have met
and cut and merry war is now on.
The gentlemen who loaned the
money for the mobilization of the ma
tional guard AT the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war are said TO be
preparing to demand the Repayment
of the loan. Considerable difficulty
has been experienced by the state in
securing the money from the govern
ment. About 10000 of the claim has
been allowed and the remainder is cx-
pected soon. But none of this money
has been paid TO the citizens who ad-
vanccd the funds for the mobilization
Hence they are kicking.
The American Beet Sugar Company.
otherwise known as the ONnard com
nany, because its president and prin.
cipal owner bears that name, Is con
templating n Rocky Ford addition.
something on the order of Pullman
before 1t was declared TO he an Illegal
ly-conducted institution. But the OK.
nard company will avoid such proceed.
ings as win give its enemies any
ground for making the same complaint
against it. The addition will be on the
$40 acres of land secured from the
state board at It's recent meeting.
The Burlington people are doing all
in their power TO rush the grading on
their BrushAlliance line north of
Sterling. Every train from the East
adds to the lahorers and grading out
fits now at work in the canon south OF
Sidney, at which point there is much
heavy work to be done. Shaffer K
Green's large force of men, teams.
scrapers and supplies. five cars in all,
arrived there this morning from Ne
braska. They go to work at once on
q two-mile contract of heavy grading
on the Cedar, ten miles northeast of
Sterling. Work is expected to conf
mencc soon on the line west of Ster-
ling.
The Denver & Rio Grande has de-
cided to do away with narrow gauge
trains on the first division. Beginning
Sunday night train No. Is, which
leaves at 3:45 o'clock in the evening
will be made up entirely of standard
gauge cars. 1t will be split AT Pueblo,
part of it making connections with the
Marshall pass narrowgauge train. GO
ing west by way of Salida, and part of
ii going over La Neta pass to Alamosa,
connecting at that point with the Du-
range narrow gauge train. Train No.
16, which will now be on the broad
gauge rails, will leave Salida at 1915
p. m, and arrive in Denver at Z o'clock
the following morning. No other
changes are contemplated.
There is rumor that the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad has entered the
Platte canon controversy in earnest,
thereby complicating more than ever
the dispute between the Colorado &
Southern Railway Company and the
Denver Power x Irrigation Company.
The Rio Grande surveyors have return
ed recently from the canon. where they
have a line over the route which the
Power company has asked the Colo
RADIO & Southern to select. The pur-
pose of the survey is not given out, but
railroad men say that should the Rio
Grande company file on 1t. and the
Colorado & Southern road be defeated
in its right of way through the reser-
voir site, the Cripple Creek short line
would prove expensive to build.
The j. C. Teller railroad tie case that
has recently occupied the attention of
the courts in Wyoming has now
reached the Federal Circuit Court OF
Denver. The United States. through
District Attorney Greeley Whitford. on
the instruction Of the attorney general,
has filed suit against John c. Teller
and the Union Pacific road for the
value of the ties said to have been
chopped from the public domain near
Fort Steele on the North Platte and on
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