The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-03-10
COLORADO NOTES.

to hold up and rob jack McLeiihh ah'I
hb wife MS they left their store last
Monday night in the town OF ASH
small village near Ourny. the at
terpt was made by two masked men.
They knocked Mrs. Mcclellan uo"h'
but her cries frightened them away
Considering that the month Just emo
ed ms only twenty-eIght days, the pro-
duc4on record Of the Cripple Creek uis-
trict wns good one. While not rec
ord breaker, it by no means scored
backward step. The figures show that
$3.50 tons were treated, the gross bull
lion value of which was $2,O09,ooo.
Oh his way home from the Pueblo
insane asylum, William Arundale,
Middle Park ranchman, was crushed
under the Silver Plume train on the
| Colorado e. Southern railroad ut Elk
creek. There was no witness to MS
death. The conductor, In his report.
says that Arundale crawletl under the
| train, deliberately intending to commit
suicide. Mrs. Arundale Is sure 1t 10 an
| accident.
Another large lot of Fort Collins
lambs were sold on the Chicago mar
ket Wednesday at $7.35 per hundred
weight, being the highest price on rec
ord. Charles F. Blunck, Drake 4 Mors-
man and Scott & Strachnn on Monday
sold four car loads ut 1920 to $1.25 per
hundred weight. The lambs weighed
from seventy-seven to eighty-one
pounds each. Feeders are much elated
over the prospects OF continued high
prices.
A war is one among the hardware
merchants of the Cripple Creek dis
trict. For over two years an agree
ment on prices has existed between
all dealers. Recently 1t was ascer-
tanned that a large firm there was
quoting prices to several of the large
mines, and In retaliation one house an
nounced reduction of ten per cent:
on the price of powder. caps. fuse AMI
candles. All of the dealers have met
and cut and a merry war is now on.
The American Beet Sugar Company.
otherwise known as the Oxnard coln-
pany, because its president and prin'
cipal owner bears that name, is con-
templating Rocky Ford addition.
something on the order of Pullman
before it was declared to be an illegal
ly-cOnducted institution. But the Ok
nard company Will avoid such proceed
ings MS will give its enemies any
ground for making the same complaint
hEuIust II. uc uuultioh WIZ DS va essS
$40 acres of land secured from the
state board at its recent meeting.
The Burlington people are doing all
In their power to rush the grading OH
their Brush-Alliance line north OF
Sterling. Every train from the East
adds to the labOrers and grading out
fits now Mt work in the canon south OF
Sidney, at which point there Is much
z,lr no hu for a
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
two-mile contract of heavy grading
on the Cedar. ten miles northeast Of
Sterling. Work is expected to cont
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. 10, which
leaves at O:45 o'clock In the evening
will be made up entirely of standard
gauge cars 1t will be split Mt Pueblo
pnrt of 1t making connections with the
Marshall pass narrOw-gauge train. go.
ing west by way of Salida, and part of
1t going over La Veta 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 Sallda at 1918
p. M. and arrive In Denver Mt o'clock
the following morning. No other
changes are contemplated.
There is rumOr that the Denver &
Rio Grnnde railroad has entered the
Platte canon controversy In earnest.
|
the dispute between the Colorado l.
Southern Railway Company and the
Denver Power L. Irrigation Company.
The Rio Grande surveyors have return
ed recently from the canon, where they
have 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 he defeated
| in it's right of way through the reser-
voir site, the Cripple Creek short line
| would prove expensive to build.
Colonel Macarey and Lieutenant Col
onel verdcckberg conducted an exam
nation of the charges preferred
against Captain Lew Walsh OF com
| pany H. n. q. c. at Boulder on the md.
| The examination lasted from 7:45 until
1:15 a. IN. The charges preferred were
that the captain was incompetent; that
he has misapprOprinted company funds
and finally that he was cOnniving with
members of company II. Colorado vol
unteers, which was formerly the mill
tia company of Boulder. to throw the
control Of the company officers In their
hands. From NIL these charges the
captain stands vindicated. Upon re-
ceiving this Judgment he Immediately
resigned his commission. The dis
| charge OF the ringleaders Of the attack
upon Captain Walsh was considered.
but 1t was finally decided to administer
n severe reptimand. This reprimand
was given by Colonel Macarey to the
entire company.