The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-01-06
COLORADO ITEMS.

killed. and Irwin sallen, fireman. was
fatally injured.
Colorado & Southern officers are con-
sideriuR the advisability Of construct
'ip0rffon snow sheds on the Gunnison
We, over Alpine pass, to insure keep
Ing the road open through the whole
winter, so that the mines of the Bald
win district may have an unlnterrupt-
cd outlet.
A party of surveyors will be put to
work In South Platte canon next week
by the Colorado 4 Southern, to run
lines for the continuation Of the new
Cripple Creek cutoff from its present
terminus to Horse creek, ten miles.
This the last meeting Of the directorate
decided on. The survey will be made
for q broad gauge road.
A coal miner named Peter Falsetto,
employed at the Hastings mine Of the
Victor Coal Company, was accidental
ly Killed at Trinidad Sunday night He
was seated at the table In his boarding
house, reading, when a revolver In his
pocket fell to the floor and was dis
charged. the ball striking FalsettO I'M
der the chin and coming out at the top
of his head. Death was instantaneous.
The man was 10 years of age and I'M
married
Some time last Saturday night fire
broke out In the Eldorado tunnel house
at Sunshine, and finally. about $50
O'Clock it 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
hnR0 thu
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 a 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
1t much greater success than hereto
fore. The grounds will be made more
attractive and more cottages will be
put up.
One Of the most prosperous indus
tries of the state, according to the re-
port Of the output of Its mills, IL the
Colorado Fuel L. Iron Company. In
every department of its manufactures
1t has jumped to the front, while in
some particular lines the increased de-
mand for its goods Is astonishing. Dur
ing the past year almost 30 per cent.
more merchant iron was made than in
1Rl2s n nd In artnUa1 Snfka0 hnIfa Unh
nuts the increase was even greater.
The output of Iron pipe was fourteen
times MS great during the year Just
closed as In 1893.
AS the result of an accident Andrew
Sweeney, one of the pioneers Of Lead
Vile, died Friday evening. Sweeney
was coming to Leadville from Weston
pass, and descending the hill the
wagon id which he was riding began
to slide. The wagon and horses. with
over on embankment. The horses.
weref killed outright and both men
wefsa badly injured. They laid out
for some time In the cold, but were
finally discovered by miners who were
passing and taken to n cabin. They
were brought to Leadville this after
noon, Sweeney dying from his injuries
shortly after arriving. The driver will
recover. Sweeney has q number of
children residing here, and some rela-
tives In Victor. !.
The state board of health. advised by
several leading physicians and health
authorities of the state, has In.
augurated campaign against tuber-
cul0sis and Will solicit the assistance
nj nN1t1ip orfhNrtffaa NJ ryat tn f,iE
zens to prevent the sprend of the dread
tubercular germs. Public expcctora-
ton, tubercular dairies and meat sup
ply are the three causes of consumption
which the board agrees must be pre-
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-
tnry measures. ut would be an in-
justice to the community and to the in
dividnals to debar them from the
state" said Secretary Tyler, for
thousands of consumptives who regard
sanitary measures do not endanger the
public and are some of our best cIti-
Gems"
A bold robbery was perpetrated In
Walsenburg on the 9th. About 8
O'clock w. ]. Miisap, prominent
stockman of the northwest part Of the
county. was In the net of entering the
Klein hotel to go to bed when he was
seized by two men and robbed Of $12,.
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 n search
was instituted but up to the present
no trace of the criminals has been
found. Mr.. Mflsap was on his way to
Mexico to buy cattle, having recently
disposed Of 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 1t.
The mining camp Of Carbon, about
twenty miles west of Boulder. was al