The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
COLORADO NOTES.

| mIts issued by the building inspector AT
Colorado Springs for the month OF
March is $1O2,O3O this being for five
houses begun during the month. Alto
| gether the amount of building going on
in the city amounts to nearly, If not
quite S1,O00,0OO.
The Otto Mears toll road between
| Ouray and Ironton was thrown open
| on the Bird for free use, as the charter
had expired. The county commission
| ers were prepared to enforce the open
ing, If not done voluntarily. This is
| the road the county endeavored to
| have the state buy at the last session
of the Legislature. The opening of
the road will greatly stimulate the
| traffic of the city.
w. r, Lee. the game warden Of the
state in the Glenwood Springs district,
| has written to Tom Johnson. the state
| game commissioner. that more deer are
| in that locality than nt any time for
| fourteen years, Notwithstanding the
! many sensational accounts of the prac-
| teal determination of deer by hunters.
| He writes that l.. l.. Balcott and
score of others in the neighborhood re-
port thnt the deer are decidedly more
| plentiful than for much over II decade,
and that the fiat tops in Rio Blanco and
Routt will be better stocked this season
than for many years.
Another 100 men We're laid off mt the
Portland mine Friday. This makes
| 800 men discharged. There are $50 left
and it is stated more are to 90. There
| seems now no reason to doubt that the
| big bonanza Will close down altogether.
| Already large numbers of idle men can
| be seen on the streets. and the mer-
| chants are becoming fearful of the dis
| astr0us effects upon business which the
| closing of the mine would bring about.
| So far the Portland is the only proper
ty which has curtailed lis force since
the meeting of the mine owners this
week The Isabella force has been re-
| duced for some weeks. and now all EN-
ployed are on development work.
The Colorado Springs Light and Pow
er Company is making arrangements TO
build II new plant at the coal mines
north of the city and Henry Hine. the
superintendent and general manager.
is in the East securing machinery.
Work will be begun on the building ls
soon rs he returns, about May LIST. The
company has contracted with the
Standard Milling and Smelling Com
pany to furnish 1t between 500 and 600
horse power to take effect January l,
1901. The company also has agreed TO
furnish power for the Colorado-Ph.la-
delphia Reduction Works at Colorado
City If they should decide TO change
their power This is the company that
purchased the Ell Paso Electric Com
pany, and the new plant is an addi-
tion TO the plant which is being erected.
! The cost of the buildings and the equip
ment will he in the neighborhood of
S6OO.OoO and the plant is expected 10 be
in operation by December 1, 1900.
An opinion handed down by Erwin
l.. Regennitter district attorney for the
First judicial district of Colorado, indi-
Gates that next fall students of the
State School of mines and some EN-
! ployes of the State Industrial School ut
| Golden. will be prosecuted if they at
! tempt 10 vote at the coming fall cleo
| tion. The opinion was requested rs
an instruction covering the questioned
legality of votes in Jefferson county.
The construction of the state constitu-
tion by District Attorney Regennitter
applies as well TO students of every col
| lege in the state and employees of ey-
cry state Institution. and should the of
ficials of the First judicial district
make n test case in jefferson county,
as is the intention of the district attor-
ney. the supreme Court would doubt
less be called upon to construe the con-
stitutiOnal limitations, which. Attorney
Regeunitter insist are violated in ey-
cry county where state institutions are
| located
The Republican State Convention to
choose two delegates at large and two
| alterua'es to the national convention
will be held in the Broadway theater
| May 10th The number of delegates de
| cided on is I92. The convention for the
nomination of candidates for state Of
fees and for presidential electors will
| be held in Denver. September Tth. The
convention of the First congressional
! district to choose one delegate and one
| alternate to the national convention
will he held in Denver May 11th The
/ convention to nominate n congressman
to succeed John f. Shafroth will be
held in Greeley September Sth. The
| convention of the Second district to
choose national delegates will be held
May 9th in Pueblo. The convention in
thar district to choose nominee for
| congressman TO succeed j. C. Bell will
| be called after the May convention.
In n quarrel over n measurement of
| timber on which they had been work
| Ing. near breckenridge. Samuel Copner
struck his partner. Philip Willicks,
with an axe, killing him almost in
| stantly. The murder was committed
! at the Mount Irldc mine. Copners
| blow caught Willicks on the head, near
Iy severng it in two. After the killing
Copner gave himself up to the sheriff.
j. j. Frey, who, until January LIST of
this year, was general manager of the
Atchson. Topeka X Santa Fe railroad,
has been elected president of the Flor
euCe x Cripple Creek. the Canon City
K Cripple Creek and the Golden Circle
] ,pilronIs To succeed Sylvester II
Smith. who resigned the presidency
tnnlS snll To, tLn