The Elbert County tribune., 1900-03-01
coloaApo NOTES.


President Baker of the Univeislty OF
Colorado has raised the $soOW Re
Legislature meets.
RaIpb G. Lister Of Colorado, has
nassed n successful examination for
second IIeutenantcy in the regular ser
vice. He was SECOND lieutenant Of
Company X, First Colorado volunteers,
in the Philippines.
The freshman class ut the State
School of Mines is again out. After
making a compromise on points at is
sue they were ordered to register as
new members, and this they refused
to do. They will appeal to the trus-
tees
The San Miguel Board Of County
Commissioners has appropriated $500
for the Colorado Paris Exposition
commissioners. to be utilized In defray-
ing the expenses OF making a display
OF the mineral resources of Colorado,
and advertising the same.
Three men were caught In q slide a.
the Gold King mine Mt Gladstone at
O'Clock Saturday afternoon. Antoni
Tam, by a desperate effort, managed
to get out. George Foster and Louis
Ayi were carried to the bottom and no
hopes are entertained Of the recovery
of either party alive. George Foster
hns been married only thirty days,
and the parents of both Foster and his
wife live in Durango.
A petition las been forwarded by
members of ii Company, @. N. &. of
Boulder, to Infantry headquarters In
Denver. asking for the resignation OF
Captain Walsh. 1t is stated by nom
commissioned officer that the petition
has thirty signers out of forty active
members Of the company. The officer
further states that the action is not
prompted by malice or personal dislike,
but on account of the lnefficiency of
the captain. He said that the petition
was started because Captain Walsh
was lacking in tactics and executive
ability.
The Roaring Fork and Blue River
Stock Growers Association, which met
at Glenwood on the 18th. made formal
protest against any change in the pres
ent land leasing system and denounced
the action of the recent convention of
the National Live Stock Association in
tut ut ItFbiutiOhs uit HtionE
against any disposition OF public lands
In any way other than already provid-
ed. and protest against the state leas-
Ing Its lands for grazing purposes. The
principal reasons advanced are that the
system OF leasing gives the larger syn
dicates control of the ranges, to the
detrimen. OF the smaller stockmen, who
are farmers as well, and who have
their homes at or near their ranges.
A dispatch from Aspen says: News
was received here Tuesday that Harry
Wyse, Ed. Robinson and Tom McDer-
mitt, miners, working at the Enter
prise group. in the Taylor river coun-
try. were buried In snowslide two or
three days ago. and their bodies were
dug out yesterday by friends who had
missed them. The remains are being
brought over the range to Aspen. The
scene of the accident is some twenty
ave or thirty miles from this place, and
there is no telegraphic communication
with that place. All three of the men
were old-timers here and were unmar
ried. In the same section and at about
the same time James Bickford was
caught In n snowslide and killed.
Two men armed with revolvers and
wearing black masks over their faces,
went into John =. Olson's saloon at
Telluride about 1 o'clock Wednesday
morning. One of them placed the muz-
zle of his gun against Mr.. Olson's
breast and told him to hand over all
the money In the cash register and to
open the safe. Mr.. Olson told them to
help themselves to the money in the
register. but said they might kill him
before he would open the safe, which
has tta1 far. L. Ixr. Ill
comply. There was only $50 In the
register. and after taking this the
hold-ups walked out and disappeared.
Mr.. Olson was alone In the saloon. so
there was no one to give the alarm at
time when the robbers might have
been apprehended. There is no clue to
their identity.
The Florence oil field is taking OH
new life. Not that work has at nny
time been suspended, but in 1890 drill
ing operations were not productive of
wells commensurate with the number
of holes drilled. Drilling on the first of
the present year turned southward,
and new wells have been coming in
frequently of late. About three weeks
ago Weaver & Columbia struck good
well. A few days since the United Oil
Company struck a good well near Will
iamsburg, and now Philip Griffith of
Coal Creek reports another well on his
tract. These wells are all south of
Florence, further evidence that the
Florence oil field is south and south
east Of the city. The Independent OIL
Company, recently formed, having
leases on more than 1000 acres of land,
which is considered by well posted oil
men to be unquestioned oil territory, is
getting ready as fast as 1t can to begin
drilling. The company expects to sink
a number Of holes at different points
during this year.
". N Fox, formerly employed on thu
Carmichael ranch, near Brighton. wa,
convicted in the County Court in Den
yer on February 14th of cruelty to ami
mails. The case was brought at the in
stance of the Humane Society. The
complaint charged that on August 20
1899, while hauling sand from the river
to the opera house in Brighton. one Of
Fox's horses baked, and that there
upon Fox beat him with blacksnake
whip, shovel and fork handle. Aft
er n short deliberation the Jury re
turned verdict of guilty. Judge
Steele, calling Fox to the bar. said in
pr0nouncing sentence: This ofrense
was most outrageous. You treated
this horse In most cruel inhuman
and brutal manner. There Is some ex-
cuse II full-grown man like YOU
fights a man of his own size. But when
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