The silver star., 1900-12-28
COLORADO NOTES.

springs TO organize u nome cOIupW"y
and run q prospecting tunnel Into ono
Of the mountains near tho city.
The Teller County Bar Association
gave banquet In the National hotel
In Cripple Greek ON the night OF De.
ccmbcr 22nd. Covers were laid for 100.
The state engineers report shows
the Taylor state road will Ike great
bcne..t to the state when completed.
Already $27 900 hns bcen spent on this
thoroughfarc.
The Bazaar dry goods store on Hen
mott avenue, In Cripple Creek, was bur
glarixed on the morning Of December
18th, and from 500 TO $1,000 worth OF
furs werc stolen.
The Eaton school Inns opened again,
after being closed q week OH account
Of scarlet fever. There are no new
cases In the district, aud the few cases
were Of mild form.
Teller county paid out during the
past year $3.50 for Kceley cure to
drunkartls, making total expenditure
for poor Of $S,063.12. Lake cOunty's
bill was &12.25O.57 and Morgan $SS4.So.
The Hoffman Milling Company In
erecting a new 1OO-snck merchant
Touring mill In Fort Collins. 1t is 10.
Gated three.fOurths Of II mile SOUTH
east Of the postofiice and will bc driv.
en- by water power.
Florence men have incorporated In
the office Of the secretary OF state. The
Florence Labor Union Building Asso-
ciatlon. The capital is $2O.OOO. and
the building will be used for hcadquar-
tcrs OF NIL labor unions OF Florence.
John Upton, living about seven miles
southwest Of Elbert, Ind his right
hand crushed entirely of Mt the wrist
in hay baler. He bandnged the
wound md rode to Elbert In n lumber
wagon to reach doctor. He is a man
Of family, aged about fifty years.
John Matthews. the man who at
tempted to rob the Boss saloon on East
Bennett avenue. Cripple Creek. last
fall, and who shot the bartender, has
been sentenced by Judge Harris to IN
indeterminnte term In the Bucna Vista
refOrmatOry to not exceed fifteen years.
In the criminal court at Denver yes
terday the case of william W. Andcr-
son, who shot Fred BOnfils and II. II.
Tammen, proprietors of the Post. came
up on the 10th inst. for IL second trial,
but on motion OF defendants counsel
p0stpOncment was taken until the next
term.
The Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell. who
has for years done Il magnificent work
In the slums of Denver, appeals to the
public for funds to complete his new
tabernacle on which 1900 has al
ready been expended. The sum of $5,-
600 Is needed to complete present con-
tracts.
The contract for building twenty-five
miles of railway from Trinidad up the
PurgatOire river was awarded by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to
the firm Of Orman & Crook, of which
the governor-elect Is member. The
road is mainly built for the transpor-
tation of lumber.
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right of the state to assess the cars of
foreign corporations doing business in
this state, and thus upheld the State
Board of Equalization, which has as
sumed to take the action questioned by
the American Refrigerator Trainsit
Company as a test suit.
J. j. Lumsden, n Grand Junction
contractor. has been awarded the con-
tract to erect the new school building
at the Teller institute. The building
will be one of the handsOmest among
the group when completed. 1t will be
built of brick and stone two stories
high. The contract price is $4,000.
Brighton and Fort Lupton are rivals
in offering sites for condensed milk
factory. A meeting was held in
Brighton recently and the company
that proposes to build the factory was
asked to wait until January 18th for
final offer from Brighton. A. commit
int,
member of which will try to raise $3.50
George NJ. Huskins, for twelve years
associated with Frank c. Goudy In the
conduct of the affairs of the Rio
Grande Valley Land Company and kin
dred companies, and who Ind served
as treasurer and deputy clerk In Mesa
county and deputy auditor of state.
died In Denver December 18th, Of CON
sumption. He leaves wife and five
children.
At Lake City. on the night of De-
cember 18th. Jim Harrison got into an
alteration In n saloon with Dick Price
colored, whom he accused of setalIng
provisions from cabin. Harrison
stabbed Price in the breast and arm
and when the city marshal, G. w.
Smeltzer, tried to arrest Harrison the
latter stabbed Smeltzer five times In
the abdomen. Harrison was arrested
The report of State Engineer A. ].
McCune shows that 100000 acres of
land are under ditch in this state and
are now being irrigated and that with
the bitches now In existence 1,OOO.OO
more acres can be irrigated than mt
present A total of 10000 miles of
bitches Is to be found In Colorado
which Is just double the mileage Of
six years ago. This shows wonder
full advance in the work of irrigation
In Colorado.
1t is said that Joseph I.esher will es.
tablish his mint for the making of his
referendum souvenirs In Denver IL the
federal government will allow him
to coin his octagonal money. He has
referred the matter to District Attor.
ney Greeley w. Whitford and expects
also to hear from Secretary LYMAN
Gage. The coinage of the money"
which contains 4S0 grains of sterling
silver, may be interdicted, but 1t has
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