The Springfield herald., 1900-01-05
COLORADO ITEMS.

QuackenbuSh, engineer, WIS instantly
killed, and Irwin Salien, fireman, was
fatally injured.
The buildings of the Florence cement
works are nearing completion. and
four cars of new machinery have ar
rived for the new plant. Boilers and
all will be put in position as fast as
possible.
Colorado & Southern officers are con
sidering the advisability of construct
ing iron snow sheds on the Gunnison
line, 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 uninterrupt-
ed outlet.
A party of surveyors will be put to
work in South Platte canon next week
by the Colorado & Southern, to run
lines for the continuation of the new
Cripple Greek 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 a broad gauge road.
A coal miner named Peter Fnlsetto,
employed ut the Hastings mine of the
Victor Coal Company, was accidental
ly killed at Trinidad Sunday night. He
house, reading, when n revolver in his
pocket fell to the floor and was dis
charged, the ball striking Falsetto un-
der the chin and coming out at the top
of his head. Death was instantaneous.
The man was 40 years of age and un-
married.
Some time last Saturday night fire
broke out in the Eldorado tunnel house
Mt Sunshine, and finally, about ESQ
o'clock 1t worked into the office, where
there We're some 300 pounds of powder
which exploded, tearing the building to
pieces, damaging the machinery con-
siderably and destroying the compress
sor. hose, etc. 1t appears that the
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 n 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 It's mills, is the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. In
every department of its manufactures
huc I'm 70 ha xrrbi In,
some particular lines the increased de-
mand for its goods is astonishing. Dur
ing the past year almost so per cent.
more merchant iron was made than in
1898; and in spiegel, spikes, bolts and
nuts the increase was even greater.
The output of iron pipe was fourteen
times as great during the year Just
closed as in 1898.
AS the result of an accident Andrew
Sweeney, one of the pioneers of Lead
vile, died Friday evening. Sweeney
was coming to Lcadville from Weston
pass, and descending the hill the
wagon in which he was riding began
to slide. The wagon and horses, with
Sweeney and his driver, We're thrown
over an embankment. The horses
were killed outright and both men
were badly injured. They laid out
for some time in the cold, but were
finally discovered by miners who We're
passing and taken to a cabin. They
We're brought to Leadville this after
noon. Sweeney dying from his injuries
shortly after arriving. The driver will
recover. Sweeney has number of
children residing here, and some rcla.
tives in Victor.
A bold robbery was perpetratcd in
Walsenburg on the 9th. About j
o'clock w. ]. Milsap, a prominent
stockman of the northwest part of thd
county, was in the act of entering tho
Klein hotel to so to bed when he WAS
seized by two men and robbed of Sl2,.
900. The money was mostly in his
coat and vest pockets. and these gar
ments We're torn from him. He mme.
diately gave the alarm and Il search
was instituted but up to the present
no trace of the criminals has been
found Mr. Milsap 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 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 it.
The mining camp of Caribou, about
twenty miles west of Boulder. was al
most entirely destroyed by fire We'd
nesday The fire started in the InGrn-
ing and burned all afternoon and last
night There are no watcrworks in
the town and the citizens only resource
was bucket brigade which proved in
effectual against the flames. Seventeen
buildings on the north side of the street
We're destroyed. The fire started in tho
general store of S. w. Richie during
the owners absence from town. 1t
spread quickly and next caught the
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