North Park union., 1900-12-28
CoL0RADo NOTES.


1t is stated that the Great Western
Construction Company will build beef
sugar factory at Denver.
A Denver nr:n of undertakers onere
10 bury the paupers of Arapahoe coun-
ty at the rate of 100 for cent.
A movement IL on foot ut GlenwOod
Springs to organize home company
and run prospecting tunnel Into one
of the mountains near the city.
The Bazaar dry goods store on Ben
nett avenue, In Cripple Creek, was bur-
giarized on the morning OF December
18th. and from 500 TO $1,000 worth OF
furs were stolen.
The Baxter shaft house, belonging to
the Utica mine at Ward, WAS burned
December 18th. together with consid-
cradle valuable machinery, the loss ap-
proximating $3.50.
The Eaton school has opened again.
after being closed week on account
of scarlet fever. There nre no new
cases In the district. and the few cases
were OF mild form.
The tenth annual catalogue Of the
State Normal School shows u total en-
rollment of SAG students ut the institu-
ment and 312 In the normal school pro-
per.
The buttermakers have succeeded In
securing their one-way rate to the ma
tional meeting of butter-makers 10 De
held in st. Paul, February 10th-2sth.
The rate Will be one fare for the
round trip.
The gun that wasn't loaded In the
hands Of Frank Cox, a ten-year-old boy
living near GlenwOod Springs, shot his
little brother In the head. going through
an ear and circling around the base OF
the skull and infiicting dangerous
wound.
The Board of Health of Fowler Is
sued an order on the 11th Instant clos
ing the schools on account or scariet
fever. One case was under quarantine.
All children are also required TO bring
certificates of vaccination when they
re-enter school.
Fifteen horses were burned to death
and three more injured beyond recov-
cry In fire that restroyed the stables
of the City Package Delivery Express
Company, In the rear OF No. ioS4
Champa street. Denver, on the night
of December 18th.
The discovery of nineteen-foot vein
OF good coal near the surface Is report
ed from Huerfano canon at point for
ty miles from any mine now opened In
Huerfano county. 1t is near the line
of railroad proposed by the Denver and
Rio Grande from Walsenburg to Silver
Cllff.
Everything seems to have risen this
wear, even the thermometer. Up to
December 10Th the weather bureau At
Denver reports un excess OF tempera-
ture amounting to eighty-seven degrees
since the first Of the month and ebl
degrees since the beginning OF the
year.
John Craig. fOrty-one years OF age,
went to County Physician Harry U.
Brown In Denver for prescription to
control his thirst From quart TO
two quarts OF whisky and thirty glasses
of beer per diem Is about Craig's av-
erage capacity, according to his own
account.
Scenery and climate are among the
most valuable assets OF Colorado. This
fact il shown, by the annual report of
the Western Passenger Association, a
total of PITTS tickets having been ex-
changed ut Efnver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo from May 1st to October
81. 1900.
A stock company has been organized
at Fort Lupton for the purpose Of erect
ing condensed milk plant to be oper-
ated by o. Il. Frink Of the Silver State
Creamery Company. The capitaliza-
ton will be $4,000. This will be the
only condensed milk plant west Of the
Mississippi river.
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right Of the state to assess the cars Of
foreign corporations doing business In
this state, md thus upheld the State
Board OF Equalization, which has as
sumed to take the action questioned by
the American Refrigerator Trainsit
Company az test suit.
John Upton, living about seven miles
southwest Of Elbert, had his right
hand crushed entirely OF at the wrist
in a hay baler. He bandaged the
wound and rode to Elbert in a lumber
wagon to reach n doctor. He is man
Of family, aged about fifty years.
In the State Normal School at Gree
ley, as shown In the report of Presi.
dent Snyder, there are 800 pupils In the
normal department and 215 In the
training school department. A steam
heating plant Is said to be necessity
and $4,000 Is asked for this work. In
addition sac, 600 is requested for main
tenance. A new wing is said to be
needed and $4,000 is desired for this.
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.
Smeltxer, tried to arrest Harrison the
latter stabbed Smeltzer five times in
the abdomen. Harrison was arrested.
U. NJ. Henderson, the absconding
assistant cashier of the First National
Bank of Greeley, was captured in a
smnll town eight miles from FL Faso,
Texas. Monday evening, December
10th, and City Marshal David Camp of
Greeley left for the southern city to
bring buck the fugitive. Since Hen
derson's disappearance on July 18th,
last, the directors of the bank have
kept up dlligent search for him.
Henderson's defalcation amounts to
about 10000.
A. G. butcher, warden Of the state
reformatory, has filed report asking
for an apnroDrintion of S1S3 600 This