The silver star., 1900-09-28
COLORADO NOTES.

Senator Lodge Of Boston spoke in
Denver ON the 10th.
Knights Templar Of Colorado were
In convention at Denver on the Z1st.
Denver people have already SUD
scribed over $4,000 for the Galveston
relief fund.
The Union National Bank Of Denver,
which failed In 1895, has now paid its
dep0sitors In full.
The Denver Galveston relief funds
now aggregate x13.O51, with the SUD-
scriptions still coming In.
BENJAMIN l.. Winchell. vice president
! and traffic manager Of the Colorado q
Southern railroad, has resigned to be-
come president OF the Kansas City,
| Fort Scott & Memphis railroad. He
will take his new place about October
Goth. and will remove from Denver to
Kansas City Mr.. Winchell five years
ago was assistant general passenger
agent of the Fort Scott road under J.
4. Lockwood, general passenger agent.
He now returns to the road as Its pres
ident over the man formerly his su-
perior. He succeeds the late Edward
S. Washburn.
| As direct result of the anthracite
! coal miners strike and in anticipation
| OF n demand for coal, Colorado roads
are rushing coal to central points. Hun
F., dreds Of thousands of tons are now
! stored and additional trains are rush.
| ing coal from the mines to storage
! places. The Colorado 4 Southern has
more than 20O.OOO tons stored In Den
yer; the Santa Fe. 2J0.O0O tons in Pu-
eblo; the Colorado Midland, nearly
$4,000 tons In Colorado City. and the
/ Denver & Rio Grande has about 3OO,
900 tons at Burnham. About 100000
tons are stored at other points along
their lines.
Governor Roosevelt in his tour OF
Colorado will be accompanied by John
Proctor Clark of New York and Cen
eral Curtis Guild. Jr.. of Boston. The
/ party will arrive in special train
from Cheyenne next Tuesday morning,
reaching Greeley nj $50 a. IN. From
Greeley the party will go on the special
around the Horn. Colonel Roosevelt
| speaking briefly at Longmont. Boulder.
| Loveland, Fort Colilne and Berthoud.
| A spcial will be run from Denver at
| $50 a. IN. and will meet the Roosevelt
| party at Longmont and accompany II
during the days itinerary. The spe-
cials will arrive in Denver about 4:3O
o'clock and on Tuesday night a mass
meeting will be held. probably at Col
iseum hall, where Senator Wolcott will
preside. Wednesday the itinerary will
be resumed. when Leadville, Salida.
| Florence and Canon City will be visit
! ed. Thursday night Governor Roose-
welt and Senator Wolcott will be the
principal speakers.
William G. Bowser. a Philippine
! veteran, met with an unusually pain
full and perhaps fatal accident OH the
Mariposa property at Cripple Greek.
! He was working in the bottom Of the
| 2OO-foot shaft when n scraper or min
| ers' spoon. which was being loaded IN
to the bucket at the surface slipped
from the hands of a fellow workman
and fell to the bottom. The spoon is a
steel rod four feet In length. sharpened
| at one end, and II fell the distance like
an arrow. striking Bowser in the right
shoulder near the base OF the neck and
penetrating his body for distance of
over a foot. He displayed unusual
nerve, kept his head and pulled the
| projecting spoon from the wound and
| gave the signal for the bucket. on
which his companions came down and
into which he was placed and hoisted
to the surface. He was taken to q ply
siclan's office, where It was found that
the spoon had penetrated lung. So
| far no hemorrhagc has resulted and
there. Is n possibility that he may re-
| cover.
Frank Trumbull. president OF the
Colorado & Southern Railway Com
pany has made public the first annual
report OF the system under the reor-
ganizatiOn. One Of the most startling
improvements In the road Is shown by
Its Income Of nearly $1.OO0.OOO for the
nscal year, compared with n trifie over
xpO,OoO six years ago. when Mr.. Trum-
bull took charge of the property. The
following additions to equipment were
made during the eighteen months end
ing June 30. 1900: One hundred and
sixty narrow gauge coal cars, forty
narrOw-gauge box cars. Contracted for
by receiver and paid for January 18,
1SO0. 2S7 standard gauge coal cars,
hfty narr0w-gauge stock cars. Re-
ceived in May and June, 1900, three
cafe cars Combination dining car and
COACH. two standard gauge consolida-
tion freight locomotives, 20x28 cylin-
ders, 120.7OO pounds on driver; one
standard gauge consolidation freight
locomotive. 20x26 cylinders, $4,000
pounds on drivers: three standard
gauge passenger locomotives. 20x28
cylinders, 110.JO0 pounds on drivers:
one rotary snow plow.
A solid mass OF granite, half as high
as the great pyramid OF Egypt, iGs
feet thick ut the base, twenty-ei9bt
feet thick at the top ana 21O feet high.
Will be placed In the Goose creek
gorge OF the south fork OF the South
Platte river, designed to take the place
OF the uncompletcd dam partially torn
out by the force Of the Hood last NAV
3rd. The contract for the masonry
work has been let to Geddis Il Seeric
OF Denver. and work on the new struc.
ture VIII be begun Immediately. The
contract for the quarrying ana placIns
0f the stone calls for approximately
<SoO.OOO. In addition to this, the ce.
inent aud other materials Will cost n
much more. 80 that by the time Chees-
man lake II filed with wntcr-a re-
serve sufficient to insure water for