The Holly chieftain., 1900-02-02
COLORADO NOTES.

sucks OF giant powder in his pocket the
night of the Hunter explosion, and told
Officer Baird that he was the dyna-
inter. Bowman belonged to Torrey's
Rough Riders. He was discharged
from the police force for disorderly
conduct, and it is believed that dyna-
miting was done for revenge.
a dynamite explosion about IL
o'clock Wednesday night partially
wrecked the handsome residence of A.
V. Hunter, the well-known mining man
and financier of Leadville. Tile dyua-
mite was placed between his house and
that of james Ritchey and almost shat
tered the walls of both buildings, caus-
ing a damage OF several hundred dollars
As this is the third dynamite explosion
within week, the community is nat
uarlly very much worked up over the
circumstance. The police have no the
DRY as to who is responsible for the
outrage. The last explosion occurred
Tuesday night, when 4 bomb was
thrown in the rear of the county Jail,
but no serious damage occurred. 4
heavy reward has already been offered
for the perpetrator of the outrage
AT the recent session Of the State Ed
itorial Association resolution was
adopted making Wolfe Londoner's ICY
clone CellarH--a proposed monthly pub
lcation in the interest OF the profession
the official organ of the association.
The idea, presented apparently us a
joke, Is 10 materialiZe into a fact and
the initial number, an eight-page paper,
profusely illustrated and filed with
matter pertaining to the craft, will be
published in season, to be distributed
AT the meeting of the National Editorial
Association, to be held in New Orleans
next month. Wolfe LpndOner will be
the publisher and W. L. Pabor, editor
and manager. The editorial staff win
be composed of the members of the
state association, all of whom are ex
pected 10 contribute a paragraph TO the
first number.
Washington dispatch says: Applica.
tiOn for writ of ccrtiorari in the case
of the Central Trust Company versus
the Denver Il Rio Grande railroad was
denied by the United States Supreme
Court This decision practically
means that the Midland must pay dam
ages for deaths on the Rio Grande in u
wreck for which the Midland was re
sponsible. The particular wreck in
point is that at Newcastle on Septem-
Der 9. 1897, when n score Of persons
were killed and many We're badly in
jured in n collision between Rio Grande
and Midland trains. The fatalities Were
among Rio Grande passengers, but that
road made the claim that the Midland
being responsible for the wreck. was
responsible for damages. This point
they won in the lower courts and the
decision in the Supreme Court was .
practical victory also.
At two minutes after S o'clock Friday
night terrific explosion of giant pow
der occurred in the shaft house of the
Pixies Peak No. l mine ON Bull hill.
Three minutes after the first explosion
took place another heavy blast of a
smaller quantity of giant powder com.
pleted the ruinatlon of the shaft house
Engineer j. NJ. Manvile. on duty In
the shaft house when the first explo.
sion occurred, WAS blown through the
building onto the outside of the shaft
house. He received terrible injuries
about the head and his body and limbs
were also badly bruised. He died in n
short time. Two miners who were in
the bottom of the shaft were at first
thought to be fatally hurt, but later
they Were found to be uninjured. When
the first explosion rent tile shaft house,
the latter at once took fire and burned
fcarfully. The heat was SO intense
that Ii burned the steel cable In two,
allowing the bucket TO fall into the
shaft, where il dropped until it reached
1ne incline section of the shaft. and
plunged down to the bottom, where the
two miners were at work II did not
injure them but the bucket was red
hot, and the two men could not stand
the intense heat in the narrow space
where they We're confined. They i'm.
mediately began climbing and reached
one of the upper levels in safety.
Warden Hoyt is preparing to farm
this year on an extensive scale. To
date he has taken leases ON land aggre-
eating 500 acres and is preparing to
till large acreage. He has secured a
four-year lease on one 20O-acre tract.
which will in part be seeded to alfal-
ia. at the same time growing crop Of
oats. The rest of the tract and all the
smaller holdings will be devoted to
growing corn and vegetables. No lease
has been entered into for shorter
term than two years, the warden's pol.
Icy being TO secure the land for as long
period as possible. The large tract
is virgin soil and n force of fifty con
victs is engaged in freeing 1t from
greasewood and preparing 1t for the
plow, which will be started as soop as
the land is In shape. OF the $40 con.
victs in the penitentiary to-day, 49C
We're employed at some sort OF labor
Five Were on the sick list. six were
crippled, four are demented and Eve
are females. Seventy-fve are EN-.
ployed in widening the Canon City
ditch, which will be enlarged and i'm.
proved its entire length. Sixty-four
were working in the sandstone quar-.
ries, twenty-eight ut the lime kilns,
thirty-twO Mt stone cutting. thirty-three