Gilpin observer., 1900-02-22
COLORADO NOTES.

sue they We're ordered to register MS
new members, and this they refused
to do. They will appeal to the trus-
tees.
terrible murder has been commit
ted at the Snowden ranch, about twen-
ty-five miles southwest of Manzanola.
James Ford, foreman of n sheep outfit,
was the victim. and was probably kill
ed last Friday. Milton Trujillo,
herder employed at the ranch and now
in Jail, has confessed that he killed
Ford.
The Union Gold Extraction Com
pany, which will build a chlorination
plant Mt Cyanide, has placed n contract
with the Canon City Brick and Tile
Company for a million pressed brick.
BY the terms of the contract the ex-
traction company secured the right to
increase the order by any amount up
to 100000.
Information from breckenridge goes
to SHOW that while the eastern heirs Of
Professor Carter have cordially acqui-
esced in the proposition that the collec-
ton be sold to the Denver association
for $4,000. they are not ready to con-
cur IN the desire of the naturalist that
the $4,000 be devoted in turn to fur.
thering the project for great museum.
the Gold King mine at Gladstone at
. O'Clock Saturday afternoon. Antoni
Tam. by Il desperate effort managed
to get out. George Foster and Louis
Avi We're carried to the bottom and no
hopes are entertained of the recovery
OF either party alive. George Foster
has been married only thirty days,
and the parents of both Foster and his
wife live in Durango
Denver & Rio Grande passenger train
No. 10. which left Denver for Aspen Mt
9:15 o'clock Thursday night, was
wrecked half mile east of Rock Creek
near Belden, about 8 o'clock yesterday
morning. y broken rail caused the de-
railment of three cars. one of which
toppled into the Eagle river. Six men,
every one of them railroad employees,
We're injured in the wreck, but the re-
port of the physician in charge of the
victims says that none of them will die.
Judge Stevens of the Seventh Judi
cial district, who is sitting for Judge
Rucker has decided that the case of
the People against w. ]. Cox, superin-
tendent of the Mollie Gibson mine, for
the pollution of the waters of the Roar
ing Fork river, should have been
brought in Pitkin county, as the crime,
if committed, has been committed in
that county. The Garfield county far
mers will now commence n civil action
for damages on account of the pollu-
tion of the water
On the evening of Washington's
birthday the handsome Gold Coin club
house at Victor, built to replace the
one consumed in the Pre- of August
21st. was dedicated to the use of the
employees of the Woods Investment
Company by a reception and dance
The Gold Coin band furnished the mu-
sic for the occasion. The building oc-
cupies a ground space of 5Ox125 feet,
is two stories in height, of Grecian
style of architecture, and is without
question one of the finest institutions
Of its kind in the West
+. ID. Wight of Trinidad will make
the largest individual shipment of wool
to Boston ever sent from the south
western country. 1t aggregates about
65O,OOO pounds, and represents the en-
tire clip from his thousands of head of
sheep for the past three years. The
greater portion of the wool is secured.
1t will be shipped over the Colorado Il
Southern to New Orleans, thence via
the Morgan steamship line to its des-
tination. The wool will be shipped in
eighteen cars from Trinidad and twelve
cars from Folsom, New Mexico. max
ing altogether thirty cars. The work
of loading has commenced. 1t is esti-
mated that the shipment will realize be-
tween $4,000 and S130.0OO.
The Roaring Fork and Blue River
Stock Growers Association, which met
at GlenwOod on the 18th, made formal
protest against any change in the pres
ent land leasing system and denounced
the action of the recent convention OF
the National Live Stock Association in
the matter. The resolutions are strong
against any disposition of public lands
in any way other than already provid-
ed, and protest against the state leas-
ing its lands for grazing purposes. The
principal reasons advanced are that the
system of leasing gives the larger syn,
dicates control of the ranges, to the
detriment of the smaller stockmen, who
are farmers as well. and who have
their homes at or near their ranges.
The changing of the terminal of the
Florence n Cripple Creek railroad from
Florence to Canon city, which is the
practical result of the new line Just
opened into Canon City. will bring
with 1t the change of all the Offices of
the road from Florence to Canon City.
IL was hinouii'eu Ncsteruhy nt tne 10
cal offices that it was the intention as
soon as practicable to establish the of
fees of the superintendent, master me-
chanic, storekeeper and dispatcher at
the latter point. which means virtual
abandonment of Florence, making it
practically n way station. The Canon
City terminals, already under construc-
tiop, will be rushed to completion us
soon as possible. The company has
other construction under considerable
chiefly repair shops. The shops will
include ear sheds. round houses, paint
shops and machine houses. Plans
have already been drawn for these
buildings, but have not yet been ac-
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