The state herald., 1900-12-14
COLORADO NOTES.


made on the Monument dam.
Regular trains are now running tt
Pngosa Springs over the Rio Grande
Pagosa n Northern new line.
The dairy stables of ID. ]. Horkan a
Leadville We're burned on the 9th inst
and thirty-seven cows burned to death
The Lincoln county report to the sec
retary of state shows that only three
people received assistance from the
county In the past twelve months, cost
ing the commissioners $2i0.39.
Judge Charles Wright, formerly at
torney general of Colorado, died al
Tuscon, Arizona, Of appendicitis, aftel
short illness. Mr.. Wright was nt
torney general of Colorado in 1879 and
1880.
Il. A. Falkenburg, head consul of the
western jurisdiction of tie Woodmcl
Of the World, has taken $1,000 to Gal
weston, Texas, donated by jurisdiction
| for distribution among the storm suf'
| ferers.
In the District Court at Telluride
| Angelo Silver, convicted of assault
with intent to kill, was sentenced by
| Judge Stevens to the pcnitentlary for
term of not less than three nor more
than five years.
Engineer John r. McCune of Denver
was knocked Off the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special, fast Union Pacific train,
near Atwood, December 4th, by mail
| crane. His injuries are considered
likely to prove fatal.
The Democratic state central com
| Iniftnfs 20 tI(IL ttx, pnnntft 70 Iurtnu
| the last campaign We're S16,2G5 and its
expenditures $1G,191.S5, leaving bal.
ance in the treasury of SI3.15. Cover
nor-Elect Orman contributed $500.
The Colorado & Canadian Valley
railroad is proposed new Cripple
Creek road. The line may be built
from Cripple Creek to point on the
Red river, near the mouth of the Wa
shita river. The headquarters of the
company are in El Reno, Oklahoma.
Governor C. S. Thomas is one of the
owners of n coal mine in southern Col.
orado. The property is near the sta
tion of Pryor, On the line of the Colo
RADIO & Southern, between Walsenburg
and Trinidad. Coal men predict good
shipper when the mine is fully opened.
The corner stone of the new First
Presbyterian church at Canon City
was faid December 9th. The building
will be of while stone and will cost
about $4,000. 1t will have Sunday
school rooms, n reception room, dining
room and kitchen of the most modern
and commodious style.
The contract for the new Carnegie
library at Grand Junction has been let
TO j. Il. Stull for S4,696. 1t will be
erected on LOT belonging to the Wo-
mans club, on Seventh street, and will
be of brick and ,tone and iireproof. The
building will be started at once and is
TO be completed April 1st.
Calvin Mortimer of Walsenburg,
Colorado, was s,ntenced to the peniten-
tlary for two vars by Judge Mills nt
Las Vegas, for taking $3.50 from a
gambling table and sticking It in his
own pockets. Ie was also sentenced
10 one year in tie county Jail for con-
tempt of court. Mortimer had just
served a term in the pen.
/. ii. Robeson, manager of the Pcll-
can, Dives, 7:3O md Bismarck mines,
as has been hit custom for several
years past, gavt to each employe on
the mine a TURKEY for Thanksgiving.
Two hundred md twenty turkeys
were distributed, amounting in the ag.
gregate TO over 1000 pounds.
The Denver & lilo Grande railroad
VIII send n stockBen's special train 10
the National Catthnen's convention In
Salt Lake. The tiIin will leave Den
Yer at 9:3O the morning OF January
18th, and will arri'e In Salt Lake Mt
80 o'clock the nSt afternoon. The
fare VIII be SIS fol the round trip.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Fort Collins as a,preclably abating.
But few new case, have been report
ed during the last week and many Of
those attacked with the disease at the
outbreak have passed the critical stage
and are conyaleschg. Up to this time
there have been bIt four fatal cases,
two OF them being nonresident college
students. The oth,r two were resident
school children.
DIR. Coltman. Iastor OF the First
Presbyterian church OF la Junta. re-
celved n message from his son, Robert
Coltman, Jr.. mt San Francisco. stat
Ing that he and hs wife and six chill.
drcn had Just arrived from Pekin, Chi
m, and that they would leave there
December lIth for La Juntn. The doe.
tor and his wife ire overjoyed at the
thought that their children are safe In
n Christian land.
John q. Riley. who mystcriously dis.
appeared from his home In Boulder on
the afternoon OF November 9th. and
was supposed to have been drowned In
r..lH. n
home In weak and apparently de-
mented condition December 9TH. The
Woodmcn had offered 500 for the re.
coyery OF his body aud the lake was
carefully dragged.
Harry u. Mulnlx. who served term
ms state treasurer. is slowly recovering
from an attack OF typhoid fever at 81.
Lukc's hospital IN Denver and until
few days ago was In n serious con.
dition. The sickness has been OF about
one months duration. MIR. MulnlS's
children suffered from typhoid fever
last winter and one OF his daughters II
now In California rccupcrating after
the exhaustion OF the sick spell.
A. It's meeting In Santa Fc. Dcccm.
Der 9th. the Court OF Private Land
Claims approved tho oorrortoi survey
OF the Arroyo lIondo grant In Taos
county. II was claimed for 1900
acres by Julian Martinez ct nj. and IL
confirmed for 20G2D.3s acres II IL To-
Gated nonr Amizctt. An order OF the
court was entered amending the decree
Of the confirmation nj the Mcsllln col.
ony grnDt 30 us TO define the boundn.
rlcs.