The Springfield herald., 1900-01-19
COLORADO ITEMS.

gong 10 IRE recently.
Three Leadville firemen were injured
]. b. Orman, who has the contract
for building the Crystal river railroad,
says that the road will be completed
to Marble this year.
The body of William Zaden was
found in well near La Juntn the
other day. He had evidently been
murdered. Two Mexicans are sus-
pected.
A disastrous fire broke out Friday
morning in the heart of Colorado
Springs, and before the flames could
be checked nbout $14O.OOO worth of
property was destroyed. The greatest
sufferers were the May Clothing Com
pany, w. S. Nichols 4 Co, wholesale
clothiers. The losses are covered to a
great extent by insurance.
A. l.. Humphrey, superintendent of
motive power of the Colorado Midland
Railway, is in Paterson, New Jersey, to
inspect the 100000 rotary snow plow
ordered several months ago. The ma
chine IL now completed and will be
delivered as soon as approved by Mr..
Humphrey. 1t will be the biggest
snow plow in the West, having
sweep two feet grenter in width than
those now in use in the mountains.
By the agreement of the telegraph
ers and the Rio Grande, Il new office
IL created, that of manager of the
main telegraph office. at u salary of
500 month. j. Il. Fegan has been in
charge Of the Rio Grande telegraph of
flee for ten years, but without official
position. Now that the position is de-
fined, 1t is to go to the man who Is
Oldest In line Of promotion, who is J..
w. Brunton Of Pueblo, now wire
chief, with headquarters at Pueblo.
Secretary Martha A. Shute of the
State Horticultural Society has been In
consultation with the National Paris
Commission us to. the display of Colo
RADIO fruit at the Paris Exposition. 1t
was the intention of the commission to
have a fine fruit display In Paris from
Colorado, but the fruit growers of the
state have responded cOolly to the ap-
peals in this behalf. Mrs. Shute now
fears that the state will not have any
fruit exhibit at Paris, as the growers OF
Colorado do not seem to think that the
effort will bring fair return for the
expense involved.
The four days from the 7th to the
10th of February are to be gala days
at Colorado College. Preparations have
already been largely completed for
double celebration-in honor of the
opening of the new Pickens Fine Arts
building, and in cOmmemorntion of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the found
Ing of the college. The exact anniver
sary date came last May. but 1t was
decided to postpone Its celebration un-
til the Perkins building should be fin
ished, and then make the joint cele-
f1nn Ia st nf
Its sort in the history of the college.
The body of man recently found
hanging in the woods near Florence
has been identified as that of Joe
Graindarge, II Frenchman. Holes in
the clothing indicated that he was
shot. Two people, suspected of
numbering him have been arrested at
Rockvale. Their names are Joe Chevie
and Mrs. Devivers. Both are French.
Relations known to have existed be-
tween the victim and his alleged
murderers support the murder theory
and furnish the motives of cupidity
and jealousy. 1t develops now that
Graindarge was not n bachelor. He
left wife and two children in Bel
GUM, but lived with the woman Devi-
vers. About three years ago Joe
Chevie appeared upon the scene and
in time won the affections of the
woman Graindarge was living with.
Intense jealousy sprung up between
the two men, and it is now alleged
that the woman and her present para
mour shot Grnindarge, carried the
body to the desolate spot in the noun
tains and there suspended II from a
tree. The house which belonged to
Graindarge was torn down and the
lumber hauled away and appropriated
by Chevie. Deputy Sheriff Mooney
found Graindargc's horses, harness
and wagon on the premises Of the
woman and man. Mr. Mooney Is
highly commended for his work in
this case.
The application of the Midland Ter
minal railway, the Florence & Cripple
Creek railway, the Metallic Extraction
Company, and the other companies
that were enjoined by Judge Steven
son in November from perfectlng their
alleged sale and reorganization at the
suit of the attorney general. by direc-
tion of Governor Thomas, for the disso-
luton of the injunction, came on in
the District Court before Judge n. Wal
ter Dixon of Pueblo, who was called In
to hear the application. After prcsentn-
ton of evidence and argument by the
attorney, Judge Dixon held that the
state had wholly failed to sustain the
allegations of its bill. That it appeared
practically without contradiction that
there was no purpose whatever to con-
solidate the lines of the two railway
companies, but that the intention was
to maintain an organization by the sew
eral corporations distinct and to oper-
ate each under its separate and dis
tinct boards of directors and officers.
He further held that the sales Of the
stock and securities of the several cor
porations We're actual and bona flde,
and that he knew of no law that pro-