The state herald., 1901-10-25
COLORADO NOTES.

on the night of October 18th. Money,
1ewelry and clothing We're taken.
1t Is said that the leaders Of the state
labor organizations are arranging to
unionlze the laborers in the beet sugar
factories. MA
Thirty-three building permits have
been issued since April 1st by the city
clerk Of LOngmont, and the estimated
cost of their construction was placed
at $3O,0OO
Nearly a quarter of million dollars
was distributed on the 10Th instant at
the Minnequa steel works in Pueblo
among the employees of the institution
and the men angaged in doing contract
work there.
Carl Wulsten, field director at Silver
Clif, Is TO prepare. among other eyhib-
Its for the st. Louis exposition, n plas-
ter of paris model of the volcanic re-
gion of Custer county, us an adjunct to
the mineral display.
The secretary Of the interior has af-
firmed the action of the general land
office dismlsslng the protest of James
Q. Weller against the homestead entry
of James s. Clark of tract In the
VMohAOtc Iulu ulStTlct.
The county commissioners Of Pueblo
county have disposed of sixty tons of
alfalfa, the product of the poor farm,
at $6.25 n ton. The hay crop has been
good and is In n large measure helping
to defray the expenses Of the poor
farm.
A new shipping station has been es-
tablished two and n half miles north
of LongmOnt OH the Colorado & South
ern. 1t is called Bocttcher, In honor OF
the president Of the Loveland sugar
factory, and was put In for the accom-
mediation of the beet raisers.
Lafayette Durkee, n Denver man, is
introducing his mining machinery into
the far-away mines of South Africa.
lie has made application at Bloemfon-
tein for patent for n motOr-Operatcd
rock drilling engine. 1t is called the
Durkee Lightning drill.
A contract has been awarded by the
county commissioners of Teller coun-
ty for a hospital and poor house. to be
built at Broadway and Moynahan ave
nue., In Cripple Greek. The contract
was let to Edwin Barrett. The build
ing will be two stories high and will
cost about $1,000.
John ID. Howland's latest painting,
entitled THE Coming Storm which
has been on exhibition ut Denver. has
been purchased by Edward Williams
of Central city. The painting repre-,
sents a herd of buffalo milling" on
the prairie for mutual protection
against an approaching storm.
Tho NnnItp.n th. NNvn,td x,.ln N ra
1900 strong In Pueblo, are discussing
the project OF raising among them
selves sum of money sufficient to
purchase land and erect handsome
Woodman building for the use of the
various camps. The project will RE-
quirc between $4,000 and $4,000.
DIR. A. l.. IIazlctt OF Colorado City
sailed from San Francisco October 10th
for the Philippine Islands. being one of
the committee appointed by General
Macarthur to Investigate the moral
conditions prevailing there. on his re-
turn the committee VIII submit its re-
port to the government.
Curator VIII &. Ferril Of the State
Historical and Natural History Society
has laid claim TO the Lost Park buffalo.
He wants II for the state collection of
which lie Is curator. The animal, he
says. property belongs to the state. as
II Is valuable both from a historical
and n scientific standpoint.
The recent purchase for $4,000 OF
200 acres OF land southwest OF lvywild
by the International Realty Company.
which has assumed ownership OF prac-
tically all of Stratton's real estate, re-
wives interest In the report that Mr.
Stratton and other Colorado Springs
people intend to build n big athletic
park In that vicinity.
Secretary Whitney Of the Rocky
Mountain Smeltcr Company at Flor
cncc has uncarthed II relic In the shape
OF bulletin Of the New York Mirror
issued June Il. 1872. containing the
news that war had been declared
against England. The paper was found
between the leaves OF nm cid Bible aud
Is very well preserved.
In the District Court Mt Pueblo on
the 18th instant Mike Ryan was SEN
fenced 10 not less than ten nor more
than twelve years In the pcnitcntlary.
Ryan was found guilty OF committing
an assault on Herman KuJath with
pick August 9th. lie drove pick
through Kujath's face while the lat
ter was sleeping at his home.
Hereafter the Colorado Springs High
School Cadets Will drlll with Wlnchcs-
ter rifles loaned the school by Adjuiant
General Gardner. George s. Elstun
nnd Superintendent OF Schools John
Dietrich called upon the adJutant gen.
crnl and put IN n formal request for the
rifles. II WIS granted. ns the state had
Il number which were not In use.
The contract for the work on the
new Longmont water system has been
let to II. l.. Mcdonald of Denver. The
contract includes only the work TO be
done. the city having purchased the
pipe for the twelve miles Of the main
line. The prcr for the work was SIS.
600. by agreement Longmoni labor
viii be used Ms far rs possible In the
work.
According 10 the monthly reports
illcd with the secretary OF the State
Bonrd Of Health during the current
month. the health of the inhabitants Of
the state Is better than nj any other
time within the last twenty-five ycnrs.
The cpldcmlcs of the spring and sum.
mcr were not serious. nnd Instead OF
the percentage of mortality Increasing
with the population. there appears 10
b" n noteworthy decrease.
William Grant. miner employed In
III. Isabella mine IN the Cripple Greek
district, hni n miraculous escape with
his life on TINT property n few days
ago. lie accidentally walked into the