North Park union., 1901-11-01
COLORADO NOTES.


Robert Burdell has been appoin.eu y.
rural free delivery letter carrier "' 'A
| tletOn.
Three burglaries occurred in iuep,o
OH the night Of October 11th. MONEY
jewelry and clothing were takeh'
Thirty-t three building permits nay.
been issued since April LIST by tne .i.S
| clerk OF Longmont, ana Inc es'e.,
cost OF their construction Was P''NeA
at $4,000.
The members of the Gentienen
Driving and Riding Club OF Dehsei
are again agitating the building oi d
grand stand at City park race tracA'
The polo games attract great cro"u''
Nearly quarter of million doillas
was distributed on the 10Th instant u.
the Minnequa steel works IN rueDio
among the employees OF the INSTITUTION
and the men angaged In dong cohuae'
| work there.
Carl Wulsten, field director Mt silver
Cliff, is to prepare, among other eAhio-
its for the st. Louis exposition, pias-
ter of paris model Of the volcanic re-
gion of Custer county, rs an ad)unct u
the mineral display.
The secretary of the Interior has al,
flrmed the action of the general iahu
office dismissing the protest OF Jhmes
| c. Weller against the homestead eh.ly
of James s. Clark Of tract IN inc
Montrose land district.
The county commissioners Of Pueblo
county have disposed OF sixty TONS OIL
alfalfa. the product of the poor farm'
at S6.25 q ton. The hay crop has been
good and is in large measure heiplhs
| 10 dofr,v tho axnenses of the poor
farm.
A new shipping station has been es-
tablished two and half miles north
of Longmont OH the Colorado 4 South.
ern. 1t Is called Boettcher, in honor OF
the president of the Lovelnnd sugar
factory, and was put in for the accom-
mediation of the beet raisers.
LAFAYETTE Durkee. n Denver man, Is
introducing his mining machinery ihto
the far-away mines of South AFRICA.
He has made application Mt Bloemfoh.
| tcin for a patent for II m0tor-operateu
| rock drilling engine. 1t Is called the
Durkee Lightning drill.
A contract has been awarded by the
county commissioners of Teller coun-
ty for hospital and poor house, to be
built Mt Broadway and Moynahan ave
nue., in Cripple Creek. The contract
was let to Edwin Barrett. The build.
ing will be two stories high and Will
cost about $1,000.
DIR. A. l.. Hazlett 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 will submit its re
port to the government.
Secretary Whitney of the Rocky
Mountain Smelter Company at Flor
ence has unearthed relic in the shape
of n bulletin of the New York Mirror
issued June ~, 1872. containing the
news that war had been declared
against England. The paper was found
between the leaves of an old Bible and
is very well preserved.
The contract for the work OH the
new LonGmont water system has been
let to II. =. Mcdonald OF Denver. The
contract includes only the work to he
done, the city having purchased the
| pipe for the twelve miles of the main
| line Tho price for the work was $lS,-
600. BY agreement Longmont labor
| will be used us far as possible in the
work.
Deputy Sheriff Clnmpitt returned
from North park to Fort Collins Octo-
ber 22nd, having in charge Dan Nc
Farlane, charged with cattle stealing.
McFarlane had a hearing before JUS
tice Charles w. Cowdrey and was held
in 81, 900 bail. James McFarlane, Sr,
Dams father. and Hugh. his brother.
were each held in $1,000 bail. They
furnished bail and were released.
Harry Sudenberg, who Il few weeks
ago passed forged checks aggregating
nearly 800 In amount on Victor mer-
chants, pleaded guilty in the District
Court TO forgery and was sentenced
to seven years In the penitentiary.
Sudenberg is twenty-five years OF age.
and at the time of passing the checks
was on the rolls of the reformatory.
where he had been sent two years be-
fore for similar offense
A letter from Emma Keenc Sullivan,
the agent of the Humane Society at
Grand junction, to Secretary White
head Mt Denver, Informs him that
twelve-year-old Willie jeremiah the
runaway found n few days ago at
Grand Junction by Mrs. Sullivan, de-
clnres that he saw the Jesse James"
gang of boys murder Homer Reahard
and that he was himself robbed by the
gang before he ran away from his
home in Denver
d. Q. Charles of Denver sued the
Colorado Colony Company for the re-
covery of expenses incurred in attend
ing meeting of the directors Mt Pinon.
He also held claims of other directors.
In the District Court at Denver, Judge
Malone held that transportation. hotel
bills, etc, incurred by directors in con-
nection with the compnnys' business
cannot be recovered unless so stipulat-
ed by the corporation. An appeal from
the decision has been entered.
In the Denver & Rio Grandc yards
Mt Salida, October 22nd. while A. v.
Hubbard, air brake inspector, was eX-
amining brake OH some cars on a
side track. he was run over by n
freight car and instantly killed. The
switch had been carelessly left open
and In making a flying switch. the cars
striking the car he was repairing,
knocked him under the wheels, cutting
him In two and severing one hand and
foot. He leaves wife and two chill
dren.
Another change in the method of op-
Grating the plants of the American
| Smelling and Refining COmOnny has