The Springfield herald., 1902-03-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Frank A. Mahaney, the game warden
Grand Mesa lakes. will have to re-
main In the penitentiary. The Supreme
Court has denied his application for a
writ OF habeas corpus.
The farmers and property owners liv-
ing under the Otero ditch, near La
Junta, have organized an assocication,
with ]. +. Ruster. II. Savage and "A. -.
Best as directors. The debt on the
canal will be paid and bonds issued.
A live stock show is assured for
Denver next year. An enthusiastic
meeting of the stockmeu who have
been attending the cattle convention
appointed committee of arrangements
and several thousand dollars were
pledged for expenses.
One-tenth of the fund necessary to
provide suitable gift for the cruiser
Denver has been raised. Yesterday
Mayor Wright. treasurer of the fund,
received four responses to the invita-
tons sent out by the committee. swell
ing the total amount to date to $1.OU.
Constable Rogers of Marble brought
in w. ii. Brown of thnt place ana
lodged him in the Gunnison county jail
on the charge of violating the fish law.
Brown, who is accused of dynnmitinR
fish in the Crystal river. was bound
over In the sum of $1,000 to the Dis
trict Court.
The labor unions of Ouray have be-
gun an agitation against yellow labor
in the camp and have issued
call for mass meeting to dis
cuss ways and means OF getting rid of
the Chinese now here. There are nine
teen Cinnamon in Ouray and together
they own about 10000 worth Of real
estate.
There is trouble ahead for the train
men of the Colorado q Southern on the
Joint track from Denver to Pueblo.
General Manager Nudge of the Santa
Fe says the trainmen can settle the
difficulty in regard to the percentage
of business each road is to receive
themselves. and that the Santa Fe VIII
not meet them on the question.
About 100 prominent Democrats OF
the western part of thr state. who rep
resented seventeen counties on the
western slope. organized the Western
slope Democratic Federv tion. by the
election of officers for the ensuing year
and the adoption OF the resolutions set
ting forth the desirability Of acting as
n unit to secure the political interests
of their section.
1t is stated that the Chandler mine,
owned by the Victor Fuel Company.
will. be reopened about the Goth of this
month. The Chandler mine Is the prop
erty from which the Japanese miners
were recently driven by the white
miners. 1t is understood that the union
has agreed to furnish 400 white men
with which to work the mine ut its full
capacity of 1000 tons day.
The following space Mt the ST. Louis
fair has been asked by Colorado; Mill
erals and ores, 1OOX120 feet, three times
the space at the Chicago exposition;
machinery and mills, 2OOx3OO feet; hor-
ticulture. GOx1O0 feet: agriculture, Sox-
100 feet; state building. 2OOX3OO feet;
Irrigation farm, 2OOx3O0 feet: mnchin-
cry exclusively. 15OX2OO feet: fish and
game GOX10O feet: art. 20X330 feet;
educational exhibit. 4OXtO feet
The st. Louis Worlds Fair commits
sioners of Colorado elected Lem j..
Smith. formerly reading clerk of the
Senate, and now editor of the Miners
Magazine. as secretary of the commits
sioner-in chief. !. b. Ragan of Den
yer, u. n Snyder of Greeley. ]. #.
Keating of Pueblo. C. f. Collins of Col
orado Springs. and William Hall of
Aspen We're appointed Il committee to
arrange an educational exhibit at st.
Louis.
Five strikes are now agitnting the Ia
bor world of Denver The organizn-
tions out are: Carriage makers. go out
for raise from 81, - cents per hour to
3Th cents and eigh: hours; seventeen
places boyco:ted. Mattress makers. 10
out for union recognition: two factor-
les boycotted. Indoor wircmen. 40 out
for raise from S325 to 81 a day; five
employers boycotted. Machinists. 32
out for eight-hour day and nine hours
pay: two places boycotted. Fuel haul
ers and handlers. - meme out for union
recognition; one place bOycotted.
Land leasing was the one theme be-
fore the American Cattle Growers
convention Wednesday, No other sub
ject was before the men of the ranges
gathered for the second days meet
ing of the roundup, with one eXcep-
tion. A. C. Cleveland of Cleveland,
New, proposed that President Theodore
Roosevelt be made the first and only
honorary member of the association.
and after 1t was adopted Colonel John
L. ITlSu VI SiiilpiHlh piVpoSeu 'hiSV
cheers for the new honorary member at
Washington.
Two bodies We're found near Tellu-
ride Wednesday that no one knew Were
dead. Their names are Reddin Bough-
er and John Nixon. The report came to
town that n cabin opposite the Thomas
in Bear creek basin was missing and
that it was known that two men We're
lirinty fbara All that rpulu hp SppD pf
the cabin was the end of n board
sticking up above the snow. There
was nearly eight feet of snow over the
huildinU which MaS. cnmnle1elY wreck