The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

cnstine $4,000 each.
RuraI free delivery has b-ea estak
lishsd at Grand junction.
ledge Cunningham Of Colorado
Springs has declared that sealed YER
diets are illegal.
Rev. Charles 8. Oimstead has formal
IL accepted the election ~ bishop coad-
jutoe Of Colorado.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomInatlon OF Edwin Price to be
postmaster At Grand Junction. Colo
rade, and the nomination was con-
nrmed.
Local parties are to erect big pa
viltoa at Idaho Sprinss near the hot
springs. They viii provide attractions
In IL way Of music and entertain
meats for tourists.
william Brinkley of Fort Morgan
was found dead In his barn the other
day, supposedly having committed sui
eide after quarreling with bis wife.
The coroner II investigating.
The city of Florence has let the con-
tract to Bert Gardner for the construc-
ton Of q new city reservoir. The con-
tract price is e0,OOO and the work must
be ln1shed by the middle Of May.
J. ]. Buns, superintendent Of the
first division Of the Denver 4 Rio
Grande, with headquarters at Pueblo
for the hast ten years, and one Of the
best known railroad men in the West,
hes resigned.
Another man has been arrested. sus-
pected Of the murder Of Harold Frid-
born. He was captured thirty miles
northwest Of Fort Collins. When ar
rested be tried to shoot the officers and
then wounded himself.
Thomas Holden, an old time mineF,
was instantly killed at the A. v. shaft,
Leadville, on the End. The superstition
= that he was riding on a car loaded
with ore, and when near the tray the
car in some way upset and he fell down
the shaft distance Of $50 feet.
b. Inge and ]. r. Anderson, who
have been prospecting for coal about
thirty miles south Of La Junta, have
found two veins, one five feet and the
other seven feet in thickness. This has
coused quite q stir here and other par
ties are organizing. It 10 thought the
belt extends for several miles.
A board Of officers, consisting Of Ma
Jors q. B. Nosely, A. G. Sharpe, J. A.
Irons and Captains p. G. Wales and r.
J. Herman, Second infantry, with Cap
tain H. 8. Whippis a. recorder. has
been appointed to meet In Denver for
examination Of Officers ordered before
It for promotion. Second Lieutenant
Haywood Robbins, Fifteenth infantry,
has been ordered before the board.
The Grand junction postofice was
robbed recently by Night Clerk Eu.
gene Phillips. About 80 In stamps
and SO In cash was taken. Phillips,
who has lived there for the last eight
years and has been well thought OF,
confessed that he committed the rob.
berry, breaking the window and rifling
the mail pouch to give the appearance
Of theft committed BY an outsider.
Arthur r. Francis, secretary Of the
Cripple Greek Chamber Of Commences,
Trumbul1 Of ~ Colorado 4 Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis
from Denver to Cripple Greek. Mr..
4AkA0AAss aAA0A G4 tAlC hCNAEtaAy SAAk
the road would be built
In the near future.
B. q, Kelly. manager of the Kelly
tunnel, Mt Georgetown, had q narrow
escape from death last night. He was
awakened by . loud noise and found
that . boulder weighing over a ton
had crashed through the building and
stopped within foot of his bed. A
search of the mountain side failed to
locate the place from which the rock
broke loose. Mr.. Kelly considers 1t
most marvellous escape from death.
Marble cave, recently discovered
northwest Of Florence In the lower foot
hills, promises to be entered by hun
dreds Of tourists the coming season.
The entrance y Just large enough for
the admittance Of an ordinary man,
while the interior Of the cave IL sixty
feet high 200 feet from the opening.
Some Of the openings to the chambers
need enlarging before person can
enter. After entering . rumbling
sound from underneath Is heard, which
leads to the conclusion that the cave Is
underlaid with subterranean body of
water. 1t 10 not great distance from
the site of the hrst discovery of oil In
the state. near Garden pork.
Tho Colorado Midland passenger
train No. 8. westbound, crashed into
the rear end Of an extra freight at $50
O'Clock Sunday morning at Wild Horse,
two miles west OF Buena Vista, result
ing In the instant death OF Owen Nc
Oarthy, the rear brakeman of the
freight. The freight had stopped at
the tank to take water. The brakeman,
was sent back to nag the regular pas
senger following. The night was very
cold, he became chilled and returned to
the caboose to warm, and as he came
out of the ca6oose the engine pulling
No. 3 rounded = curve about fifty feet
from him. He was ssen by the fireman
OF the passenger engine frantlcally
waving his lantern, endeavoring to sig