The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-02-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

in Platte canon near Baileys.
Judge Cunningham of Colorado
Springs has declared that sealed YER
diets are illegal.
William Brinkley of Fort Morgan
was found dead in his barn the other
day, supposedly having committed sui
eide after quarreling with his wife.
The coroner is investigating.
Complaint was filed by Deputy Game
Warden j. S. Bush against Fred Riley
for killing three quail last December.
Riley was arrested and brought before
Justice II. Il. Smith. He pleaded guilty
and was fined $50 and costs for vio-
lating the state game laws.
Thomas Holden, an old time miner
was Instantly killed at the A. V. shaft
Leadville, on the 2nd. The supposition
is that he was riding on n car loaded
with ore, and when near the tray the
car in some way upset and he fell down
the shaft distance of 450 feet.
r. Inge and ]. f. 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 stir here and other par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
A board of officers, consisting of Ma
Jors E. b. Mosely, A. G. Sharpe, ]. A.
Irons and Captains Z. G. Wales and f.
j. Herman, Second infantry, with Cap
tain ii. S. Whipple as 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.
Arthur F. Francis. secretary of the
Cripple Creek Chamber of Commerce.
has received a letter from President
Trumbull of the Colorado & Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis
played in the building of the cutoff
from Denver to Cripple Greek. Mr..
Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
in the near future
B. S. Kelly, manager of the Kelly
tunnel, at Georgetown, had a narrow
escape from death last night. He was
awakened by loud noise and found
that boulder weighing over ton
had crashed through the building and
stopped within a 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.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany have not yet put n force of
railroad graders Mt work, but are Sc
curing right of way to Paonia by pur-
chase. Parties at Delta who are work
ing in the interest of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company have con
tended from the start that that COM
pany would run the first train to Pao-
ha G. In
appear to be generally anxious to be
the first to complete its road.
Work on the construction of a mon-
ster packing plant, to be erected by
Denver capital near the Denver Union
Stock Yards. WILL it is now practically
settled. be commenced within the next
forty days. The company, which is
to include among its incorporators ID.
II. Moffat of the First National bank,
Charles Boettcher and d. C. Dodge OF
the National Bank of Commerce. and
other prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file its articles of incorpora-
ton within the next ten days, and
will begin on the plant.
The second Pullman car built by the
Pullman company at their Denver
shops was completed and sent out on
Its first trip Monday. 1t is the Cali
fornia, and Is companion to the
Mount Hood, which has been in SER
vice for several weeks. The Califor-
mia is seventy-eight feet long, ten feet
three inches wide, fourteen feet seven
inches high and weighs 120. 900 pounds.
1t is n twelve section drawing room
car, the interior being finished with
marquetry and Santiago mahogany.
General passenger agents of the
Transmissouri lines, aided by the Rio
Grande system, are outlining a plan
which they hope will draw added traf-
fic to Colorado. The plan is said to be
that originated by John Sebastian of
the Rock Island, and in furtherance of
1T. Mr.. Sebastian recently went to
Denver, where a conference took piece. |
1t is proposed to establish bureau TO
disseminate information relating to the
attractions Colorado offers to campers,
show the cost of an outing of this char
acter, the places in Colorado adapted
to 1t and similar information. Last
year there were $4,000 tourists who
visited Colorado, and it Is expected
that fully 10000 will go the coming
season. During 1898 there We're only |
1900 visitors.
A movement is afoot in Denver for |
the organization of building trades
section of the American Federation of |
Labor as a protest by some of the |
building trades unions which are dis |
satisfied with the refusal of the unions |
in the local building trades council to |
vote advances in wages. The Carpen-
ters' Union, it is said by men profess /,
ing to be familiar with the intentions |
of the disaffected element, is expecting |
to ask the Building Trades Council to
concede the advance in wages, and If |
this appeal fails to leave the organi-
zation and petition for a charter from
the American Federation of Labor. Ac-
cording to rumors also, unions whose
demands for higher wages the Build