The Springfield herald., 1902-11-28
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Grand Junction suffered from w.
900 fire on the 10th.
Sugar City is to expend $4,000 for
water works at once.
Hanford Reed, an old citizen Of
Greeley. died on the 18th.
crusade against gamblers has been
commenced at Colorado Springs.
Four Denver posts of the G. A. r.
are about to consolidate owing to thin
ming of their ranks by death.
A fire in the Simpson coal mine at
Lafayette nearly caused the death OF
the night shift. but as the result OF
heroic work on the part of their fellow
miners all were rescued.
Last Sunday two big mass meetings
were held simultaneously at Colorado
Springs to protest against the pardon
ing of the convicted gamblers now In
the Ell Paso county jail
District Judge w. P. Seeds has or
dered Sheriff Robertson to destroy by
fire all the gambling paraphernalia.
valued at about $4,000, now stored IN
the basement of the county jail at
Cripple Creek.
W. w. Whine, who has been secre-
tary of the Leadville Y. NJ. c. A. for
the past year. has just received the ap-
pointment of secretary of the Prospect
Park branch of the Brooklyn, New
York. Y. M. c. A.
Because she would not stop laughing
when requested, Fred Shockler shot
and instantly killed Ella Callifore-
Both are colored. The shooting oc-
Cured at 6 o'clock this evening at
Chandler, coal mining camp in FIRE.
mont county.
Officers of the Smuggler-Union Min
ing Company ran special train 10
Pandora bearing Mrs. Collins and
three surgeons to the bedside OF Ar
thus l.. Collins, who was shot by an
assassin. The time made was very
fast-thirteen hours and eight minutes
for 422 miles.
1t cost approximately $25 900 to pub
lish the five constitutional amendments
that were voted on at the recent cleo
ton. The secretary of states force has
lust finished tabulating the accounts
for the publication of these amend
ments and find that the sum will go
little above this amount. Publication
in the daily newspapers cost $l3,2oo
and in the weeklies $1O,SOO.
Nearly ton of powder was burned
in fire which destroyed the Magazine
of the Golden Cycle Mining Company,
near Goldfield If there had been giant
powder caps stored in the place there
would have been an explosion Whlcn
would have destroyed the town OF
Goldfield, on the edge of which is built
the magazine. and which would have
shaken the town of Victor consider
ably.
Tax Agent Corey of the h. & r. G.
appeared before the Board of County
commissioners of Gunnison county to
secure a reduction of taxes. The COM
panys tax for 1901 was S56,OOO, an in
crease of $2S,000 over 1900. The com
pany refused to pay the same ana
made the commissioners an offer OF
s2S 900, which was accepted by the
board after long consultation with
leading taxpayers.
An agreement has been entered into
between Manager j. NJ. Herbert of the
Rio Grande railroad system and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, by
which the members of that order VINO
are employed as switchmen in the va
rious yards of the company are granted
an increase of pay. based on the Chi
cago schedule. which was recently
adopted The increase amounts to 3
and cents per hour.
The stage whlch carries Alall De-
tween Walsenburg and Pictou was held
up last Saturday night shortly before
reaching Pictou. The highwayman was
a negro. He stopped the stage and
searched the driver. V. A. Hardy, and
the one passenger on the stage, Mrs.
johnson of Pictou. but did not secure
any booty. The mail sacks were not
touched The negro was subsequently
arrested and identified.
Concerted action to test the existing
tax laws will be taken by the treasur-
ers of Pueblo. Prowers. Bent. Doug
las, Otero and Las Animas counties.
The courts will be asked to compel. if
possible. the Santa Fe road to pay
the taxes levied against it for the cur
rent year. meeting of the treasur-
ers and attorneys of the six counties
named was held Thursday at Pueblo,
at which the natter was thoroughly
gone over and the above decision
reached.
The state of Colorado will take steps
to compel the Stratton estate to pay
the inheritance tax. Attorney General
C. C. Post is much dissatisfied with the
present appraisement on the estate.
which he declares to be too low The
personally estate is valued at a little
less than S5,O00,0O0 and the attorney
general believes it to be much larger.
A petition will probably be filed with
the Ell Paso County Court for a second
appraisement. on which the inheri-
tance tax will be paid. Ese tax will
probably reach 100000.
The biennial report of the State
Board of Pardons, now being prepared
by Secretary Stonaker, will show in
tabulated form the work accomplished
by the board during the last two years.
1t will contain tables which show that
800 cases have been considered by the