North Park union., 1902-03-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.

J. D. Hurd, editor q the Central City
Miner, and . prominent citizen, diet
suddenly from neuralgia Of the heart
Wtnheld Sco4t stratton has resigned
hla position ~ q member OF the board
Of trustees Of the State School Of
Mines.
No attempt seems to have been made
to arrest the assassins who shot one
Gallejos, q Mexican sheepman, from
ambush, in the east end OF Rio Grande
county, some weeks ago.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Wagon Wheel Gap hot springs
BY General Palmer, who owns the
property. The old bath house will be
replaced by modern structure and the
hotel greatly improved.
Mrs. Mary Gillespie. aged eighty
three, and the mother Of thirty-seyen
children, is In the Denver county hos
pital. She Is said to be cultured and
dignified and will not say why none OF
her children assists her.
The farmers and property owners Nv
Ing under the Otero ditch, near La
Junta, have organized an association,
with j. E. Ruster, II. Savage and A. ID.
Best as directors. The debt on the
canal will be paid and bonds issued.
James r. Kearns, who was arrested
in Cripple Creek on the charge Of the
murder of Martin Gleason, the srperin-
tendent of the Wild Horse mine on
Bull hill, had his bond reduced from
$4,000 to 5000 and was released
from Jail.
John NJ. Francisco, one Of Colorado's
earliest pioneers. died at his home at
La Veta mt the age of eighty-two
years. He was VIrginian by birth.
but had lived In Colorado for the last
half century. He built the first house
of any Importance in Pueblo.
A live stock show is assured for
Denver next yenr. An enthusiastic
meeting of the stockmen who have
been attending the cattle convention
appointed a committee of arrangements
and several thousand dollars were
pledged for expenses.
The San Miguel mine near Telluride
was visited by two snowslides Ihurs-
day morning. The damage was scarce.
~ $500. H. GOetinger and Isaac John-
son were carried over 1000 feet. one
escaped entirely unharmed and tine
other with bruises md his scalp gone.
One-tenth OF the fund necessary to
provide a suitable gift for the cruiser
Denver has been raised. Yesterday
Mayor Wright, treasurer OF the fund,
received four responses to the invita-
tions sent out by the committee, swell
ing the total amount to date to $l,OOo.
The labor unions of Ouray have be-
gun an agitation against yellow labor
in the camp and have issued n
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 $4,000 worth Of real
estate.
There Is trouble ahead for the train
men of the Colorado 4 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 IL to receive
themselves, and that the Santa Fe VIII
not meet them on the question.
About 100 prominent Democrats of
the western part of the state, who rep
resented seventeen counties on the
western slope, organized the Western
election of officers for the ensuing year
and the adoption of the resolutions set
ting forth the desIrability of acting as
a 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 Mt Its fuil
capacity Of 1000 tons day.
The following space at the st. Louis
fair has been asked by Colorado: Min
erals and ores, 10OX120 feet, three times
the space Mt the Chicago exposition;
machinery and mills, 200x3O0 feet; llor-
ticulture, GOx1OO feet; agriculture, sOx-
100 feet; state building. 2O0X3O0 feet;
Irrigation farm, 2O0x30O feet; machin-
cry exclusively, 15Ox2OO feet; fish and
game, GOx1OO feet; art, 20x33O feet;
educational exhibit, 40xGO feet.
The Pueblo city council made appro-
priations for the ensuing fiscal year,
which commences April LIST. The to-
tai is $685., sos, as against $2SS, 16o for
the preceding year, an increase of $780,
$40. The increase was made necessary
by the growing demands of the city.
The new appropriations provide,
among other things, for n fire station
in East Pueblo, n city ambulance and
a street roller and grader.
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, us secretary of the commits
sioner-in-chIef. ]. b. Ragan of Den
yer, z. Y. Snyder Of Greeley, ]. i.
Keating Of Pueblo, C. f. Collins of Col
orado Springs, and William Hall OF
Aspen were appointed committee to
arrange an educational exhibit at st.
Louis.
Five strikes are now agitating the la-
bor world of Denver. The organiza-
tions out are: Carriage makers, 60 out
for raise from 33 1-3 cents per hour to
371a cents and eight hours; seventeen
places boycotted. Mattress makers, Ii
out for union recognition; two factor
les bOycOtted Indoor wlremen, 40 out
for raise from S3.25 to 81 day; five
employers boycotted. Machinists, 81
out for eight-hour day and nine hours
pay; two places boycotted. Fuel haul
ers and handlers, 22 men out for union
recognition: one place bOycotted.
The weather bureaus summary of
conditions during February shows that