The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-11-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.

ton the old officers were reelected.
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 Eel aso county jail.
Peter c. Cory ell of New Castle was
dismissed in the District Court at Glen
wood. where he was being tried for
shooting a bull. He claimed he killed
the animal to prevent being gored.
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. G. A. for
the past year has just received the ap-
pointment of secretary of the Prospect
Park branch of the Brooklyn, New
York, y. Nj. c. A.
1t cost approximately $4,000 to pub
lish the five constitutional amendments
that were voted on at the recent cleo
ton. The secretary of states force has
just 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 Sl3,2OO
and in the weeklies l0SOO.
Nearly a ton of powder was burned
in a fire which destroyed the magazine
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near Goldfeld. If there had been giant
powder caps stored in the place there
would have been an explosion which
would have destroyed the town of
Goldfeld. on the edge of which is built
the magazine, and which would have
shaken the town of Victor consider
ably.
Owners of land and bitches in the
Clear Creek valley appointed commit
tee yesterday afternoon to investigate
the feasibility of building reservoir
system. and to consider plans for build
ing reservoirs if the scheme should be
found practicable. This committee is
con posed of H. G. Wolff, ID. X. Lee, c.
C. Welch. j. +. Church, Henry Lee, S.
V. Wright. r b. Croke. 1t is to report
November 10th.
between Manager j. NJ. Herbert of the
Rio Grande railroad system and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, by
which the members of that order who
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 which carries mail be-
tween Walsenburg and Pictou was held
up last Saturday night shortly before
reaching Pictou. The highwayman was
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.
A valuable find of white and varie-
gated sandstone has been made by j. p
Erickson of Florence. which promises
to supply most of the building contract
ors of this state and Nebraska, The
quarry is situated near Beaver creek.
and close to both the Rio Grande and
Santa Fe roads. At present Mr.. Erick-
son is engaged in constructing wagon
roads and derricks. and before Christ
mas will have the quarry developed suf-
ficiently to output several carloads
daily.
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
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less than s5,O00,000 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. The tax will
probably reach 100000
All records for tourist travel to Colo
RADIO were broken this summer by a
thirty-niEe per cent. increase. Instead
of So 900 holders of tickets being in
the state, as was given out by the var
ious Colorado lines from their agents
reports. the completed report of Chair
man c. A Parker, head of the three
joint ticket agencies in the state, shows
there were exactly 66.155 visitors in the
state holding tourist tickets. There
were thousands of visitors who did not
travel on tourist tickets but they are
not included in this tabulation.
The well-known mining authority.
Ores and Metals, has been sold by Mr..
P. A. Leonard to Messrs. Atkins and
Silversparre Mr.. Atkins has until re-
Gently been one of the owners and the
editor of the Cripple Creek Times-Cit-
izen. and is one of the best known
newspaper men of the state. Mr.. Sill
versparre cones from Chicago, where
he has had a large experience on a
number of publications, Mr.. Leonard
remains with the paper as associate ed
itor. The paper has been published
eleven years and has acquired a large
influence in mining circles. The new
n,uners nrnrnisn to make innrnYements