The Holly chieftain., 1902-03-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Winfield Scott Stratton has resigned
his position aS member of the board
of trustees of the State School of
Mines.
]. J. Burns. n miner in the Monarch
district, STABBED a stranger named Ray
in drunken quarrel ut Garfield Ray
may die.
No attempt seems to have been made
to arrest the assassins who shot one
Gallejos, Mexican shecpman. from
ambush, in the east end of Rio Grande
county, some weeks ago.
Inability 10 realize on premium notes
and a greater loss than anticipated
among the stock insured, has forced
the Western Mutual Stock Insurance
Company of Denver to the wall.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Wagon Wheel Gap hot springs
by General Palmer, who OWLS the
property The old bath house will be
replaced by modern structure and the
hotel greatly improved.
Frank A Mahaney. the game warden
who killed w. a. Womack at the
Grand Mesa lakes. will have to re-
main in the penitentiary. The Supreme
Court has denied his application for
writ of habeaS corpus.
The farmers and property owners liv-
ing under the Otcro ditch, near La
.Junta, have organized an association,
with j. T.. Ruster. II. Savage and a. ID.
Best as directors. The debt on the
canal will be paid and bonds issued.
James Z. Kearns. who was arrested
in Cripple Creek on the charge of the
murder of Martin Gleason, the srperin-
tcndent Of the Wild Horse mine on
Bull hill, had his bond reduced from
$4,000 TO 5000 and was released
from Jail.
A live stock show is assured for
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 Thurs
day morning. The damage was scarce
ly $500. ii. GOetinger and Isaac John
son We're carried over 1000 feet. One
escaped entirely unharmed and the
other with bruises and his scalp gone.
Onetenth 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 $1,000.
Constable Rogers of Marble brought
in W. II. Brown of that place and
lodged him in the Gunnison county Jail
on the charge of violating the fish law.
Brown. who is accused of dynamiting
fish in the Cr. stal river was bound
over in the SUN of 81 900 to the Dis
trict Court.
A fire wrecked the Burlington depot
ut Akron. Colorado. Friday afternoon,
just after the passing of the Chicago
Denver train. The depot was a hand
some structure. The operators barely
escaped. the fire burning fiercely in the
strong wind that made all efforts to
save the building fr,ttIess. j. F.
Stokes, the agent, walked thirteen miles
to Otis. the station TO the east, to send
wire of the fire to Omaha.
Land leasing was the one themo be-
fore the American Cattle Growers
convention Wednesday. No other sub
ject was before the men of the ranges
gathered for the second days meet
ing of the roundup, with one excep-
ton. A. c. Cleveland of Cleveland,
New. proposed that President Theodore
Roosevelt be made the first and only
honorary member of the association.
and after it was adopted Colonel John
+. Irish of California proposed three
cheers for the new honorary member at
Washington.
One of the largest trees ever handled
by a sawmill in this part of the state
was recently cut for a. A. Rust's mill
by Fred Russell and Pat Lucy, says
the Dolores Star. 1t contained seven
logs as follows: The butt-cut was six
teen feet long and contained 2,2O9 feet
of lumber: the second cut was also six
teen feet long with 1,S49 feet of lum-
Der. the other five logs We're each
twelve feet long and scaled respe< tive
ly 1900. $40, SIT. 4G9 and 271 feet.
The total length of that part of the tree
available for lumber was ninety-two
feet and the total scale 1867 feet.
l.. G. Burton and A. NJ Sniff, ranch
men of Dcertrail. presented two large
sacks of coyote and wolf scalps to the
county treasurer yesterday, and re.
ceived in exchange warrants for boun-
ties of 81 each on the coyotes and So
on the wolves. Mr.. Sniff had 121 coy
ote scalps. one timber wolf, and one
gray wolf scalp. His warrant called
for 1925. Mr. Burton had fifty-two coy
ote scalps, two gray and one timber
wolf. and received $5S Both ranchmen