Gilpin observer., 1902-11-20
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Alamosa Is to have sugar factory
at once.
Grand Junction suffered from $10,-
600 fire on the 18th.
Hanford Reed, an old citizen OF
Greeley, died on the 18th.
At the state Sunday school conven-
ton the old officers were reelected.
A big tract Of land in the San Luis
valley has been sold to Michigan cap
italists.
DR.. Randolph Baird of Boulder has
been bound over on the charge of hav-
ing murdered his wife.
Judge Bailey, at Canon City, has re-
fused to grant change of venue in the
Denver electric light case.
The shops of the Pullman company
at Denver are now employing 400 men
In building and repairing cars.
The big corporations of Denver owe
the county about 100000 in taxes,
which they refuse to pay on the ground
that the assessment was exorbitant.
The Court of Appeals has decided
that a town trustee chosen to act as
mayor pro tenn. is still entitled to vote
on all questions coming before the
board.
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.
Peter c. Coryell of New Castle was
dismissed in the District Court at Glen
wood, where he was being tried for
shooting bull. He claimed he killed
the animal to prevent being gored.
Judge Mullins of the Arapahoe Dis
trict Court issued an injunction for
bidding the Denver Council to pass an
ordinance granting a franchise for
branch lines to the Tramway company.
but the council disobeyed the order OF
the court.
The Schlitz Brewing Company has
instructed its draughtsmen to prepare
plans for a big bottling house at Den
yer. The structure will cost about
SIS. 900, exclusive of the cost Of the ma
chinery. The company. by erecting this
structure, hopes to save the cost of
freightage on the bottled beer which
it formerly shipped direct from Mil
| waukee to Colorado. The works will
be completed about July 1st.
Rio Grande railroad men report
bold hold-up at Salt Creek the other
night Conductor Duse and Tuesdale
| were in their cabooses, their trains
having stopped at that point for or
ders. Two rough looking men entered
the cars, knocked the conductors down
and relieved them Of their valuables.
They secured $50 in money and gold
watch. The robbers then walked out
and disappeared in the darkness.
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-
hciently to output several carloads
daily.
All records for tourist travel to Colo
RADIO were broken this summer by
thirty-nine per cent increase. Instead
of IS, 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 G. A. Parker, head Of the three
joint ticket agencies in the state, shows
there were exactly &c, ,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 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 little
less than $6.000,000 and the attorney
general believes 1t to be much larger
A petition will probably be filed with
the El Paso County Court for q second
appraisement, on which the inheri-
tance tax will be paid. The tax will
probably reach 100000.
Cattlemen and sheepmen in North
park have again entered into an open
warefare, and 1t Is reported that shots
were exchanged between various MEM
bers Of both parties during last week.
Scott Decker, q cattleman, had his
horse shot from under him and barely
escaped with his life. Several shots
were fred at Decker from ambush, one
of which passed through his hat and
anther striking his horse in the neck,
killing 1t almost instantly. The sheep
men, 1t is said, claim that the cow
boys run their sheep from pasturage
which Is not At for cattle and which
they could not use themselves. The
cattlemen accuse the shepherds of
stampeding their cattle.
All the money needed for the con-
struction OF the Denver. Northwestern
Pacific railroad-nearly $2O, 100000
has been secured. The route for
the first section OF the road will be
decided upon Friday Of this week, bids
fer the construction Of part OF the
road will bo racoivad hv tho OoIorcd<