North Park union., 1902-02-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.


the Canon City penitentiary in 190t
has been recAptured at Salt Lake City
-Four hundred Colorado Republican,
participated in . banquet at Denvei
to the memory OF Lincoln. ON the 18th
A day nursery has been estabiished
in Denver where small children OF
working women will be cared for at
8 cents per day.
william Radcliffe, whose property al
Grand Mesa Lakes was burned last
year, has induced Great Britain to pre-
sent his claim for damages to this gov
ern. He wants $4,000.
The Republican stnte central com.
mittee, at a called meeting, unanimous
~ chose d. B. Farley Of Colorado
Springs to be chairman, In place OF q.
d. Ford, who has resigned.
The oil excitement has spread to the
western part OF Colorado. Prospective
wells are being bored along the Grande
between Glenwo0d and Grand juno
ton and along the Roaring Fork.
Since January 23d there have been
131 leases and filings on oil lands, en-
bracing nearly 2l,OOO acres, 1000 sit
uated in the vicinity of Fort Collins,
recorded in the county clerks office.
and the rush to make filings continues.
H. Inge and ]. F. Anderson, who
have been prospecting for coal about
thirty miles south of La Junta, have
found two veins, one five feet and the
other seven feet In thickness. This has
coused quite q stir here and other par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought tile
belt extends for several miles.
Marshall P. Felch, one of the oldest
and best known residents in that Sec
tion Of the state. committed suicide
at his home in Garden Park, eight
miles north of Canon City, at a late
hour Sunday. The taking Of his own
life had been hobby with Mr.. Felch
for more than a year and is believed to
have been caused by Ill health.
A company of eastern capitalists is
being formed to tap the hot water
channel between the Buena Vista hot
springs and the Haywood hot springs
and will pipe the hot water into Buena
Vista, erecting magnificent hotel,
with the intention of making that city
Que of the leading summer resorts in
the state.
Professor Rowe of the electrical de-
partment of the State University re-
Gently tried the efficacy of thawing
frozen water pipes by means of cleo
tricity. He applied the wires at points
at either end of the frozen places cur
rent of 100 amperes and in twenty
five minutes had thawed out eighty
feet Of frozen pipe, which was several
feet below the ground.
The trustees of the State School Of
Mines have issued the following no.
tice to the striking students: "At the
request Of Governor Orman, and with
the consent of the faculty, the trustees
have temporarily suspended the rule
of October, 1897. and Will hear evidence
and pass upon the occurrence Of Janu-
ary 18th in the assay Laboratory, the
students agreeing to furnish complete
information thereon"
Charles Reed, negro, twenty-four
years old, knocked down and disarmed
two officers who attempted to arrest
him for stnbbing Mexican at Ber-
wind, and later turned upon the officer
who, mounted, followed him up the
mountain side. and shot the horse from
under his pursuer. The animal rolled
over on the officer, bruising him severe
ly, and Reed made good his escape.
Six charges Of cruelty to animals
and six charges Of violating the law
prohibiting the docking Of horses tails
have been field against Joseph Hollo-
way and Charles Holloway. represent
Ing the British government on the COM
mission appointed to purchase horses
for use In the war In South Africa.
The maximum punishment for the Of
fenses charged IL $1,000 fine and four
years In the penitentiary.
Robert Saragher, who lives about
FIVE miles north OF Golden, brought
word to town Monday that parties who
Stepp place for the Denver & North
western Railroad Company have dis
covered nm elcven-foot fiat vein of coal.
a drill and four-foot vein was encoun-
tered about two weeks ago, the larger
vein being nearly 100 feet deeper.
Last Thursday night David Hun and
Thomas Fair, prisoners In the Weld
county Jail, made an attempt to over
power Jailor Henry Williams and es-
cape from custody. In the struggle
which ensued. Jailor Williams, In order
to force the two prisoners back, was
Obliged to shoot, the shot unfortunately
entering the side of Peter Kane, a
harmless, demented old man, who has
been staying in the Jail In lieu of q
better home, producing n fatal wound.
Work on the construction of mon-
ster packing plant, to be erected by
Denver capital, near the Denver Union
Stock Yards, will, 1t is now practically
settled, be commenced within the next
forty days. The company, which is
to include among Its incorporntors d.
H. Moffat of the First National bank,
Charles Boettcher and ID. G. Dodge Of
the National Bank of Commerce. and
other prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file Its articles of incorpo-a-
Will begin on the plant.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held Its annual meeting in Denver on
the 18th. Officers were elected as fol-
lows: President, ]. I. Lawless, Sparks
Lamar; first vice president, Otto
Herald. Boulder; second
vice president. G. E. Hosmer, Adver-
tiser, Trinidad; secretary and treas
urer, A. Z. Pierce, a. o. U. w. Record
Denver; historian. George West
Golden; executive commit
tee, I. N. Bunting, Sentinel, Grand
Junction.: II. j. Holmes. Avalanche
Glenwood Springs; w. l.. Thorndyke
Reporter, Loveland.
The 175 miners employed Mt the
Chandler Creek conl mines did not 60
to work Tuesday because Of the I'm
,1or%o xtop t,y tho VIrtnr (,oul Comnanv