North Park union., 1902-02-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Denver II to lave two more hotels.
costing $500. 900 each.
Rural free delivery has b zen estab-
lished at Grand Junction.
A mountain lion recently appeared
In Platte canon near Bailey's.
Judge Cunningham of Colorado
! Springs has declared that sealed YER
diets are illegal.
william Brinkley of Fort Morgan
was found dead in his barn the other
day, supposedly having committed sui
eide after quarreling with bis wife.
The coroner is investigating.
Complaint was filed by Deputy Game
Warden ]. 8. Bush against Fred Riley
for killing three quail last December.
Riley was arrested and brought before
Justice H. r. Smith. He pleaded guilty
and was fined $50 and costs for vio-
iating the state game laws.
Thomas Holden, an old time miner,
was instantly killed at the A. v. shaft,
LeadvilIe, on the End. The supposition
Is that he was riding on car loaded
with ore, and when near the tray the
car In some way upset and he fell down
the shaft distance Of 45O feet.
r. 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 n stir here and other par
, ties are organizing. 1t Is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
, A board Of officers, consisting Of Ma
/ Jors E. B. Mosely, A. G. Sharpe, ]. A.
, Irons and Captains P. G. Wales and F.
]. Herman, Second infantry, with Cap
, tain H. S. Whipple as recorder, has
been appointed to meet In Denver for
examination of officers ordered before
| 1t for promotion. Second Lieutenant
Haywood Robbins, Fifteenth infantry,
has been ordered before the board.
Arthur F. Francis secretary Of the
! Cripple Creek Chamber Of Commerce,
has received letter from President
Trumbull of the Colorado & Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber ana
the business men for the interest dis
! played In the building Of the cuton
. from Denver to Cripple Creek. Mr..
Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
. In the near future.
B. 8. Kelly, manager Of the Eelly
, tunnel, at Georgetown, had q narrow
escape from death last night. He was
I awakened by n loud noise and found
that a boulder Weighing over a ton
had crashed through the building and
i stopped within foot of his bed. A
search of the mountain side failed to
> locate the place from which the rock
! broke loose. Mr.. Kelly considers 1t a
/ most marvellous escape from death.
e The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
e pany have not yet put force Of
7 railroad graders ut work, but are se-
e curing right of way to Paonia by pur-
8 chase. Parties at Delta who are work
0 ing In the interest Of the Colorado
e Fuel and Iron Company have con-
e tended from the start that that COM
J pany would run the first train to Pao-
MIA, while the Denver & Rio Grande
appear to be generally anxious to be
3 the first to complete Its road.
D Work on the construction of mon
e ster packing plant, to be erected by
: Denver capital, near the Denver Union
Stock Yards, will, 1t is now practically
e settled, be commenced within the next
s forty days. The company, which Is
s to include among its incorporators ID.
] II. Moffat of the First National bank,
q Charles Boettcher and d. G. Dodge of
: the National Bank Of Commerce, and
other prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file Its articles of incorpora-
J tion within the next ten days, and
;, will begin on the plant.
|, The second Pullman car built by the
Pullman company Mt their Denver
: shops was completed and sent out on
: Its first trip Monday. 1t Is the Call
D fornia, and ia a companion to the
4 Mount Hood, which has been In SER
: vice for several weeks. The Califor-
MIA Is seventy y-eight feet long, ten feet
q three inches wide, fourteen feet seven
!, inches high and weighs 10000 pounds.
j 1t Is n twelve section drawing room
: car. the Interior being finished with
Z marquetry and Santiago mahogany.
General passenger agents of the
! 1ransmissoun lines, aided by the Rio
! Grande system, are oL0lnlng a plan
which they hope will draw added traf-
: fic to Colorado. The plan is said to be
: : that originated by John Sebastian Of
. the Rock Island, and in furtherance Of
1t. Mr.. Sebastian recently went to
!, Denver, where conference took piece.
1t Is proposed to establish bureau to
= disseminate information relating to the
! attractions Colorado offers to campers,
show the cost Of an outing of this char
acter, the places in Colorado adapted
to 1t and similar Information. Last
year there were $4,000 tourists who
= visited Colorado, and 1t is expected
that fully 75.OOO will go the coming
e season. During 1893 there were only
3 1900 visitors.
A movement is afoot In Denver for
the organization of building trades
section Of the American Federation of
: Labor as n protest by some of the
e building trades unions which are dis
: satisfied with the refusal of the unions
? In the local building trades council to
vote advances in wages. The Carpen-
8 ters' Union, 1t is said by men profess
t ing to De familiar with the Intentions
e of the disaffected element, is expecting
: to ask the Building Trades Council to
concede the advance In wages, and IL
this appeal fails to leave the organi-
zation and petition for charter from
!, the American Federation of Labor. Ac-
: cording to rumors also, unions whose
demands for higher wages the Build
Ing Trades Council voted down, will
follow the carpenters lead.
The Boulder Oil Company people,
e owners of the Mckenzie well, are in
high glee. This afternoon when the
cap was removed from the casing of
q the Mckenzie well at Boulder the oil
had receded somewhat, but 1t still
stood within 125 feet Of the surface
AS soon as the tubing was lowered the