North Park union., 1902-02-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.


George B. Gum Of Golden committed
suicide on the 2lth.
Citizens of DeBeque now use native
oil for lighting their houses.
1t h said that syndicate is to bore
for oil In Washington county.
Rev. Charles S. Olmstead has formal
ly accepted the election as bishop coad.
jutor Of Colorado.
A handsome new church was dedicat.
ed by the Presbyterians at Canon City
on the 18th. II cost about $4,000.
Representative John C. Bell has ap-
pointed II. ID. Zimmerman OF Colorado
Springs as a West Point cadet, and
Fred Carstarphen Of Pueblo AZ alter
nate.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Edwin Price to be
postmaster Mt Grand Junction. Colo
RADIO, and the nomination was con-
firmed.
Local parties are to erect big pa.
vilion Mt Idaho Springs near the hot
springs. They will provide attractions
in the way Of music and entertain.
ments for tourists.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid $T,OOO.OOO in wages In 1901. and
turned out a product. including 4.Ol3.-
$50 tons of coal and 5S4. 40 tons of
coke, OF about thirteen million dollars.
]. j. Burns. superintendent Of the
first division OF the Denver Il Rio
Grnnde, with headquarters at Pueblo
for the last ten years, and one OF the
best known railroad men in the West,
has resigned.
The Grand Junction postoffice was
robbed recently by Night Clerk Eu-
gene Phillips. About 500 In stamps
and so In cash was taken. Phillips,
who has lived there for the last eight
years and has been well thought Of.
confessed that he committed the rob-
berry. breaking the window and rifiing
the mail pouch to give the appearance
of a theft committed by nn outsider.
Arthur F. Francis. secretary of the
Cripple Creek Chamber OF Commerce.
has received a letter from President
Trumbull of the Colorado \ Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis.
played In the building of the cutoff
from Denver TO Cripple Greek. Mr..
Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
in the near future.
The Denver police no longer suspect
that Tomasso Minci. who was captured
In the hills north of Fort Collins last
week by Detectives Sanders and Car
berry, is the murderer of Harold Frid.
born. They are satisfied that Nine!
was In Central City, his home, on New
Years eve, the time of the murder. and
that he is demented. Minci. as soon ms
he RECEIVERS, probably will bc turned
over to the authorities OF Gilpin county.
| For the second time within four
months triplets have been born in Pu.
| eblo county ON the 9th Mrs. Rosario
Mestas gave birth to three sons, whose
combined weight is twenty-one pounds.
| She Is the wife of an employe Of the
Philadelphia smelter and lives ut Salt
Creek, n Mexican settlement within n
short distance of Pueblo. The little
fellows are all well formed and
healthy, and the mother is reported 10
be doing well.
The mayor and other officials OF Su-
gar City. Colorado, have sent peti-
ton to President Roosevelt, opposing
any change in the tariff on sugar for
the beenfit of Cuba. Sugar City, the
petition says is entirely dependent up
on the beet sugar industry that has
| sprung up there within the last two
years. 1t dccl res that II any reduc-
| tion Is made in the present tariff on
sugar the town Of Sugar City and all
| the beet sugar industry of Colorado
| and the West will suffer.
| Work on the construction OF mon
ster packing plant, TO be erected by
I,A
Stock Yards. will It is now practically
settled. be commenced within the next
forty days. The company, which Is
to include among Its incorporators ID.
II. Mofrat of the First National bank.
Charles Boettchcr and u. G. Dodge OF
the National Bank OF Commerce. and
other prominent Denver men. will prob
ably file Its articles OF incorpo-a-
ton within the next ten days, ana
Will begin on the plant.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county will join the commissioners OF
Arapahoe county In the investigation
of affairs nt the State Industrial School
for Girls, and before the mnttcr is final.
ly disposed of other counties In the
state will take hand In the invest'sa-
ton. it is said. The Pueblo county
commissioners visited the Arapahoe
county commissioners yesterday morn
ing and stated their belief that their
county had been charged for mainte-
nance not only OF girls who had long
since left the home, but for some OF tile
same girls for whom Arapahoe had
been paying.
A number of representatives Of Gree
ley farmers have made arrangements
with John ]. Hon Of Lincoln, Ncbras'
ka, to bring to Greeley in April 100
German families, who will work in the
beet fields around Greeley the coming
season. The farmers will furnish tents
or house accommodations for the ln-
borers. who will contract to O. all the
hand work on the beet crop. from thin
ming in the spring to topping the Deets
In the fall, for $50 per acre. Mr.. Hon
has had eight years experience In Nor
folk and Ames, Nebraska. in handling
the beet crop with this class OF people,
who are sober and Industrious and are
anxious TO settle in Colorado. This
manner of procuring hands TO work
the beet fields settles the labor prob
lem that has confronted the farmer
who will engage in the beet Industry
next year.
The United Oil Company has opened
IN big body of oil in well No. gI3.
near Williamsburg. two and onehalf
miles southwest of Florence. When
struck the oil came up into the hole
more than 1000 feet. Pumping will be
started in few days. when the capnc-
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