The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.

w luuelu ScOtL StratlOH mas TeSiSueu
his position as a member of the board
of trustees of the State School of
Mines.
No attempt seems to have been made
to arrest the assassins who shot one
Gallejos, Mexican sheepman, from
ambush, in the east end of Rio Grande
county, some weeks ago.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Wagon Wheel Gap hot springs
by General Palmer. who OWNS the
property. The old bath house will be
replaced by modern structure and the
hotel greatly improved.
Mrs. Mary Gillespie, aged eighty
three, and the mother of thirty-seven.
children. is in the Denver county hos
pital. She is said to be cultured and
dignified and will not say why none OF
her children assists her.
The farmers and property owners liv-
ing under the Otero ditch, near La
Junta, have organized an association,
with j. +. Ruster. III. Savage and A. ID.
Best as directors. The debt on the
canal will be paid and bonds issued.
James Il. Kearns, who was arrested
in Cripple Creek ON the charge of the
murder of Martin Gleason, the superin-
tendent of the Wild Horse mine on
Bull hill, had his bond reduced from
$4,000 to $1,000 and was released
from jail.
John NJ Francisco, one of Colorado's
| earliest pioneers, died at his home at
La Neta at the age of eighty-two
years. He was IL Virginian by birth,
but had lived in Colorado for the last
half century. He built the first house
of any Importance in Pueblo.
A live stock show is, assured for
Denver next year. An enthusiastic
meeting of the stockmen who have
been attending the cattle convention
appointed 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 5000. 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
One-tenth 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-
tons sent out by the committee. swell
ing the total amount TO date to 81, ,oOO.
The labor unions of Ouray have be-
gun an agitation against yellow labor
in the camp and have issued n
call for mass meeting to dis
cuss ways and means OF getting rid OF
the Chinese now here. There are niDaH
teen Cinnamon in Ouray and together
they own about $4,000 worth of real
estate.
There is trouble ahead for the train
men of the Colorado X Southern on the
joint track from Denver to Pueblo.
General Manager Nudge of the Santa
Fe says the trainmen can settle the
difficulty in regard to the percentage
of business each road Is to receive
themselves. and that the Santa Fe will
not meet them on the question.
About 100 prominent Democrats of
the western part of the state. who rep
resented seventeen counties on the
western slope, organized the Western
Slope Democratic Federation. by the
election of officers for the ensuing year
and the adoption of the resolutions set
ting forth the desirability of acting as
unit to secure the political interests
Of their section.
1t is stated that the Chandler mine,
owned by the Victor Fuel Company.
will be reopened about the Goth of this
month The Chandler mine is the prop
erty from which the Japanese miners
were recently driven by the white
miners. 1t is understood that the union
has agreed to furnish 400 white men
with which to work the mine Mt its full
capacity of 1000 tons a day.
The following space at the st. Louis
fair has been asked by Colorado: Min
erals and ores. 1O0N12O feet, three times
the space at the Chicago exposition;
machinery and mills, 20Ox300 feet; hor
ticulture, 60X1OO feet; agriculture, S0X-
100 feet; state building, 2OOX3OO feet;
irrigation farm, 2OOx3OO feet; machin-
cry exclusively. 150x2OO feet; fish and
game, 60x100 feet: art, 20x330 feet;
educational exhibit. 40x6O feet.
The Pueblo city council made appro-
priations for the ensuing fiscal year,
which commences April 1st. The to-
tai is 1887 sos. as against $2SS, 165 for
the preceding year, an increase of $780,
$40. The increase was made necessary
by the growing demands of the city.
The new appropriations provide,
among other things, for fire station
in East Pueblo, city ambulance and
street roller and grader.
The st. Louis Worlds Fair commits
sioners of Colorado elected Lem j.
Smith. formerly reading clerk of the
Senate. and now editor of the Miners
Magazine, as secretary of the commits
sioner-in in-chef. ]. b. Ragan of Den
yer, u. y. Snyder of Greeley, ]. f.
Keating of Pueblo C. T.. Collins of Col
orado Springs. and William Hall of
Aspen were appointed a committee to
arrange an educational exhibit at st.
Louis.
Five strikes are now agitating the la
Dor world of Denver. The organiza-
tons out are: Carriage makers. 60 out
for raise from 33 1-3 cents per hour to
BIZ cents and eight hours; seventeen
places boycotted. Mattress makers. Is
out for union recognition: two factor