North Park union., 1902-03-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| W. d. Lee has been appointed super
| intendent of the Rio Grande Southern
railroad, with headquarters at hius-
| way.
The Rio Grande railroad system now
has a mail department with y. u:
Teach0ut Of st. Louis as geherai
| agent.
]. j. Burns. miner In the Monarch
| district, STABBED a stranger named Ray
| in drunken quarrel at Garfield. Ray
may die.
Very damaging evidence was intro
duced In the trial of Lake and kuyken-
dali, charged with stealing ore at Grip
| pie Creek.
Stainer's cantata, the Crucitixion, was
sung at st. Johns cathedral on Sunday
| evening and will be repeated every
| Sunday this month.
Walter Il. Shamp. one of the leading
merchants at Holyoke, died of appen-
| dicitis after brief illness. lnterment
| will be ut York, Nebraska.
The Lupton condensed milk factory,
owned by local corporation, mas De.
gun operations. 1t has capacity OF
10000 pounds of milk daily.
| 1t Is proposed to raise the fund for n
| gift to the cruiser Denver by securing
| contributions of 500 each from loo
business men.
| The flow of oil in the Buckeye well ut
| De Beque has been greatly retarded
by heavy flow Of water, which began
| Immediately after the oil sand was
| reached.
| Pueblo's city council must call a spe'
cial meeting to elect a mayor to sue
| ceed the late George r. West. This Is
| the decision handed down in the DIS
trict Court.
John ]. Cotter has been appointed
superintendent of the first division Of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
| with offices at Pueblo. He succeeds j.
| ]. Burns, resigned.
The corner stone of the new science
and administration building Of Colora-
do college was laid Monday by DR.. u.
Benjamin Andrews. chancellor of the
University of Nebraska.
| Inability to realize on premium notes
| and Il greater loss than anticipated
among the stock insured, has forced
the Western Mutual Stock Insurance
Company of Denver to the wall.
The United Oil Company struck oil
In n new well at 2,2T5 feet, the fluid
| rising in the hole more than 1000 feet.
| The well is three miles south of Flor
ence and will produce $50 barrels n
day.
The jury disagreed in the trial Of
Roy Pennington, accused of assaulting
| Jessie Kinpo.t in Denver July Sth last.
The boy set Zip an alibi although the
girl, who knew him well, identified
him as her assailant.
Frank A. Mahaney, the game warden
who killed w. A. Womack at the
Grand Mesa lakes, will have to re-
main in the penitentiary. The Supreme
Court has denied his application for
writ of habeas corpus.
Harry F. Sharpless, agent of the Cen
trail Pueblo Investment Company, an
nounces that his company will build
three business blocks on its down town
property as soon rs plans can be COM
pleted. Two of the blocks will be on
Grand avenue.
Lyons is to have electric lights. A
twenty year franchise has been grant
ed to George NJ. Gilmore of Denver.
The plant is to be in operation within
six months, with dynamo capable Of
carrying $50 lights of siXteen-candle
power each.
The Kansas City Tunnel site Mining
Company has ben Incorporated In Wy
oming by w. S. Pontius, James +. Nc
Donald and james ii. Hynne all of
Kansas City; capital stock $4,000: to
operate iE the Cat Creek district, Rio
Grande county.
For seven weeks the Anti-SaIoOn
League of Denver has been without n
head, and practically non-eXistent, but
no one knew even that 1t had gone, un-
til Sunday, when Rev. w. ii. Talmage,
superintendent, resigned, says the Dem
yer Republican.
All the union painters of Pueblo, ex-
cept those in the employ OF the Co
Operative Paint and Wall Paper Com
pany, went on strike, brought OIL by
the refusal of their employees to pay
an advance of 30 cents per day in their
wages Some thirty men are out.
The sociological department of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company will
build $4,000 mission at Bessemer,
with baths, reading rooms and other
appointments for the comfort of labor
ers without homes of their own. Men
cut of work will have chance to earn
their board by work In woodward an
lex.
Lindsey Irons, twelve-year-old boy,
confined in the Arapahoe county Jail,
explained his filthy condition when ar
raigned in court by the statement that
there wns no opportunity at the jail
| for him to wash or comb his hair.
Judge Frost investigated the matter
and this condition will be remedied in
| future.
The Denver e. Rio Grande bids fair
this year to eclipse the record of earn
ings of $l1 ,5G3,777 The fiscal year be-
ginning July LIST. The earnings for the
present fiscal year from July /, 1901
to February 81, 1902, are $7,TO2, 100,
compared with $7,333, 900 during the
corresponding period in 19OO-O1, an In
crease of $500, 100.
The vanguard of the colonists NOV
ing westward has arrived in Denver.
The low rates effective were respons-
ible. The movement this year is heav-
ier than ever before. Many think that
the colonist movement during the pres
ent season will be unprecedented.
| Three-fourth of those come go on to
| Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Angus Campbell died on the 4th as
the result of internal injuries received
by an accidental fall at the new Bonan-