The Dolores star., 1902-01-31
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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Fred Carstarphen Of Pueblo as alter
| nate.
| Another man has been arrested. sus-
pccted of the murder of Harold F'rid-
| born. He. was captured thirty miles
northwest of Fort Collins. When ar
rested he tried to shoot the officers and
then wounded himself.
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 declares that if 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
Denver capital. near the Denver Union
Stock Yards, WILL it Is now practically
settled be commenced within the next
forty days The company. which II
TO include among its incorporators ID.
ii. Moffat of the First National bank.
Charles Boettcher and II. G. Dodge of
the National Bank of Commerce., and
other prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file its articles of incorpora-
tion within the next ten days, and
will begin on the plant.
The state OF Colorado will prob
ably be accorded the honor of having
located within its confines one of the
four large military mobilizing camps
which are to be established by Con
gress. A bill has been passed author
izing the expenditure of $4,000 for
preliminary surveys for the camps.
The locations are to be determined on
the recommendation OF Il board of
generals which will meet next week
at Washington. Major General Mae
Arthur. commander of the Department
o. Colorado, is member of the board.
President Roosevelt is heartily in
favor of the project and with these two
partisians it is conceded the West will
get one or more of the camps.
The oil excitement has struck the
valley portion of jefferson county with
full force. and the farmers who come
into Golden tell wonderful stories
a,.out the amount of oil found mixed
with the water in their wells. Two or
three places not far from town have
been discovered where the crude oil
ooz,s from the ground. Leases and
options have already been secured on
most of the land east of the foot hills
and the work of erecting derricks and
drilling will be started just as soon as
the necessary machinery can be Sc
cured. Experts from Pennsylvania,
California and the Florence district of
Colorado have been making examina-
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the past few weeks and all report the
conditions equal, il not superior, to
the Boulder district.
The State School of Mines is threat
ened again with disruption because OF
the severe penalty inflicted by the fac
ulty upon seven sOphomores who have
been suspended for the rest of the year
because of n scutile that took place in
the chemical laboratory last Saturday.
resulting in the breaking of apparatus
to the value of $15 to $50. The facul-
ty declare that the punishment has be-
come necessary to prevent rowdyism in
the building the students that the pun
ishment does not betit the crime, that
the innocent have been made to suffer
with the guilty because they refuse to
implicate their classmates, and that,
above all, the professor in charge made
no effort TO stop the scrimmage that
caused damage. AS a result of the fac
ulty's refusal to recede from its posi-
tion the students of every class have
taken up the cause of the Sophomores
and a general walkout is threatened.
The people of Costilla county are
very much aroused over the killing
of about 100 sheep and wounding and
driving away some 900 more, belong
ing to Teofilo Trujillo, about ten miles
from Mosca, by fourteen employees of
George Doris. Trujlllo is sheepman
and Doris. represents cattle interests.
Doris first warned the sheepmen to
yacate the premises on the public
domain and warned them that fail
ure to do so would result seriously
and upon failure to do so the cattle
men proceeded to enforce their injunc-
ton by the shooting process. The
owners cabin was also fired into about
10 o'clock the night of January 18th,
and the shots very narrowly missed
the occupants. Warrants have been
placed in the hands of Sheriff Gallegos
and the defendants will be prosecuted
by james w. Shields and the district
attorney, who are waiting the return
of the sheriff with the prisoners. Tru-
jillo is an inoffensive old man who has
lived in this vicinity for the past forty
years as law-abiding citizen.
The Florence, Victor & Cripple
Creek Railroad Company, organized
for the purpose of building broad
gauge line from Florence to the Grip
pie Creek district, has executed and
forwarded articles of Incorporation to
Secretary of State Mills. They were
filed this morning. The company is
capitalized at $1,OOOOOO. The charter
is expected to reach Florence Monday.
The survey for this road was finished
last August. There Is difference of
nearly 1900 feet elevation between
Florence and Cripple Creek, and the
maximum grade Is 2.S per cent, while
the minimum is slightly more than two
per cent. In many places on the Flor
ence & Cripple Greek line the grade
is close to four per cent. 1t will be a
broad-gange road and the running time
between Cripple Creek and Florence