The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A mountain Hon recently Appeared
In Plntte canon near Bailey'A
Edward Irving. who escaped from
the Canon City penitentiary In 1900
has been recaptured at Salt Lake City.
William Radcliffe, whose property at
Grand Mesa Lakes was burned last
year, has Induced Great Britain to pre-
sent his claim for damages to this gov
ern. He wants $4,000.
Il. Inge and J. #. Anderson, who
have been prospecting for coal about
thirty miles south of La Junta, have
found two veins, one I'VE feet and the
other seven feet In thickness. This has
coused quite stir here and other par
ties are organizing. II II thought tile
belt extends for several miles.
The State Land Board will probably
hold special meeting for the purpose
Of passing upon q number OF coal and
oil leases. Thirty-two applications are
now on file. calling for 5000 acres Of
land. They are distributed all over the
stste. the majority of the acreage be-
ing In Larimer, Douglas, Jefferson.
Park, Weld and Las Animal counties.
Early next spring the Colorado 4
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tenaive Improvements In its yards at
pend thousands Of dollars in altering
the track to facilitate the handling Of
the beet sugar products Of the valley.
II the protective tariff IL not reduced
by the present Congress the plans will
be put into execution. ,.-
Professor Rowe of the electrical de-
partment Of the State University re-
Gently tried the efficacy of thawing
frozen water pipes BY means Of cleo
tracity. He applied the wires at points
ut either end Of the frozen places cur
rent Of 100 amperes and in twenty
i've minutes had thawed out eighty
feet Of frozen pipe, which was several
feet below the ground.
The trustees of the State School Of
Mines have issued the following mo-
tice to the striking students: AT the
request Of Governor Orman, and with
the consent of the faculty, the trustees
have temporarily suspended the rule
Of October, 1897, and will hear evidence
and pass upon the occurrence Of Janu-
ary 18th In the assay laboratory. the
students agreeing to furnish complete
Information thereon"
Charles Reed. a negro, twenty-four
years old, knocked down and disarmed
two officers who attempted to arrest
him for stabbing a Mexican at Ber-
wind, and later turned upon the ofllcer
who, mounted, followed him up the
mountain side, and shot the horse from
under his pursuer. The animal rolled
over ON the ofiicer, bruising him severe
u. and Reed made good his escape.
Robert Saragher, who lives about
i've miles north OF Golden, brought
word to town Monday that parties who
were prospecting for coal ON the w. L.
Stepp place for the Denver & North
western Railroad Company have dis
covered an eleven-foot fat vein Of coal.
The prospecting ID being done with
drill and four-foot vein was encoun.
tered about two weeks ago, the larger
vein being nearly 100 feet deeper.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany have not yet put force Of
tailroad graders at work, but are se-
curing right Of way to Paonia by pur-
.haSe. Parties at Delta who are work
ing In the interest of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company have con-
tended from the start that that COM
pany would run the first train to Pao-
mia, while the Denver & Rio Grande
lppear to be generally anxious to be
the first to complete Its road.
Last Thursday night David Hun and
Thomas Fair, prisoners in the Weld
county jail, made an attempt to over
APE from custody. In the struggle
mzhtny1 onorpod T~t1a~ vUtl1lo In, orIa,
to force tie two prisoners back, was
obliged to shoot, the shot unfortunately
entering the side Of Peter Kane,
been staying in the jail in lieu of a
The second Pullman car built by the
Pullman company at their Denver
shops was completed and sent out on
its first trip Monday. 1t is the Cali
torniA, and is companion to the
Mount Hood, which has been In ser
rice for several weeks. The Califor-
ala ID seventy-eight feet long, ten feet
three inches wide, fourteen feet seven
nches high and weighs 100, 600 pounds.
It II a twelve section drawing room
FAR, the interior being finished with
marQuetry and Santiago mahogany.
Work on the construction of a mon
ster packing plant, to be erected by
Denver capital, near the Denver Union
stock Yards. will, 1t Is now practically
settled, be commenced within the next
forty days. The company, which il
to include among Its incorporators d.
II. Moffat of the First National bank,
Charles Boettcher and D. G. Dodge Of
the National Bank of Commerce. and
,ther prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file Its articles of incorpo-a-
hon within the next ten days, and
win begin on the plant.
Fort Logan barracks will be enlarged
so as to accommodate at least three
times the number of men which 1t
houses at present. This Is the state
ment made by General Arthur Mac
Arthur. The fort was originally built
to house one of the old time regiments,