Delta chief., 1883-08-29
Delta. Colorado.
STATE NEWS.

DIR. Moore, of the State University,
Denver, will supply the pulpit Of Evans chapel
for the coming year.
The new smelter at Pueblo is nearly
ready. The machinery has beei tested, and is
in excellent condition.
The Denver Soap Works burned on
Tuesday night Loss about s25,0OO, pretty
well covered by insurance.
The Bank of San Miguel, located at
Telluride, will discontinue business shortly.
Depositors will be paid in full.
Two pest houses at Leadville were
burned as precautionary measure under the
direction Of the Board Of Health
Later reports confirm the accounts of
the Estancia tragedy, with the exception that
Whitney is still alive and may recover.
The Denver & Rio Grande officials are
making an effort to have President Arthur
come over their road from Ogden on his return
from the Yellowstone Park.
Richard Holder, an employe in the
saw mill Of r. w. Stewart & Co., at Spruce
Park, jefferson county, was caught by belt on
the 22d and instantly killed
John Derse, an Italian employed in
the American smelter at Leadvile, had one of
his arms torn of by the rollers on the Goth.
His recovery was considered hardly possible
Charges of misconduct in Office have
been preferred against City Physician Labrie,
of Denver, and he has been notified to appear
for trial before the city council September 5th.
The Denver city council finds itself
with no money in the treasury to pay for sprink-
ling the streets, and the dust, like the ghost of
Banquo, twill not down." while the citizens
are getting anxious.
The county commissioners of Lake
county applied for an injunction to restrain the
Denver & Rio Grande railway company from
building line up California Gulch, but it was
refused by Judge Goddard on the ed.
The Silent Friend mine at Pitkin has
been sold at valuation of &3OO, 900 to j. w.
Hanna, Of Denver, and B. F. Karrick, of Pueb-
10, Mr. Karrick having just completed the pur-
chase of a seyen-sixteenths interest.
The Lake county commissioners have
made application for an injunction to restrain
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad from build
luS uue oi Toau up SdluoTuiA Sulct, on Tue
ground that it interferes with the county high
way.
The Rev. B. Howard Yerkes, pastor
Of the Calvary Baptist church in Denver, died
oftyphoid pneumonia at McGregor's ranch in
Estes Park, on the 18th inst. His funeral was
held at the First Baptist church in Denver on
the Goth.
no C:J,.1x Ho.yI ,
ment on foot in San Juan county for holding
an old timers meeting at sverton, September
Is, for the purpose of organizing an association,
membership to be on the basis Of having struck
the country as early as 1877.
The Durango smelter was put in ope-
ration again on Wednesday, The ore crushers
are at work, preparatory to starting the roast
ers, which will be fired up in few days. Ar
rangements have been made for large quanti-
ties of Red Mountain ores, and 1t is probable
that considerable ore from Rico will be handled
by the smelter this season.
A Pueblo dispatch states that the
Colorado Coal and Iron company's steel works,
located at Pueblo, have completed their steel
rail contract for the Rio Grande railroad and
are now working to the full capacity of the
mills an order for steel rails for the Chicago,
Burlington g. Quincy railway, which will keep
the mills going for several months. The Colo
RADIO Coal and Iron company has all the work
II can possibly do for some months in all de-
partments.
On the 21st the large residence on
the ranch Of WOmack, twelve miles south of
Colorado Springs, together with its contents,
was entirely destroyed by fire. As there were
only three ladies in the house at the time no
effort could be made to stay the flames. The
house was the largest and most complete ranch
residence in FL Psso county, and the loss Is
placed at $4,000. There was no insurance.
Mr.. Womack, the owner, was in Denver when
the confagration occurred.
The Leadville Democrat saws: The
Short Line to LcadvilIe is being pushed with all
the vigor possible. The contractors Messrs.
Fitzpatrick Brothers. are full of vim, push and
enterprise. Each day for the past ten days a
train load Of men, supplies, stock or tools have
gone into Dillon over the South Park road for
these contractors The work up the Ten Mile
canon will be some Of the heaviest railroad work
ever done in the state, and will require vast
amount Of money to complete the line this fall.
A deadly shooting affray took place
near albuquerque, in New Mexico on the 18th.
J. g. Whitney and A. Fernandez went with
party Of men to take possession Of what is
known as the Estancis ranch, occupied at the