Delta chief., 1883-08-22
STATE NEWS.

Governor Grant OHerS reward OF
$500 for the arrest of the murderers of L. E.
Watkins, at Canon City.
1t is announced that the Denver &
Rio Grande Railway is about to build a branch
up California Guch from Leadvie.
f. r. Campbell and George L. Fisher,
former president and cashier Of the defunct
Bank of Leadvie, have both returned to Lead
vile.
The City Council of Leadville has
voted to offer reward of $500 for the appre-
hension of Miller, the crooked street commits
sioner.
The store house of the Consolidated
Tank Line Oil company, at Trinidad, was
burned on the 14th, destroying 25 barrels Of
oil, worth $500.
The Yard murder trial at Gunnison
ended in a disagreement of the jury. After
being out week they stood seven for acquit-
tai and nve for murder.
The Sterling Record of the 11th gives
a list of losses by hail to the amount of over
81 800 inflicted by the recent storm near Gree
ley, and adjusted by the insurance company
Ida Ray, or Miss P. B. Pomeroy,
which is her correct name, whose throat was
cut by the gambler Mcdonald at Pueblo, died
on the 14th. her father, from Corning, Iowa,
being present.
The Iron Silver Mining Company, of
Leadville, has brought suit against A. W. Gill
for $4,000 damages, alleging that, as the lessee
of the Smuggler mine, he had extracted ore
from the territory of another mine, belonging
TO them.
a syndicate has been formed in Hi
nois for the purchase of the Iron Spring prop
crty at Manitou, and the erection of $4,000
hotel, to be in readiness for next seasons bust
ness. The purchase price of the spring property
is $4,000.
Two hundred and twenty school lots
were sold at Pueblo on the 18th Most of the
lots were in the hands OF lessees, who were al
lowed to bid them in without competition.
This gives nearly two hundred people clear IT,
ties to their homes.
j. r. McCutcheOn. young lawyer of
Evans, committed suicide on the afternoon Of
the 1lth, in Wise 6 Cutcheons store, by cut
ting his throat with q butcher knife. He
leaves a young wife. the daughter of Thomas
Linton, of Denver.
Eighteen car loads of coke, coal and
charcoal. at the Grant smelter In Denver, took
fire from locomotive sparks on the 18th inst.
and burned to ashes. The only damage to the
s,neter was the destruction of the windows on
the east end of the building. Loss estimated
at about $500.
DIR. A. NJ. NoNon, one of the leading
citizens Of Idaho Springs, was found dead on
sofa in his office on the morning Of the 18th.
He leaves wife, five sons and one daughter.
Owing to some difficulty with his wife separa-
tiOn had been arranged only the night before.
He is thought to have committed suicide by
means OF morphine.
Mr.. ID. G. Peabody, President of the
Land Investment Coal and Oil Mining compa-
ny of Canon City, told Denver reporter that
they have one well which is producing forty bar
rels of oil day. This oil is pronounced by
competent judges to be the best lubricating oil
in the country, and is already placed upon the
market at SIG a barrel.
TheDenver Republican $ sLeadvillc cor
respondent states that james Ford. who robbed
farmer named Vincent Of $1,000 near Car
thage Mission, Missouri, In 1881 was discovered
a few days ago in the person of foreman of a
mine in the Mosquito district. On making
restitution of $500 In cash and 81 200 in securi-
ties compromise was effected with Vincent.
A few days ago the wife of Justice
Crotty of Denver, took a sudden notion to
visit lady friend in the suburbs OF the city.
The note which she sent to inform her husband
Of the fact failed to reach him, and the mis-
take was not discovered until her disappearnncc
had been heraldcd under big display type in
the newspapers and all the detectives of Den
yer set upon her track.
At Pueblo, on the morning of the
11th Frank Mcdonald, gambler, cut the
throat Of young woman with whom he was
living. and then cut his own throat Melon
aid died almost instantly, but the woman. whom
he called his wife. and who was formerly y
waiter girl in the Tvoli theatcr under the name
of Ada Ray, has some slight chances Of rccov-
erv.
A Canon City dispatch of the 18th
says: 1.-THE Land Investment Co.'s oil well has
become spoutcr. On Saturday the pump was
Withdrawn for half an hour and before It could
he replaced the oil rose to the surface and over
flowed. Yesterday, during temporary stop
page Of the machinery, two-inch stream OF
oil spouted forty feet into the air 1t will
doubtless spout at regular intervals as gas ac-
cumuates. The excitement is intense. An
nil .Is poo Ha. bcey, oru,uizoI and sba,o.