Delta chief., 1883-11-21
Harrington & Mellor, .14,5oo; First National,

81, 100.
A strike occurred in the Cimmaron
mine at Telluride on the 9th because of the in
PRODUCTION of twelve miners at $3.50 a day,
the regular wages having previously been So.
The result of the strike was the shutting down
of the mine.
Maria Corbett, was taken from Den
yer to the Sisters hospital, Pueblo, short
time ago afflicted with extreme nervousness,
which it was thought might be a phase of in
sanity. A jury on the 9th inst. decided that
she was sane.
A floor of Hastings commission
house on Holiday street, Denver, fell from
great weight of stored flour, on the evening of
the:13th. William B. Smith, Robert Audman
and Joseph Crater were slightly injured and
had a narrow escape from death.
Colonel Neil Dennison, of Canon
City. while on visit to Denver on the 18th,
was assaulted by three men who attempted to
garote him, but by his lively pugilism the col
onel kept them at bay until the approach Of a
policeman frightened the scoundrels away.
Martin and Coffin were discharged
from the charge of completely in the Grand
Lake murder Of July, and the case dismiss
ed on the 18th inst 1t is said that witnesses
were so terrified that the prosecuting attorney
had no confidence in obtaining sufficient tcsti-
money for conviction.
Mrs. G. N. Udell, wife of the editor
of the Canon City Reporter. on the 11th, fell
from precipice forty feet upon mass of bro
ken rock, but fortunately escaped serious in
Jury. She was rendered unconscious by the
shock, but soon recovering, she crawled forty
rods to railroad track and was pixie. up hy
passing train.
The total assessed valuation of the
State of Colorado for 1888 is $40, ,n9, ,946.2l.
Upon this is levied the following funds: A
general fund Of 1885,, ,5l9.si; Capitol buildings,
55,359.97; State institutions, s22, 2,144; stock
inspection, s7,3S1.32, and military polls, s27,-
7Os, making total levy Of $500, 1910 for the
present fiscal year.
Elmer F. Green, the boy artist of
Boulder, incurred slight abrasion Of his ankle
while skating five years ago, and on the Sth of
the present month lost his leg by amputation
as the direct result of the same accident. AT
the time the abrasion wns made he sat upon
the ice while heated and the ''slight scratch''
became serious wound which has never
healed.
Receiver Trimble, of the Bank of
Leadville, on the 18th, filed papers in a suit
against Arthur Shepperd, Otto Mears and J.
B. Bowman to recover on a note for 5000,
made by Shepperd as president of the Denver
World Printing company. Bowman was Sc
cured by $50 shares Of World stock. The note
was endorsed by Bowman and Mcars to give it
a negotiable value, and was sold by Shepperd
to the bank of Leadville.
Capt Gus Jauchcer, prominent citi
zen Of Breckenridge, died on the 18th. The
deceased was formerly member OF the
Chaffee Light Artillery, and Of the well-known
firm of Paul & Gus Jauchcer, $50 Fifteenth st,
Denver. At Breckenridge he was a former
Captain of the Breckenridge Rifles and prom
inent comrade Of the Grand Army. During
the war Captain Jauchcer was connected with
a veteran Illinois regiment.
The Exposition COMMISSIONER Ma
tional Mining and Industrial Association is the
name of the organization which is engaged In
effectiDg a transfer Of the control of the Ex-
position from the present stockholders to DIFF
fcrent counties Of Colorado and the adjoining
territories. Their office Is In room 12, Tabor
block, Denver, and the officers OF the Associa-
tion are as follows: Irwin Mahon, of Pueblo
county, president; c. II. Cornwall, Pitkin,
Gunnison county, and G. f. Bailey, Of Chey
enne, Wyoming, vice presidents; W. Holly,
of Summit county, secretary; r. A. South
worth, OF the State Board Of Agriculture, as
sistant secretary; R. o. Old, of Clear Creek
county, Treasurer.
Peter Olsen, a man who lives alone
seven miles up the Platte from Denver, was
visited by three disguised men on the night of
the l4th. Refusing their demands to tell where
his money was, Mr.. Olsen was cruelty whipped
with willow rods and his bare feet roasted at n
fire which they built in the door yard. As this
did not bring the desired information they
took him into the house and resumed their tor
ture, and during a scuiile which ensusd knock
ed over a stove. A metallic box containing
5000 was secreted In the stove and this the
robbers secured. The noise had attracted some
neighbors who just then came to the house,
and the thieves escaped. Mr.. Olsen's injuries
were not dangerous, although very painful.
How MendelssOhn Won His Wife.
London Society.