Delta chief., 1883-11-21
STATE NEWS.
Delta, Colorado.

Editor Cheeley, of the Evans Journal,
has been appointed deputy sheriff.
Ground was broken for the Pixies
Peak railway, at Manitou, on the 10Th.
Bishop Spalding has been attending
the Protestant Episcopal convention at Phila-
delphia.
There has been new and important
discovery of mineral in the Bull Domingo mine
at Silver Cliff.
M. j. Stair, of Denver, was appoint
ed by Judge Rogers as clerk Of the Superior
court, on the 10Th
The stage which transports the mail
between Red Mountain and Silverton will run
all through the winter
Mr.. Lon Horn, of Trinidad, sold a
small bunch of cattle to the Maxwell Land
Grant company on the 18th, for $3.50, ,OOO
r. N. Nichols, in the Elk Mountain
on the Bear River, recently killed 1900 pounds
of elk and shipped it to Colorado Springs. s,
The Silver Cord mine, at Leadville,
shut down on the 18th, owing to the low price
of lead and disagreement with the smelters.
A bullet from a gun in unknown
hands flew into the state house at Denver, on
toe 18th, and narrowly missed two of the in
ties.
Mr.. G. NJ. Jones, proprietor of the
Tedmon House, at Fort Collins, died on the
night of the Sth, at the Palmer House, in Chi
cago.
Durango claims printer GA years
old, who has had fifty-seven years. experience
in the business, and can set type with any man
in the state.
tOver fifty Cinnamon have left Den
yer recently for their former home in the flow
ery kingdom. They carried with them thou.
sands of dollars.
Pride Lodge, Ancient Order of For
esters, was organized in Denver on the 18th,
with a membership of forty. A banquet was
served in the evening.
C. C. Davis, editor of the Leadville
Democrat and Chronicle, was arrested in Denver
on the 18th, on a charge Of criminal libel pre-
ferred by General Howell.
A copper mine has recently been dis
covered near Golden. 1t is said to carry a
streak of copper running from one-half, to
, one.and-one-half inches thick.
5The Telluride strikers, on the 18th,
agreed with the owners of the Cimarron
mine; to resume work for $2.75 per day, pro-
yiding all strikers are reinstated.
Samuel McGowan, a Scotchman, and
John O'Neil, an Irishman, had prize fight, re-
sulting in victory for the Scotchman. The
battle was near Leadville on the 18th.
The canvassers on the 18th completed
the Denver count on the capitol building bond
question, and the result showed that there
were 1884 votes for it and 1873 against it.
sDr. J. R. Kennedy, formerly super
RADIO Springs, died in Montrose on Sunday
evening, the 1lth, after ligering Illness.
Judge Dawson, at Denver, on the
18th, rendered decision that railway compa-
nies were responsible for injury to property on
5 streets in which the companies laid tracks.
Prof. Arthur H. Winter, formerly
.precentor of music at St. Johns Cathedral in
Denver, on the 14th filed suit for libel against
the Very Rev. Dean Hart, Of the Cathedral.
2Essen's boarding house and several
adjoining buildings in Leadville were burned
on the 18th. Loss, 5000. John German, n
driver of hose carriage, was seriously injured
Frank Abbott, Tim Sullivan and r.
M. Bridenthal were injured by an explosion Of
giant powder at the Maximus mine, near Ko-
komo, on the 9Th. Abbott subsequently died.
The New York & San Juan smelter in
Durango, has shipped As car loads Of $50 tons
of bullion since the works started up in Sep
tember. The estimated value Of this product
10 about $4,000.
Miss McGraw, once saleslady for
Mr.. Shed, in his store at Denver, on the 18th,
obtained a verdict in the Superior court Of 81
800 against Mr.. Shed for damages, he having
discharged her for thief.
The Lake county commissioners on
the 18th abolished their poor house and the Of
flee of county physician. The poor house had
twenty-ninc inmates, the majority Of whom
were sick railroad laborers.
Lucy Potts, saleswoman at the dry
goods store of Roworth & veatch, Pueblo, was
arrested on the 10th for purloining goods from
her employers A large; quantity of articles
we're found hidden in her room.
An anthracite coal vein. eighteen
inches thick, has been struck within ten miles
Of Buena Vista. The dip of the vein is about
fifteen degrees and was oyerlaid by shnle de-