Delta chief., 1883-10-10
STATE NEWS.

The fall term of the medical college
in Denver opened October I'd.
The rails on the Leadville extension
of the South Park have been laid to Frisco.
Hon. Frank NJ. Brown, of Boulder,
died at his residence in that city Sept. Goth.
The National Mining and Industrial
Exposition at Denver closed on Sunday Sept.
3Oth.
Owen Carroll was struck by a loco
motive and instantly killed, on the 1st, near
Pueblo
Charles Wilson, sheep Inspector of
Weld county, accidently shot one of his feet
off near Evans on the I'd.
The first letter received at Denver
with the new two-cent stamp attached was
mailed at Byers Station.
On the morning of the 1st Mr.. j. H.
Moody was instantly killed by the bursting of
a boiler in his saw mill at Salida.
During September eighty building
permits were issued in Denver for buildings
that will cost in the aggregate over 100000.
Joy, the suspended Leadville alder
meeting on the Cd, and was again squelched
The trial of Alderman Joy, of Lead
VILE, for his assault upon Ed. Cowen, of the
Herald, has been transferred to Breckenridge
Charles o. Avery, who was thrown
over precipice by stumbling broncho, last
July, near Gothic, died in Denver on the 5th.
The Pueblo Chaeftain has an abiding
confidence that grape culture will eventually
become great industry in the Arkansas val
ley.
Mr.. Locke, of Idaho Springs, is try
ing to organize a company to run a tunnel
three miles long from Fall river to Central
City.
The proposition to extend and enlarge
the water works at Boulder was defeated at the
election on the ID by vote of 2OS for and 296
against.
Mr.. A. H. German has retired from
the editorial management Of the Colorado
Springs Republic and is succeeded by Mr.. c.
w. Hobart.
Terry Corners, a miner, beat r. F.
Barker, another miner, over the head with a
pistol in strayhorse gulch, Leadville, on the
3D., nearly killing him.
The state canal No. 2 in Conejos
county will be thirty miles long, forty-fve feet
wide and with lateral bitches sufficient to irri-
gate thousands of acres.
Mr.. Reed, the Fort Collins jeweler,
failed to make his libel suit against John A.
Cheely, Of the Evans Journal, stick, It being
thrown ont by the grand jury.
At the close of the Mining Exposition.
the employees Of the Exposition company pre-
sented Assistant Secretary Frank H. Wilson
with an elegant gold watch and chain.
Up to the end of September the ship
mcnts Of cattle from Colorado to the East had
not bsen as great as they were last year by
nearly, If not quite, ten thousand head.
The Tomichi Concentrating works
we're burned to the ground Sept. aOth. They
were owned by the Eastman & Short Consoli-
dated Mining company, whose loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Anton Hirzel has been sentenced to
ten years imprisonment at hard labor for the
murder of William Sommers, at Denver, and
E. N. Vasey, who killed Frank Rose, gets an
eight years term.
The California Mexican, Coony
Trethers, who shot and killed Peter Clark at
Evans on the 1st, was taken TO the jail at Fort
Co llins to prevent his being hung by the popu-
lace at Greeley.
The New Mexico Press Association
re eorganized on the 4th at Albuquerque, with
Thomas Hughes, chairman and c. A. D. Conk-
lin, secretary. They will give grand banquet
on Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Agnes Silverthorne, wife of
Hon. Marshall Silverthorne, of Breckenridge,
died at her residence in Breckenridge Sept.
30th. She was sixty-three years of age and
one Of the pioneer ladies of Colorado.
Edward Crisp, who was recently shot
at Nathrop by William Morgan while the latter
was clipping with his daughter, died at his
home in Half Moon Gulch, opposite Leadville,
on the LIST. Morgan is in jail at Buena Vista.
Declan Troy, II miner. employed in
the California mine, on Quartz Hill, at Cen
trail City, was killed on the evening OF the 4th
by a fall Of 200 feet, having missed his footing
He leaves a wife and five children living in
Wisconsin.
The city election at. Boulder on the
3D., to choose a successor to Mayor w. H. Al
lison, resigned, resulted in the election Of
Hon. Alpheus Wright by majority Of 1856