Delta chief., 1883-09-12
STATE NEWS.


recent tests
Mr.. VIM. H. Stapleton, editor of the
Ne,cs, returned with his bride from their we'd
ding trip on the 3rd.
The Colorado Telephone Company is
considering project for the extension of its
lines to Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
On the 2nd inst. stock herder
named Fred G. Doty was killed by lightning on
the prairie about six miles east of Denver.
On the 1st Mr. N. P. Babcock, private
secretary to the Governor, while alighting from
the cars at Greeley, fell and broke his arm in
three places.
The proprietors of the Public Samp-
ling Works, for many years located at Black
Hawk have begun the erection of similar con-
Germ in Denver.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
Denver Il New Orleans railway at Pueblo on
the 1st and secured between S4OO and $500.
No clue to the robbers.
Eight prisoners, all of them hard
characters, escaped from the county jail at Pu-
eblo on the LIST by overpowering the jailer and
getting possession of his keys.
The people of Silver Cliff continue to
rejoice over the successful Inauguration of the
Durango smelter, now running improved appli-
ances for the reduction of low grade ores.
The Common Council of Boulder met
on the 4th and passed an ordinance repeating
one adopted less than two months ago permit
ting saloons to open their doors on Sunday.
The City Council of Leadville on the
5th passed an ordinance granting the South
Park railroad right of way through the streets
and alleys of Stray Horse addition. But the
war is not ended.
A dispatch from Rico states that Peter
Tracy, ranchman, near Meichelrs ranch. at
the intersection of the San Juan and McElmo
creek, 115 miles southwest of Rico, was mur-
dered recently by Utes and Navajoes.
Reports to the effect that the Denver
~ New Orleans railroad had been sold to East
ern capitalists, are emphatically denied by
Governor Evans and other authorities in charge.
The Governor asserts that no change has oc-
Cured, and none is contemplated.
A miner from the Lake Superior cop
per mines arrived in Denver on the Sd, and hay
ing considerable money with him proceeded to
fill himself with beer. Before bed time he was
relieved OF his surplus cash-S335- the
quaintances he had made in the saloon.
The Denver Exposition managers have
brought suit for damages in the sum of $1,000
each against Commissioners Gray and Shaw of
Arizona. and Read of Montana, for their action
in taking down and boxing up their exhibits to
the discredit and injury of the Exposition.
A report comes up from the Panhan-
die country to the effect that Jim Davis, a
well-known cowboy in this section, and two
other cowboys were killed in row on the Cim-
erron Tuesday They tried to take possession
of Mexican town and the Greasers did them
up in shape.
Farragut Post G. A. R., Denver, pro-
poses to pay the Encampment deficit by an as
sessment Of $40 on each Grand Army member
in Colorado. The proposition was promptly
vetoed by Department Commander stimson,
who feels that the debt ought to be paid by the
city of Denver
1t is claimed that 200 gallons of pure
oil was raised from the Arkansas Valley Co.'s
well near Canon City on the 1st without lower
ing the level in the well, which is 100 feet
above the bottom The Land Investment Co.'S
well is said to be pumping at the rate of three
barrels per day.
A test of the Windsor artesian well in
Denver made on the 3d inst. demonstrated
that all the pressure desired has been obtained.
A hose was attached to the well and power
full stream rose to point above the roof OF the
hotel. Sinking has therefore been stopped and
the well is being cased.
Col. j. NJ. Chivington, during the
war Commander Of the district of Colorado,
writes from Ohio that he will be present If pos
sible at the quarto centennial meeting Of the
pioneers on the 18th, but If not he will send
statement of the Sand Creek massacre, to be
read at the celebration.
The City Physician of Leadville on
the 4th submitted slengthy, detailed report of
the late small pox epidemic in that city. From
the beginning to the close 452 cases were re-
ported, and sixty-fve deaths occurred. The to-
tai cost Of the management Of the epidemic
was &11, ,72911, or $27 SO per capita.
On the 1st a vein of artesian water
was struck at depth of $50 feet by the parties
who are sinking under the United States au-
thority at Cheyenne Wells on the Kansas Pa
cifc railroad The well at Akron is not total
failure as reported. The water rises to within
20 feet Of the surface and can be pumped out
The supply is said to be cinexhaustible but prac-
tically without pressure.