Delta chief., 1883-10-24
STATE NEWS.

Clara Tovey, aged three years, fell
into mill ditch at Longmont on the 18th and
was drowned.
August Engler has been made vice.
president of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
vice Meyer, resigned.
Peter Stock, who was shot by Archie
Williams short time ago, at Idaho Springs,
died of his wounds on the 18th.
Mr.. w. B. Hamblin succeeds Gen.
Theo. F. Brown as agent Of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad at Denver.
N. H. Meldrum, United States Sur
veyor General, has issued circular forbidding
deputy surveyors to prepare papers or admins
ter oaths in the preparation of patent papers
for lodes.
The jury in the case of Charles Joy,
on trial at Breckenridge for his murderous as
sault upon Ed. Cowen in Leadville, failed to
agree. 1t is stated that they stood four for
conviction and eight for acquittal.
M. w. A. Skinkel, of the Boyle Ice
Machine company, of Chicago, in conjunction
with local capitalists in Denver, proposes to
engage in the business of manufacturing arti-
fetal ice in that city from artesian water.
The sixteenth annual convention of
railroad conductors of the United States and
Canada has been in session this week at Kan
sas City. large number of the conductors
will start on the 23d on an excursion to Colo
RADIO. ~.
A landslide occurred near lockwood,
on the d. & r. G. railway, on the 10Th. Albert
Jones, fireman, while trying to remove the OBJ
struction, was caught in the slide, his thigh
being broken and his back so badly bruised that
his recovery is despaired Of.
County Attorney Mills, of Arapahoe
county advises the county commissie ners that
they cannot subscribe for Exposition stock,
neither can they give money outright to the ex-
position, although they may appropriate mon
ey to have the county represented in it.
The Democrats of Summit county
held their convention at Frisco on the 10Th and
nominated the following ticket: sheriff, Dan
Hanley; clerk and recorder, James C. Wiggin-
ton; treasurer. Joseph F. Reed; county Judge,
James L. Clark; assessor, A. B. johnson; COM
missioner, George McAdams.
James M. Truman, grocer at S44
Holladay street, Denver, committed suicide on
the 18th by shooting himself with revolver
He had been dissipated, and through his ne
glect and Ill treatment his wife had become
insane short time previous, and was being
cared for in St. Luke's hospital.
There are now thirty-eight artesian
wells in Denver, the estimated flow Of which
amounts in the aggregate to over four million
gallons day. This is sufficient for the entire
water supply Of the city, If properly utilized.
Denver bids fair TO have the best water sup
ply Of any city in the world.
A woman over sixty years of age left
the county hospital at Denver the other day
because she was required to take bath. She
never had taken q bath, and didn't propose
to begin at that age. Had she consented there
might have been q dangerous strain on Den
yer's thirty eight artesian wells.
Henry Jacox, q switchman on the B.
& NJ. railroad in Denver, was killed by the
cars on the 18th inst while engaged in making
a coupling. Both his legs were crushed, and
he lived only about four or five hours after the
accident. He was fifty years old and leaves a
wife and daughter; the latter Is years Of age
AGeorgetown dispatch says that news
has been received that Ambrose Wilson, city
marshal Of ssdieville, in Clear Creek county,
was shot and killed by James Creighton on the
18th. Wilson had found Creighton drunk and
was trying to put him on horse to send him
home, when Creighton became angry and fired
three shots.
When asked by NeUs reporter the
other day If he proposed to make any changes
in the officers and employees Of the road, Presi
dent Loyejoy, the new head Of the Denver and
Rio Grandc answered: 81 have not thought any
changes would be necessary. II the present
employees AID officials are faithful see no rca
son for changing them"
The Republicans of Jefferson county
nominated the following ticket on the 18th
county commissioner, r. c. Wells; county
Judge L. II. Ralston; clerk and recorder, Fred
Myers; sheriff, John Nichols; assessor, c. W
McFaddeH; treasurer, Charles T. Clark; super
intendent Of schools, W. G. Smith; coroner, d
J.P. Kelly; surveyor, f. P. Rice.
The following are the Democratic
nominations in Dolores county: County clerl
and recorder, w. L. Hull; treasurer, W. b
Whitesides; sheriff, David swickheimer; jus
tice Of the peace, Worden Grigsby; count,
commissioner, w. G. Barnett; county Judge
Joseph Costilla; superintendent Of schools, o
II. Taylor; coroner, W. H sockrids-.
Fred J. Judge, the Aspen stage rob
ber, who is confined in the Arapahoe count,