Delta chief., 1883-06-27
The state atLarxe.

The wool crop of Colorado will soon be put
on the market.
Gunnison is rushing work on her new iron
and steel works.
Silverton wants good substantial hotel
building at once.
The hay crop in Colorado this season will
be larger than ever before.
Silverton will devote three days to the cele
braton of the glorious Fourth.
San Juan county covers sixty square miles
and has 10000 mining locations.
Gunnison is trying to take Crooke's smelt-
ing works away from Lake City.
Custer county will take the same space at
the Exposition she had last year.
Ex-senator Tabor has presented Company
II, of Boulder, with new uniforms.
A move is being made in Ptkin looking to
the organization of water works company.
Smallpox has disappeared from Silver
Plume and the public schools have reopened.
John Been, a cook for a mine near Silver
ton, was killed and eaten by bear week
ago.
The Irwin Pilot has entered its fourth
year. A new dress was donned on its birth
day.
The Red Mountain Pilot has suspended,
the material having been removed to Chatta>
nooga.
Mayor Bartlett of Irwin, was shot in the
leg on Friday by the accidental discharge of
a revolver.
Peter Reid was killed in coal mine near
Crested Butte on Wednesday, by an explo-
sion of gas.
Ripley & Bro. have retired from the Ouray
Times, and C. s. York assumes editorial and
business control.
The Silver Isletmll at Pi,kin, on Tuesday
turned out a silver brick weighing 5s3 oun-
ces, and 9S7 fine.
An effort is being made in Boulder to in
duce Will Carlton to read some of his famous
farm ballads to them.
Saguache has never been visited by cir
Gus, and is yearning for the appearance Of
the knights of the arena.
The opening of the new bath house Mt
Manitou will add largely to the attractions
of that watering-place resort.
On ledge on the Pawnee buttes, near
Greeley, a party of tourists lately discovered
Ec VI ios>h ppH'r.
Durango has subsidized into quietude be-
coming all regulated cities since the cessation
of war on the sporting element.
Danny Spain, a Pueblo boy, was drowned
in the Arkansas, at tina. point on Tuesday.
The body has not been recovered.
James Clements, OF Durango, died on
Thursday from injuries incurred by being
fbrnyrn frn,, a horse II iff.eu yenr. aDn
Widefield, n small station on the Rio
Grande, a short distance south Of Colorado
Springs, is the victim Of a smallpox scare.
The tP:.kin Independent complains bitterly
of the dilatory conduct of the authorities in
making ready for the National Exposition.
The Neps says that large number Of the
trees planted in Grand Junction during the
spring are dying, owing to the insufliciency
of root.
Harry p Horne, st. Elmo justice Of the
peace, last week left that hamlet for parts un-
known. His bosom friends and the county
lose over 81 900.
Two of the furnaces of the Harrison rcduc-
ton works at Leadville have been blown in.
The remainder Of the works are being rapid
ly pushed to completion.
Silverton has generously appropriated
$1,000 toward the entertainment of the
Grand Army when it visits that growing
metropolis Of the silver San Juan.
Mr.. AL. Packer, confined in the Ghnnison
Jail, is having trouble from fresh source.
lie complains that his mail is tampercd with
by the sheriff, and has asked for relief.
Jack Eagen, keeper of a restaurant in Bel
levue, Saguachc county, on Sunday night
took an overdose of morphine and shuiiicd.
He was suffering from smallpox at the time.
Grand Junction had genuine Ute scare on
Wednesday night. Every male citizen was
armed with gun and prowlcd around the
limits of the city in quest of the pesky red
skins.
Freight rates are so high between Denver
and Breckenridge TINT parties Of the latter
place are contemplating the establishment Of
freight team line. The scheme is feasible
and some think there is money In It,
The day is not far distant, says the journal,
when thousands Of tourists will visit Breck-
cnridge to take look at miles of snow COW
cred mountain tops which surround the town
at this season of the year. The view discounts
anything in Europe or Eastern America.
The little excitement at Silvcrton over the
reported attempt to burn the town seems to
have subsided. The indictments found against
the gamblers have spent their interest and
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