Delta chief., 1883-03-14
The state at Large.

tions.
An effort is making to light Idaho Springs
with gas.
Silverton is to have Democratic paper in
the spring.
The Animas Forks Pioneer is to enlarge
four columns.
Del Norte has militia company known as
the Bowen rifles.
Colorado Springs is still agitating the
smelter question.
Larimer farmers have commenced their
spring planting.
The rush for Red Mountain continues with
unabated energy.
Travel over the various lines of railroads is
rapidly increasing.
Red Mountain City and Silverton are now
connected by telephone.
and the pest is dying out.
The baseball fever has struck Gunnison.
Its victims numberless.
The public schools of Gunnison are the
pride of that beautiful city.
Gunnison mourns because her season for
skating has come to an end.
After March 10th the Denver d Rio Grande
will carry the mail into Dillon.
A Howe truss bridge is to be thrown across
the Grand river at Grand Junction.
Gunnison's court house is to small, and an
effort is making to have the same enlarged.
A banking company has been organized 4;
Montezuma, and the capitalists of that place
are satisfied.
Loveland was the scene of bloody con-
fict between three of her respected citizens
on Tuesday.
Dennis Flynn, Of Leadville, fell between
some freight cars on Tuesday and was in
stantly killed.
Grand Junction has had small FIRE, and
that town is now organizing against the de
stroying element.
Tie thieves are being arrested in the neigh
borhood of Leadville. Mine owners are the
that suffer.
James II. Kerwin has been appointed clerk,
and ii. j. Bailey stenographer, Of the Lake
county Criminal Court.
The present pleasant weather has inspired
all the foot-hill cities, and the work of i'm
proving properties has begun in earnest.
Salida is vigorously kicking over the i'm
portation of two cases of smallpox. Some
people would kick were they to be hanged.
Something over a million dollars worth of
butter and cheese is annually imported into
Colorado. This will be reversed in few
years.
Ouray is predicting boom this spring that
will astonsh the San .Iuancr. The Red
Mountain strike, is the alleged cause Of the
prospective influx.
A man named Charles Marsh fell from
wagon, near Manitou, on Friday, and had
his leg broken, and more or less injured in
several places on the body.
Pueblo now has an army of Office seekers
larger than the number Of votes that will be
necessary to elect. The spring election prom
ises to be exceedingly interesting.
A Colorado Springs young man recently
shot golden eagle near Cheyenne, that
measured seven feet three inches from tip to
tip Of the wings and three feet from bcak to
tail.
Pitkin is having a decidedly sultry time
over her school matters. And all because an
uhruly pupil was struck over the head with
ruler. In the good old days" n ruler wns
delicate implement with which to adminis-
ter punishment to the papcr-ball throwing
student.
The first mountain fire Of the season WINS
visible in the Grecnhorns, somewhere in
southwest direction from Bculnh. tits feared,
owing to the unusually dry winter, that II
good deal of timber will be burned out this
year. Hunters and loggers ought to be I'M
usually careful of their camp fires.
Pilot: cred Mountain city, the magic
young metropolis of this booming district, re-
minds one of the early days Of Leadville,
both as to strikes Of rich mineral at our very
doors and the rapidity with which it is build.
ing up. There are already more than twenty
buildings completed, greater portion of
which are stores, and the stocks of mcrchan-
disc are being placed in position as fast as
four burro trains and one mule train can pack
them.
Fred Walsen, treasurer Of Colorado, has
become half.owner in an immense stock range
in Valencia county, N. NJ. The property is
twenty miles wide and forty miles long. The