Delta chief., 1883-09-12

county OmmlSSlOnerS-SQmuel Wade, chair
man; Enos T. Hotchkiss. A. L. Kirkbride.
Clerk and Rccorder-E. L. kellogg.
Treasurer-T. II. McGranahan.
County Judge-W.A A. McDougal.
Surveyor-Wm. l.. Marcy.
Assessor-Daniel J. Mccormick.
Superintendent of Public InstructIon-H. c.
Merchant
Coroner-w o. Stephens.
Plateau creek folks were over in force last
week.
Special prices on large bills, at McGrana-
hans.
Agent Hodgdon has moved into the new
depot building.
Col. Bailey will leave for Denver soon to
meet his family.
Fred. Rockwell came over the mesa the
first of the week.
Business is picking up considerably since
harvesting is over.
Potato sacks and potato forks, at McGrana-
hans.
w. o. Stephens has completed his villa on
the Garnet mesa, east of town.
Major Burkhart is going to Utah about the
first of the month after cattle.
Capt. A. J. Bean, clerk of Gunnison coun-
ty, was in the city last Saturday and Sunday.
Carpets! carpets See samples at McGran-
ahan's.
Wild geese, the first of the season, made
their appearance along the Gunnison last
week
w. d. Brown has been awarded the con-
tract for carrying the mail from the depot to
the Delta office.
Enos T. Hotchkiss had the misfortune to
lose one of his Norman stations by death
week before last.
Snow appeared on the Uncompahgre and
Elk mountains last Saturday morning, the
first time this season.
J. C. Sparr left Sunday for Del Norte to at.
tend the trial of Frank Williams, the alleged
mail robber of Placerville.
Rope enough to hang the county at Nc
Granahan's.
J.. c. Alley has an acre and a quarter of
strawberry plants set out, and expects them
all to be bearing next spring.
l.. n. Shanks and J. P. Brown, of Plateau
creek, were in the city the first of the week,
laying in their winter supplies.
A party of three Nebraska gentlemen are
OH hunting expedition on the Grand Mesa,
chaperoned by Sheriff Andrews.
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The best of barbed wire at 10l cents per
pound, or in lots over 1000 pounds, at 10
cents per pound, at ]. j. Barker's.
o. A. Peterson, the Mormon bishop, killed
three black bear last Saturday night, on Sur
face creek about a mile above Settles ranch
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Strawberry plants for sale by L. c. Alley,
Delta, Colo.
We are under obligations to Mrs. Lima
Kane for a bottle of wine manufactured by
herself from wild currants. The article is
very fine.
Mr.. Arthur leighton brought in a sugar
beet, last week. weighing seven and three
quarters pounds, and placed it in this Office
for exhibition.
: Mr.. Allen, inspector of surveys, was in the
city last Friday. We have his word for it
that this part of the Reservation will be sec.
tionized this fall
The Crystal Creek Ditch company has filed
articles of incorporation with the Secretary
of State, with Larkin Young, James r.
Young and c. P. Miller as incorporators.
Col. Joseph 7. Bailey, prominent jeweler
ef Philadelphia, went over the Grand Mesa
the first of the week, on pleasure and hunt
ing trip to the Plateau creek country. He
was accompanied by his son, Mr. T. J. Bailey.
Ranchman Rollins brought in a curiosity
last week in the shape of potato vines grow
ing potates among the leaves. He says there
is not room enough in the ground for all the
potatoes, and some of them have to cimb up
on the vines to get any show whatever.
Pierre Noel, member of one of the largest
firms Of glass importers and manufacturers
in New York city, who has been on hunt
ing expedition on the Grand Mesa for the
past two weeks, under the guidance of A. L.
Botsford, returned home yesterday morning.
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Fine China tea sett to be given away with
Matchless Baking Powder, at McGranahan's.