Delta chief., 1883-10-17
Delta. Colorado.
STATE NEWS.

Denver has two posts of Sons of
Veterans.
Amuteur theatricals are the rage just
NOV in Durango.
The assessed valuation of real estate
lin Arapahoe county for 1888 is s3o,65s, 775.
John Clifford was killed by being
thrown from buggy in Denver on the 5th.
The Presbyterian Synod of Colorado
held its annual session last week at Del Norte.
The terra Gotta works at Denver,
which were burned last summer, will be re-
built.
The fall term of the State School of
Mines at Golden, has begun with twenty-fiv
pupils
The total assessment of the new
county of Garfield is $13s, ,7s1, and the number
Of polls 213.
The large block known as the Elma
hotel and Pentland's Hall, at Ashcroft, was
burn ed on the Sth.
The Grant Smelling and Refining
eompar has purchased the Cummings & Finn
smelter at Leadville.
Thomas Gettins, Leadville miner,
was DANCE rously injured by an explosion on
the sth, his skull being fractured.
The wife of Justice James L. Crotty,
of Denver, has entered suit for divorce, al
1eging neglect and ill-treatment.
The Kansas conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church was held in Den
yer last week, Bishop Ward presiding.
The Denver Presbytery closed its ses-
sion in Denver on the sth, and will hold its
next meeting at Longmont, in April, 1884.
The citizens of Garfield county are
agitated over the question of county seat The
Springs.
The Leadville Democrat was sold at
auction on the 10th, and bid in by Mr.. c. c.
Davis, proprietor Of the Chronicle, for the sum
of e6,5OO.
An unknown man was killed while
trying to board Union Pacific train near 18th
and Wewatta streets in Denver on the night
Of the 5th.
A change of time on the various rail-
roads centering at Pueblo will go into effect on
October 81. The Thunderbolt will probably be
discontinued.
Terry COnners. miner, beat r. F
Barker, another miner, over the head with a
pistol, in strayhorse gulch, Leadville, on the
3D., nearly killing him.
The stockholders of the Denver & Rio
Grande at Colorado Springs, on the sth, anani-
m ously authorized the creation of a general
mortgage for s5O,00O,OOo.
Mr.. George w. Kassler has declined
the Democratic nomination for treasurer Of
Arapahoe county, owing to Ill health and con-
siderations of business.
Miss Fanny Barret, who once had a
prolific silver mine in Colorado named after
her, with present of a large block of stock, is
now a school-teacher at Tombstone, Arizona
The California Mexican, Coony
Trethers, who shot and killed Peter Clark at
Evans on the LIST, was taken to the jail at Fort
Collins to prevent his being hung by the popu-
lace atsGreeley.
The Colorado Pool association will
not hold meeting to make any notifications
In the tariff until the return Of General Man
ager Potter from Chicago, which will not be
until November 1st.
The Denver City Lottery quit business
and swindling at one and the same time last
week. Denver has two other lotteries which
are running in defiance Of very stringent
state law against lotteries.
Two human skeletons were found on
the bank Of the Fountain, in Ute Pass, some
fifteen miles west Of Colorado Springs, last
week. The skull Of each has bullet hole in
It, and the remains seem to be those of a man
and boy.
Ex-senator Tabor received $65, 900 in
pay ment for the Denver postofilce site on the
9th, and the Denverites have one less question
TO wrangle over The site is at the corner Of
18th and Arapahoe streets, opposite the
Union Bank.
The fifteenth annual session of the
Colorado Congregational association of Colora
do, Wyoming and New Mexico, was held in
the First Congregational Church building, Den
yer, last week. Twenty churches we're repre-
sented.
A Loveland special to the Denver
Tribune Oct. 11th, saws: The artesian well
company's well at this place struck a vein Of
petroleum at a depth of fifty feet. The oil is
literally flowing down the streets, and the
widest excitement prevails.
The suit of Wells, Smith and Macon,