Delta chief., 1883-11-07
Delta. Colorado.
STATE NEWS.


There are 1851 children of school
age in Arapahoe county.
Longmont has expended s15O,OOO in
improvements the past year.
Loveland has new paper, the Jour-
40 published by Mr.. Horace Crafts.
Abe Schiller, of Durango, was acci-
dentally and fatally shot on the 9th.
Joseph Lee, a miner, lost both eyes
by an explosion at Montezuma on the 31st.
Three fires aggregating a loss Of
about $500 occurred in Denver, on the night of
the 31st.
The smelling works at Golden are to
be enlarged to nearly double the present di-
mensions.
Two little girls were added to the
family Of Editor Crafts, Of the Fort Collins
.Bzprass, on the 3Oth. .. -
Brigham Young Jr. visited Denver
on the 18th. He declined TO be interviewed on
the Mormon situation.
Harvey Knowlton, alias ,,"Rebel
George" on trial at Denver for confidence"
'uubiAcsc yAAApNu uib Dd1l duO OlbdpptdIcu
The Colorado Coal and Iron Compa-
-ny's coal sheds and several coal cars at Crested
Butte were burned on the 30th, loss $1,000.
John Rudberg, one of the owners of
the Argosa mine at Idaho Springs had a mar
row escape from being killed by falling rock.
The libel suit of I. B. Hill against c.
c, Howell was dismissed at Leadville on the
3lst, owing to the non appearance ofthe COM
plainant.
Irish Nationalists held meeting in
Denver on the 2sth, and appointed commit
tee to solicit subscriptions for the O'Donnell
fund.
The Telluride miners struck against
reduction Of fifty cents per day on the end,
and the Marshal Basin mine was closed in con-
sequence.
Louis jacob, a prominent citizen of
Boulder and the Democratic candidate for
county surveyor, died suddenly Of heart dis
lease on the 31st
Architect William Quayle and wife
were thrown from a buggy bya locomotive,
and slightly injured, in Denver, on the eve
ming of the 30th.
Marshal Stingley was shot, probably
fatally, at salida on the 23th, by COW boy
named Frank Reed, whom he was trying to
arrest for cattle stealing.
N. G. Clark, an attorney of this state,
was rendered banquet by his brother lawyers
and IN embers of the press at the Tedmon House,
Fort Collins, on the 30th.
Thieves entered the house of j. P.
Long in Pueblo on the Goth and stole $425 cash
and some jewelry, s4OO Of the money belonging
to visitor named R. H. Freeman.
Thomas Whiteford was killed by an
explosion Of giant powder in the Cotton lode
on !Bobtail hill, Central, on the 9th. He
leaves a widow and three children. u
O1Willyvisscher will deliver his cele-
brated lecture 'Sixty Minutes in the War;"
throughout the east during the coming winter,
having engagements as far east as Maine
3John S. Fisher, an old and highly es-
teemed citizen Of Georgetown and member
OF its school board, was thrown from his car
riage and killed near Empire on the Both.
President Lovejoy's Rio Grande spec
lhl cOIIueN VIII LHe caDOOSc OF q freight Train
near Larkspur on the Goth, derailing three cars
and demolishing the caboose. Nobody injur-
ed.
The Horn Silvergroup of claims at Red
Cliff, numbering eight, were sold on the End,
for $4,000 The property was purchased by u
syndicate, represented by Mr.. J. McAfee, OF
Denver.
Charlie johnson driver on Denver
street car, had his car stopped by n man who
struck johnson and stole sl5 from the change
box OF the car and the drivers pocket on the
night Of the Goth.
Seven eases of robbery were reported
to the police Of Denver, on the list. The list
of articles stolen included team Of horses and
buggy, jewery, cash and clothing about 81
100 worth altogether.
There were 279 hawk heads delivered
TO the comfy treasurer Of Boulder county dur
ing the month Of September, for which the
regular bounty of 25 cents per head was paid,
making sum Of $6975.
Charles Green, Il young colored man
of Denver, quarrelcd with his brothcr-in-
law, Smith knight and shot him slightly, on
the 2Sth. Thinking he had killed Knight,
Green surrendered to justice.
The dead body found in the river near
Lcadvillc on the 2sth has been Identified as that
OF John Turner, a Swedc, who formerly lived at