Delta chief., 1883-04-25
The state at Large.

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A mail service has been ordered between
Red Cliff and Carbonate.
The wagon road between Crested Butte and
Ashcroft has been opened.
Patrick f. Riley has been adjudged insane
by Pueblo jury and sent to the asylum.
Several smelters will be erected in the San
Juan country during the coming summer.
Over 10000 railroad ties will be footed
down the Poudre during the coming month.
Trinidad is improving in as many ways as
the enterprizing citizen chooses to make
them.
The new hotel at Colorado Springs is being
furnished, and will soon be ready for occu-
pancy.
Filipe Aguilar is being tried in Trinidad for
shooting and killing Eugenio Mares short
time ago.
The Sisters of Loretto are striving hard to
regain what was lost by the Pueblo fire some
time ago.
Crested Butte has commenced her spring
boom by erecting several business blocks and
residences.
The firc-buc has at last reached Pueblo,
and many old and diIapidated buildings nave
been razed.
Capt. John 4. Bryne, well-known resi-
dent of i.eadyille, died of smallpox on Mon
day morning.
The demand for choice residence properties
in the cities and town Of Colorado was never
before equalled.
Permission having been granted by the ad-
ju,ant general, South Pueblo viii organize a
militia company.
The State press is just now engaged in laud-
ing Judge Gerry and the jury that convicted
Packer, at Lake City.
Jack William, of Salida, on Saturday kill
ed a storll that measured six and half feet
from tip to tip of wings.
The SLgJt calls on the good people of Red
Clifrto vaccinate, and thus prevent the in
coming Of the smallpox.
The Lindell hotel, at Pueblo, is now run
by two women-i!,e Misses Temple. Can it
now be termed hos;elry?
Work has been SON II, need rebuilding the
burne, district in Greeley, and the same will
he vigorously pushed forward.
The Lake City .Siirsr Eiorid dcvotes two
pages to the Packer trial. Ii is full and com
plcte and well worth preserving.
Two monstrons bears were killed near
Ironton last week. Many more arc said TO
exist in the mountains of that vicinity.
Mr.. Albcr,son and his son James, of Trini-
dad started week ago to hunt some stray
cattle. and have not been heard of since.
4 drunken unknown man died in Pueblo
saloon lately. lie had just arrived there from
salt Salt Lake and was full of intoNicants.
1t is said by those who profess to know tha;
wheat in the Poudrc valley is rottins, and
that great many acres will have to be re
planted.
Gunnison's backmcn are forsaking their vo-
cation to become suPcTintendcnts of mines,
and will, according to the press, make eff
cient manager.
At a recent meeting of Lcadvillians to con-
slider the matter of smallpox in that camp
$40 was subscribed ON the spot to assist in
checking the disease.
A fire visited some ranches in the vicinity
of Silver Clitf a week ago last Thursday night
and destroyed grain and farm implement to
the amount of $4,000.
Hugh ]. Long, who was so fcarfully injured
through the falling of a pyramid OF base bull
lion bars npon his body at the Pueblo smelt.
ting and refining company, has since died.
jose Maria Abeyta, resident of Trinidad,
was found dead on the banks of the river,
near that place, on Monday evening. 1t is
supposed he died from the effects of too much
liquor.
Mrs. Emma Davis the divorced dead wife
of c. L. Davis, of calvin Joslin" prominence,
was buried by the actors of Leadville. Her
late husband refused to contribute to her in
tcrment.
The woodwork on the new Boulder court
house, which is of Chicago seasoning and
make, has warped SO badly that the once so
clearly fitting joints are now quarter Of an
inch apart.
The stages in the Red Mountain country
are over crowded every dag, and many pco-
pie are going in private conveyances, upon
horseback and afoot to the rich fields of that
prolific section.
Pueblo is rushing matters in the way of
getting ready to exhibit herself at the Denver
Exposition. Pueblo never did do things on
the low pressure principle, which accounts
for the rapid strides she has of late been max
ing.
II has just come to light that four Colorado
Springs women have for the past six months
or more carried on shop-lifting to large cx-