Delta chief., 1883-11-28

trains will lie over in Durango for the night.
Ouray county has increased fifty per
cent. in population during the present year.
John Grimm, a miner of Georgetown,
had an arm broken by scale of rock, on the
22nd.
The Duke coal kilns, near Buena Wis
ia, have been purchased by the Harrison Re
,duction works, Leadville.
A. G. Orton, employed at the Pueblo
Smelling Co.'s works, lost his left hand by an
accident there, on the Goth.
The Leadville city council on the Goth
passed an ordinance providing for the estab-
lshment of electric street lighting.
Isaac Jones was killed and Phil
Griffith injured, by an explosion Of gas at the
Garfield mine, Coal Creek, on the 10th.
Garfield is recovering from the effect
of the:disastrous fire that razed tho town to
the ground, and is rebuilding very rapidly.
Some Irich copper discoveries Lave
been made in Grand count which nromise to
+, De the 'as'.s of a new and fourishing camp
A"e Georgetown agency of the Miners
Smelling Works, and the Sampling Works at
Silver Plume, permanently closed on the 23d.
John Welsh, butcher, was stabbed
probably fatally by Harry French at Mrs. Lon
Marchs boarding house, in Como, on the 10Th.
There was a fire at the Fitch Block,
Pueblo, on the 2lst. The building was dam
aged s1,CoO and Sales, druggist, an occupant,
lost $1,000.
The Salida Fire Department has or
dered six hundred feet of hose, thirty rubber
caps and eighteen rubber coats from Salisbury
d Cline, of Chicago.
The. Peoples Oil Company is the
name Of company organized in Pueblo for the
purpose of boring for oleaginous deposits 1t
has capital Of 5000.
Sheriff Becker, of Leadville, on the
Goth, arrested Rogers, the murderer Of smyr-
ma H. White, at a CHARCOAL burners camp,
near Evergreen Lakes.
Rev. Charles Z. Watson, pastor of
the Reformed Episcopal church of Boulder,
has renounced the tenets of that denomination
and will join tine Unitarians.
The Cimmaron and Union mines at
Telluride have closed down, and the Snug
gler will probably do likewise. This is attribut-
ed to the strike by the Miners Union.
Albert Anthony and J. T. Woodson,
on trial at Colorado Springs for cattle stealing,
were on the 10Th sentenced to lCanon City
for fifteen and ten years respectively.
The city council at South Pueblo has
decided to meet for business but once month,
instead of weekly, as heretofore. The change
has been made in the interest Of economy.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany nail works turn out about five thousand
kegs of nails and spikes every month, making
a product Of sixty thousand kegs every year.
Warden Hoyt, of Canon City prison,
retu rned on the nth from visit to the larger
prisons Of the East, the object Of his trip being
to arrange plan for utilizing the convict labor
Of Colorado.
Charles Hill and Harry White, ex-
pres smen OF silverton quarrelled and emptied
their revolvers at each other on the 18th, the
result of which was that Hill was probably IA
tally wounded.
j. w. .Brockett's residence, five miles
from Lake City, together with mis- barn and
other outbuildings and contents, burned dur
ing the absence Of the family. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, 5000.
The farmers in the vicinity of Fort
Collins held meeting on the 18th, will send
wheat samples 70 Chicago, and make an organ
lied effort to relieve their market Of its pres
cnt depressed condition. FIJI
The Loveland Milling company has
filed articles Of incorporation With the secre-
tary Of State, and will coon begin the erection
OF anil and elevator in Loveland. The capi-
tai Of the company on starting IL $4,000.
On the 23rd Governor Grant pardon
ed from the state penitentiary two convicts,
named Charles johnson and juan Jose Vas
ques, rs reward fol. their faithful services in
attending fellow convict who was suffering
with smallpox. &a8
A man named Rogers killed Smyrna
Il. White at eterling's tie-cutting camp near
Kokomo on the 10Th. White was an agent TO
inspect ties, and the quarrel which ended in
murder was in regard To some rejected ties.
Rogers escaped.