Delta chief., 1884-11-05
STATE NEWS.


Salida has quite large circulating
library.
Six inches of snow fell in IRWIN last
Saturday.
Pixies Peak is covered with snow
down to timber line.
It is estimated that about 1000 coal
miners are out on strike in this state.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia wonder"
has been mystifying the residents of Denver.
The Pasadena smelter, at Rico, was
blown in few days ago, and is working sue
cessfully.
A Leadville court has fined man for
last driving. The carbonate camp is becoming
very moral.
The fruit growers of northern Colo
RADIO will hold meeting at Fort Collins on the
18th Of November.
The dead body of a miner was found
near Kokomo on Saturday. The indications
are that he was murdered.
The jury in the Bloomfield cat
tie case, in the United States court gave the
plaintiff s5s, ,71s.75 damages.
Patrick Ash, aged abont sixty years,
formerly an inmate Of the insane asylum, sui
cided At Pueblo on the 21st.
Sheriff Graham, of Arapahoe County,
has sued the Rev. DR.. Hays for libel, claiming
damages in the sum Of $4,000.
While celebrating over the result of
the Ohio election Howe Ridenour, in Red
Mountain, had his hand blown Oh.
The Tooth anniversary Of the birth of
Sir Moses Montifore was celebrated by the
Jewish population of Denver on the 24th.
General Shepperd has resigned his
position Is joint ticket agent of the Rio
Grandc and Santa Fe railroads in Denver.
Ore thieves are becoming numerous
In Leadville. It is said that mine on Printer
Boy Hnl has been robbed Of some "a, 900 worth.
The District Court of Weld county
convened at Greeley on the 21st, with twenty
two criminal and eighteen civil cases on the
docket.
There is a man in the Leadvil!e Jail
who is trying to starve himself to death. He
IA said to have already gone twenty days with
out food.
A charity ball was given at the
Windsor Hotel in Denver, on the 2sth, for the
benefit Of st. Luke's Hospital, at which some
4660 was realized.
An enthusiastic temperance mass
meeting, in the Opera House at Trinidad, re-
Gently took the place of the usual services in
the churches on Sunday night.
A streak of high grade mineral from
sixteen to eighteen inches wide was encoun-
tered At the 900 foot level in the Pay Rock
mine atslver Plume on the 23d.
III. Mckay, of Canon City, this year
sold 5000 pounds Of grapes from less than
three-fourths of an acre Of land. The average
price received was ten cents pound.
A large three-story brick dwelling on
the mesa in South Pueblo, the property Of
Henry Brisbing, was destroyed by fire on the
91st- Loss, e6,5O0; insurance, $4,000.
The Republicans had q monster pa
rade and political meeting in Denver on the
night Of the 25th. Speeches were made by
Hon. E. o. wolcott and Secretary Teller.
The Rocky Mountain NeUs boasts of
the fastest type-setters in the country; nine
teen men in that office recently having set
3lA, 100 ems Of straight matter in nine hours.
Mrs. L. J. Carrier. Of Longmont. died
be 20 rom the effects Of large dose Of
oi Of tansy, administered by herself, whether
With sa.icidal intent or mot can not be known.
Mrs. s. NJ. Likens, who superintends
the Juvenile Temple work Of Colorado, re-
ports seven new Temples with over three hun
dred pledged children n the result of her in,
1enile temperance efforts the past year.
The Denver W. C. T.. u. has re-
Suested ali Christian women in the state to
join with them in prayer, from seven to eight
on the morning Of election day, that ''the day
may be the beginnihg Of better things for our
Tum.cursed land"
At . meeting Of the Knights Of Labor
at Denver on the 27th, . general strike was
ordered Of the coal miners throughout the
state, and - . result every important mine IN
the state viii be closed. How long the strike
VIII last NO one can tell
The West Denver mill ditch is again
sgitating the people Of that part Of Denver.
The residents ON the banks Of the ditch all fa-
vor its removal, while the miilers and other
interested parties are lighting for Its mainte-
nance q hard a. OF old. The twenty-year
charter granted the ditch company by the City
Council expired on Monday; hence the renew
n Of the fight.
A special to the Rocky Mountain