Delta chief., 1884-01-16
STATE NEWS.

Charles A. White has been nominated
for postmaster at Greeley.
A movement is on foot to start n
Knight OF. .Pythias Lodge at El Moro.
The receipts of the Weld County
Treasurer's office for January and were
$a5,OOO.
The Colorado Journal Printing Com
pany is going to erect an office on Curtis ST.,
Denver.
Dan. p. Hayden was arrested for pas
Denver, on the 9th.
An attempt is being made to estab-
lish new mail route between Hot Sulphur
Springs and Teller.
George, w. Armstrong, a Denver al
derman, has been appointed postmaster at
Cimmoran. He owns store there.
The Farmers Alliance at Longmont
is fiourishing, and preparations are making to
commence wheat shipments te Chicago at an
Early day.
The Trinidad postoffice during the
quarter ending December 81 issued 4l3 postal
notes, 707 money orders and registered 43l
packages.
Guy, who was examined on charge
of numbering William Butler at Denver was
discharged on the 5th, there not being suf-
cient evidence to hold him.
Sneak thieves are operating extern
siyely upon the miners cabins Of Clear Creek
county. Five cabins and tunnels have been
robbed on Democrat Mountain lately
Charles Wilkes alias c. F. Mason was
arrested in Denver on the sth, charged with
emhezzling $500 from his employer, P. F.
Welch, a merchant tailor of Louisville, Ky.
In Grand Junction the inhabitants
propose to have cheap ice next season. Prcpa-
rations are in progress for the storing of 200
tons, beside the large house of the Rio Grande
Berthoud, the past season, has
shipped "a, 500 pounds of potatoes, %. .265 bush
els of wheat, 2s,3OO of barley and IL, coo Of
oats, raised in the valley of the Little Thomp-
son.
The Daily Evening Star, of South
Pueblo. made its appearance on January 9th,
with j. L. Lacey, Manager, and A. D. West
colt, President of the Star Cooperative Pub
fishing Company.
Samuel Jacobs, of Leadville. on
the 7th found guilty of attempted bribery Of
members of jury in United States court,
was sentenced TO a term three months I'm the
Arapahoe county Jail.
At Denver on the 4th, Doc johnson,
Charles RcinBold, Miss Louise Clifford and
Miss Josephine Anderson, were arrested
charged with stealing and slauehtering cattle,
from the range west of Golden.
Several of the stamp mills of Black
Hawk that were compelled to close down, ow-
lug to the lack of a proper supply of water,
have started up again. The New York mill
company are now running fifty stamps.
The suit of A. H. Winter against
Dean Hart, of st. Johns Cathedral came to a
termination in the Superior court at Denver,
on the 7th, in consequence Of Mr.. Winters in
ability to file 81 600 bend to secure fees.
County Superintendent of schools,
John l. .Fetzer, on the 9th, made an apportion-
ment of the money collected during November
and December The amount was $S664.59, or
s3H cents per capita Of the school popula-
Hon.
During 1888 there were shipped 2.7lj
ears Of lime rock from the ledges about Fair
play, and $50 cars shipped from Meier's switch,
three miles below. These cars probably car
ried q, ,150 tons and the freight amounted to
over $4,000.
The following have been elected and
installed officers of Doric Lodge, No. 25, A. F.
Il A. NJ, Fairplay, for the ensuing year: A,
Bergh, w. M; II. B. Murrow, s. W.; j. W.
Sykes, J. W.; 8. Cohen, Treasurer; A. f.
Jones, Secretary.
George Jeffrey, of Riverhead, Long
Island, on the 10th confessed that he deliber
ztely held his step child between his knees and
twisted It's head uuti he broke its neck. He
hated the child chiefly because 1t interfered
with his wifc's freedom to earn money for him
At its annual election the First Ma
tional bank of Colorado Springs elected as di
rectors: Irving Howbert, b. r. Crowell, Ed. 8
Alexander, A. =. Carpenter Matthew Kenne
dy. The following officers were elected
Hon. Irving Howbert, president; b. +.
Crowell vice president; NJ. Kennedy, cash
Ter.
Irwin has organized the Elk Noun
tain Post g. A. r., with the following officers
George A. Russ, commander; v A. Wilder, s.
v. commander: G.. d. Sowles, j. V. comman.
der: s. S. Metzler. quartermaster; W. b.
u.