Delta chief., 1884-03-12
STATE NEWS.

Pueblo Will soon nave three SkaJlnS
rinks.
1t is propose build Catholic
college at Denver.
The senate has passed the bill for
public building at Pueblo.
Pueblo's Fire Department will give a
grand ball on the 10th prox.
The Denver Land League will celc-
brate Robert Emmett's birth on the 9th.
J.. G. Moore, Denver commission
merchant, suicided by shooting, on the 9th.
The Del Norte u Summittville Tele-
phone line was sold at sheriff's sale for $500.
Telephone communication between
Denver and Pueblo was completed on the 3rd.
The first through train for Durango,
since the snow blockade, left Denver on the
4th.
Mrs. Maybee, wife of the pastor of
the Baptist church at Boulder, died on the
5th.
James Coil cut his throat at Denver.
On the 3rd, and was taken to the county haspi-
tai to die.
A miner named Brown was severely
burned with giant powder near Georgetown,
on the 1st
The prohibitory question will be
prominent matter at the spring election in
Longmout.
The Arapahoe county commissioners
are negotiating for poor house farm at cost
Of $1,000
Son the 9th, Governor Grant appoint
cd J. H. Monheimer county commissioner in
Lake county.
Chas. L. Spencer. for six years cash
Ter of the National State Bank, OF Boulder. re-
signed on the 9th.
The first through train for thirty
days s~rived u Durango on the 4th. 1t re-
oeivod an ovation.
Charles W. Westlake, gambler well
Known throughout the west, died suddenly at
Denver on the 3rd
Pueblo is to be the starting point of
m Hrrigating canal si1ty-fve feet wide and
sixty-h miles long.
The question of high or low rate of
liquor license will be a feature of Denver's
coming municipal election.
The people of Durango received their
frst mail via Wingate with due ceremonies on
the End. Tho outfit was photographed.
Several conversions have taken place
among tho uncared for masses, as partial
suit Of the labors Of Rev. Morris, Of Denver.
State Treasurer Walsen's report for
February sets the amount of receipts at S907,-
.s4l l.ls, and the disbursements, at ga, ,207.s6.
A man fifty years old. named David
Healy was killed at Pueblo house Of ill-fame
by an inmate named Alice Ingram, on the 5th.
E. d. Baker, formerly Representative
from Gunnison county to the legislature, is
the manager Of the townsite company of Bel
KNAPP, idaho.
A committee of twenty-five, consist
ing Of twenty-three men and two women, has
been appointed at Denver to prepare prohi-
bitlon ticket.
The state treasury of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union Of Colorado has
been made glad by the gift of t12O from Ex-
Gov. st. John.
On the 7th DR.. Franklin, of George
UOWn, OOlCueuO was uneu ScU LOT practlC1nR
without license, ond failing to pay, he was
lodged In jail.
A citizens meeting at Durango, on
the Tth, passed aresolution calling upon Mr..
Belford to urge the passage Of the reservation
bill by the House.
Henry G. Olney. of Lake City. has
Sled tho papers in his libel suit against the
Denver T'ioams Publiahing company. He
asks Tor $i0o, 900 damages.
The annual put-up of ice in Colorado
SprineB Is about 5000 tons. This asnount in
cludcs MaAtou's consumpaou,and about 900
tons stored for Pueblo firm.
Mde. Adelina Patti made her first
appearance at Denver inca matinee perform
auce Of La Trsviata at the Tabor Opera House
On the lst The large audience gave her
splendid ovation.
The residents of Summit county have
been suffering great Inconvenience from lack Of
provisions, owing to the snow blockade They
biams the railroads for lackadaisical efforts to
cut the blockade.
There will be an oratorical contest
bctweea the State University at Boulder, tho
vnivcrAty at Denver and Colorado College on
April L. Probably the contest will take place
at the Denver University.
Tho annual meeting of the Clear