Delta chief., 1884-01-23
STATE NEWS.

has 81, 600 in its treasury.
A North Denver man makes the pre-
iction that the millennium will come in 1SSs.
The Grand River Ditch company has
fixed the price of water for the season at 81 an
acre.
The City Bank of Leadville has made
an assignment. 1t owes nobody but its stock
holders.
Salida is the terminus of five railroad
divisions, and within two years will have two
more roads.
The man Smith, who is charged with
the murder of +. W. stahl, near Gunnison, has
been captured In Arkansas.
The safe in Samuel Steiger's grocery,
Denver, WIS broken open by burglars and robbed
Of its contents on the 18th.
A dead body supposed to be that of
j. r. Fitzpatrick, was found in the river near
Grand junction on the nth.
The people of Greeley are agitating
the des,rsbility of q starch factory, to make a
market for their potatoe crop.
The slaughter house of Evans & Tho
man, located two miles north of Fort Collins,
burned on the 18th. Loss, 81, ,0os.
1t is said that some rich placer dis
coveries have been made on the Big Dorlores,
at or near the mouth Of Mesa creek
Daniel P. Hayden was held over to
court, 1t Denver, on the 14th, for passing a
stlded nickle for i've dollar gold piece.
The Catholics at Gunnison are build
Hg neat addition to the church, which will be
used as q residence by Rev. Father Quinn.
Gene Ruby, q brakeman on the Kan
sss PscfAc, v,A fatally injured by being
thrown from moving train at Denver, on the
lstA.
Emmet A. Slater was found dead in
bed At hotel in Trinidad on the 18th. 1t is
supposed that he came from Piercetown, Indi-
ana
William Hope, who was on trial at
Pueblo for killing John Lavender, has been
acquitted. His plea of self-defense wsa well
sustained
Some little New Year claim jumping
took place around Ouray, and the boys are
nov busy working assessments on their new
properties
An Iowa Association has been formed
at Pueblo, With the names of over one hun
dred former residents of that state on its list
2nembers-
Same Trinidad miscreants cut the
pipe leading TO NcComb Brothers' oil tank re-
Gently, md let out about two hundred and If
~ g,l,oas Of o0.
The Supreme Court, At its sitting at
Beaver - tAe 18th, decided the famous Custer
county seaE war, between Silver Cli1 and Rosi
u, IN fsvsr Of Rosita-
Tho ranch and cattle belonging to
6fne1De, Sterling 4 Co, Of Weld county, were
ssid o. tAe 18th 70 the Illinois Live Stock and
Lad company for $4,000
The Salvation Army began . series of
neednas at Denver on the 1ssA- The meeting
u the Aeademy of Muac v.s well attended
bss tAere vas htsle entAusiam-
Alamosa has been overrun by Italian
railrosd laboren Who are without work, .
knowledge of the English language or money,
but each In possession of an appetite.
The State Bar Association met at the
county building At Denver on the 18th. Reso-
lutians were adopted recommending Judge
Halleu as Judge McCrag's successor.
Sheriff Smith, of Lake City, who was
repo rted mlssiug has been beard from in the
East. A letter from his sister says that he IL
. def anlter, and has hed the country.
N II. Tabor. son of the ex-senator,
was on the 18th, married at Denver, to Miss
Lou Babcock Of that city. Rev. Messrs jeff
cry md weeks performed the ceremony.
James Patton, . colored man. twenty
two yesrs old, laborcr, Vas run over and in
stantiy killed by An engine in the yards of the
Kansas Pacific railway at Denver on the 10Th.
The absence of vaults for the safety
Of valuable records and other articles in the
present county building at Colorado Springs
vfll probably cause a new building to be erect
ed.
At Trinidsd. on the 18th, John Aiken
vas shot through the head by Salvador Gin
nell, Who mistook him for a thief II he re-
covers he will lose his left eye. The shooter
fed.
At . sawmill fifteen miles west of
Fort Collins, on the nth, Mr.. Thomas Garnick
lost all the fingers of his left hand while clean
ing away the accumulated dust around the
saw.
Two hundred and thirty-one engines,
having an aggregate of s. 454 horse power are
l.. A-s,- a.,