Delta chief., 1884-07-16
STATE NEWS.

on account of washouts-
About mile of snow sheds on the
D. &I G. has been burned near salida.
Game is reported in great abundance
in'the southern and western portions of the
state.
Frank DeWalt the defaulting treas
urer of the Lcadyille bank, has been found
guilty.
Mr.. jackson has entered upon the
discharge of his duties as Receiver of the Rio
Grande.
Three dwellings, two occupied cabins
and stable burned at Dillon on the 5th. Loss
about s1,4Oo.
Cain and Maher, charged with the
murder of Billy Wilson, at silverton, have
been admitted to bail.
Improvements at the Pueblo Smelt-
ing and Refining company's works are being
made on large scale.
The nomination of Phillip MIxsell for
postmaster at Idaho Springs has been con-
firmed by the Senate.
The trail from Central City to James
Peak is now open and the ascent of the peak
can be made very easily.
Colorado Springs has been asked to
$500 to help entertain the Grand Army donate
when 1t meets at that place.
Mrs. H. C. Briggs, of Leadville, at
tempted suicide on the night Of July6. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
A miner who was fishing in Ford's
creek, near Saguache, with giant powder, lost
his hand by its premature explosion.
The new Chamber of Commerce
building, in Denver, will probably be built of
marble from the new quarries near Salida.
Mr.. j. B. King has sold the San
Luis Valley Gazette to Mr.. J. Knox Burton,
wellknown lawyer of Rio Grande county.
A new Aspen Smelter was blown IN
n few days ago. They now have enough ore
on hand to keep the furnace supplied for three
months.
County Clerk Eaton, of Colorado
Springs, issued certificates last Monday for
forty-fve tons more of loco weed. 1t was
valued at sl,436
Mrs z. j. Potter, formerly of Iowa.
now of Denver, is to give series of addresses
SitN sooH uBtu epclil eNL, ufiutT
the auspices of the W. C. T. U.
Mr.. ID. II. Moffat, of Denver. who
went east for the purpose of placing the bonds
recently voted by that city, has returned, hay
ing failed to accomplish his mission.
New York bondholders filed an ap-
plication for receiver Of the Rio Grande Rail-
way in the United States Court on the 7th.
T. 7 10.
The Larimer county fair will begin
September "a, and continue four Gays. E1-
tensive arrangements are being made to make
It the best fair ever held in Lanmer county.
Avery destructive forest fire occurred
on the 10th near Black Hawk About forty
square miles Of green timber was burned, and
hundreds of cords of wood belonging to wood
baulers.
Q The small buildings now occupying
the site of the new Denver postoflice have
been ordered removed within thirty days, and
It is supposed the work of excavation will then
commence.
j. r. DeRemer, the hero of the old
railroad war in the Grand canon, has been in
vited by the Denver and Rio Grsnde people to
tahe u Hauu III anything thas tUfGs up At the
western State line, and will probably do so.
One of the Denver charities which
does grand work and which vet lives from
hand to mouth for funds, Is the Home for the
Friendless, of which Mrs, Manly is president
and Mrs W. J. kinsey one of the indefatig-
able workers.
President Lovejoy, of the Denver and
Rio Graadc, had mile of the track of tina,
road, just east of the Utah line torn up on the
Sd, thus severing their connection with the
Denver and Rio Grande Western, of which
Gen. Dodge is manager.
The Colorado Springs Republioan
says that Edward Hendley was arrested IN
Elisabeth. on the Fourth. for stealing the horse
he was riding. The crowd took up a collec-
tion of 90. so to buy rope to hang him. He
proved himself to be the owner of the horse
upon which the money was spent for beer.
A large fire has been raging on the
Sangre de Christie range. The sight from sa-
Ida is grand in the extreme. The fire started.
probably, from some deserted camp 1, has
spread up one of the gulches to the very top
of the range, and part way down on this side.
and has destroyed a vast quantity of timber
.'Sister Eliza,'' an authorized and devoted
city missionary ::of the Episcopal church In
Denver, has home partly paid for by friends
both IN and out Of the church, and now carries