Delta chief., 1884-07-30
STATE NEWS.

There have been extensive timber fires
in the vicinity Of Breckenridge.
DIR. Ed. d. Smith, died in Golden on
the 2lst, from an overdose Of morphine.
1t is estimated that the daily arrivals
at the hotels in Denver average 400 day.
Frank DeWalt has been sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary at Laramie City
The sheriff of Delta county shot and
killed an unknown negro horse thief on the
24th.
Mr.. Andy Rock, ex-sheriff of Garfield
county, was drowned few days since in the
Grand.
Major General Schofield has been WIS.,
iting Colorado on tour Of inspection Of the
military posts
A disease has appeared among the
newly arrived cattle at La Junta, which is
thought to be Texas fever.
The road between Durango and Sill
verton has again been repaired, and trains are
now running to the latter city.
E. S. Hull, man sixty-five years
OF age, was drowned In Belmont 81 Hanson's
natatorium, Denver, on the 21st.
Henry A. Elkins. the celebrated art
ist and landscape painter whose studio Is in
Kansas City, died in Georgetown on the 25th.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has been
invited to start the machinery and deliver an
address the second day Of the Denver Exposi-
tion.
The Knights Templar of the State are
talking Of holding grand encampment at
Manitou beginning August 2, and continuing
four days.
Miss Bella Nillson has been made
superintendent of work among the Swedes Of
Denver, by the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union.
Casper Zweifel, marshal of Central
Pueblo, was fatally stabbed on the 25th while
arresting an unknown man for passing count
erfeit money.
A passenger train on the Colorado
Central near Georgetown, was ditched by Ia
burro jumping 10 front of the engine. No one
was injured.
James Clark, of Denver, while at
tempting to shoot Tim Sullivan, badly wound
ed j. B. Young, who was standing in his own
yard, holding baby.
Fred P. Brown, of Rock Creek, fell
over a 5OO-foot precipice on the 18TH His
skull was mashed in, his neck broken and one
leg broken in two places.
Lawrence Barrett will play a,,week's
engagement at the Tabor Grand, Denver,
commencing the 4th of August He comes to
Denver direct from London.
Mr.. Ivory Phillips, one of the lead
somewhat discouraging view Of the wool indus
try to the Colorado Farmer.
The Denver Woman's Christian
Temperance Union are assigned the same
room at the Denver Exposition that was used
last year by the State Union.
L. Prince, who had been on trial at
Gunnison for the murder of Louis stahl lasi
wiuter, At Irwin, committed suicide on the
on the 25th, by shooting himself
The members of the Colorado Rail-
way Pool met in Denver on the 24th and form
ed an agreement on rates good until the end OF
the year. reduction on the old pool rates
was made.
d. w. Ever. a cattleman, while
mentally dcranged, shot himself on the tracks
Of the Burlington road, near Dwyer station,
ten miles from Denver. His body was horri-
bly, mutilated by passing trains.
On the 2lst Mrs.'A. d. Gould, of Den
yer shot John Ferguson thr mes in the back
and dangerously wounded him. She claims
that Ferguson, while under promise Of mar
riage to her, married another woman.
Arrangements for an elaborate dis
play Of Colorado minerals at the New Orleans
Exposition are being made. General sickles,
the United States Commissioner, is now in
New Orleans making preparations for its re-
ception.
1t is understood that Prof. Blount
has not yet decided whether to accept the fat
tering offer from the Nebraska University. In
his special line Of work in the Agricultural
College Of this State, he has no barn, and not
even q seed house.
A box Of giant powder on work
train in the Black Canon exploded on the 23d
There were about forty men on the car who
were hurled In every direction and three OF
them killed, while twenty others were more or
less seriously injured.
At A o'clock on the morning Of the
sd, the Crowther House, at Bessemer, was dis
covered to be on fire and was entirely destroy
ed. 1t was large three and half story brick
building, owned by the Colorado Coal and Iron
Company. Loss e12,0O