Delta chief., 1884-02-06
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The assessed valuation of the town OF
wslsenburg is s74,ss7.
Colorado Sptings raised 81. 400 for
the Crested Butte sufferers on the s6th.
The grocery of Michael McM"hon,
Leadyille, was burned on the 18th. Loss, $780,
Four Of the prisoners who escaped
from the Buena Vista jail have been recsptur-
ed.
81. AIMS, new Catholic church
in Ironton, East Denver, was dedicated yester-
day. 80.
The Kirk House, at Colorado Springs.
burned on the ssth. Loss, 81 400. insurance,
500.
A mining and smelling company,
with capital stock of 100000, has been or
xanized to do business at Gothic.
Lille Ross, a young colored girl, who
is wanted at Cheyenne for forgery, was arrest
ed at Denver, on the oSth.
Judge Rogers, of the Superior court
at Denver, decided on the 2sth, that non-rcsi-
dents cannot enter suit in his court.
Ainslie Shaw, Georgetown miner,
in removing shot which had missed fire, had
both eyes destroyed by its explosion.
The Colorado Pioneers Association
held It's annual meeting at Denver, on the 2oth
Joseph r. Bates was elected president.
A fire at the Academy of Music. in
Denver, on the 29th, damaged that building to
the extent of several Thousand dollars.
William Garfield was probably ia
tally crushed by the cars At the Kansas Pacific
yards, Denver, where he was employed.
Smith, the murderer Of Stahl. has
been lodged in the Gunnison jail. He partly
confessds his connection with the crime.
Buena Vista had $4,000 fire on
the s6th It began in the Grand Pacific Hotel
and destroyed shout dozen buildings.
The round-house of the Denver &
Rio Grande road st Leadville, containing six
locomotives and other property burned Loss,
$4,000
On the SOth, at Rosita. Thomas Gray
was examined and honorably discharged from
any sccusstsoo Of connection with the Kurtz
homicide.
Chinese New Years was generally
eelsbrated by the heather in Chinatown, Den
vor, "a the Eth. They had . number Of Chris
tiAA Callers
There 10 . scheme on foot for the es-
tablisament Of Q new Woolen mill st Pueblo,
which will no dolbt be an accomplished fact
IN few days.
Rev. A. N. Weeks. pastor Of the
Unity church, Denver, died Of congestion Of
tho brain ss tho residence Of Mrs. Augusta Ta-
~, On the 3oth.
Frank Williams and John Gray, who
murdered 0risn Kurtx, At Rosits, on the 9th,
vere taken from jail by masked men and
hanged on the ssth.
Tho ditch companies Of the Poudre
vansy intend fighting the Larimer County Res
nrvoir CompC y in the courts. in regard to wa
ter rights ON the Poudre. e
OF tho dead miners, ffty-seven bodies
have been removed from the mine to the pavil-
lion 1t Crested Butte, where the funeral servi-
ces took place on the 46th.
The Salvation Army held . meeting
On the 9th at the Palace theatsr, Denver
Two roughs who attempted TO break up the
meeting were arrested and jailed
The new station on the Leadville ex-
tension Of the South Park, seven miles south
Of Keystone, will be called Dickey, after su-
perin.endent Dickey, Of the telegraph service.
On the 9th an incendiary fire in
Daeas Vista was fortunately discovered and
yrumptly quenched. Much alarm is felt there,
and the military are employed ~ night patrol
Another Leadvllle bank succumbed
sa the S0th. A run began on the Merchants
sad Mechanics the day before and cash running
short about O'Clock on the S0th, the bank
closed
Frank Il. Wilson, assistant secretary
II Tie Nsttoaal Mining and Industrial Expo
ttoa, during the first two years Of its existence,
il now located q broker at Piattsmouth, Ne
br.ska.
The body of little Mary Matthews,
tho child who was murdered BY tho Cuddi
gaas, at Oursy, was on exhibition at Denver on
The LIST, and was viewed by hundreds Of NOR
ssdly esricus people.
Hleven prisoners escaped from the
Dueaa Vista jan on the sTth. Il = thought
tkresgh tho assistance Of outside friends, spd
aaEAoagH To coanty has been secured, they
have not been found.
The three horse thieves who got sway
With some stock from La Junta, wore captured
,ear ths New Msrican limo BY Sheriff Parsons