Delta chief., 1884-09-24

on the way TO the san LUIS valley.
A number of new strikes have been
reported lately in Georgetown mines.
An Evans farmer has shipped three
car loads Of watermelons this season..
A thirty-six pound watermelon has
been presented to the Boulder Herald.
The Pastimes defeated the Leadville
club Last Sunday by score Of % to 10.
The Manitou and Mansion houses at
Nanitou have been closed for the season.
William NJ. Clark has been appointed
Indian Agent at the Southern Ute agency.
John Mullen, of Central City, has
been arrested for passing counterfeit money.
Zipper's restaurant Denver. was dam
aged by fire on the 18th to the extent Of 90, 600.
The annual convention of the w. C.
I. U. Of Colorado will meet at Pueblo, Sept.
18th.
Six hundred thousand pounds of new
machinery is being received at the Bassick
mine.
The Exposition at Denver is being
well attended and Is pronounced by all an ad-
mirable show.
w. S. Fullerton, of Greeley was seri-
ously injured on the 10th by being thrown
from wagon.
P. P. Wilcox, late Indian Agent at
San Carlos, susceeds Colonel Dormer as Melter
at the Denver Mint.
Denver is all torn up over the ques-
ton as to whether the Exposition should be
kept open ON Sunday or not.
: Robert Young was stabbed in the alb
domen by James Love in a Denver saloon on
the night of the 14th. Both are colored.
The Boulder Herald says that the
special premiums offered for the county fair
thus far amount to $40 and sack Of flour.
r. A Day. prominent citizen Of
Leadville, was instantly killed on the 18th by
falling down the shaft Of the Vanderbilt mine.
Jack McCombe, a well-known miner
and politician Of Leadville, was seriously
stabbed on the 18th be miner in his employ.
Harry Taylor, William Caghill and
Miss Maud Reed were drowned near
Grand Junction on the 18th, while crossing
the Grand.
The Exposition Commissioners have
found that there is a State law which would
prevent their keeping the Exposition open on
Sundays.
Crops in the Platte valley this year
have been wonderfully good. A large amount
Of new land is being taken up in that portion
Of the State.
The police of Fort Collins have been
instructed to arrest every man under the in
duence of liquor whether making disturb
ance or not.
Mrs. M. j. Telford has resigned her
position on the Colorado Farmer and started
weekly temperance paper in Denver, called
the Challenge.
The Farmers Alliance of Greeley
have made contract with Bruce johnson to
grind their wheat and sack their -four for 30
cents per hundred.
The erPresbyterian church
in West Denver, was dedicated last Sunday.
This makes five church edifces of this dcnomi-
nation now In Denver.
The Georgetown Courier says that it
Is not an uncommon occurrence in the morn
ing for the thermometer to register from two
to four degrees below zero, on Gray's peak.
T. C. Wilson and julius johnson,
1essees Of the North Star mine, near Silverton,
have made an assignment. Their liabilities
are $4,000, and the mine is valued by them at
$4,000.
George G. Roberts, the ex-assessor
Of Arapshoe county, has been found guilty Of
defrauding the county. He is charged with
having mis-appropriated something over s4,-
Ooo
At Acequia, a small station on tho
D. q R. G. railroad, young man who was
stealing ride on the forward end Of the mail
car was run oyer and fatally injured, on the
12th.l