Delta chief., 1884-04-02
The Delta Ghiet.
Delta. Colorado.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 2, 1884.
STATE NEW 5.
Delta. Colorado

"A ITdu1C TeSlutUCe Oh pouth Sohs~ -
avenue, Pueblo, belonging to Mr.. Hall, was
damaged $500 by fire on the 9th
The Fort Collins city council have ap-
proprfated the sum of $4,000 for current eN-
penses for the fiscal year of 1884.
The remains of Henry Bridenthal, a
miner who froze to death, were found in
snow drift, near Kokomo, on the Oath
The skating rink in Pueblo lost its
canvas roof in gale, and the Fargo Hotel in
South Pueblo was damaged on the 9th.
Howard P. Walton, prominent
merchant of Silverton, has made al assign
ment. His preferred Indebtedness in s13,270.
The National State Bank, of Boulder,
suspended after short run upon it, on the
2snd 1t is said to have been an honest fail
ure.
Adonis Elliott was sentenced on the
26th, at Greeley, 10 one year at Canon City,
for branding two colts belonging to Arthur
Hanna.
The Farmers Association, of Lari-
mer county, has bought an elevator which will
hold one hundred and thirty thousand bushels
of grain.
w. fl. Sharpley, of the Denver
Journal of Commerce was robbed of his watch
and money at hotel in Paso Del Norte on
the 31st.
There are between $50. 900 and 200,-
600 bushels of wheat in the Fort Collins eleva-
tors and in private granaries in the immediate
vicinity.
Wilson Edmundson, railway con-
ductor from Illinois, died from an overdose of
laudanum, at the Washington House, Denver.
on the 23rd.
The Rio Grande road will reduce pas
senger rates, April LIST, one-third, between
l.eadville, Denver and Gunnson. Commercial
tickets will be abolished.
Mr. ID. S. Grimes of Denver is to have
in hand the agricultural and horticultural dis
play for Colorado, to go to the Worlds Expo
sition in New Orleans next winter
A petition has been circulated at
Idaho Springs, asking for a special meeting to
consider the advisability of issuing bonds for
the building Of new school house.
The train for Cheyenne. on the Den
yer Pacific ou the 9th struck Christian Schilie
rs he was walking the track during a snow
squall, and his injuries may result in death.
The Denver City Car Stables were
burned on Tthe Oath. The company had just
coapleted building new Accommodations and
the stock1 hadibeen mostly removed. Loss,
$4,000.
On the 26th, M. E. Alexander, the
county clerk and recorder of Custer county,
died at Milwaukee, it is supposed, while under
going an operation for removing tumor from
his mouth.
Robert Cummings visited Silver
Oiff, drew some money from the bank, and
started for Titusville in the snow storm. With
in the next twenty-four hours he was found
frozen to death.
Charles LIE Kusg, editor of the Grin
90 and Grea.er, at Manzano, Valencia county,
New Mexico, was fatally shot by unknown
parties. He formerly resided at Georgetown
and Leadville, in this state.
The control assay of the shipment of
the lot Of gold ore shipped from the Nellie s.
returned over 200 ounces of gold per ton.
This is probably the richest lot Of gold ore
ever produced in Lake county.
Two Burglars entered the house of
A. II. Root, in North Denver, on the Goth, and
abused his mother, an aged lady who slept on
the the first floor. Her scrcame awoke her
son, before whose approach the dastards
fed.
The Colorado Farmer has asked Gov
Grant to appoint an Arbor Day this spring. a
day for general tree planting everywhere that
trces are desirable. He has cordially acceded
to the request and the date will soon be an
noanced.
k4Doc Baggs, the famous, obtained
Judgment of &243 in the county court at Dem
v0, on the Goth, against NcCrary d Co., as
damages for the loss of articles in a trunk
which had been stored with them. The case
was tried before jury.
Mrs. G. H. st. John, a representa-
tive of the Denver W c. T. u, has been de-
hvering addresses in Colorado and Wyoming
on temperance, and is to give twelve nights to
the mountain towns, including Gunn!son and
Grand Junction, going finally as far as Salt
Lake City.
The management of the Tabor Grand
opera house, Denver, has been re-organized
recently, Mr.. j. B. Last, who has been acting
manager since the departure from that Office
of w. H. Bush, now being established as
treasurer and secretary. Mr.. Peter McCourt
will In future be the manager, Mr.. Phil Nc
Court continuing as assistant treasurer