Delta chief., 1884-01-30
Delta. Colorado.
, STATE NEWS.

Silverton paid over $40, 900 last year
in freights to and from Red Mountain.
Nellie Dean, a Leadville cyprian.
aicided by taking morphine on the 18th.
Addison Baker. Colorado pioneer,
died On the sOth. at his residence, on Grand
avenue.
Col. l.. c. Ellsworth was on the oath
appointed Receiver Of the First National Bank
Leadyille.
Chapman's Touring mill at Canon
City burned on the 21st. Loss between $4,000
and $4,000. Insurance $1,000
The Catholics at Gunnison are build
ng neat addition to the church which will be
used as residence by Rev. Father Quinn.
While the millers report a surplus of
100000 bushels of wheat in Colorado the Far
ners' Alliance finds shortage of some 5O,oOO.
Cyrus King, colored, was instantly
killed at Denver on the 25th, by being thrown
from wagon, the wheels passing over his head.
On the 2sd, the failure of the First
National Bank of I.eadville was announced.
Its liabilities to dcpositors stated at 1926,
90.
Governor Grant has appointed John
N. Freeman, of Weld county, delegate to
the Western Water Way convention at Wash
ington.
The Pryor brothers pay SS77.S4 taxes
in HuerfanO county. The Denver d Rio
arande Railroad pays s1l, ,OG9.11 in the same
county.
The Arapahoe county commissioners
contemplate the purchase of an eishty-acre
tract of land down the Platte on which to build
poor house
On the 2lst quarrel at Gunnison
over game of cards ended when old man Kis-
was killed aud Jack Kellogg shot in
the sbdomen
On the 23d Jesse b. Tate. brake
man slipped and fell under a freight car at
Windsor.Station, and his left arm andIeft leg
were terribly crushed.
The City bank of Leadville has been
summoned to appear in the Supreme courtTon
February II, to show cause why its charter
should not be forfeited.
P. NJ. Hinman. of Longmont. died
from an over dose of morphine at the St. James
hotel, Denver, on the 2lst. The deceased had
lived I'm Colorado since the war.
Allen l.. Johnson,a a miner at Alicante,
was killed on the 25th, by the explosion of
stick Of Hercules powder, which he held in his
hand near fire in order to thaw it.
The question of water works is agi-
tating the minds Of the people of Telluride,
and there is popular move on foot for estab
lishing such works in the near future.
A committee from the Wyoming Ter
ritorial Council and House WAS in Denver on
the 19th for the purpose Of buying portion of
the Exposition for Wyoming exhibits.
Colonel S. H. Baker, of Montrose,
has party OF men at work prospecting the
plscers on Cutler Creek, near Portland The
result so far has been:very satisfactory.
The conservative" element in the
Geecley Alliance has been overcome the offers
Of wheat at $1.25 have been Withdrawn, and the
asking price has been advanced to $1.5O.
1t was recently discovered that ex-
County Treasurer Blair was short in his ac-
counts to the amount of several thousand dol
lars. His bondsmen will probably adjust the
matter.
A boulder rolling on the track
wrecked Engine No. 40 near Curicanti on the
Denver & Rio Grsnde, killing George Hutchin-
son, the engineer, and slightly injuring the
fireman.
Ex-senator Dorsey filed his answer in
the United States courts to the claims Of the
London creditors. He denies his responsibility
for the indebtedness and sets up the plea OF
bankruptcy.
On the evening of the 25th meeting
Of the dcpesitors In the First National bank,
Leadviile, was held and funds were subscribed
for pursuing and capturing De Walt, the fee
ing president.
The residence of Samuel Jacks, at
Gardner. was destroyed by fire on the 9Th in
stant. It was said to be the largest adobe
building in Huerfano county. The loss is esti-
mated at about 81 800
A Durango hotel clerk endeavored
to start nrc in the office with pint Of coal
oil, and the consequences were that he caused
a Are alarm, fooled five hundred people and
burned his face quite badly.
A terrible explosion of fire damp oc-
CURED at mine belonging to the Colorrdo
Coal and Iron Company at Crested Butte on
the 24th, by which fifty-seyen men were killed
and many more terribly injured
Mra Caroliua Wharton an aUod