Delta chief., 1884-11-26
STATE NEWS.

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The Rico Banking Company has
Discontinued business.
Grand junction challenges tho world
to equal its Autumn weather.
The public schools of Pueblo had to
be closed on account of q coal famine.
The new road between Silverton and
Ouray is said TO be the best In the state.
The public schools of Breckenridge
have been closed ON account Of diphtheria.
A new trial has been refused ex-Coun-
ty Assessor Roberts, of Arapahoe county.
James Rouse, brakeman, was acci-
dently shot In the leg at La Junta on the 2lst.
The Democrats of Canon City had a
big jopifcation meeting on the night Of the
7lst.
Colonel "Bob' .ngersoll delivered
his lecture on "Orthodoxy" In Trinidad on the
18th.
The fund for the Capitol building
now amounts to $780, 600, and it is rapidly IN
creasing
Doc B.ggs and Elias Ingolls. Denver
canhaenee men, have been indicted by the
Grand jury.
Judge Harrison will hold special
term Of court In Ebert county commencing
December "a.
Aparty of four hunters from Pueblo
killed 400 ducks in the lakes near Aismoea one
day last week.
The Clarendon Hotel, the largest ho-
tel in Aspen, was destroyed by FIRE on the
night Of the 18th.
A company has been formed In Den
yer to convert the Exposition grouads into
Stock Exchange.
The students of the State Agricultur-
n Colleee will hold . grand reunion at the
close of the present term.
A. H. Laurent, agent of the Denver
and South Park at Platte Canon, dropped dead
on the morning Of the 18th.
The legislature which meets in jan
uary, can II it desires sit for ninety days, and
the members can draw 500 . day.
Charles Riley. workman in a coal
mine at Eaton, fell sixty-Ave feet down shaft
Last week and was not fatally injured.
The Larimer County Stockgrowers
Association will hold q special meeting on the
29th of this month to discuss the stock laws Of
the State.
Natives of Maine residingin in Colorado
have completed an organization and establish
ed headquarters at room 80, Opera House
Block, Denver.
Carrothers, in an interview, stoutly
denies the murder of Robert Standring and
wife. He details his whereabouts on the day
OF the m urder.
The citizens of Sonth Pueblo are dis
satisfied with their present water-w works, and
propose constructing . new syetem to be
owned BY the city.
A special to the Rocky Mountain
Nsss says that the coal miners employed at
Walsenburg, some 200 In number, went out
ON . strike on the 17th.
Acting Mayor Brooks, of Denver. or
dere1 the gambling houses and similar deus
closed on the 21st, and the Chief of Police
complied with the order.
A man named Hendricksen has been
arrested at Fort Collins for burning $50 tons
Of hay belonging to Ed. Dimmick, q ranchman
living four miles from the city.
Professor Blount, Of the State Agri-
cultural College, leaves for New Orleans next
week With his collection Of over 1000 varieties
Of wheat, oats, corn and grasses.
Tho pool Eox In Clifton Bells club
room in Denvs, holds s47,ooo on the result of
the recent election. Dennis Sullivan, Of that
city, = said to have won one bet Of $1,000.
8. B. Minshall, police magistrate of
South Pueblo, has been suspended from his
oaace BY The City Council, pending the inves-
tigation Of some charges which have been
made against him.
Three burglars entered the tailor shop
u Herman Isaacs, at No. 2s8 Seventeenth st.,
Denver, on the 18th, and after binding, gag
giDg and beating the proprietor, robbed him Of
gold watch and $500 in money.
Martin Stephens, butcher Of La
Junta, who endeavored to suppress the gaming
in La Junta, and quarrelled with Alexander
Hickman, saloon keeper, was probably fatal
" shot by the latter on the 21st.
Belle Warden, Matte Lemmen, BENZ.
Gates and Charley Smith, whose trial for the
Fitzgerald murder has been going on in Den
ver for the past ten days, were on the 10th
found gaflty Of murder in the second degree.
A large amount Of ties are being