Delta chief., 1884-11-19
STATE NEWS.

canon City.
Durango ships about $4,000 worth
of coal monthly.
Sneak thieves are again becoming
numerous in Denver.
Large numbers of black tail deer are
being killed near Walsenburg.
People in North Denver are still hop
ing to have an elevated railway.
The total assessed valuation of tax
able property in Denver is 2s,635, ,1ss.
The coal miners in the southern part
OF the state and New Mexico are still out.
The Boulder W. C. T. U. cleared $50
by concert for their reading-room last week.
About 200 stockmen left Denver on
the 4th for the cattle Convention at St. Louis
The Legislature will meet this winter
in the new Barclay block, opposite the Wind
Sor.
The Pueblo w. c. T. U. have been
holding impressive religious services at the
jail.
The Denver Council have revoked
the license of the Theater Comique Of that
city.
Boulder county was the first to send
in its election returns to the Secretary Of
State.
The Tribune Republican has declar-
ed war on the gamblers and bunko thieves of
Denver.
Governor Grant has pardoned Joseph
E. Davis, . Weld county criminal, from the
penitentiary.
A divorce suit was suddenly ended in
Denver recently by the husband and wife max
ing up In court
La Junta was defeated in her ambi-
tion to become the county seat Of Bent county
by majority Of aes votes.
Mr.. Dickinson has taken charge Of
this division of the Union Pacific, and Mr..
Egbert win have TO resign.
Greeley farmers have formed q potc-
toe pool, and will not dispose Of their crop un-
til fair price can be realized.
The Colorado exhibit to the Worlds
fair at New Orleans is ready for shipment, but
money Is needed fer its transportation.
Doc Baggs the notorious confidence
man, is sagain in trouble. He heeced Fort
Collins man, who says he will prosecute.
A miner named S. G.. Kelly met with
quite serious accident while working at the
Mary Murphy mine near St. Elmo, on the
18th.
The total valuation of the state is
Sll5,675 0l4.51, . gain over last year Of H.
g15,25s.sl. The to total state tax levied Is
s64O,s5AN
Building Inspector willou1hby, of
Denver, says he has never known q fall season
when there was more building going on than
the present one.
Blanche Leighton has begun breach
Of promise suit against F. W. Gromm, the new
ly-elected county commissioner of Arapahoe
County. She asks 900 damages
The Georgetown correspondent of the
Tribune Repuo'iean says strike has been
made near that city, Of vein which mfll-runs
1900 ounces of silver to the ton.
The Arapahoe County Bible Society
observed the twentieth anniversary Of its or
g.nization Sunday. They report that there is
one Denver family in five without Bible.
Thomas Needham, a young man
about twenty-three years old, from Allendale,
Mo-, accidentally shot himself one day last
week while hunting near Pierce Station. He
died soon afterwsrd.
The road between Ouray and Silver
ton Is very near completed. 1t is expected the
finishing touches viii be given to 1t next week.
There will then be through wagon road be-
tween the two cities.
A new Woman's Relief Corps, auxil
larry TO four Denver posts, G. A. R., has been
organized under the name Of Denver W. r. e.
No. 6. The twenty-eight charter members In
cluded most Of the original Ladies' Aux
Hilary"
The prospects of an open winter are
very encouraging, and from all over the State
come reports that many Of the mines will be
worked right along. Miners and prospec-
tors have already laid in their stores for the
winter.
Charley Clough and Morris Van
Camp, who disappeared from Pueblo, October
Q, on the backs of two hired horses, were ar
rested At Santa Fe and brought back. They
are said to be members of the Oglesby gang OF