Delta chief., 1884-12-31
STATE NEWS.

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Christmas.
Walsenburg wants hook and lad
der company.
Tammany Hall, Pueblo, burned on
the morning Of the s6th.
Montrose celebrated Christmas by in
dulging in burro race.
A number of the Denver gambling
houses have been reopened.
Diphtheria is having quite run in
some Of the mountain towns.
Longmont had grand masquerade
ball in the opera house on Christmas eve.
John Cleghorn has been re-appointed
Register of the Land Office at Del Norte.
Rev. J. U. Boyd, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Longmont, has resigned.
Eight hundred and eighty hawks
have been killed in FL Paso county since De
cember 1st.
A Georgetown miner, named Patrick
Welsh, had his hip bone broken few days ago
by falling rock.
Fort Collins has raised $1,000 for
Denver University and it is hoped to increase
the amount to 81 500.
D. C. johnson, tailor of Colorado
Springs was run over by the cars and killed on
the evening Of the oath.
The five horse thieves recently cap
tured in Pueblo have been sentenced to hve
years IN the States prison.
There is q movement on foot in Clear
Greek county to reduce the wages of miners
from $500 to $3.50 per day.
Rev. Walter Marvin, lately of the
Presbyterian church, Pueblo, has accepted
call to the church at Durango.
"Doc' Baggs, he of bunko fame, has
been arrested at Fort Worth, Texas, for neec-
ing sucker" out of 81, 900.
A little son of Andrew johnson, of
Georgetown was severely injured on the 96th
while cossting near that city.
The coming Legislature will be Pc
titioned to divide Conejos county, and create
new county Of the Western part.
Superintendent Warfield of the Mail
Service, is in Colorado to make better arrange
ments for the mail service Of the State.
Daniel Kelley, West Denver switch
man, was run over by an engine and mangled
almost beyond recognition on Christmas day.
The Annual Convention of the Colo
rado State Temperance Union will be held in
Denver, on the Goth, 21st and ed Of January,
1885,
The old mining camp of Robinson is
having sort of revival Of business. Some re-
cent good discoveries in the mines is the cause
oft.
Mr.. Charles G.. st. Clair, his wife
and son have been all sentenced to the peni-
tentiary by Judge Rogers, Of Denver, for
larceny.
Two brothers named Michael and
Cosmo Domonico who worked in Union Coal
Company mine at Como, were fatally injured
on the 26th.
The Methodists of Greeley collected
$3.50 for the Denver University on recent
sunday. It is thought they will increase the
sum to $1,000.
The Kiowa and Bijou survey party
are now south Of Orchard running their line.
The work is made necessarily slow by the Sc
verify Of the weather.
The Alma town authorities are going
to use the big boiler of Beale's to thaw a chan
mel through Buckskin Creek, which threatens
to inundate the town.
james Foss hired horse at Colorado
Springs for three days, and did not return 1t
for ten days. He was arrested and bound
over TO the District court.
The majority Of the committee of the
New York Chamber of Commerce recommend
the promp ratification Of the Spanish treaty.
Two minority reports oppose It.
John Murphy, whose trial for the
murder Of his mistress has been going on in
Denver for ten days past, has been found
guilty Of voluntary manslaughter.
Denver has been experiencing some
such sudden and remarkable changes of
weather that even the Oldest settler cannot re-
member anything that surpasses it.
The roof of a Leadville cabin was
crushed in by the snow on Thursday night,
seriously injuring Mrs. Mary Roach and
breaking the leg Of one Of her children.
Miguel Garcia was executed at Pu-
eblo on the 10Th, for the murder Of Dennis
Wilkes At West Las Animas, about eighteen
months ago. About three thousand people
Witnessed tine hanging.
The coal strike in the southern part
Of the State Is at last ended, and about !, 400
miners have resumed work. It is estimated
that over 1000 men were thrown out of work
!, IN consequence of the strike.
Since the war on the bunko men and