Delta chief., 1884-01-02
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Delta. Colorado.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ?, 1884.
STATE NEWS.

& ibctH oiSuiilEeu dt olccleN'
H. Radbaugh, who was injured at
Sisty's saw mill, Idaho Springs, died on the
9th.
A barn belonging to DIR. French, at
Denver, was burned by incendiaries on the 23d.
Loss, $500.
A heavy wind storm struck Boulder
on the o5tb, damaging property to consider
able extent.
Samuel j. Strickland was robbed of
s., 600, at Salida, and on the 26th the thief
was captured.
John Dillon was killed by snow
4 slide at Chattanooga, eight miles from Silver
ton, on the Goth.
The court house at Greeley is rapidly
approaching completion and will probably be
occupied in March.
A building containing supplies for
the Bessemer Steel Works, Pueblo, burned on
the 22d. Loss, $1,000
The Board of Trade saloon and one
or two other buildings at Boulder were dam
aged by fire on the 26th. Loss, $4,000.
Patrick Ryan, an employe of the ID.
4 3. g., fell from moving train at La Veta
on the o6th, and had his foot badly crushed.
The Buena Vista House, West. Den
yer. was damaged to the amount of $500 and
the contents about s., 900, by fire on the night
Of the 25th.
Mr.. Radebaugh, foreman of Sisty's
saw mill near Idaho Springs, was badly injured
h,o d,p frap pf a brpEap
mill wheel
At Denver. on the 22d, Bernie Engel,
q l5-y ear old girl, had her father arrested for
reatening the life of her benefactor, man
named Larson
Hibbard, who murdered the stranger
near Trinidad some weeks ago and then fled, was
caught by Marshal Kriegar, Of Trinidad, near
: Che line of the Indian Territory.
Hawkins. who shot Bruce Hunt, died
In the Durango jail. An autopsy showed that
his backbone was broken when he made
plunge for liberty. His accomplices are all in
5ail.
On the 26th, 169, 900 pounds of freight
were shipped from Trinidad, and about 10000
pounds arrived OF this amount 10000 pounds
were corn, 10000 flour, $1,000 malt and 10000
merchandise.
In the neighborhood of Bnena Vista
some farme rs have been turning their attention
10 hog raising by the aid of alfalfa and the
common field peas and are making an eminent
SUCCESS OF it,
Miss Lillian P. Kimball, daughter of
DIR. Kimball, of Colorado Springs, died on
Christmas Day from typhoid fever. Miss Kim
hall was 26 years Of age, and has been teaching
school at Manitou.
Both the county commissioners of
Arapahoe county and the Ladies' Relief Soce
ty report that they have had less applications
Tor help on behalf Of the poor this year than
The last preceding two years.
On the 26th the Gunnison extension
ssf the South Park was blockaded1 at
A:pine Pass, where 1,5OO feet Of snow sheds
shave been swept laway. 1t was not expected
ito have the road open for two weeks.
The relatives of Frank R. Sherwin,
cuho live in Denver, were informed on the 2sth
~ telegraph that sherwin had received SEN
aenee, At Albany, New York, of two years ip
aAe penitentiary, and to pay fine Of $500 for
- OOnLcmpL COuIt, oaiu W uANc Dccu c0In-
nitted ten years ago.
Hawkins, the colored burglar who
Killed Bruce Hunt at Durango was captured
near Igpscio, on the 20th In atnmpting TO es-
cape from bis captors Hawkins had leaped
from precipice q distance Of forty feet, and
vus iu such bad condition when he arrived at
Durango, that threats Of lynching were iushed.
On Christmas eve the employees of
~ Pueblo sftair presented Captain Lambert,
general manager Of the Chisftais, with hand
ssune gold-headed cane, beautifully engraved.
nasfdes the employees Of the paper Cover
~ Pitkin and Governor Stone were present At
GAe presentation, the latter making the speech.
r VAS . well planned and neatly executed sur
-.
Fred Blocker, well known as the ad-
vustieing agent Of the Denver Academy of Nu-
sse, and ~ an old newspaper and hotel man,
Ia his Christmas frightened by the news that
- vife had fallen heircss TO . fortune in Eu-
-, the possession Of which will make the
n ekers millionaires. Mr.. Blocker will make
Z = nod. nee Of his fortune, and he deserves all
go be will get.
ON the 28rd tho old Sterling Publish
- company, which has published the Sterling
Ansrd for the past two years was dissolved, a
nev company Of the same name taking its
vssce. Mr. w. A. Connell who has labored
2 N~sthfuUv and intelliReutly as manager retircs