Delta chief., 1884-05-07
STATE NEWS.

Whlte leau manuiactory Ill Denver.
S. A. Olsen, Swede, suicided ut
the Scandia hotel, Denver, on the 2Sth.
DR.. D. H. Dougan has resigned his
position as president of the Carbonate Bank.
of Leadvilie.
Arbor Day was quite generally OBJ
served throughout the State and many trees
were planted.
1t is expected that work on the Den
yer & New Orleans extension will be begun
within a short time.
John Feast attempted to kill his wife
at South Pueblo, on the 26th. Whisky and
jealousy were the causes.
j. F. Sanderson & Co.'S Rocky
Mountain stage lines have all been sold to a
firm of eastern capitalists.
Mrs. F. E. Jones was arrested for
shoplifting at Pueblo on the 1st. She had
taken 800 worth of silk.
The telegraph line on the George
town, Breckenridge & Leadville railway has
been completed to Bakerville.
Joshua Zeilor, a miner, was killed
by the fall of a slab of stone at the Invinciblc
mine, Idaho Springs, on the 1st.
A mountain lion measuring six feet
and seven inches in length was killed by pois-
on, near Idaho Springs recently.
Justice H. B. Jeffries, of Denver,
had his arm broken on the Both by being
thrown from a buggy, while driving with his
wife
Pere Hyacinthe passed through Dem
yer April 3oth., and by special invitation lee
tured to a large audience in St, Johns Cathe-
dral.
Harrison Huston, while at work in
the Eclipse mine, had his right eye DESTROYED,
a few dayssince, by flying chip of steel from
the driH.
3Denver prides herself in the selection
of an intelligent jury in the Haller murder
trial. Such jury should be kept and put on
exhibition.
On the eth, Officer Ramsey had been
on duty at Pixies Peak for seven weeks, and
all efforts to relieve him or signal him had
proved futile.
w. D. Anthony, chief clerk at the
Denver mint, has resigned to enter into the
real estate and abstract business, with Messrs.
Anthony & Landon.
Samuel Graham, of Greeley, had
his skun fractured while rescuing little boy
from under the feet of pair Of horses on the
2sth, and Will probably die.
The railroad to the London mine is
again open and transporting the usual amount
of ore to the mill. Fifteen stamps are at work
and about fifty tons are crushed daily.
On the 9th. three snow slides were
reported to have occurred in Brown guleh, near
the Seven thirty mine, one of which covered
up one of the shafts of the Terrible mine.
A man named Davidson, who had
been discharged from the employment of the
Pueblo Street Car Company on the 1st, at
tempted to shoot Superintendent Clark. He
was arrested.
On the 9th, man named Wilkin-
son, while drunk, fell over the dashboard of
his wagon as he was going from Pueblo to his
ranch on the St. Charles and was kicked to
death by his horses.
The proper thing now among visiting
officials OF the Union Pacific seems to be a
trip to Silver Plume over the new extension
beyond Georgetown. The scenery is pro-
nounced Immense"
Mortimer L. Davis, miner, working
on North Clear creek, below the Cashier mill,
recently suffered dislocation Of the right
shoulder blade by being caught under heavy
bank Of dirt which eayed In.
1t has transpired that James Guy,
who was arrested for the murder of Billy But
Ter In Denver, last fall, but discharged, and
who is now awaiting trial for forgery, was pri-
vately married to Mrs. Butler last March.
The Denver Bank, which has been
doing business in West Denver, will pay off
its depositors and retire from business. This
is an Improvement on the old plan of closing
the doors and letting the depositors whistle.
y2August Kratz attempted-to shoot his
divorced wife, who keeps boar ding house at
Denver, on the 2Sth Kratz had become ieal-
ous of Thomas A. Benson, waiter at Mrs.
Kratz's house, and threatened his life before
shooting the lady.
An Albuquerque. New Mexico, spec
ial says: The jury in the trial Of James G.
Whitney, charged with murder, rendered n
verdict OF not guilty, and he was discharged.
The evidence which was introduced developed
the full vindication of Mr.. Whitney.
The amount of money donated for
the relief Of the widows and orphans OF the
Crested Butte mine disaster amounted to
&s,145. This amount Of money was apportion-