Delta chief., 1884-04-30
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Delta, Colorado.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 80, 1884.
STATE NEWS.

o1AXA NA"os
Sheriff Kendall, of Greeley, drives a
s4OO team.
The City Council of Fort Collins has
adopted a prohibitory law.
The road between Durango and
siventon was opened on the 2Oth.
Considerable claim jumping has been
indulged in of late on Free Gold Hill.
Idaho Springs had the biggest snow
storm Of the season on the 18th and 10Th.
John H. Bowman, of Colorado has
been nominated as Indian Agent at Navajo,
New Mexico.
The Canon City oil wells are increas-
ing rapidly in value and capital is seeking in
vestment therein.
Walter Bennetts, a Georgetown miner,
was quite badly injured by an explosion in the
Magnet mine on the oath.
Father Patrick J. Sheridan, a promi-
nent Catholic clergyman, died at the Sisters
hospital, Pueblo, on the 23rd.
The Welsh residents of Erie are pre-
pairing to celebrate their annual festival of
Eisteddfod on the End Of June.
Oil has been found in another well
in the Arkansas valley oil region. This makes
the fourth well Of that character.
The Western Cooperative Cattle
COMPANY, of Denver, will Lshortly put 1900
head Of cattle on the Arizona range.
Charles Matthew, the father of little
L.. 4
Gov. Grant. He had pleaded guilty to
charge of larceny.
Frank DeWalt, the fugitive presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Leadville,
was captured: at Canton, Ohio. at his
mothers home, on the Goth.
The first through train to Denver for
eighty days was ordered to leave Durango on
the 23rd. The streets of silverton were five
feet deep with snow on that date.
There will be an effort made this year
to organize company to put up large, first
class modern hotel, at Hot Springs at Canon
City, to be run in connection with some Of the
large hotels at Manitou.
The Odd Fellows of Pitkin will give
celebration and ball in honor Of the sixty fifth
anniversary ofthe order, on Saturday, the 18th
instant. The affair will be credit to Pitkin,
rs is the magnificent new hall of the order.
A mass convention of temperance
people was held at Fort Collins on the 24.h at
which those present pledged themselves by res
olution not nominate or to vote for any man
for any office whatever, who Is opposed to pro-
hibition. resolution in favor Of the forma-
tion Of a separate party was voted down.
Gus Williams, the Dutch comedian,
appeared in "One Of the Finest" at the Tabor
Grand opera house, Denver, during the week
ending with the Goth, to be followed by Louise
Beaudet with the Bandman company in EAST
Lynne" Camille" "Romeo and Juliet" and
"Women Of the People" Gus Williams took
the Colorado circuit at the close of his Denver
engagement, and Miss Beaudet will do like
-4YIse.
The Boulder City Council has fixed
salaries and appointed officers for the ensuiSE
wear, as follows: Salaries; Mayor, eco per
year; Aldermen, 800 per year; City Attorney,
$500 per year; Chief of the Fire Department,
800 per year; City Treasurer, ~ per cent.
on collections; City Marshal, $75 per month;
and perquisites: City Clerk, s25 per month;
Superintendent Of Water Works, $75 per
month; Health Officer, $40 per month; night
police, $50 per month. The following officers
were appointed: j. E. Bemus, Clerk; Frank
Netcalf, Marshal; Attorney, Hon. o. +. A.
Greene; Street Commissioner, D. Newton;
Superintendent Of the Water Works, Samuel
Piper; City Engineer, Hon. J. P. Maxwell;
Health Officer, DR.. C. C. Bruce; Chief and As
sistant Chief Of the Fire Department, George
r. Fonda and H. Day; Night Police, George
Link; Police Magistrate, H. E. Rowland.