Delta chief., 1884-03-05
STATE NEWS.

LORgmOnt farmers were blessed Win
a heavy flight Of snow on the Goth.
The Del Norte main canal will be
ready for water within a few weeks
There is q movement on foot for a
college to be established in South Pueblo.
Eighty-three liquor cases have been
fled in the county court at Colorado Springs.
The Hortense mining company's
boarding house and Office, at Nathrop, burned
on the 26th
W. G. Henderson, charged with steal
ing a saddle, escaped from the jail at Greeley
on the 10Th.
Dillon has had its snow blocka de,
and had not received mail for ten days previ-
Gus to the 9Th.
Governor Grant has appointed a
committee to receive contributions to the
Bartholdi statue.
A South Park train was ditched near
Buena Vista on the s5th. An engineer had a
collar bone broken.
Craig's opera house, at Salida, was
damaged by dre to the extent of 1900 or
81 800, on the 25th.
The State Land Board, on the 25th,
sold SO, TO acres of land In Rio 6rapde and
Saguache counties.
The Citizens Ditch Company. on the
2oth. sold 5000 acres Of land in Concjos
county fer sl25 per acre.
I. A. Green. attorney, was disbarred
At Denver on tho Goth, for an insult in Judge
Elliott, upon the bench.
Colorado Springs has not had case
Of smallpox for eighteen months, reports to
the contrary, Notwithstanding.
On the 9th Bennie SPOTS, aged six
Csnon City, and seriously injured.
w. Jones, an expressman of Del
Norte and member of the First Colorado Cav
airy, has recently inherited $4,000.
Charles Matthews, the father of the
Ouray victim, was on the Goth sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary for larency.
George H. Fryer. one of Colorado's S
prominent mining men, died at the Windsor
ASpSAt DoANoss w ~Ao SHths AAoiu IuoT pulHc
The cattle growers of Colorado and
Wyoming have memorialized Congress not TO
pass any proposed measures which will iniure
their interests.
A $500 bell. weighing 300 pounds,
has been provided for the LonEmont fire lad
dies. The two bells In Boulder weigh about
600 pounds each.
On the 23rd, q passenger train on the
near Georgetown. by heavy Winds. Seven pas
seugcrs were injured.
A proposition has been received from
4 Wisconsin man TO put in . fifty barrel role
-four mill At Delta, providing enough encour
agemeot givon him.
The Academy of Music, Denver, has
been renttsd and is again open to the public.
Col. Fred Blocker, an old Snowman and journ-
.li.t, has charge OF tho front of the house.
The Denver Board of Trade refused
10 appoint committee to confer with the
Board Of Directors Of the Chamber OF Com
mercc relative to q consolidation of the two
bodies.
Ella Burkhart. the twelve-year-old
mics who ran awaS from Denver, taking with
her her oght-months-old brother, was captured
by the authorities In Salida, and returned on
the Gard.
On the 2srd, a jury in the Criminal
court found cxJustice Crotty, Of Denver,
guilty Of Incorporating &345. On two sim.
liar charges, tried previously, Mr.. Crotty was
exOnerated.
On the 9th James r. Milburn, a
well-known surveyor Of Leadville, fell 200 feet
into sn uncovered shaft, on Fryer Hill and was
killed. He was formerly from Maryland and
was unmarried.
Mr.. S. Wade. who owns n ranch fiji.
ty-ive miles above Delta, raised ono thousand
bssicls Of corn on ten acres Of ground last
summer, and one thousand and five hundred
bushclr Of oats on seventeen acres.
During game of monte, at Dol
Norte, on the 9th, Richard Douglas, other.
wise known as Hurricane Dick, threw a bottle
Of whisky at French Joe, who retorted with a
bullet into Dicks left hip. The men were ar.
rested.
The Corinnc Mcrrie- Makers, after a
successful engagement at Denver, started out on
the 25th, under tho management of John b.
Last, Of the Tabor Grand Opera House. who
plays them through the Colorado and Now
Mexico Circuit
Three Cinnamon were lodped in ;o;I