Delta chief., 1884-06-11
STATE NEWS.


for the summer.
The new water works at Durango are
in successful operation.
Governor Grant has pardoned Ed
ward J. Fisher from the penitentiary.
:Larimer county is organizing a COM
mittee to operate against land Jumpers.
The May rain fall in Denver this year
was 4.61 inches, the heaviest since 1876.
The State Homeopathic Association
held their annual meeting in Denver last week.
The State Treasurer received S11S,-
966O6 and disbursed $52,6Ol.65 during the
month of May.
Thomas Liddicott, miner, was in
stantly killed in the Bates mine, near Central
City on the 4th.
Judge Hallett has ruled that A. A.
Egbert could not act as receiver of the Denver,
Western and Pacific railroad.
Five hundred Italians are reported
to be in starving condition in Denver, be
cause they cannot obtain work.
The Presbyterians have filed articles
Of incorporation with the Secretary Of State
for the erection Of a college at salida.
Gunnison will give S25, 900 in money
and real estate to the first company that will
erect q seventy-6ve ton smelter In that city.
An attache of Coles circus was
slugeed by unknown parties at Georgetown,
on the 4th. 1t is thought he cannot recover.
The Academy OF Music, Denver, has
been reftted at an expense Of q, 900, and was
opened on the End by Miss Charlotte Thomp-
son.
William Kountz, Broadway saloon
keeper, Denver, was shot and severely wound
ed by an unknown party on the night of the
3lst.
Enthusiastic ratification meetings
we're held all over the State Immediately upon
the reception of the news of Blaine's nomna-
ton.
A Canon City dispatch to the Denver
Republican states that Henry Thomas was shot
on the night of May 30th, at Cotopaxi, by G.
W. Myers.
The high line ditch, about seventeen
miles from Denver, b-oke its banks on the
night of the 3Oth ult., and caused washout
on the Denver and Rio Grande railway.
A young man, named John Paronto,
was shot at Georgetown on the 4th and 1t is
thought mortally injured by Nese Williams,
whose sister Paronto is alleged to have Sc
duced.
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Denver, has been sunk to depth of 800 feet.
Five flows Of water have been struck, the COM
oined volume being greater than that Of sny
other in the city.
The stone quarries at Fort Collins are
doing a rushing business. Orders are now in
for 1000 car loads of tagging stone for Chica-
20 and 500 for St. Louis. Fifteen hundred men
will eventually be put to work in these quar-
ries.
The agricultural college at Fort Col
lins will make display at the New Orleans
Worlds Fair, consisting of wheat, 222 vare-
ties oats 25; barley, "a; rye, 12; corn, u; sorg
hum, 16; fax, 6: millet, s: wild grasses, $50:
tame grasses 50.
Charles r. Kirker, clerk of the Ho-
tel Hutchinson, in Leadvile, received 5000
last week from w. f. d. Bigsby, who regis
tered from Shanghai, China, for safe keeping.
Then Kirker skipped the town, leaving Mrs
Hutchinson, proprietor of the hotel, to stand
the loss.
Belle Warden, Berry Gates and Chas.
Smith are charged with the murder of J. II.
Fitzgerald, the Leadville barber, whose body
was found in Cherry creek. They now in
jail, and the officers say they have strong
case against them. Three Of the inmates Of
Miss Warden's house are also held as accom-
Plices in the crime.
A special to the Denver Tribune from
Leadville June 6, says that Gen. II. B. Bearco,
formerly of Leadville, but late Of Denver, was
shot and, It is feared, fatally wounded. The
shooting took place at point about twelve
miles south Of Leadvile and was done by Sam
uel w. Derry, with whom Gen. Bearce had had
some trouble in connection with some placer
claims.
A special from Montrose to the Dem
yer Republican, dated June l. says: j. A.
Watson, the cowboy who shot Police Magis
trate Edwards and town Marshall Murphy at
this place last February, was brought to town
and safely lodged in jail to-day by special Dep
uty Sheriff Arnold Howard and two assistants,
who arrested him on Surface Creek, in Delta
county, where he has been ever since his
escape. He was taken OF his guard.