Delta chief., 1884-05-14
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DA&ta, Colorado.
WRDNRSDAY MAY IA, 1884.

The postmaster Of Trinidad.
A little child eff james Link was
drowned at Como, on the 18th.
The Democrats will hold their State
Convention at Pueblo on the 18th of June.
ALadies' Auxiliary to Dodd Post.
G. A. R., Of Golden was organized on the
5th.
On the 3rd, r. II. Cole. Of Denver,
had leg cut Of by railway train near Pu-
eblo.
Southard, Waller & Reed, shoe deal
ers at LeadviHe, assigned on the 1th, their lis
b lities being eli, 4sO4o.
On the 9Th, run was made on the
Grand junction banks and the latter came out
of the ordeal unscathed.
Fort Collins liquor dealers have been
allowed fifteen days in which TO either close
business or leave the town.
Lots in Grand Junction, which sold
two years ago for $50 each, have recently
changed hands at high figures.
Among the appropriations in the
River and Harbor bill is one Of 0,0co for the
Colorado river.
1t is expected that work on the Den
yer & New Orleans extension will be begun
within short time.
1t is reported that rich placers have
been found a. Elizabeth, thirty-nine miles
from Denver, on the Denver and New Orleans
road.
A stock company has been formed 10
build four-story -four mill upon the site Of
the Chapman mill recently destroyed by Ere at
Canon.
Lewis Benton, a deserter from Co.
Z, Sixth L. s. Cavalry stationed a: Fort
Howell, Tucson, Arizona, was arrested IN
Denver on the 9th.
A reward of $1,000 is offered by the
Colorado Springs City Council for the arrest
and conviction Of the party who attempted to
blow up the Crawford House, on the 3oth Of
April.
General Adams, Postoffice Inspector
visited Leadviue on the 9th, for the purpose Of
fndilg cheaper location than the present
quarters, retrenchmeot having been deemed
advisable.
o. II, Haller, who killed his wife and
her paramore, Samuel Morris, in Denver, last
October, had a seventeen days tria ending
with his acguittal on the 7th. The defence
was emotional insanity
The three men, Lewis, Riley and
Brown, who escaped from the jail at Durango,
short time ago. were re-ca2tured on the 1th,
by Sheriff McDermot, and two ASSISTANT at
Mitchers ranch in the lower San Juan.
Fort Collins proposes to celebrate
Decoration Day, she has heretofore, in a
royal manner. The George II. Thomas Post
has the matter In charge and Is making all
the necessary arrangements.
The Golden school election, on the
9th, at Golden, resulted in the election Of
Benjamin J. Rowe for President, and Captain
E. L. Berthoud for Secretary. Considerable
interest was taken, in fact, more than usual.
Some thirty ladies availed themselves Of the
right Of suffrage.
On the 4th. some workmen on
bridge at Bridgeport found man in the Gun
nison River. The body was decomposed so
that he could not be recognized. A Deayer
Rio Grande discharge check was found in his
poeketbcok, bearing the name of John Smith,
and dated in August, 1sss.
Jacob Floyers a1d Theodore Kutchen
of Fort Collipe, have formed a partnership,
andgill erect large and improved Touring
mill In Pleasant Valley, about seven miles
west of that dty. They kxse secured an e1-
eelIent site, and will have switches from the
Greeley, Salt Lake d Pacific railroad.
A new ditch company is organizing
at Golden, for the purpose Of taking water
from Clear creek on the North side. This
ditch, If built, will be from seventy-fre TO one
hundred feet higher than the church ditch,
and bring under cultivation many Thousands
of acres, which are now useless except for pas
ture.
The Supreme court at Denver, on
the 3rd, gave Albeit Garvey, now serving a
ten-year's sentence in the penitentiary for man
slaughter, a new trial. Garvey was once
sentenced 10 life imprisonment for murder,
but was released on flaw found in the muir
der law. He was then sentenced for man
slaughter without being given a new trial.
The court now holds that he should have been
tried for manslaugbtcr.
The prospect for small railroad
yer, is very promising. The Union Pacific, 1t
is reported, is trying to head of the Burllng-
ton, and to accomplish that purpose will
build switch from the University hill east to
sternberg's mill, nsing the Denver q Western
grade to reach the top of the hill. This will
m.ke a switch CROSS from tho Yount mill to