Delta chief., 1885-10-21
COLORADO CONDENSED.

Most of the towns in the state are or
ganizing litersry soctsHs.
The town board Of Silver Plume has
resolved to purchase fire engine.
Forest fires have been raging in
Gnnnison county the past week.
Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse james,
was recently fired out Of Denver hotel.
The Meeker Herald is raising fund
for purchasing Sunday School organ.
An unknown man was found dead
in COW stable few miles above Golden.
The safe in Denver gambling house
was robbed Of Il 600 in cash the other day.
The Jumbo smelter in Gunnison
commenced turning out bullion las: Monday.
The game law is up and you can now
kill all the game you desire, provided you can
find it:
Gustavus A. Prey, Denver saloon
keeper, committed suicide by taking laudanum
on the 18th.
A farmer near Walsenburg sold last
month &35 worth Of hay from each acre he had
sown in alfalfa.
Three hundred Canon City convicts
sent petition to Rev. DR.. Hays, asking him
to remain in Colorado.
The Weld County Fair Association
paid all their expenses this year and had
money left in the treasury.
The Methodists at Idaho Spring have
recently built parsonage, and now the Pres
byterians are doing likewise
Oil we'll No. at Florence is yielding
ten barrels OF oil a day. The refinery will be in
operation by the first of November.
There are over 500 pack animals
and 500 draft animals engaged In bringing
freight into and taking ore out Of Aspen.
The average monthly salary paid to
gentlemen teachers in the graded schools Of
Arapahoe county is s1l2 50, and to ladies $685.
20.
First Lieutenant Julian Stanton has
been elected Captain Of the Georgetown mill
tary company, vice William Holbrook, re-
signed.
The Commissioners of Weld county
have decided to build new bridge across the
Platte at Denver Junction. It will be about
9, 400 feet long.
A Swede who was working on tho
section near 1lif, committed suicide last
week. Fear Of getting out Of work is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Ed. Matthews, of Park county. has
been sentenced to five years in the penitcntia-
for <ba otn u NJ hale
ing to E. P. Arthur, Of Alma.
The Denver City Council in joint ses-
sion have refused to canvass the vote cast at
the recent special election for Alderman to dill
the vacancy in the Second Ward.
The report of the Assessor of Lake
county shows that there are in that county
only si1 head Of cattle and one sheep. That
sheep must sometimes get homesick.
The freight earnings of the Colorado
Railway Association for the month Of septem-
Der, 1885, shows an increase over the cores
ponding month last year Of t30, $50.
A few days ago man named Heiver,
while working in q saw-mll near Penn Gulch,
Boulder county, fell against buzz saw add q
leg WAS sawed on, causing death by bleeding.
The Governor has been requested to
call a convention Of those interested in the
material advancement Of the State for the pur-
pose of raising funds to provide an adequate
display Of Colorado's productions at the New
OrleansbExposition.
William B. Daniels, the dry goods
merchant of Denver, has placed stained glass
window in the Cathedral Of that city in MEM
ory Of his late wife, which is said to be one Of
the finest in the country. 1t cost "a, 500, and
was made in England.
The Denver Junction Gazette says
that twenty-five land-seekers In one body got
of the train at that point Monday. They all
took land In the vicinity, and went away well
satisfied at the prospect Of that being one Of
the finest agricultural districts In the west.
A boy named Fred Rotter, in Aspen,
was playing with an old pistol that looked as
II 1t had not been loaded for a century. As
usual, 1t was loaded and went of. Fortunately,
and not as usual, the boy was not killed or
hurt. But the rusty cid gun indicated It's
character for being always loaded.
The Rocky Mountain Baptist Asso-
ciation met in Loveland last week. Tie re-
ports from the various churches were very en-
couraging. Two new churches were received,
one at Lone Tree and one at Cheyenne.
During the session the new church building
at Lovelaud was dedicated. They meet next
vesr IN RouIder