Delta chief., 1885-08-26
STATE NEWS,

Springs, has resigned his Office.
Raspberries are reported to be very
abundant in the mountains this year.
Trout recently placed in the Anlmas
river are reported thriving splendidly.
The roller-coaster in Denver has been
condemned as unsafe by the Building Inspec-
tor.
The body OF an unknown man was
found in the river near Red Cliff few days
ago.
The Herald is the name of newsy
paper recently started in Meeker, Garfield
county.
The Greeley Light Guards is the
name by which Greeley's new military organi-
zation will be known.
E. P. Horn, of Custer county, an old
pioneer, has been pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary by the Governor.
Carter & Cooley, ticket scalpers of
Pueblo, have been arrested, charged with de-
frauding the D. & R. G. railroad.
The Fort Collins Courier says the ap-
plications for the admission as scholars to the
Agricultural College is larger than ever be-
fore.
Fremont county will have for sale in
the next two or three months 800, 900 worth Of
grain, fruit, melons, garden products and
stock.
1t is said that the Gunnison Smelter
will be treating fifty tons of ore a day within
month. The company has recently been re-
organized.
Major Given of the Gunnison mine,
In Sugar Loaf Mountain, was found dead in
his bed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Lead
VILE last week.
Harry Doolittle, boy about thirteen
years of age, while visiting near Golden the
other day, was bitten by rattlesnake. At last
accounts he was not expected to live.
The Boulder Fire Department has
engaged the Greeley Band to play during the
three days Of the tournament. This is eaid to
be the finest outdoor band in the state.
A colony from Ohio numbering forty
two persons arrived In Meeker about three
weeks sgo. They will take up Government
land and devote themselves to farming.
DR.. Sewall, President of the Boulder
University, has been unable to secure another
officer from the United States Navy to take the
place Of Lieutenant Hasson, lately recalled.
The management of the Fort Collins
Agricultural College have decided to exclude
male students from the dormitory. Only young
lady students win be admitted. The young
yynen w{II h.nsrd srnilud fown
The first normal school in Colorado
commenced its two weeks' session in Boulder
on the 18th, with . good attendance of teach
err, in Boulder county, for whose benefit the
school is principally intended.
The state has offered reward of
$500 and Lake county one of 500 for the cap
ture of William Lange, dead or alive. He is
wanted for the murder Of Samuel C. Peabody
at Leadville, on the 7th instant.
The Denver and Leavenworth base
ball clubs played series Of games at Denver a
fews days ago, two of which were won by the
home club and one by the visitors. The last
game was won by the Denvers by a score Of
too.
Some miners on Battle Mountain,
near Red Clh, encountered large cave in the
course Of their underground workings last
week. The floors are said to he thickly laid
with q muddy tale which is very rich in gold
and silver.
The Executive Committee of the Re-
publican State Central Committee held
meeting in Denver on the 18th and called q
state convention to meet in that city on the
2end Of September to nominate candidate for
Supreme Judge.
The Poudre canon for some miles
above the mouth Of the canon is lined with
campers and fishing parties. At almost every
available place along the river there is a camp
Of pleasure seekers. The Poudre is getting to
be quite popular place Of resort.
There will be meeting of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee at Manitou,
Colo, on Wednesday, August 26, 1885, at II
O'Clock q. M, to designate the place of holding
. state convention and to transact such other
business as may come before the meeting.
John N. McMullen, who lives thirty
miles below Pueblo on the Arkansas and has
5000 acres Of land under fence, was shot and
ahghtly wounded By q Deputy United States
1arshal whom he defed when he demanded
that the fences be removed. McMuIlen was
jailed at Pueblo.
The artesian well st Loveland is now
At . depth Of 2, ,15o fest The bailer is in the
well, and this, together with the need of new