Delta chief., 1885-09-16
STATE NEWS.

Pueblo is overrun with hold-ups and
A new paper is soon to be started at
Fort Collins.
Moutrose is to have an agricultural
fair next month.
The COLORADO Pioneers will hold re-
union in Denver on the oath.
Golden is about to be afflicted with
an amateur dramatic company.
The Golden pnblic schools opened
Monday with an attendance Of 454.
The first frost of the season visited
Fort Collins and vicinity on the 7th.
A new bed of fire-clay seven feet in
width has been discovered near Canon City.
A dog fight in Idaho Springs led to a
shooting scrape between couple OF miners.
The Cumberland Presbyterians are
about 70 erect neat church building in Ell
bert.
Boulder county produced 500 bushels
Of apples and $1,000 quarts Of strawberries last
year.
Some very fine fields of corn have
been raised near Sterling this year without ir-
rigation.
Sixty claims have been filed on with
in q radius of five miles Of Elbert during the
past month.
Mrs. E. M. Chandler, wife Of the
city marshal Of Durango, committed suicide
few days ago.
Ut is estimated that the oat crop Of
the Grand River Valley will amount to 75,OC0
bushels this year.
DR.. Levi Harsh, an old pioneer, and
lately resident of Golden, died suddenly in
Denver on the Sth.
There are more than $4,000 stock
brands recorded 10 the Office Of the Secretary
of State OF Colorado.
Garfield, the yardmaster at the peni-
tentiary, and thirteen Of the guards have re-
Gently been discharged.
C. A. Mclaughlin, of Ouray county,
has been pardoned from the state penitentiary
by Acting Governor BreeRf
Considerable sorghum is raised
around Forl Collins, and candy-pulls will be
the recherche thing this winter.
The Arkansas Land and Oil Company
are building refinery. They recently received
five car loads Of oil well machinery.
Two companies are preparing to 60
into hydraulic mining just below Golden in
what is known as the old Arapahoe bar.
General Sickles and Mrs. Olive
Wright each claim to he the Colorado Com
missisner to the New Orleans exposition.
Jacoba. q seventeen-ysAr-old son of
Juan senoa sandoval, Of West Las Animas,ac
cidentany shot himself last week and died in
stantly.
The firemen of Golden and Central
CITY had . race at Jewell Park Sunday for $500
= aide, which resulted in an easy victory for
the Goldens.
o The St. Joe base ball club will play
. series of games with the Denver club at
the latter place on the 18th, 18th, 10Th and
10Th Of the present month.
Four highwaYmen robbed man
near the Burnham shops in Denver, a few
days ago. They secured nearly s1O0 in money
and valuable gold watch
The Glenwood Echo is receiving let
ters from girls all over the country who want
to come there and take care Of some Of Gar
field county's surplus male population.
A six-year horse thief from Bent
county, named Thomas, escaped from the pen
itentiary last week A guard, also, left quite
suddenly, without paying up sundry accounts
he owed.
Rev. F. L. Sanborn has resigned the
pastorate Of the Congregational church at As
pen, and will probably be succeeded by Rev.
Mr.. Phillips Of Leadville. Mr.. sanborn will
study at the Boston University.
During the month of August $500
tons of ore were shipped from silverton o, ,er
the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. OF this
amount, 1,1O0 tons were consigned to Duran
go, the balance going to Pueblo and Denver
Mr.. George S. Simpson, says the
Trinidad advertiser, who has been a resident OF
Southern Colorado for more than thirty years
and who has been seriously Ill for several
weeks past, died at his home up the river, on
the 5th.
The State University opened for the
newyear Wednesday with good attendance,
in which there was quite a number Of new
students. In the medical department there
were fourteen pupils enrolled, with four or