Delta chief., 1885-07-29
STATE NEWS.

Denver smelters are treating over
100000 tons Of ore year.
An extensive cave has been discov-
cred in the Wet Mountain range.
Fishing in the vicinity of Wagon
Wheel Gap is said to be excellent.
C. N. Robinson, of Walsenberg, was
bitten by rattlesnake few days ago.
William Smith has been held in the
sum Of IS 600 bail for the murder of Jonas Til
yon, near Greeley.
The rewards offered for the arrest
and conviction Of the Denver dynamiters now
aggregate $2,5OO.
The Division Hospital, at La Junta,
= was formally opened by grand banquet and
ball Saturday night.
/. jackson Sprague, of Pueblo, raised
check from 81 O2 to $4,000, and is now Ian
gushing In jail therefor.
A man, woman and child were
drowned while trying to cross large aroya
between Trinidad and Ell Moro.
A game of ball was played in Como
11BG week IN winch Tue EtIuAIhhUlt 6COIe VI lfS
to 143 to said to have been made.
One wing of new building for the
Pueblo Collegiate Institute, under the auspices
of the Methodist Church South, will be built
this season at cost Of $4,000.
Ralston Canon, a few miles above
Golden is getting to be great resort for Den
yer picnicers. Last Wednesday an excursion
party Of nearly 1000 people passed the day
there.
Every town and mining camp in the
Many Of the larger cities are making prepara-
tions for appropriate exercises on the day Of
the funeral.
The Denver, Utah and Pacific now
runs two trains q day between Denver and
Longmont, leaving Denver at $50 g. m. and
$40 p. M, and arriving in Denver at 9:27 am.
and $40 p. m.
A couple of colored Don Juans got
into fight at q ball in Denver Friday night
and one Of them, Fred Sanders. received
wounds from which he will probably die. His
assailant, John Wood, was arrested.
Aspen boasts that the Grand Jury of
Pitkin county, at its late sitting found true
bills sgainst only three persons. For a from
tier mining camp Of its population, and for
whole year besides, this is record Of which it
may well be proud.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the Secretary of State Of the Plutus
Mining and Smelling Company. Capital stock
100000. Operations will be carried on in
Clear Creek county. The fee for filing this
certificate was 5000.
Mrs. H. s. Porteus, of Denver, was
out riding the other day, when her horse be-
came unmanageable and ran away. The lady
becoming greatly frightened jumped from the
phaeton, receiving injuries from which she
shortly atterward died.
Messrs. Bush & Morse. proprietors
of the Windsor Hotel, Denver, are fitting up
some magnificent baths in the bas ement Of the
new Barclay block. 1t is said that $4,000 are
being expended in fitting them up, and that
they will be the most magnificent in the world
outside Of Vienna.
A spiritual retreat of the Catholic
Clergy Of Colorado will be held at the halls Of
the new college of the Sacred Heart, at Morrl-
son, Colorado, sixteen miles from Denver, COM
mencing on Monday, August 8 at 7 p. m.
The celebrated mission priest, Father Damen,
of the Society of Jesus, will conduct the re-
treat.
The prisoners in the Greeley jail re-
Gently made futile attempt to escape. They
had, by some means, procured file and some
lead, and, with mold made of wood, had cast
. key. Owing to some defect in the molding
Of the first one, they had broken itup, with the
intention Of remolding 1t, when they were dis
covered.
The body Of John w. Prentiss, we'll
known ranchman of the Paradox valley, was
found few days ago buried in q shallow well
on his premises with three bullet holes through
the head, and the body badly beaten with
blunt instrument. M. v. Rollins, young
man who lived with him, has been arrested,
suspected Of the crime.
Two dead bodies were found in the
Arkansas river few miles below Pueblo on
the oath. One was the body of Francisco Mar
tinez, Mexican, who formerly lived near
Trinidad, and who was drowned while trying
to ford the river. The other was that of an
unknown white man about ffty-nve years Of
age. From papers found upon his person, he
is supposed to have formerly lived 10 Boston
1t is said by old prospectors that there
is not mountain peak in Colorado on the tip.
top OF which there is not tin can. Tourists
and mountain clfYnbers have a habit nj tskfpu