Delta chief., 1885-05-20
STATE NEWS.

There are $50 postoffices in Colorado.
1t is said there is only one unmarried
lady in Gothic.
Boulder has been troubled with
chicken thieves.
The towns in the northern part of the
state are complaining of the mud.
More tree-planting is beng done in
the State this year than ever before.
Work has been commenced on the
new Presbyterian college at Del Norte.
There are said to be forty applicants
for the Land Ofaceship at Glenwood Springs.
B. Clark Wheeler of the Aspen Times
has started paper at Glenwood called the
Echo.
A Denver firm have secured the
contract for ruilding the new capitol at
Santa Fe.
1t is reported that W. A. H. Love-
land is to be appointed Surveyor-General of
Colorado.
The commencement exercises at the
State University will take place from May 90
to June 8, inclusive.
The body of Charlie Scott, who was
drowned at Como while hunting, was found
on Wednesday morning.
j. H. Lowrie. bookkeeper for Cyrus
Eaton d Co., Denver, has been arrested
. charged with embezzling q, 200 from the firm.
The Rio Grand strikers held mon
ster mass meeting in Denver on Sunday, which
was addressed by Hon. j. B. Belford and
Others.
A meeting OF prominent citizens was
held in Denver Monday night, to discuss
measures for perfecting the sanitary condition
of that city.
1t is proposed to erect a large hotel
ut Canon City for the accommodation Of the in
creasing number Of invalids who visit the hot
springs near there.
Miss Retta Webster, daughter of DR..
Webster, of Colorado Springs, was thrown
from hor:e in Cheyenne Canon on the 18th
and seriously injured.
The passenger train which left Salida
.t5n'c'ock Sunday afternoon, had sleeper
and one passenger icoach ditched by a land
slide near Marshall Pass.
Probably the largest mountain trout
ever caughtoin Gunnison was pulled out the
other morning by west end man. 1t weighed
three and aqusrter pounds dressed.
The observatory on Mount Lookout,
near Del Norte, is completed and is a splendid
place to visit Senator Bowen states that
signal station will be established there.
Alanosa, which never had temper
ance organization till this Spring, now has
hourishing Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and Good Templars Lodge Of 60 mem
bers. {.
The Rio Grande strikers feel very
bitter toward the train men because they're
fused to aid them and have adopted resolu-
tions denouncing their course and threatening
retaliation.
The Grand Jury of Pueblo county
have indicted John George Haas, charging
him with having murder ed John NJ. Allen on
the 5th Of this month. He was released on
$4,000 bail.
Trinidad people are congratulating
themselves because Boston excursionist was
heard to remark q few days since, "Why
Charles, the people here seem to be tolerably
well civilized.
A lady farmer in the Grand Valley
is putting in forty acres Of wheat, oats and
millet without any assistance from the lords
Of creation. She is practical believer in wo-
mans rights.
The Independent Order of Good Tenn
plars in Colorado and New Mexico has re-
ceived On accession Of nearly one thousand
members in the past hve weeks through the
labor Of Col. j. J. Hickman.
Captain Burnham has brought suit
against the city Of Colorado Springs for S1O,-
900 damages for false imprisonment. This
suit is an outgrowth Of the liquor prosecutions
that were instituted some time since.
Judge Brewer has sentenced three
more Of the Rio Grande strikers to jail for
contempt Their names were Murphy, Tyler
and Orr, all Of salida, and their sentences ten
and thirty days and four months respectively.
At late temperance meeting in Gun
nison, drunkard was taken out for disturbing
the meeting by his walls for his own past, and
lodged in jail for fifteen days. He is grad
uate from Harvard and has been worth t75, 900.
The road between Granite and As
pen is not yet 30 dusty as TO need sprinkling.
A few days ago three jacks in a jack train that
was crossing the range fell down in the mud
and were tramped out Of sight by the rest of