Delta chief., 1885-10-14
COLORADO CONDENSED.

~ Soohey 10 Siioo1ioeo.
Denver streets are henceforward to be
lighted by electricity instead Of gas.
The Good Templars lodge at Gothic
is said to have ''taken the town."
A company has been organized at
Greeley to introduce the electric light.
The National Association of Railroad
Conductors has been in session in Denver.
J.E.Gallagher,a an alleged forger from
Chicago, has been arrested at Louisville, in
this state.
Old Mexico has sent Consul to rep
resent that nation in this state, ard located
him at Pueblo.
Three hundred Canon City convicts
sent petition to Rev. DR.. Hays, asking him
to remain in Colorado.
The Lartmer Bee is the name of q
new Republican paper which has recently made
its appearance at Fort Collins.
T. L. Lewis and C. H Wheeler have
been arrested by Constable Austin of Boulder,
charged with stealing cattle.
Suit has been begun in the United
States Circuit Court at Denver by the Govern
ment to recover the Maxwell land grant.
George W. Smith, who was arrested
in Denver few weeks ago charged with being
a dynamiter, has been tried and acquitted.
Prof. Broad's comic opera company
will commence a weeks engagement at the
Tabor Grand Opera House, Denver, on the
18th.
A newly organized w. c. T. q. at
Crested Butte, is about to open free reading
room for miners, which is greatly needed in
that place.
Charles Cain, brakeman, had a
Pueblo Smelling switching yard, Sunday
morning.
The earnings of the Denver and Rio
Graz. Tor the month Of September were
1861 1893, ali increase over the same month last
year Of $39, 1886.
The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of
the Congregational Association for Colorado
and Wyoming commenced its session at Pueb-
10 on the Sth.
The Grand Jury has indicted five
white men and two Indians who killed two
Chinese hop pickers in squack Valley, Wash
ington Territory
The Holdridge branch of the Burning
ton is expected to be built up the Frenchman
to Sterling, on the Platte, thence up the Paw
nee to Cheyenne.
BY fire in livery stable near Six
teenth and Wazee streets, Denver, seven
horses were roasted, and the Planters Hotel,
one Of the old landmarks, destroyed.
At a recent meeting of the State
Board Of Medical Examiners, certificates were
granted to twenty-five applicants TO practice
medicine, two of whom were women.
In the series of five games recently
played in Denver between the Denver and St..
Joe base ball clubs the latter won three. This
makes them the champions Of the west.
1t is reported that Colorow choked q
little boy on his recent trip to the Springs. 1t
is said that he rode up to a ranch, ordered the
boy to cook him something TO eat, and on the
boys refusal choked him.
1t is reported that Mr.. Barela pro-
poses to build railroad from Trinidad to Fl
Moro and have 1t in operation in two months
time provided the citizens Of Trinidad will give
him 5000 and the right OF way.
A man named CJoseph Smith was
dangerously and perhaps fatally shot in Den
yer few days ago, by constable who had a
warrant for his arrest. The shooting IA
thought to have been unnecessary.
The railroad hospital at La Junta has
been full Of patients for the past month, and
1000 meals have been served in the establish.
ment during September. The reception room
has lately been furnished with handsome fur
niture.
A movement is on foot among Jeffer-
son county farmers to erect in Golden far.
mers' union elevator, in which the farmers can
store and hold their grain and obtain money
on 1t to tide them over until satisfactory prices
can be obi aimed.
A large number Of the prominent
ladies OF Denver have signed pledge to In.
quirc for Coloradc-made goods whenever they
have purchases to make, and price and quality
being the same to buy them in preference to
goods made elsewhere.
The elevator at Berthoud is taking in
about 1900 bushels Of grain daily, part on
storage and part bought and shipped. The
mill in connection with the elevator has just
been put in operation, and things are lively
across the track day and night.
Bees have done well this year in