Delta chief., 1885-04-08
STATE NEWS.

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Denver police made 191 arrests dur
ing March.
A new live stock paper is soon to ap-
pear in Pueblo.
Freight from Granite to Aspen is four
cents pound.
Small fruit around Greeley promises
An abundant yield.
George Duncan committed suicide at
Colorado Springs on the sOth.
The total receipts of the State Treas
urer for March were $115,9S9.sa.
A number of the Kansas state officials
have been visiting the Legislature.
The Presbyterians of Fort Collins
are about to build new church edifice.
The blast furnace men at Bessemer
hsge struck against reduction of wages.
A new evening paper is to be started
at Aspen by Mr.. Lowe, Of Colorado Springs.
Captain Curtis, of Littleton, has an
A fire in Fort Collins on the morning
of April 2, did about 5000 worth Of damage
The Newman group of mines at Rico
was sold by the sheriff on the 3oth for 81, ,Oo0
The Castle Rock town council will
grant only one saloon license the present year.
Doc Holiday was tried at Leadville
on the charge Of killing Billy Allen and was
acquitted
An unknown man committed suicide
by jumping into the Arkansas river at Pueblo,
on the 30th.
Mr.. Horn has been appointed post
master at Idaho Springs, and sMr. Watrous at
Fort Collins.
Both houses of the General Assembly
passed resolution of sympathy for General
Grant and family.
Leadvllle merchants are agitating
the building of telephone line 10 Aspen. 1t
will cost about s4,OOo.
James Biggar has been convicted by
Leadville jury for attempting to kill Mike
Jennings last January.
About sixty new lode locations have
been recorded in the county clerks ofiice of
GiIpIn county, since the first Of January.
Two boys IN Georgetown while hunt
ng for Indian relics found eleven bars Of bull
ion, which had evidently teen stolen and hid.
The primary department of the pub
lie school Of La Veta closed for thirty days on
account OF the Illness Of the teacher, Miss Pitt
Senator Freeman and Representative
NeFie were burned in effigy at Sterling for
their supposed opposition to the Ilifr county
bill.
In a slx-hour go-as-you-please roller
skating contest at Pueblo on the 3lst, Mr.. VIII
Boob scored 70 miles and laps, II laps to the
mile.
James Allen, alias "The Hoodlum,''
was shot by Charles Rawlings in bawdy
house in Denver, on the End. Hs will proba-
bly, die.
Idaho Springs has quarantined itself
against Black Hawk, Central City and Nevada
vile, on account Of the smallpox in those
places.
The Civil Rights bill has passed the
Legislature. The colored population of Den
VcI CcicUIhEu tnc eSeut oy H'hbtet "nSs
meeting.
The South Park tunnel through Al
pine Pass is reported to be half full Of ice. 1t
Is thought the road will not be open before the
middle of May.
Lewis Cheney, President Of the First
National Bank Of Boulder, died last Tuesday.
Mr.. Cheney was also connected with the bank
at Gunnison.
A $4,000 court house is to be built
at Telluride this summer, and 1t is quite GER
tain that water works will be put in before
snow falls this fall.
A daughter OF s. c. Fisher, of AL
mont, Colo, was poisoned few days ago by
wearing old gold colored hose. After few
days Of severe illness the child recovered.
The town Of Meeker in Garfield coun
ty was taken possession Of by cowboys one
day last week, and the Sheriff resigned his Of
Ace in preference to trying TO control them.
In the Criminal Court in Pueblo, on
The 2sth, the Jury in the Nick Hughes murder
case disagreed, and the District Attorney en-
tered nolle and the prisoner was acquitted.
The House has passed the bill appro-
priating e25,OOo for bridge over the Grand
river at Grand Junction, on condition that
Mesa county will subscribe an additional $l5,-
900.
Douglass county commissioners of