Delta chief., 1885-09-23
STATE NEWS.

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her public school.
The total assessed valuation of Weld
county is s., 9,oS5.
Bent county will produce over lOO,-
900 watermelons this year.
The eastern part of Weld county is
rapidly filing up with settlers.
Miss Eva Thompson, of Pueblo, was
injured by a runaway on the 10th.
The Independent and Journal, of
Alamosa, have been consolidated.
1t is reported that the Missouri Pa
clfc railroad is to be extended TO Denver.
Work on their new S2O,OO0 school
house has been commenced at Idaho Springs.
While in Denver Min had his treasu-
rer arrested for the alleged embezzlement Of
$500.
The Grand View Smelter at Rico is
again at work, reducing about thirty-ive tons
= day.
One farmer in Fremont county has
sold q, 900 worth Of fruit from forty acres Of
land this year.
There is said to be more building
going on in Idaho Springs than ever before in
the history of the town.
The skull of Douglass. the Ute Indian
war chief, is used as q paper weight by the
editor of the Glenwood Echo.
Ed Virden, q young man twenty years
Of age, was drowned in the Gunnison river,
near White river, last week.
The citizens of Longmont gave their
nremen An enthusiastic reception upon their
return home from Cheyenne.
1t is probable that the Denver Jockey
Club will have q fall meeting at Jewell Park
during the first week in October.
Pat Rush, q section boss on the d. &
r. G. road, was murdered the other day by a
crazy man who was in his employ.
Lawrence,Barrett opens weeks en-
Denver, next Monday, in "Richelieu."
The Weld county fair will open at the
grounds Of the association, south Of Greeley,
On the 2oth instant, continuing four days.
Otto Mears is pushing work on his
toll road from silverton to Animas Forks, and
Will probably haye It completed before snow
flies.
Tie pooled railway lines at Denver
showed an increase Of 1000 in freight re-
ceipts Of August this year over the same month
last year.
The squabble in the Denver City
%nl L. ~
Alderman Jones. He will be candidate for
reelection.
The price of wool has gone up to 1S
cents pound and the sheep men are cores
pondingly elated. They claim that wool Will
soon be king.
The daughter of Mr.. VIM. II. Bush,
the proprietor Of the Windsor Hotel, Denver,
Is soon to be married to Mr.. b. 8. Bigger,
wealthy Englishman.
Charles D. Pierce, the engineer who
vas injured by the collision of two trains in
the Grand Canon about . month ago, died
few days sgo at Pueblo.
There has been up to date four thou
sand Eve hundred and twenty acres surveyed
on the White River mesa. And still there is
room, 80 says the surveyor.
Mr.. Lewis Whitman, former resi-
dent Of Del Norte, and still residing in the val
ley, last week obtained q back pension from
the Government Of e5, ,s21. 81.
The commissioners of PItkin county
have offered reward of $500 for the appre-
hension Of the murderer Of W. F. Lounsbury,
whose dead body was found in the Roaring
Fork on the 18th Of last month.
The tenth annual session Of the Grand
Lodge of the order Of Knights of Pythias, for
the State Of Colorado, met in Pueblo on the
18th. There was a large attendance and the
parade was 8 very imposing one.
Governor Eaton returned to Denver
on Saturday evening after three weeks alb
sence from Colorado, during which time he
has visited various points in Oregon, Califor
mia and other Pacific States. His family ac-
companied him on his trip, which was highly
enjoyable one.
The Dolores NeUs says: A few bison
are in the county yet, and are found in the
small parks near the summit Of the range.
They are very hard to hunt as they are apt to
smell the hunter from afar, plunge into the
depths Of the forest and travel, is is said from
twenty to forty miles before halting
A man by the name OF George Wash
ington Smith was captured in Denver Sunday
night, while in the act Of putting dynamite on
the track Of the Rio Grande railway. He had