Delta chief., 1885-04-01

ing considerable attention.
AL parts of the State were visited by
equinoxial storms last week.
The House killed the Iliff county bill
on the 25th by vote 20 to "A.
Harry s. Free. of Pueblo, dropped
dead Of heart disease on the oath.
The large barn of G. A. Anderson in
North Boulder burned on the oath.
Six young men graduated from the
Denver Medical College on the a6th.
4The Democrats of Denver have nom
mated Mr.. ]. F. Matthews for mayor.
The Republicans of Denver have
nominated Joseph E. Bates for Mayor.
The Castle Rock town council will
grant only one saloon license the present year.
The annual state 'oratorical contest
win be held in Colorado Springs on April 9th.
The squatters of Aspen have organ
lied for the purpose Of protecting their
rights.
Governor Eaton has appointed Hon.
I. T. Barnum Is Judge of the Denver Police
Court.
Harry Low, q brakeman, was killed
at La Junta on the 2sd, by falling between an
engine and tender.
John Albert, an old hunter and trap
per living near Walsenberg, has captured .
hundred beavers this winter.
The Aspen Times advises laboring
men to defer going to that camp for a few
months until the snow is away.
The artesian we'll on Joe Standley's
ranch in Jefferson county is . success. Water
was struck at depth Of ESQ feet.
The new Clarendon hotel at Aspen
has been thrown open to the public 1t con
tains eighty rooms and cost s2s,o00
Jack Hayes, an old-time Coloradan,
died suddenly in Denver on the 24th from
apople1y brought on by protractcd spree.
Governor Hunt was recently fined
three times in one day for contempt Of court
at Buena Vista, for calling certain lawyer
liar.
The citizens Of Gilpin and Clear
Creek counties are trying to induce the Bur
hngton people 70 extend their line in that d.
rection.
Forty thousand young brock trout
have been turned into the Animas River above
the Rockford Falls, where no fish have ever
been seen.
Mr.. j. w. Goss, Of Longmont, who
has been boring an artesian well, struck vein
Of anthracite coal twelve feet thick at depth
Of 800 feet
The oil we'll at Walsenburg has caved
covering the tools, and the expense Of recover
ing them will be 5000. At 800 feet they
struck salt water.
A $4,000 court house is to be built
At Telluride this summer, and It is quite GER
tain that water works will be put in before
snow falls this fall.
It is reported that the Greeley, Salt
Lake d Pacific railroad company are about to
build An extension from Penn 6ulch TO Carl
hou, distance Of eight miles.
During dance given at Pitkin last
week sneak thieves got in their work in fine
shape. Nearly every valuable cloak and hat
was taken from the cloak room.
The Mayor of Denver has signed a
ConLIhct loI tuc ueuVcty VI tS,VV budut tTccb
TO be planted in the city park A half Of them
will be elms, the other half ash and maple.
A young business man at Leadville,
while at the depot on Monday evening, was at
tackled BY . female, who threw vitriol in his
face. One eye less, the other to hear from.
The citizens Of Lake county are in
dignant because the Supreme Court has issued
q writ Of supersedeas in the case Of 81 Minich,
the murderer, simply on account Of technical
error.
The force at the Marshall coal mines
in Boulder county went out on strike few
days ago, and afterwards when they wanted to
go 70 work, the Superintendent concluded he
didn't need them.
The breach between the two Houses
Of the General Assembly Is widening. The
members of the House are growing violent in
their expressions Of disgust for the Senate and
what they consider its paltry actions.
A young man named Coy Kendall,
wing At Leadville, was found on Friday near
ealida, nearly frozen to death. BE had nearly
600 on his person, and how he happened to be
In that condition and locality Il not known.