Delta chief., 1885-06-03
STATE NEWS.

Inc dynamlterS tTleQ 10 WTeck tTdlu
near Gunniaon City few days ago.
The Good Templars are organizing
lodges all through the San Juan country.
Farmers around Sterling claim that
they can beat the state on watermelons.
Monsignor Capel, the eloquent Catho-
lie divine, has been lecturing in Denver.
Longmont was visited last week by
hail storm which did considerable damage.
Harrison, the boy preacher, is soon to
conduct months revival services in Denver.
There are said to be six hundred
jacks on the road between Granite and Aspen
The Rev. Mr.. Beaubien has resigned
the rectorship of the Episcopal church at
Salida-
James P. Redick has been commits
aioned postmaster at Telluride and James c.
Connor at Aspen.
The Denver & New Orleans Railway
company has been reorganized with a capital
stock Of SIC, 100000.
Trinidad parties feel confident that
they will get the contract for furnishing stone
for the State Capitol.
1t is reported that myriads of young
yrasshoppers are Matching out in the sandy soil
south of Canon City.
Charles u. Cameron, assistant book
keeper for A. W. Waters s. Co., Denver, is re-
ported to be an absconder.
William Smith, ranchman, was
drowned in the Grand last Sunday at point
some twelve miles above Dotsero.
There are 1000 tons of ore on hand
At the Aspen smelter worth 100000 and $50
tons Of bullion worth 800 per ton.
The Boulder County Sabbath School
Convention met in Longmont on the 27th.
About seventy-ive delegates were in attend
ance.
Governor Eaton has offered a reward
of $500 for T.. apprehension Of the parties who
tried to blow up the Rio Grande last Saturday
night.
In the Likins forgery case at Boul-
der. the motion for new trial was denied and
the prisoner sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary.
The employees of the Bassiek Mining
Company have received no pay for nearly
three months, and there is in consequence
great discomfort among them.
Denver has now three grades of sa-
loon licenses, $500, $500 and $500, according
to the number of hours per day the proprietor
wishes to keep his saloon open.
A little boy, seven and half years
old, son Of Thomas Woodley, Of Georgetown,
fell between some moving cars at that place
the other day and was severely injured.
The colored men who have lately
been working in the coal mines near Walscn-
burg, called on Gov. Eaton the other day to
ask for aid to enable them to return to Ten
nessee.
Albert S. Holmes. of the Burlington
and Missouri survey, and graduate OF the
Denver University, was recently drowned in
the Grand River, about twenty miles north of
Dotsero.
Knox Wilbor, prominent and we'll
known citizen of Elbert county, committed
suicide on the morning OF the Goth at his saw-
mill, ten miles north OF the town Of Ebert, by
shooting.
In the free for all trotting race at
Denver on the 29th, Lady Bonner, owned by
N. NJ Tabor, beat Velox, owned by J. N. Car
lie, In three straight heats. Time, g 2S15
2:2s15 and $50.
Monsignor Capel wished to lecture in,
the Tabor Grand Opera House, but Mr.. Tabor
would not rent him the room because Bishop
Machebeuf had refused to let Mr.. and Mrs.
Tabor rent pew in St. Mary's Cathedral.
The strike at Salida has collapsed.
Alta meeting of the Knights Of Labor it was
voted that such OF the members as could Sc
cure work should be allowed to do so. Proba-
bly, only about half OF them will be taken back.
A writ of quo warranto, issued by
the Supreme Court has Deen served on Judge
Goddard of the Fifth Judicial District, de-
manding by what right he holds his present
office, and obliging him to show cause why he
should not be ousted therefrom.
An Italian beggar woman is under
arrest in Durango charged with abducting the
fourteen -months-old child OF Robert Carson,
the County Clerk OF La Plata county. She is
said to be a professional beggar, although the
owner Of property worth over $4,000.
The Conamara mine on Aspen noun
tain, tone-eighth Of which was recently pur-
chased for 100000 by J. D. Morrissey and Joe
Reynolds, of Chicago, has struck mineral at
the depth of 450 feet which assayed 81 ounces
in silver and 12 per cent. in lead. One of the
owners says he would refuse 900 for his