The Delta independent., 1886-12-21
STATE NEWS.

by peanut socials.
Pueblo will be lighted by electricity
after January l.
The Catholic fair at Idoho Springs |
asst week netted about $500.
An Assembly of the knights of La
Dor has been organized at Lawson
The oil and refinery business of Flor
ence is in very prosperous condition.
The name of ..Uncompahgre Canton
ment" has been changed to Fort Craw-
ord"
Collier & Cleaveland, Of Denver, have
secured the State printing for another two
years.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have lowered their rates throughout
the State.
Three thousand dollars have been
subscribed for the Pueblo base ball nine for
next year.
The Colorado Coal and Iron com-
papy has enough work on hand to last until
next July.
1t is rumored that the Atchison, Tope
ka and Santa Fe railroad intend establishing
repair shops at Pueblo
United States Land Offices will
probably he established in a short time at
both Akron and Sterling.
Mr.. William Stapleton, for several
years past the managing editor of the Den
yer News, has resigned his position.
The McCaull Opera Company will be
at the Tabor Grand Opera House in Denver |
Tor week commencing Monday, Dec. Is.
The money order business of Lead
vile amounts to over sOO, 600 a year, large |
portion of which is In foreign money orders. |
Mr.. William Truax. prominent citi-
zen of Aspen. was murderuusly assaulted
the other day by fellow named Duffy and |
nearly killed.
The new snow sheds along the line
of the South Park are all completed, which |
practically does away with all snow block |
AIDES in the future.
The annual meeting of the State
Grange will be held at Denver on the sec
ond Tuesday in January tthe lith ins,). All |
persons are invited to attend.
Salida is quite active in n business
way, and the outlook for the future is very |
promising. New buildings are going up in |
all directions and everything looks like per-
manency. c@
The cattle owners and citizens gen
orally Of Mesa county held mass meeting |
nj Grand junction the other day and pro-
tested against the importation of sheep into |
that country.
An orchardist on Wheat Ridge had
apple-irees that each produced five barrels
OF fine fruit the past season. At four dol
lars barrel each tree netted him so, which
Is n fine return.
The U. p, it is understood. has let
contracts for the construction of broad
gauge railroad from Dillon. terminus of the
South Park, TO Glenwood Springs, on Grand
river. II is surmised that this foreshadows
change OF gauge for the South Park.
AT the Windsor farm. near Denver.
arc now MIXED sevcnty-iive cows. The
nj the Windsor hotel The great majority
of these cows an highgradc Shorthorns,
and have cost close TO hundred dollars
each.
Three new towns have recently been
started in Pueblo county. One is Boston. n
town about fifty miles from New Granada;
another is Butte City, about half way be-
tween the two towns named and the other
town is Swift City, about half way between
Lamar and Kit Carson.
The annual meeting of the State Dai-
ry Association Of Colorado will be held in
Denver on Thursday, January Il, 1881, at 10
O'Clock a. III. As business of vital import
ancc to the very existence of the dairy inter
csts Of the State will he brought up for CON
sdcration, II is hoped that all persons inter
csted in this great industry will be pres
ent
The west-bound passenger train on
the d. 4 r. &. road met with an accident on
the morning Of the nth few miles east of
Grand Junction. The engine struck some
cattle that were on the track and was
thrown of the cmbankment TO the waters
edge. Engineer Thomas Welch and Fire
man John A Mcconnell were instantly
Killed. No one else was injured.
Clcmanti Trujiiio, Democratic candi-
date for the Legislature from Huerfano
county, filed with the Secretary of State
notice of n contest against Mr.. Patrick
Sweeney, Senator-elect. He alleges that
Mr.. Sweeney's election was procured by
Illegal voting: that votes were east unlaw-
fully; that legal votes We're rejected, and
that Mr.. Sweeney himself is Ineligible to
Office.
Mr.. Mott, of the United States Land
Onicc in Denver, states that the land taken
up In his district this year amounts to
million and half acres, and that the land
taken up In the past fourteen months
amounts TO 10 per cent. of the entire business
ever done In the Hand Offica. The money
which passed through the Office in Novem-
Der amounted to $4,000. In October there
were 2e7 homestead filings, $50 presumption
filings, and 365 timber culture filings. Most
Of this business came from eastern Weld
county.
The official report of the State School
OF Mines will contain Prof. Chauvenet's ar