The Delta independent., 1886-11-16
COLORADO CONDENSED.
Greeley is to have a gymnasium.

| yearly In Colorado.
The reelection of Mr.. Symes to Con-
gress is now conceded.
An Odd Fellows lodge is soou to be
established in Sterling.
The question of the division of Gar
field county is being agitated.
A couple of convicts escaped from
the penitentiary few days ago.
An experiment is being made in Den
yer of Stag as building material.
Boulder boasts of ain 1S-year old boy
who can eat thirty-one pancakes at one sit
ting.
The transactions of the Denver
! Clearing House for last week amounted TO
&, ,9i2, $3.50.
| ! A contract for 10000 tons Of steel
rails has been let by the Midland road to the
c. c. ~ |. {. Co, of Pueblo.
An Agricultural and Industrial En-
position company has been organized in Pu-
eblo with a capital of $4,000.
II Is said that one of the Denver
brewerics makes ten gallons of beer a year
for every resident of the State.
The next meeting of the Boulder
County Teachers Association will be held
at Longmont commencing November aCth.
Forty thousand dollars was sub
scribcd in half an hour last Sunday towards
the erection of a new Methodist church in
Denver.
The report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue shows that the collections
made in this State during the last fiscal
year were SOL. .4s2.
The Midland is surveying a line to
the marble mines on YuIe and Rock creeks,
and also a line from Glenwood Springs
through TO Salt Lake.
Over 5000 pounds of oleomargarine
have been stamped by United States Col
lector Wolfe in Denver since the law went
into effect on the frs, of October.
The Pacific Mutual Telegraph Com
pany have made propositions to extend
| their wires TO Denver which have been ap-
proved BY the Chamber of Commerce Of that
city.
4 Two or three cooking clubs have
been organized in Greeley. They hire a
cook and claim that they have n better table
and 4, coat not exceeding three dollars a
week.
BY the giving way of Il Scatlold in
the new Methodist church being built al
Montrosc two carpenters and Rev. Vim.
Osborne. the pastor OF the congregation
were severely injured.
Between three and four hundred
coal miners are out on a strike in Boulder
l.arimer and Weld counties. The cause of
the strike is n reduction Of wages from
sl.l2'T 10 sl.oo per ton.
AT the late election Yuma cast 20
votes. Hyde and Otis about ~. Akron l55.
At the election one year ago these four
towns cast, all told. 10 votes. one year
fyom now they will poll 800 votes.
,,rhe Denver Il Rio Grande railroad
COMPANY intend reducing their passenger
rates aftcrihe first Of January to four and
six cents mile-thc former to he the rate
ON the plains, the latter in the mountains.
The Midland offices. besides occupy
ing all the rooms in the Opera House at Col
orado Springs. have three additional rooms;
one Of which is devoted to the stationery de
partment, and the other two are devoted to
the machinery department.
Fred Friend. Salida tailor. was in
stantly killed the other day by Young
man named Wilbur Comstock. who was
fooling with rifle in an adjoining build
ing, the ball going through the partitions
and passing directly through Friends head.
Father Halton. of Ouray. has col
lecied nearly 5000 for the erection and sup
port Of a miners hospital in ouray. The
building will he of stone, 3lx5O feet, and two
stories high. The hospital will he under the
direction and supervision. OF the Sisters of
Charity. ,
The apex question at Aspen is fur
nishing employment TO large number of
mining engineers. The case will be very
hotly contested. 1t will he called at Lead
Vile on the 18th and should the apex people
lose the suit Aspen will have one of the big
gest celebrations ever seen in Colorado.
George +. Richardson. n clerk of A.
u. AEnuckle, plt III Illt NUn-thlllrA'lnTS on
the Midland, was killed by his employer in
"a quarrel last "Wednesday. Arhuckle was ar
rested. As he refuses TO make n statement
and as no one witnessed the quarrel the par
ticulars cannot he given.
The drills at Hagerman tunnel are
now gnawing through an average of four-
teen feet of rock per day or about 100 feet
a week. There is now about 400 feet per-
formed, leaving balance of l,16l. At the
rate of 100 feet per week and allowing for de-
lays. It is reasonable to look forward to It's
completion in February next.
The Leadville ..Herald-Democrat"
says Il requires 5000 cars week to transact
the business of the Denver and Rio Grande
railway. A comparison between them and
the 800 freight wagons that used to pull into
I.eadvillc, will convince anybody of the per-
mancncy Of that section, or whether or not
TINT Is supply point for the neighboring
kcountry.
At the request Of the Colorado Cattle
Growers Association, Governor Eaton has
appointed Hon. J. l.. Brush and State Sena-
tor Woodwork as delegates to the convcn-