The Delta independent., 1886-12-07
STATE NEWS.

ongmont College this term.
The total vote cast for Congressman
in the late election was 5s,25s.
The Denver bank clearings show a
gratifying increase over those of last year.
!Grand Army posts throughout the
State are having their annual election Of
| officers.
Over a thousand people were out
cOasting on one hill in Leadville one night
asst week.
Mr.. Joseph Brinker, well-known
educatGr in this State. died In Denvera few
The Tabor National Guards, of Dem
yer, gave grand ball at the new music hall
| 0nthe 3D..
New postofiices have been established
at Downing in Las Animas county and at
Gilman, Eagle county.
The articles Of incorporation of the
Pueblo & eastern railroad have been filed
with the Secretary of State.
Surveyor General Dawson had a
stroke of paralysis last week while visiting
at his fathers home in Kentucky.
1t is proposed by the Ell Paso county
Hunt To have run on the 3rd OF December,
to wind up with hop at the Antlers.
Surveyor General Dawson. who has
been dangerously Ill at his former home in
Kentucky. is reported to be improving.
The Colorado Telephone Company
have established exchanges at Canon City,
Florence, Coal Creek, Rockvale and Beaver
Creek.
The State Teachers Association will
meet at Colorado Springs December ssth,
ass'th and Soth, and large attendance is an
ticipated.
Prof. Fowler, the phrenologist,i lis lee
turing in Colorado, and every man who
thinks he is genius may now have assur-
ance of the fact.
In a quarrel between +. f. Wood and
Allan Whitman, at Colorado Springs, pis-
tol was discharged severely wounding r.
W. Abbey, a bys,ander.
The strike at the mines of the Mar
shall Coal Company, is at an end, the old
rates having been restored. This is vic
tory for TIE Knights Of Labor
The Colorado Springs bachelors had
ball at the An,lers last week, and as the la
dies were out In full force there will doubt
ess he fewer bachelors shortly.
The cold wave of last week, which
hit Colorado at some points with consider
able force, extended from the upper lakes to
the Gulf. and from the Rocky Mountains to
the Atlantic.
The houses in Denver are being all
remembered on the plan Of hundred to a
block. and many OF the streets have been
renamed. The confusion for the next few
months will be awful.
A large company of colonists left
Denver last Friday for Sinaloa. a spot on
the Gulf of California which is believed to
possess all of the attractions and none OF
the drawbacks of the Garden of Eden.
Last week n man named Tobin. ar
rested at Sterling on the charge of running
a gambling house, jumped from the Jules
burg train, but was captured by Officer
kendcll, who fired several shots at him.
A fine gray team which drew the
Denver patrol wagon escaped from the
station recently and ran so fast and far that
they were not found for several days-in
fact they We're still missing at last accounts.
The following scale of wages has
been agreed upon at the Marshall coal
mines: SiNty-one cents, filling all coal and
furnish tools, powder, oil, etc, a, room
turning; sa.a5, face entry: $50, butt entry:
e.7a, butt entry. double shift
Geo. +. Emblem has had twelve citi.
zens of Yuma arrested on the charge of con.
spiracy to defraud him Of his right to take
up government land. The citizens are said
to allcge that he was driven from the town
because of his outragcously bad character.
The State Canvassing Board have
the examination OF the vote on
Congressman In the recent election, and
find that Mr.. Symes received n majority of
sos. Four OF the seven constitutional
amendments were found to have carried.
In the trial at Omaha of Messrs.
Swindler and Wells, the Denver surveyors,
who were accused of attempting to defraud
The Government out of certain lands In Ne
braska, the jnry stood eleven for acquittal
on the first ballot, and on the third rendered
a verdict of not guilty.
The Echo and Advocate is jubilant
over the promising future of Glenwood
Springs, and expresses It's joy in the follow
Ing hopeful assertion: "Never were indi-
cations so favorable for boom of prosperi-
ly In any city as they are for this place In
The spring. Glenwood will bloom In the
spring, ira Ia"
Rev. Gilbert G. Huntington, formerly
of the Young Mems Christian AS
of Denver, has gone to Fort Nor
gan, where he will enter into ministerial
labors. He will be the pastor Of the Fort
Morgan Presbyterian church, also the
rhurcV at Brush, which Is few miles from
Fort Morgan.
An unsuccessful effort having been
made In Denver to compel the saloons to re-
move from the neighborhood of the A Arapahoe
street school, an attempt Is now being made
to have the Board Of Education remove the
school as II interfcrs with business. The