The Delta independent., 1888-03-20
COLORADO CONDENSED.

- DA' SiItOn.
y $4,000 school house is to be built
al Lamar at once
The new Bent county court house is
to cost over 10000.
A great revival of religion is in prog
ress at Las Animas.
Another 50-barrel oil well has been
struck at Florence.
Trinidad feels certain of soon pos
sessins rolling mill.
MIR. Moody is conducting revival
sn.etings in Leadyi lie.
The Denver glass works are running
up 10 Their full capacity.
A threc-foot vein of fire clay has been
discovered near Carb9pdale.
Work Is soon TO be recommended
on The Denver postOiiice building.
a wonderfully rich strike is reported
III the Last Dollar mine at Aspen.
The Il. G. Dun mercantile agency
nave established branch Office at Pueblo
A couple of Cinnamon took out nat
mnliza,ion papers in Denver the other day
Last week 1000 tons of Aspen ore
were contracted for to be sent to Salt Lake
City.
Tho gold placers of San Miguel
c. unity are attracting much attention among
mining men.
The last rail on the line connecting
D'nyer with the Gulf OF Mexico was laid
Wednesday afternoon.
Stephen Webb adyertises in the San
Luis Grnpbic for wife. Only those who
can milk cows need apply.
The engineers on the Denver. Utah
* Pacific road have struck, out of sympathy
with the Il & II. strikers.
Tho mayor of Leadville asserts that
- per cent of the taxpayers of that town
are In favor Of gambling.
Many of the wealthy residents OF
Colorado Springs are opposing tie erection
of smel,ers near that city.
There are four hundred and fifty
real estate agents In Denver and they are
all apparently making money.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad is
building double track portion of the way
teiSeen Denver and Pueblo.
Mr.. A. II. Danforth, general mana
kcr OF the Z. q. & /. Co, has been arrested
Tor cutting timber from government land.
The Catholics OF Denver have pur-
chAsei lots for si5 900 on which they pro-
i'ose building Cathedral worth at least
GOO.
Joab, the man who was arrested in
Pueblo on suspicion OF being Tascot,, has
brought suI, against a. b. Franklin for in.
aigaiing his arrest
Hon. Allen A. Bradford. one Of the old
settlsss and nan who twice represented
she Territory OF Colorado in Congress, died
in Pueblo a few days ago.
A misplaced switch cause n wreck
ON the Denver & Rio Grnnde railroad near
Mon'rose few days ago. in which iire.
man named Finley lost his life.
The electric light works at Manitou
has been supplemented with steam power,
the water power not being sufficient and
sufficiently reliable TO give regularity OF
good light
Tho prevailing opinion at the recent
Reservoir Convention seemed to he that 1t
would be better TO ask Congress for the
money 10 build the reservoirs rather than
for donation of land.
The Denver, Texas & Gulf railroad
expect 10 be taxed to their u,mos, TO accom-
moiate all the Texans who will want TO
come oy,r ih,ir read TO the Cattlemcu's
Cunvention in Denver next week.
Charley Van Brunt, one of the best
known young men OF For, Collins, had his
leg f.HrmIly crushed by the derailIng Of a
freight car the other day. 1t is doubtful Il
even by amputatine tue limb his life can
Ice savet.
The miners of Aspen are determined
10 resist ihceifort to reduce wages. few
days ago all the % men ut work In the j, q.
johnson mine quit and refused to return to
work uuloss th,ic wages are restored TO
$50 day.
Two Of the best known and most ro-
srceicd citizens of Durango. A. c. Myers
aud Fraul West, have been arrested upon
rqusiiion OF the Governor of Kansas,
charged with murder committed In that
state twelve years ago.
A brakeman by the namo of George
Edwards was killed few days ago at Trim
cHcra, forty miles south of Trinidad, while
In the act of Jumping on the pilot This is
the first serious accident that has occurred
on the new extension of the Denver, Texas
n Fort Worth.
The House Public Building Commit
tee has favorably reported Judge Symes'
bill for tie Pueblo public building. Sem
a,or Spooner, from the Senate Public
Building Committee 9, also favorably reported
the Bowen bill appropriating ssoo,ooo for
the Pueblo public building.
The following arc the newly elected
officers of the Woman's Relief Corps of the
q. A. X. President, Mrs. Augusta B. Hen
derson, Denver. tSenior Vice President,
Mrs. Clementina Hswes, Greeley. Junior
Vice President, Mrs. Ida Fitch, Laramie.
Treasurer, Mrs. NJ. J, Handy, Denver.
Chaplain, Mrs. Laura Hyatt Golden.
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