The Delta independent., 1888-08-14
COLORADO CONDENSED,

nearyi completed.
Street car hold-ups are again be-
coming frequent In Denver.
Good reports arc relieved from the
gas wells At Cheyenne Wells.
Up about timber line Strawberries
arc Just commencing to ripen.
The state reunion of the A. o. w.
takes place at Pueblo on the 25th.
Julesburg boasts of calf which has
Two heads, two tongues and three horns.
The Manitou Mineral Water Com
pany ships aoooo bottles of water week.
James Eusting was killed at Durango
the other day by the caving in of clay
bank.
Jefferson county has ia military
polls and an assessed valuation of ss.947,.
2lS9c.
fueblo's new mammoth copper
smelter will be ready to blow in carly in
the fall.
Pickpockets have been getting in
their work at Manitou and Colorado
springs.
The Mesa county fair will be held at
Grand Junction on September 27th, 2.th
and 10Th.
The town sight Of Minnehaha has
oeen laid of on the Pixies PEAK trail, two
miles west Of Manitou.
Governor Adams has granted two
weeks respite to Nuchselai FemeneIia, the
Bueua Vista murderer.
Great preparations are being made
In Denver for the celebration of Labor Day
on the Sd Of September.
The prospects for a largo attendance
and = successful year At the State Univer-
sity are unusually bright.
Golden wants TO secure a wooden mill
and her Board ofTrade are corresponding
with eastern manufacturers TO that end.
The Logan County Teachers Asso.
ciation will hold the annua, institute al
Holyoke on the 18th and Both OF this month
The Texas Press Association are ex.
.pected to visit Colorado ON the nth. and
will make = more or less extende i:tour in
The state.
tits reported that Colorow is of his
reservation He is supposed TO be on .
hunting excursion In the Book mountains
north Of Grand Junction.
Robert Roberts AMI Andrew Saline,
npchmen, were buned TO death In their
eabin near Fort Lewis few days ago. The
origin Of the fire is unknown.
A man named O'Bricn jumped from
. Rio Grande train near Swallows last
Thursday, while intoxicated. and was ter
ribly mangied. He was . section hand and
some fifty years Of age.
William +. Graf, ex-County Treas
few days ago while carolessly handling .
pistol. The bullet entered his abdomen
and he died within an hour.
At three different places between
Denver and Pueblo the d. & X G. railroad
company have decided to parallel their
present track. The new track will asgre-
gate about nifty miles In length.
Tho postmastcrs at Aspen and Trini.
dad having applied for the establishment
OF the free-dclivcry service, the Postmaster
General has directed an inspector TO visit
these points and report on the Same.
Tho Salvation Army arc having
rough time In Pueblo. The hoodiuns seem
determined to intcrrApt their meetings
and the faithful are disposed to resort 70
carnal methods to protect themselves.
Farmers in tho vicinity Of Greeley
have about finished harvesting their wheat
and the result is more favorable than was
anticipated. While the yield is not up 70
the average, yet II Is fully double what was
expected six weeks ago.
William Sabine, ono OF the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of south
ern Colombo has mysteriously disappeared.
He was In Denver on the 18th OF July since
which time no trace Of him can be obtained.
His business Affairs seem to be perfectly
straight.
The county clerk Of Arapahoc county
reports is,s7a scrcs under cultivation Of
which there are i,.ia acres of wheat an II
1,94S acres Of oats. Alfalfa leads with mn
acreage Of 2,4ls. There are 52s dairy COWS,
Il, 1856 head Of horses, 74s mules. 1865 head
Of cattle, 81 sos sheep and i,2ss head Of
swine.
A sitc for tho $500 Pueblo county
jail has been selected by the Board Of
County Commissioners. Work will be com.
menced upon 1t As soon as bids can bo Sc
cured and the contracts let The jail will
be located in block II, Craig's addition on
Martin street between Fifteenth and Six.
teenth streetand will be handsome three
story brick aud stonc structure. Il Ia right
near and will show IN alongside the STATE
asylum for the insane.
Tho Western Coal and Mining Com.
pany, which owns quantity Of coal land
about eight miles cast OF Colorado Springs,
has decided TO erect plant on Its propert,
which will cost between te5. .0O0 and $4,000.
The company arc now employing between
thirty and forty men, and during the win.
ter the working force will bo Increased 10
nbout 100. The Rock Island will run
brancn road TO the banks, which will bs
fully developed.