The Delta independent., 1888-01-03
COLORADO CONDENSED.

VUAUll4lDO WI llDAl SAl1ADe
Small houses are in great demand in
Aspen.
Yuma has seventy-eight business
houses.
Forty-two buildings are in process
of erection at Glenwood Springs.
The real estate transfers in Denver
amounted to nearly s3o,ooo,ooo during 1887.
The total assessed value of Pueblo
county is S, $40, ,765 making it rank third in
state.
The settlers in the eastern part of
the state are rejoicing over heavy fall of
snow.
A new Methodist parsonage has just
been completed at Golden at cost of
81, 400.
Rev. DR.. Cameron has resigned the
pastorate of the First Baptist Church in
Denver.
An addition 60x100 feet and three
stories high has been made to the Golden
brewery.
NJ. Piera, dissolute saloon-keeper
OF Boulder, killed his wife and then shot
himself on Christmas.
Denver gamblers have been given
notice that their business will not be toler-
ated after January 5th.
The merchants of Denver report a
much greater holiday trade than was ever
known before in that city.
The ranchmen of Garfield county are
considerably excited over report that the
Utes are of their reservation.
Nearly 800 Denver newsboys were
given fine Christmas dinner and tickets
to the matinee at the Tabor Opera House.
Rev. +. c. Millington. Methodist
clergyman well known throughout the
state, died very suddenly in Denver last
Tuesday.
II. II. Freeman, a well-known and
popular business man OF Boulder, COM
mItted suicide "Wednesday night Cause,
whiskey.
Over eighty arrests were made by
the Denver police on Christmas and the
day following. Most of them were for
drunkenness.
1t is reported that the coal mine
owners OF Trinidad have agreed to furnish
coal for 81 ton to all manufacturers who
will locate in tina; city.
There were received at the Pueblo
i,.,p. ,s,si,,, J,,,ip,, tho ya,r ,,,S, ,rosa,
le2 patients. There were discharged lu2
and eigh,yfour recovered.
Ten prisoners in the Bent county
jail at Las Animns escaped Monday night
by saving of the bolt heads of a portion of
a cell and then prying loose the bars a; the
outside window.
Charles Wheeler and Charles Hunt
OF Trinidad. have taken a contrac. to fur
nish 100, 600 ties for the Denver, Texas K
Fl Worth railroad. Twelve cents per tie
is paid for cutting.
The For. Worth and Denver will
make connections with the Denver, Texas
aud Gulf some time In nMarch-certainly not
later than April land through trains will
be running TO Denver over this road by that
time
Thomas Sproull. Badito ranchman.
Huerfnno county, is circulating memorial
TO congress praying for an act 10 enable
persons or corporations to take up public
land whereon TO build reservoirs TO
store the surplus water o. streams in the
west
The Supreme court on Friday de-
cided the cons,Ituiionaliy of the town of
South Denver which has been debated for
over a year, In favor of the town. This has
been test case and indirectly involved the
right of cities and towns TO prohibit the
sale OF liquors, and the temperance people
are greatly elated over the victory.
The Habcas Corpus case of Pap
Wyman who has been running road
house IN South Denver, was decided in the
District court of Arapahoc county last
week in favor of the town, and the petition
denied. Mr.. John Hipp, the town attorney
for South Denver, will now push the prose-
cutions in vigorous manner until the last
road house Is closed.
Tho holiday number of the Denver
Journal of Commerce has Just been issued.
III mas nanusOlnc iltnoHThpneu cover, MI
cd with cuts of the principal buildings in
the city, and Is crowded from beginning to
end with facts and statistics relative to the
wonderful growth OF the state and city
during the past year. 1t is splendid
number to send to eastern friends.
A movement is on foot inaugurated
by the mayor and several other cnterprising
citizens of Trinidad, to make up a train OF
loaded coal cars and send II to the fuel fam.
inc districts of Kansas. Negotiations are
now pending with the Santa Fe company
for reduced rates or free transportation and
It is expected that the work of sending out
the fuel will begin in day or two.
President Moffat of the Denver Il
Rio Grande railroad told Denver reporter
the other day that no farther extension of
the road down the Grand River Valley.
westward from Glcnwood, would be decid-
cd upon until meeting Of the directors in
May. He admitted that II was the policy
of the road, rs he understood,to to build about
twenty-five miles farther westward into the
coal fields, but beyond that he had no idea
Of what would be done.
In reply to an interrogation regard