The Delta independent., 1888-11-06
COLORADO CONDENSED.
La Jara has three artesian wells.

married Thursday.
There are 2.l2G voters registered at
Colorado Springs.
Lake City expects to have two rail-
roads before many months.
A ranchman near Saguache has
raised 100000 pounds of potatoes this year.
Peanuts have proved a profitable
and prolific crop around Greeley this year.
DR.. Shaw estimates the yield Of ap-
Piles in Colorado this year at 6O,OOo bushels.
Fred Z. Solomon, n well-known Col
orado pioneer, died in Denver last Thurs
day.
There was another collision on the
Midland railroad near Lsadville last Thurs
day.
From two TO six car loads OF wheat
are being shipped from Berthoud every
day.
Five thousand people attended the
game OF ball between Spauldlng's Austral.
ian tourists In Denver last Sunday,
The three-year. daughter Of a
min- 'Ictu WIS bul ieN w uthIl III utl hio-
theirs cabin near Elizabeth last week.
Longonett. the Italian bartender
who shot and killed Albert Cass in Denver
last week. died Thursday OF deliIium te-
mems.
A. A. Cass got in quarrel with the
bartender OF Denver saloon and was shot
dead. The cost to the county Of prosecut-
Ing the murderer will equal the licenses of
fifty saloons for year.
Andrew fulton, former mayor of
Pittsburg, and now n ranchmRn living near
Denver. was shot and severely wounded by
his wife few days ago. His shameless
intimacy with notorious Denver woman
was the cause OF the shooting.
According to the stat sticiau of the
Agricultural Department at Washington
Colorado raised more wheat TO the acre this
year than any other state or territory in the
country with the single exception OF WASH
ington Territory. In quality, also, our
yield was eight points above the average of
the whole country.
Elk steak has been largely INDUCED
In lately by the friends Of Gen. John T.
McNee'y, who killed one of the largest that
hrs ever been brought TO town, last SatuT-
day near Music Pass, says the Silver cha
Rusilcr. Tho yol l=htsf the animal wRs
about soJ pounds and WAS brought down
with one shot from distance Of over q
quarter Of mile.
The abstract Of assessment rs re-
turned from Lsrmer county shows $50 oGG
acres of land. 10 100 horses, 3iI mules, 20 SO
cattle, II, s{7 sheep. i,l58 swine. Is other ami
mails, 81 musical Instruments. oil clocks
and watches, 1907 carr ages and vehicles of
every description. The total Yaluat on Is
t4,S3a,55o. There are i.s4o military polls in
the county.
A party of hunters. railroad officials,
recently returned from the Watt river and
RIns creek cOuhtry In Garfield county. re-
port an abundance OF game OF all kinds
there. Among the things which they found
were a waterfall 200 feet In width with a
sheer descent OF i5o feet. underneath which
are immense caycrns, studded with stalac-
tites and stalRctttc formations of rare
beauty.
A telegram from Silvcrton says:
THE Ute commission is here u day, hav.
Ing Just returned from Utah, and Judge
South thinks there Is n glowing outlook
for the immediate removal OF the Southern
Utes. He says the country in which they
expected 10 locate the Indians is quite well
settled with whites Who squatted on un.
surveyed government lands along the
streams and whose rights must be re
spected.
The dead body Of John Groshart, a
Carbon county pioneer, has been found in
mn isolated spot near the Snake river In
Wyoming. There was bullet hole in his
head, aud everything poi nted to assassina-
ton. Groshart has had trouble with hide
hunters In the vicinity, and 1t Is supposed
they waylaid and shot him. This is the
fifth murder which has grown out of the
antagonism OF the ranchers towards the
hide hunters or hunters who kill game for
their hides only, during the past three
months.
dispatch from Glonwood Springs
says: "lIermRn Babcocls, who Is sentenc "a
TO be hanged on November o, will probably
have stay of proceedings granted in his
case in order that 1t may be brought before
the Supreme Court. Whether the court
can find time between now and the date
plication for new trial is not definitely
known, but II Ia thought that It cannot, and
therefore stay In Babcock'5 case will be
granted. a Atranscript OF the record OF his
trial was finished on the 3tst and has been
rent to the Supreme Court Joe Taylor OF
Leadville, who defended Cravens. now
serving years sentence for murder, has
taken hold of Babcock's case. The latter's
father is here doing what he can for his
son. Should the Supreme Court refuse the
motion for new trial II is generally be-
lieved here that Babcock will suffer the ex-
treme penalty
The Colorado State Medical Society
has filed IFS certificate OF Incorporation
with tho Secretary Of State. The persons
whose signatures follow the articles are
Drs. Stedman j. Culver, w. X. White.
head. Jacob Reed, Jr., IL. A. Lemen, w. E.
Wilson, and l.. E. Lemen. A board OF
seven trustees have control of the business
of The society, and II is made perpetual.
The objects OF the society arc to promote
the usefulness, honor and interests of the
medical profession ito enlighten and direct
public opinion In regard to the duties, re-
sponsibilities and requirements Of medical
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