The Delta independent., 1888-09-04
STATE NEWS.

puHafO WAS captureu icW InllcS
tosth of Yuma last week.
The State Teachers Association will
be held December g. q -:3cs
. Over three hundred Texans attended
the convention at Denver last week.
1t is reported that another National
bank will soon be established in Trinidad.
A flood in Clear Creek did consider
able damage at Central City last Tuesday
The Durango smelter has doubled its
capacity and now smelts seventy tons per
Iay.
At least fifty car loads OF potatoes
will be shipped from Frulta to Leadvisle
this fall.
The movement to close Salida sa-
looms on Sunday has been defeated for the
present.
Frank Hudson was severely and
probably fatally burned by melted Stag At
the Durango smelter on the 29,h.
A severe thunder storm passed over
Gunnison on the 3Oth and . number Of per-
sons were stunned by the lightning.
Mr.William Pearce,a foreman on the
Iron line Mt Leadville, fell down . shaft
the other day and was instantly killed.
A new quarry has been opened on
the Frying Pan which is said to produce the
best sand stone yet found In the state.
Matters at Stonewall, on the Max
well grant. have cooled down, and the
crowd OF armed settlers has disbanded.
II was the unanimous verdict of the
delegates to the Deep Water convention
that Denver is the prettiest town on this
planet.
The First Semi-annual S. S. Conven-
.lon o. the Logan County $. S. Association
:obef 18th, lsss.
The track layers on the Rock Island
are now At work a miles from Colorado
Springs and two miles and one-ten,h miles
are being laid every day.
The Deep Water convention .unani-
mousiy passed resolutions urging Congress
to pass the bill making appropriation for
storage reservoirs for the arid regions.
A report has reached Pueblo that a
camp OF cowboys, who were on the round
up In the northwest part Of Plcbio county,
was overwhelmed by . cloudburst on Beaver
creek and that seven men were drowned.
A fire at Leadville Sunday afternoon
nearly destroyed the Denver and Rio
GInnde freight depot Several tanks OF ex-
ploding oil caused considerable excitement
nboui s.. 600 or u, 600.
George F Blatchford has been CON-
missioped postmaster at Monarch, Chaffee
county. A new postofiice has been estab-
iished at lvanhoe. Pitkin county, Frank 5.
Miner. Postmaster. 1vanhoe will be sup
Piled by special from Lesdville.
Governor Adams bas created Water
District No. %, which will consist Of ali
lands In the state being or to be irrigated
from bitches or canals the water from which
is taken from the South Platte river or any
OF its direct or indirect tributaries At any
point above Water District Nc. $.
Alex Thompson. young man well
known about Ieadville, formerly an at
tache Of the journal, had narrow escape
from death Sunday night He fell las feet
down the "nll night" shaft of the Chrysol-
i,e, having in his hands = large charge of
giant powder He miraculoosly escaped
death.
The coroner's jury in the case of r.
ID. Russell, who was killed at Stonewall
during the recent trouble with the sherlff's
rose, returned verdict charging HUM
and his deputies with having feloniousIy
committed the deed. The coroner this after
noon issued his warrant for the arrest of
the posse.
The Union Pacific railroad is going
to build the narrow gauge branch from
FairpIay To the Horseshoe mines At once.
Three parties Of engineers are setting the
grade stakes and several railroad contrac,
10, $ are to figure on the contract, which
will begin in q few days. The line will be
about eleven miles in length.
A sad accident resulting in the death
of Mrs. Geo. Buchanan occurred near Lyons
last Friday. She was on horseback and
was on her way to Big Elk Park. The
horse became frightened at another horse
that was wearing bell and Mrs. Buchanan
was thrown, her foot remaining In the stir
rup she was dragged = considerable dis-
lance and kicked by the horse, and WAS
dead when her friends reached her.
The Deep Water convention which
met at Denver last week was most impor-
tant gathering. 1t was the first real Illus
,ra,,on OF the fact that the commercial in
tercsts Of the south and west are one. Old
prejudices are rapidly passing away. 1t
gives notice 70 the east that in the future the
country west Of the Mississippi proposes to
have It's proportion Of the money spent by
the general government in internal Inn
provements.
The Railway Age says: at is now pub
,lcly given out that the Colorado Midland
railway, comprising some $50 miles Of road
from Colorado Springs TO I.eadville and far
beyond belongs to the Atchison, Topeka "
sxntn Fe system, and will soon be taken
over hy that company. The road IL to DO
pushe i on u Salt Lake City, and will event
a.llv x,yc the Atchison, Topeka II Santa
Fe limo direct from Chicago TO the Utah
capital over 100 miles long"
Louis Guirand, a prominent ranch
man OF South Park, was struck bv light.
n,nr Wedne sday afternoon while working
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