The Delta independent., 1888-09-25
COLORADO CoHDENsEp.


last week amounted to over 100000.
Wild ducks are reported in great
numbers on the lakes In San Luis valley.
A $3.50, 900 hotel is to be built at Man.
itou before the opening of the season next
year.
The new mill at Berthoud is about
ready for the machinery which has been
ordered.
1t is reported that w. B. Wright
marshal Of Boston, was killed at Villas a
few days ago.
Denver's four Touring mills manu-
faeture thirteen hundred barrels of hour
every twenty-four hours.
The Seventh Day Adventists Of Colo
rado are holding their annual conference
and camp meeting at Denver.
1t is claimed that 100000 are
being invested In new business blocks and
residences at Trinidad this season.
Aspen is producing at least sl,0oo.-
900 worth Of oie per month. -Four hundred
tons day, worth at least SIS ton.
Five hundred cottonwood trees are
TO be taken from Canon City to Glenwood
Springs and planted along the borders OF
the big swimming pool.
Jennie Sloan. pretty Denver
school girl, II years old, shielded few
days ago. The cause for the act Is a mys-
terry, but the case will be thoroughly inves-
tEated.
Robert NJ Drew, wealthy New
Yorker who has been stopping at Manitou,
was reI!eved OF 500 gold watch, $500 In
money and some railroad tickets by big
negro h'ghwayman n few days ago.
The little son OF James Brown. man.
axer OF the Louisville mine nt Leadvilie,
had three OF his fingers blown of Wednes
at.ng cap. II is feared that the little fellow
may lose his hand, rs that member was ter
ribly lacerat.d by the explosion.
Charles S. Crotheswsi,e "A former
D,nver newspaper reporter, shot and killed
George johnson, a Swede, In n cabin -four
miles from OuIay ot the Snefiies rohd-
early Thursday morning. Crotheswaiie
and johnson had been mining toge,ner.
and the affair grew out OF . dispute over
the ownership Of = cabin.
The output OF the Union Pacific
stone department at their S;out and Buck
horn quarries for the past eight months 1.
~, 7o9.o5. more than for the same period
INsi year. The same or . better quality Of
stone IL Quarried at Lyons and a greater
business might be done tthere II money
could be had TO work the quarries on a
large scale.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the third annual fair OF the wray
Fair association, which takes place on tie
27th and esth Of this month. The exhibits
will not be confined TO Washington county
alone, but eastern Arapahoe county will be
largely represented. Good speaking will be
In attendance and everybody is invited to
be present
1t Is claimed that inside Of l2 months
Aismoea will be supplied with natural gas.
Wells will soon bc put down near town, but
In case II Is not found in these wells Ii will
be piped from where vein is known TO
exist Gas for heating purposes will then
be furnished for less money than any other
fuel, thus saving the town many thousand
dollars per annum.
A man named James Smith living
on the Mnncos, during at Of temporary
insanity, attempted TO shoot his wife. She
rushed out OF tho house, but was so thor.
oughly frightened that she tainted. Smith
then attempted to carve up the little baby,
but was prevented by his mother-in-law,
who held the man until some OF the neigh.
bors arrived, when he was turned over to
the authorities.
Superintendent l.. S. Cornell Is bus.
lily preparing hts biennial report of the
Colorado schools, which he Is required to
prepare for the Legislature. His report
will show the last two years to be the most
prosperous In tho history OF the state In his
department Not only have many more
schools been established to accommodate
the continual Immigration. bat the percent
ago OF increase Is greater than ever before.
Work on the three story bath house
at Glenwood Springs Is being rushed right
along, and they are doing some OF the nic-
est brick.laying on the inside wall ever
seen. The outside walls are fine quality
of red sandstone. The door and window
frames, which arc now being put in for the
nrst story, were made at Denver. The bath
roous will be lined with white enamel, and
the dressing rooms with Texas Pine. The
bath tubs arc Of porcelain and are deep and
roomy.
The Colorado Midland has lot tho
contract for The building OF the extension
from Glenwood Springs to New Castle.
Tho work win be done by Corey Bros. &
%, who will At once put not less than aoO
men At work. The roadbed was graded
last fall and the contract with this firm
specifies for such repairs IS the roadbed
may require As tho Midland Intends to
rush this extension through rapidly Corey
Bros. h Co. are under contract TO have tho
Grade In order In three weeka
A difficulty has occurred over the
opening OF the gambling houses At Lead.
Vile. The city marshal has been obcying
the orders OF tho mayor regarding this.
Hut Monday hs WAS instructed bya major.
ity oe the board 70 enforce the gambling or
diuance 10 Close the games. Tho city Ordi.
nances ars very conflicting ~ 70 whom the
maTshAl uhAll obey. ono section that he
ehould Act under !nsEucsions from tte