The Delta independent., 1888-08-28
COLORADO Condensed,
Florence is to have a bank.

needs OF Durango.
The Texas editors were entertained
at Sallda by bali and banquet.
An effort is being made in Salida to
have the saloons closed on Sundays.
The new Pueblo smclter will proba-
bly, blow in about the first of November.
u is reported that another National
oank will soon be established in Trinidad.
The corner stone of the new Luth-
sran church was laid In Aspen last Sun
day.
The citizens of Rocky Ford furnish
free water melons to all visitors TO their
towD.
Two car loads of Marino bucks have
recently been shipped from Elizabeth to
Texas.
Over 81. 200 has been raised in Den
yer with which to entertain the Deep Water
delegates.
The corner stone of Ouray's new
court house was laid with appropriate cere-
monies on the end.
A tramp. while endeavoring to board
amoving trian ct Brighton the other day
was instantly killed.
Judge Elbert has resigned his posi-
lion on the Supreme bench to take place
the first of September.
1t is reported that Judge Helm of
the Supreme Court will shortly hand his
resignation to the Governor.
A car load of ore was recently re-
ceived In Denver from the new mlaes near
Manhattan In Larimer county.
Twenty-siE thousand two hundred
and forty acres of land in the San Luis val.
Femmenella. the Italian murderer.
WAS hung in Buena Vista last Thursday.
he confessed his guilt Just before his
ieath.
company OF artists attached II
Hsrpers' Weekly are travelling In the state
and will make numerous sketches OF noun
tain scenery for that periodical.
The salids Academy will open about
the middle OF September under favorable
auspices. Prof. Glenn Cu.bertson, late OF
Indiana, has been engaged rs principal.
The Denver & Rio Grand Western
has purchased 10000 broad gauge ties In
Wyoming. They will be foa cd down the
Green river 10 the point where the railroad
crosses tha, stream.
The settlers who have been ordered
on the Maxwell grant have purned The
house of an obnoxious farmer -ho had
made terms with the officers Of tic COM
pany, and have ordered other ranchmen 20
leave under threat of like treatment
The third session OF the Logan
County Teachers Association will convene
Al Holyoke, August 2sth, 10Th aud S0th. A
good programme has been prepared by the
executive committee and pains viii he
taken to render the work interesting and
profitable.
II has been decided by experts ro.
GENTLY sent out by the Colorado Coal & Iron
Company tha, the Cuehsrss valley is coal
bed up TO within few miles OF the main
range. Tina, company's agents are said to
be securing all the property possible in the
valley, though there are some ranchmen
who will not sell At any price.
T. C. Henry attended 4 ditch meet
Ing at CAddoa tho other day, proposing to
extend his ditch on the north side of the
river near Caddoa, II water Tor 10000 acres
was taken by the farmers AZ $40 per acre.
Eight thousand acres were subscribed at
once and the ditch extension Is n cer.alut,.
II will be extended on 10 Lamar.
Arrangements are being made for n
big exhibit of Weld county products at the
Nebraska State Fair. to be held at Lincoln.
beginning September Is. Enough sod Will
pe taken down to build SGD house to show
the nature OF the soil. Products OF all kinds
are wanted. II Is desired to show the pro.
ducts from the irrigated region and from
the rain belt section Greeley Sun.
The An.onito Sentinel reads the riot
act to aspiring ofIicc-holders as follows:
Candidates who expect to have success
this fall in the way OF an election, Will
have TO "put up II they expect the influence
nj the Sentinel. We will bark In the future
for gcod men, none others need apply. This
thing OF leaving the newspaper men out IN
the cold Is played out with us, II we work
we want pay for II, and that too. In ad-
vance.
jackson Heckert who had such n
severe experience on the Huerfano lsst
week, IL In town, ,says tho Pueblo Chicttatn
He was with camp OF cowboyS on thni
stream VIXEN the big flood OF Thu sday &C.
.urred, A breast OF water twenty feet high
came rushing down and swept overythlrg
ana everybody before It. Mr.. Heckert was
thrown into the fork of tree and held
there by the water In an unconscious con-
ai.ion and beaten by tho powerful current
from II TIL O'Clock in the night, and not
rescued TIL O'Clock.
The three supposed counterfeiters
who were arrested at Denver the other day
turn out to be only bunco men. Their game
was to sell nm alleged wonderful metal,
which could not be told from gold even by
experts, together with nm ingenious ma
chine which II was alleged contained q
mould for e5 gold pieces. Upon investiEa-
lion It WAS found that tho metal when
pourcd into the machine was carried to n
secret receptacle and when the machine
was opened genuine gold pieces had been
by simple mechanical cousrivanco carried
into tire mould where the molten metal was
at..ta En