The Delta independent., 1888-07-10
COL0RAD0 CONDENSED.
Aspen has three daily papers.


the mountains near Del Norte.
There are now about 500 men work.
ing upon the Red Mountain railroad.
Destructive timber fires have been
raging for scme time past on Mt. Blanco.
There are 406 convicts in the pcni-
1entiary-the largest number ever confined
there.
Tie web worm is doing considerable
damage to the alfalfa crop around Fort
COilins.
Inc wool clip Of Bent county this
ar exceeds that Of last year by over IS 600
unds.
n l2-year-old son of James Duffy
was ruI over by the cars near Boulder the
oiber day.
The Fourth was more generally
celebrated than ever before in the history
of the state.
An Italian musician was struck by
lightning and instantly killed at Glenwood
few days ago.
More garden truck is grown in the
sarder connected with the penitentiary
fhaD the prisoners can consume.
The cornerstone of the new bath
house at Glenwood was laid with appro-
PIRATE ceremonies on the Fourth.
a somnambulist walked out of a
second story window at Florence a few
nights ago and was severely injured.
Nike Laughlin, notorious horse
Thief WAS shot dead by n Nebraska sheriff
IN the eastern part OF this state few days
ago.
An excursion party OF 1900 left
Denver last Friday for Palmer LaiC-one
OF the largest excursions which ever left
rb,t city.
The accidental explosion Of num-
Der OF skyrockets at Ouray seriously In.
jurcd n number OF people on the evening OF
the Fourth. 90
The City Marshal of Colorado
springs is nrrcsting all the ,ramps he can
ind In that city, and placing them at work
ON the sewers now in course Of construc.
ton.
Zen ,ramps were iinod,$5O and costs
each n, Durango recently. They had been
under suspicion fer some time and when
arrested were in camp Just outside Of town
induleinglip nhnouet of bread, tomatoes
and tear.
Tho ore shipments from Aspen for
the past week amounted to l, ,.60 tons, of
which the Denver & Rio Grande took %,
tons and the Midland 7G6 tons. Denver 70,
7i3 TINS, Pueblo 2ss tons and Leadville 10.
Lcadyillo's police nave adopted the
plEn Of taking vagrants TO the outskirts OF
town and giving them n thorough thrash
ing with . rawhidc. This treatment has
wonderfully diminisl cd the number OF va
grants In that camp.
The Guunison Ncws-Dcmocra, saws:
known In this section for this time OF the
Year. Still water had quite heavy coating
of ice over II and nearly all the garden
truck suffered from frost
There are now within the town limits
OF Florence. Fremont county, twenty pay
ing oil wells, ieiding about go barrels Of
crude oil OF 40 barrels OF refined oil daily;
also Two oil tfinerics. with total daily
capacity OF 1000 barrels.
At an election hold a, Greeley on
Saturday evening the school.bonds ques.
tion was defeated by a large majority. THIS
means that the people OF Greeley prefer 10
spend public money In water.works
system.
Tho miners an the Grand Union ,un-
mel up on Conundruu, twelve miles from
Aspen, on Saturday struck an immense
water cave. The water alled the tunnel
and flowed incessantly for twcniy-four
hours, washing away the shaft house and
doing great damage down the guich.
The Greeley Tribune says j. Max
Clark, who Is putting up his first cutting OF
alfalfa this season, says that from twenty.
four acres he will get sixty loads OF hay as
large Ms his teams can haul from the fieldi
Considering that most OF this field wns
sown In tie early days OF the colony, over
fourteen years ago, the yield is remarkable
: Tho shipments OF stock by way of the
Pan Handle TO Colorado are so large that
every car that can be borrowed, In addition
TO the stock of the company, is utilized for
the trnfic, says the Pueblo Star. II is csti
mated that there was train on every switch
between Colorado and the Pan. Handle yes
terday, and the trnct is daily cleared for
porth-bound trains.
fire broke out in the business part
of III Moro at about noon Of tho 9TH and be.
fore 1t was got under control had wiped
ont nearly the whole OF the business por-
tion OF the town. Tie principle losers nre
rs follows: Thomas Wilcox, building and
stock, t25,ooo, no insurance; Thomas Cook,
building and stock, fully sl2, 900, Insurance
1900; now State hotel and furniture, "a, 900,
no insurance; Margaret McKeough, build
ing, loss $1,000, insurance $500; besides
several dwellings and one livery stable
Fully oSc.half of the town WAS destroyed.
Tho parties who had charge of tho
fireworks in Leadvllie on the Fourth loaded
u transfer wagon with about $500 worth OF
rockets, bombs, pin-wheels. ETC., and were
about TO start for Capital hill, where they
expected To set them OFT, whom some ono
who wished to illuminate tho vehicle III a
pin.whcol and placed II In tho center Of the