The Delta independent., 1888-04-24
COLORADO CONDENSED.
The Bank of Lamar has suspended.

The Bank of Lamar has suspended.
The La Plata county Jail has been
empty for long time.
The state officers of Kansas are max
ing tour of Colorado.
Newt. .Vorce has been convicted of
murder in the second degree.
The Salida alderman have appropri-
ated 300 for advertising the city.
The Prohibitionists will hold their
state convention on the sth of May.
A party of thirty families from Iowa
ar. on their way the San Luis Valley.
A rich gold find is reported from
Benlah Springs,a few miles west of Pueblo.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany will hereafter make steel nails instead
OF iron nails.
The Denver Street Railway Company
intends converting some Of their principal
lines into cable roa Is
The corner stone of new and
costly Presbyterian CHURCH was laid at Col.
Orado Springs last week.
The Montezuma tunnel is nearly
completed, and in few days water will be
turned into that great valley.
A piece OF quartz containing fine
god was found near Mnnitou the other day,
creating considerable excitement.
A Del Nor,e man has been awarded
ulecouira:t for furnishing 10000 pounds
OF ptdatoes to the Government at Santa Fe.
The six days walking match which
toak pace !E De!.yeE las. week was won by
Hat, coi'red msn, who covered 473H
mites.
Franklin, Baker, the murderer of two
Ianchmen near Burlington. was taken
from the sheriff at CEe,er ne Wells by
mob of infuristed men and hanged.
The trans-contincntal lines of rail-
ways have cut their rates from New York
to Colorado points to meet the Panhaud,e
figures. 4 lively ra!lrcAd war is lisriy to
I've the result.
Seven saloon keepers of Durango
have petit!oned the city council to raise
licenses to tl,ooo. each agreeing to take
ont license at that figure. The reft OF the
whiSkey dealers aIe in favor OF n s2lO
license.
A ranchman named Tony Thompson
was shot from au ambush In Garfield coun-
ty n few days ago and killed. Joe MoiIer.
n neishboiinE TApchman with whom the
deceased had had some trouble over water
tisht'.ss suspected OF the murder.
n. n
called convention TO be composed Of dele
gates FROM every county In the sac ex-
cept Ara pahoe who are In favor OF legis'a.
uon that will prevent discrimination in
railroad rates aGa.nst any locality In the
state
The annual meeting of the State Ed
itorRl Association Will he held In Denver
beginning on Friday, May II. Arrange
ments are been made for an excursio.. TO
Fort Worth. Austin, Dallas, and possibly
Galveston. Texas. which Will leave Denver
on the i2,h. The trip will probably occupy
ten days.
The Denver University are about TO
erect an observatory In which will be placed
one of the largest telescopes ever made.
The diameter Of the object glass will he
twenty inches. only four on this continent
being 1sfger. The building and telescope
will be a GIT from Mr.. II. B. Chamberlain,
wealthy real estate dealer.
Tho Board of Land Commissioners
have disposed Of 10000 acres OF land In
Bent county, below the canal OF the
Arkansas River Land Reservoir and Canal
Comrany, atau average price OF "a. .2s per
acre. The land was sold on basis Of 80
per cent cash, the balance in seven equnl
yearly payments, with Interest at seven
per cent per annum. The purchasers
were mostly lessecs who were living on the
lands and had made improvements on them
during the past. The price WAS regarded
rs very fair by the Land Board.
A telegram from Burlington to the
Denver News says: lone OF the most hor-
rible tragedies in the annals Of crime oc-
CURED yesterday Ave miles north OF Bur
lingon, which will result in the death OF
tso young men,N. b. Mcconnell and John
Morrison, both strangers in this part Of the
country. They were looking up locations
on government land, and while crossing
the claim Of Frederick Baker in the main
road. were ordered to halt by tie Aforesaid
Baker, but before tho seam could be stopped
Bakers wife handed Baker the shot gun
and he fired nj close range. the gun being
loaded with buckshot The driver escaped
uninjured, but Mcconnell and Morrison
were badly riddied with shot and cannot
live. Baker Is strongly guarded by large
force tofprevent the citizens taking the
law into their hands.
shakespeare or Bacon.
NEW foRK. April ia World
specinl cable from London SAWS some 800