The Delta independent., 1888-06-12
STATE N EWs.

Jay Gould is spending some time in
the state for his health.
A daily stage is now run between
Aeeker and New Castle.
The hotel at Manitou Park was de-
troyed by fire on the 7lh.
A man was killed in the Palace thea
Ter in Denver on last Sunday,
Two boys were drowned in Sloan's
axe, near Denver, last Sunday.
Five carloads OF Democrats left Dem
yer for st. Louis last Saturday.
The lamb crop is reported to be un-
usually large throughout the State.
The Woman's Exchange of Denver
does = business OF over sao, ,oOo year.
The contract for erecting the new
hotel at Buena Vista has been awarded.
Work has commenced on branch
railroad from Trinidad up Chriosa canon
A Sunday excursion tram on the
Denver, Utah & Pacific was wrecked on
the Sd.
Thirty-thousand young trout were
placed in the Animas river near Durango
last week.
A mysterious disease has broken
out among the cattle Ia the neighborhood
OF Windsor.
A class Of fifty-six young ladies and
gentlemen graduated fIom the Denver High
School last woek.
Two young men and two young
aides were graduated from the Agricultur-
al College at Fort Collins on the 7th.
Akron is preparing for big cele-
bration OF the Fourth. Judge Belfotd Is ex-
pected to max. the principal speech.
A female forger Of remarkable
shrewdness and attractiveness has been
working contidinH citizens Of Trinidad.
Active work has begun on the erec-
ton OF the rolling mill plant at Trinidad,
and 1t will be pushed rapidly To completion.
The city council Of Colorado Springs
have disposed OF 10000 worth OF sewer
bonds at a premium OF one and ~ per cent.
William Ireland and John Shovanne
were killed by the premature explosion of
= blast I'm an Idaho Springs mine ON the 'th.
The Colorado delegation attracted
great deA, OF attention at ST. Louis, and
the presentation Of the silver gsvel was
good advertisement of the state.
Rev. w. +. Slocum, Of Baltimore.
the new president Of Colorado College, is
expected to arrive from the east soon. 70
enter upon the duties of his Office.
Boulder has voted to issue $4,000
In bonds, sls.oo to be used in erecting q
new school house and $1,000 for the pay.
ment of all outstanding Indebtedness.
Millions Of young grasshoppers
which have recently made their apps aranee
in the vicinity OF Pueblo have caused consid-
erAbie uneasiness among the farmers.
Four men who INDUCED in the sport
Of giantpowder fishing hear Lyons few
Sundays ago were brought before Long
mont justice OF the peace and tined go and
costs each.
There are 9S persons in Colorado
~ho draw pensions frum the Government.
or these ~, live In Arsp.hoe county. The
total amount thus annually distributed In
the State is els, ,s.7.s2.
Seventeen OF Telluride's tinhorns
were taken before Judge Gerry last week
and fined $50 each and costs. That promis-
ing town proposes. TO rid itself Of this por-
t,on of It's population.
Eight hours for days work is slow
ly but surely growing In favor. Hardly any
of the Denver mechanics engaged In the
various trades connected with the erection
Of new buildings work longer than this.
Sports Afield. journal for Gentle.
man, by q. II. and c. King, Denver, an ex.
crllent paper for sportsmen-not sporting
men--has reached Its fifth monthly issue,
and promises to prove success In its
special field, which is worth cultivating.
Trinidad will celebrate the Fourth of
the day being hieman's tournament. The
members Of the ire department have taken
charge Of The an riansements and propose TO
surpass all former efforts In this direction.
The parties who have been boring
the well for gas at Cheyenne Wells have
been acting very mysteIiously. II is
thought that they have struck oil. They
have plugged up the hole tightly, COM
mencei another hole near by and refuse
Ia answer questions.
The State Board Of Capitol Commits
sioners have accepted stone from the Gun-
nisoa quarries for the superstruc,ure, pro-
vlded the analysis, which Is now being
made, proves satisfactory. The contract
was awarded to GeddI' Il seerie, the same
frn doing the foundation.
The united population of the three
cities OF Maniiou, Colorado City and Colo
rado Springs, rs determined by the canvass
recently made for the new city directory
soon to be issued from the Pixies Peak Her
aid ,ffice, is 10, 900, divided as follows: Colo
RADIO Springs $500; Colorado City, 1900;
Manitor, 800.
A party Of cowboys rode into the
village Of stewards Station, near the Kan
sas line last week and painted the town
red. After Wild West circus In the street
they attack ed the postof,icr, rode inside and
fred more than = hundred shots ut every
thing In sight, making pretty general
wrotk Of the concern.
A railroad ten miles long and. with
. gauge Of only two feet has been
built frtm Black Hawk 10 = number Of the