The Delta independent., 1888-07-17
COLORADO CONDENSED.

1OASSAOAxDS SVASAIA NAlAAASs
Elizabeth is soon to have newspa-
per
There arc S15 artesian wells .in
Denver.
A large creamery is being built at
Fort Lupton.
Trinidad has q Prohibition club of
thirty members.
Work has commenced on the $l2, 900
school house at Manitou.
GAspen is suffering from an epidemic
0crimes and accidents.
Wednesday was the hottest day Dem
ver has had for ten years.
a large bottle factory is to be estab-
tished at Colorado City.
Elbert county has doubled its popu-
Iation In the last year,
The state is full Of teachers on their
way to the Pacific coast
Trort-tishing is reported as remark
WY Sood III tne ftlO SfRn0e.
Seventy-eight new houses are in
course of erection at Trinidad.
A large amount of ore is being
shipped weekly from Fairplay.
A rIillion pounds OF wool will be
shipped from Antonito this season.
Ell Paso county has gained 557 in its
school population during the past year.
Mesa county will increase its taxable
property about half million this year.
From some mysterious reason mul-
titudes of fish in the South Platte are dying.
The carriage road to the top of Pixies
Peak will be dnished in about three weeks,
hpublic sale of lots was held at An
tonito few days ago, aggregating sl4. .7ss.
Many more Texas people are stop
ping at Manitou this season than ever BE-
fore.
den of nine skunks was found in
Pueblo the other day and the varmints
killed.
Greeley has become so over-run with
sramps that heroic methods are contem.
plated.
The mining region around Hahn's
Peak Is attracting good deal of attention
this summer
-Four men were arrested in Gunni-
son the other day and fined $50 and costs
for violating the fishing laws.
Alamosa is excited over discovery
Of natuIaieas In an arteslan well. about
six miles from that city.
General Cameron. OF this state. was
elected permanent chairwAn Of the Deep
Water convention n, Fort Worth.
II is reported tha, the A. T. & F.,
railroad nrc preparing 70 extend their lire
In North westerly direstion from Denver.
The Denver dog-catcher has got him.
self Into peck OF trouble BY trying to cap.
sure the canine pet OF prominent citizen.
George w. Cook. of Lcadyillc, has
been appointed general agent for the Mi,-
sonri Pncinc railroad In Colorado aud Utah.
Members of the Denver press gave
the Iowa Editorial excursionists compIi.
mentary banquet on The evening OF the iath.
The Congregationalists of Colorado
Springs are about TO build a new church
which viii cost in the heighborhood OF
s3o.0oo.
= An examining board OF the United
States Pension bureau has been established
at Fort Collins The board comprises Dts.
Hall. Lee ard Bennett.
Mrs. Parnstcad. n Yuma lady, while
work'r n sewing machine near window,
last aturdny, was struck by bolt of light
n'ps and Instantly killed.
Mr.. Jesse Frazer has an apple orch
ard OF * acres in Fremont county contain.
ing Sep tres, from which he expects TO
gather la.ooo bushels Of apples this season.
X. c, Wilson and John Hardenberg.
two wtlrsnown citizens Of Aspen, took
part In n shooting bee the other day.
Neither was hurt. Whisky seems TO have
been the cause.
The second session of the Colorado
Cbnutnuaue Assembly commenced at Glen
Park Oh the ioh. The nWL..,g address
was made by Govprnor Adams aud Rev Mr..
Cfos, rcnd AN original poem.
Prof. w. W. Campbell. who has filled
the chair Of matht matics for several years
in the State University, has bean elected
professor OF mathematics In the University
of Michigan at Ann Aibor. and has sc-
cep,cd and sent In his resignation to the
Reaerts Of the State University.
Work has been resumed on the Grass
Valley ditch in Garfield county. THIS is
wenty five miles below Glenwo Springs,
and is an irrigation canal that covers wha
was formerly known as Cactus valley, with
an area of some T25, 600 acres. The enter.
prise will involve an expenditure Of over
$la5,0c0.
As a result of a conference of mine
managers held in Aspen few days ago,
the following wages will he paid In
that carno nfter the 18Th inst % for eight
hours, $3.50 for ton horrs and o. for top
mon. II Is understood that some 800 more
men will DO put to work when the reduc.
ti0n takes place.
No rewards will DO paid from this
date for conviction Of persons for stealing
cattle and horses from members OF the Bent
County Cattle and Horse Growers' Associa-
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