The Delta independent., 1888-05-08
COLORADO CONDENSED.

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Georgetown has 44G children of
school age.
Grand Junction has voted bonds for
water-works.
Work on the new smelter at Pueblo
has commenced.
There are $50 children OF school
age In Durango.
A city hall to cost 100000 is to be
erected at Trinidad.
Foundations have been laid for an
s0-room hotel at Cascade.
Snow fell to depth OF over four feet
at Palmer Lake last week.
All fear Of scarcity of water this
summer Is rapidly vanishing.
The Dc Remer Opera House at
Pueblo burned Tuesday night
DIR. Henry Paul of Idaho Springs,
has been made manager Of the Aspen
mine.
Tho receipts of the Greeley postoflice
for the year ending March 81 were nearly
5000.
A resident Of Silver Plume claims to
have Inverted a device which gives perpet-
nal n,o..on.
A third rail is being laid by the Rio
Grande road between Colorado Springs
and Manitou.
Mr.. J. Is. Wheeler intends building
. stone front opera house and bank block
Aspen this summer.
The recent rains have flooded the
burrows Of the prairie dogs and drowned
thousands OF those pests.
The next meeting Of the State Sun
day School Convention will be held in
Pueblo commencing Junel2.
Hon. 4. o. Wolcott, of Denver, was
the principal orator a. meeting OF the Re-
rubDeau clubs IN Des Moines.
Sslida boasts Of n citizen who recent
ly drank nineteen schooners OF beer in
little less than nftecn minutes.
Two hotel runners at Julosburg got
ma quarrel Monday and one of them, a
negro named Neal, was killed.
Work is being pushed on the new
bath house at Glenwood Springs II will be
one OF the tpest iu the country.
The district in which Colorado
Springs Is located has a school population
Of tcs, all increase over last year of ens.
party OF tourists while climbing a
.,,,, "A
had lively adventure with n big cinnamon
bear.
Tho Office building Of the steel works
at Pueblo was destroyed by hre on the e7th.
A great number OF valuable maps and pap rs
were burned.
The gamblers and tin horns OF Lead
vile are swNming into Aspen and Glen
wood 10 the great disgust OF the respectable
potion OF those communities.
The Fort Collins Cheese factory re-
ceives 2 500 pounds OF milk daily. The
product Of the factory Is at present about
two hundred and Atty pounds OF cheese per
day
Mr.. William Stapleton who has held
the oi:ic. OF me,cr and refoer at the Den
vcr mint for the past three years has re-
signed to aecep, the position OF managing
editor o: the Denver Republican.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Patterson of Dem
yer made the principal speech n, the annual.
banquet Of the lroquois Club In Chicago
last Monday evening. He strongly favored
the denomination OF Cleveland for the
Presidency.
A man In the last stages Of consump-
tion stole n horse and buggy from Denver
livery stable last week. lie drove to Chey-
enne where he was arrested. He was re-
turned to Denver upon n requisI,ion from
the Governor. lie will probably not live 10
stand trial.
Billy Carson, n son OF the famous
Kit and Thomas Tobin, a weii.known
scout aud Indian fighter and fnther-in-law
OF Billy got into quarrel at Fort Garland
the other day during which Tobn received
rifle ball which passed through his hip
and groin and from which he will probably
die.
Tho dead bodies OF Mrs. Kearney
and her s-year-old grandson were found
the other day in stable on ranch
where they had been living alone about
ten miles from Colorado Springs. Both
bodies were much decomposed. 1t IL sup
posed that they were murdered although
some think the old lady killed the boy and
then committed suicide.
Bids for completing the State Cap
itol were opened at Denver the other day.
There were thirty-one bids, the lowest be-
ing by Contractor Morass, OF Detroit, who Of
fers TO do the work for 81, 200, 600, which
is more than the appropriation allows. 1t
Ia probable that either the plans will have
to be changed, or that work will be sus-
pended until the next Legislature can In.
crease the appropriation.
The school board Of Boulder has.
upon petition OF the citizens, issued q call
for an election oA June TO vote ~, 600 In
bonds to refund the outstanding bonds In
the sum Of &c, ,00o, and to erect new school
building At cost OF els,oOo. The present
school buildings, two in number. do not at.
ford near enough room for the school chill
urcn, the board having had to rent two
buildings during the past year, and new
building has become necessity.
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