The Delta independent., 1888-11-20
COLORADO CONDENSED.

VO0VAt4OV OO4SO4llvUklOs
There are fourteen Sunday Schools
in Logan county.
A big eagle was killed near Platte
vile last week.
The assessed valuation Of Gilpin
county is q, 71s, ,ss6.
Cracking safes is favorite pastime
at Pueblo Just At present
tits proposed to sink an experimental
artesian well at Saghache.
The Presbyterians of Saguache have
recently purchased 9 new organ.
The society OF Trinity NJ. E. Church.
Denver, own property worth sasO,ooo.
The silver Bell mine at Aspen en-
ploys 100 jacks to carry their ore to town.
There are 164 inmates in the State
reformatory At Golden, of whom IS are
girls
A man was murdered at tho Palace
theatre in Denver Wednesday morning.
Cause, whisky.
A club has been organized at Glen
wood Springs for the purpose Of protecting
the game IN that region.
The Pueblo business men have raised
$500 toward proposed fund Of $40, 900 for
advertising their town.
The official vote OF Boulder county
shows plurality for Harrison Of 4aa. The
Prohibition vote was ls2.
The work of canvassing for funds
with which to erect Y. NJ. C. A. building
at Denver has commenced
Some Of the drivers employed by one
OF the Denver transfer companies have been
detected in extensive stealin8s.
The aggregate power of boilers now
in use by the United on Company At Flor
encc is 27o horses with another 50 on the
road.
The Central Trust Company Of New
York have applied to the United States
court for receiver for the South Park rail
road.
There Is a den OF mountain lions
somewhere near Lamar and the settlers
propose organizing u grand hunt TO cxtcr-
inmate them.
The La Plata Iron and Coal Com
pany near Durango have struck their first
vein Of coal, measuring twenty feet in
thickness, Of clean and No / article Of
coal.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
awarded tho contract for the additional ex-
cavation and concrete work on the Denver
public building to Hayes a McGiivray n,
$500.
The Official vote of Arapahoc county
shows plurality OF 3.o9o for Harrison and
OF 2,GN for Cooper. The Prohibition vote
was ts5. The total vote cast In tho county
WAS y, 400.
The Salvation Army is still fighting
Denver wickedness. The disgraccful per
secution which these people suffered at first
has now entirely ccased and they have won
the respect Of all good citizens.
Senator Blackburn. OF Ke,ucky. in
dignantly denies the statement made by
Judge Ruckcr, of Aspen, that week or
two before election President Cleveland in
the presence of himself, Blackburn and
ono or two others prophcsicd his defeat.
The Denver & Rio Grandc rail way
has Just put force Of l25 trackiaycrr at
work laying the third rail from Canon City
westward through the Royal Gorge TO
Lcadvillc. II is the intention to prosecute
the work vigorously until tho third rail
connects Denver, Canon City and the great
Carbonate Camp.
large ditch scheme is now on foot
at Mcckcr, and In the hands Of a competent
company. The object Of the company is to
irrigate the great White River mcsa.a tract
of 10000 or la,0oo acres Of ground. The
water will then be fumcd across Flag
creek and cmpticd into Josephine basin, u
tract Of agricultural land Of about a,Soo
acres. Much valuable land that has never
been filed on win be thus be brought into
the market.
The Coroner's jury which investi-
gated the death Of James Roberts, killed at
Palmer Lake last Friday night by Rio
Grande train, returned verdict that de-
ceased was run over by a special Rio
Grande freight in charge Of Conductor
Frank Kelley, adding: 1--WE are unable to
decide whether tho cause Of death was ac-
cidental or criminal on the part Of the rail
road company employees We further de-
nounce tho frequent railroad accidents,
which usually occur ut night and arc fully
impressed that the greater portion arc due
to criminal means, therefore We are deter
mined to investigate to tho furthcst and to
cxterminate such gross infsmy."
The twelfth annual assembly OF the
knights Of Labor 10 In session in Indian
apolis.