The Delta independent., 1889-11-12
STATE NEWS.

ger service.
The was Jail break at Telluride a
few days ago.
Meeker has fifty scholars enrolled
on its school list. :.
Bouider's new Touring mill has COM
menced operations.
The w. c. Z. U. have established
free reading room in Greeley.
Now and extensive stove works are
10 be built at Denver at once.
The snow is deeper ut Salida than
It has been before for six years.
Hallelujah wedding was one of
the sensations of Boulder last week.
Ten new school houses have been
built in Weld County during the past year.
A great many Ute Indians are said
TO be in the vicinity OF Rangely hunting
deer
Owing TO the inclement weather the
potato bake at Monument has been aban-
doncd.
Over 2CO telegraph poles were pros
trated between La Junta and Trinidad
during the late storm.
In the graded schools OF Weld
County the male teachers receive an aver
age salary OF slG3 and the female teachers
$50 month.
The barns of tho Street Car Com
rany in Colorado Springs were burned last
Monday. Fifteen horses were burned and
several cars.
The new general manager OF the
Colorado Coal and Iron Company promises
70 have 1000 men at work at the Pueblo
plant within 90 days.
There was a bad dire Monday in the
buildings connected with tho Madonna
mine at Monarch. About 50 men are tenn
rorarily thrown out OF employment.
The snow and cold weather have
driven game down from the mountains into
the gulchcs and valleys for food and shcl,
ter, and nimrods are having excellent
sport
Ouray Is afflicted with thieves and
hold-rsps and several citizens have been re
licvcd OF their valuables there lately. Steps
have been taken TO rid the town OF this Gle
mcut
The elections throughout the State
showed iha, party lines wcro generally
thrown down. and the best inon. irrcSpec
tive of parties, were ncsriy everywhere
elected.
Tho following towns have been Sc
lccteJ for permanent county seats in n,
now counties created BY the last Lcgisla.
tgrc: Morgan, Fort Morgan; Cheyenne,
Cheyenne Wells Kiowa, Sheridan Lake,
otcro, La Junta; Prowcrs, Lamar; Kit
Carson, burlington; Yuma, Yuma.
The Board OF Capitol Commission.
ors me; Thursday and decided TO advertise
for bids on the 500, ,oO State bonds which
are now offered the first bonds ever Is
sued by the State OF Colorado The bonds
bear per cent and IL is expected by The
Board that they will bring at least 3 per
cent. premium.
Six prisoners effected their escape
from the El,Paso County Jail Tuesday night
by saving through the steel bars Of a cell
on the second stoNy. One OF tho prisoners IL
awaiting trial for murder, and the others
were confined for minor ofTenscs. A full
posse Of citizens aud deputy shcrif's art
now In pursuit aud the country in being
secured In nil directions.
Benjamin Hart, "A well-knowu and
popular rauchman OF Eagle County, wa,
instantly killed near the twenty mile house
on the Blue River, Tuesday. He had left
Dillon for homo with team and wagon
loaded with his wintcr's supplies, and in
driving along the road his vehicle slipped
OF the track. burying the driver in the
snow under the heavy weight Of loaded
wagon.
The bears are getting quite num-
erous around Telluride, says tho Rcpilbti-
can and people arc constantly stumbling
upon then at unexpected times. Tho men
that sec them are not generally looking
for bear, not having lost any, and conse.
aucntiy are not looking for such visitors
Grand bear hunts will have to be organized
in the near future TO keep these animals
within bounds.
The Denver ~ Rio Grande has com.
plctcd It's Riilc Creek extension and has
put train service on II. Trains were
started few days ago and now arc run
ming regularly TO Rifle. Tho down river
train makes close connection with the
train leaving Aspen in tho morning so that
passengers have no long wait imposed on
them There are four stations below Glen.
wood, in the following order: Sclt, Now
Castle, Chacra and Rifle Crook.
Monday afternoon, at five o'clock
Edward Eva, MINER was killed In the
Saratoga mine nt Central City. Eva had
Just gone down In tho mine TO go TO work
and was let out OF the cage at the 250-foot
level, and few minutes thereafter his
lifolcss body was found in tho bottom OF
the shaft, having fallen $50 feet. No one
saw him when he fell. II is supposed that
nfter a!ighting at tho level he carclcssly
approached the shaft and was prccipitatcd
TO tho bottom.
q, NJ. Ambold,a n prominent business
man OF Durango, met with sad death
Monday night. Last week Mr. Ambold
was confined to his bed and ut times wns
dclirious The latter part Of the week he
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