The Delta independent., 1889-04-23
STATE NEWS.

AoHSuuous 40 HAVING a ECNANAA Vi fo>
lsion. +.
Postmaster Speer, of Denver, has
resigned.
A fine reading room has been estab-
lished In Aspen.
Central City is to spend $50. 900 for
system Of water works.
A teachers convention is TO be held
In Gunnison May 10 and II.
The Governor has appointed the Of
Hcers for the new county OF Kiowa.
The 10Th was very generally OBJ
served as Arbor Day throughout the State.
Twelve prisoners were taken from
Colorado Springs to tho penitentiary last
week.
A white swan measuring six feet
from tip to tip was shot near Durango last
week.
A DIR. Scott, formerly of Como. has
been appointed Health Commissioner of
Denver.
The new depot at Alamosa is near
Ing completion, and is very handsome
structure.
The celebration OF Lamar over The
completion of her irrigating canals was
great success.
1t is feared that recent frosts have
injured the fruit prospects in some portions
OF the State.
There is considerable excitement at
Monte Vista over some rich orc recently
found in that vicinity.
The painters strike at Denver is
over. The men los. s14, SIS in wages before
they gave up the fight
The acreage OF crops planted in tho
San Luis Valley this spring will double
that OF any previous year.
Orders are coming in rapidly for the
newly invented irrigation pumps soon TO be
manufactured in Greeley.
A young man Mt present confined In
the peni,cntiary has been left &ioo, 900 by
his father, recently deceased.
Stephen B. Yeoman has been COM
missioncd postmaster at Rosita, and Sarah
p. Lacy posimistrcss at West Clir.
Frank DcWalt, the notorious Lead
willie banker. who has been living behind
prison bars for several years, Is out on bail.
There were ia persons brought be-
fore the Denver police court for trial last
Monday. Most OF them were drunka and
vagrants.
The Arapahoe County Commission
ors1 1havc contracted for steel cage In
which to keep prisoners which is TO cost
So2,oOo.
Tho owners OF the red stone quarry
near Manitou have contracted for 900 car
loads Of their stone TO Denver parties with
In the past few days.
Some Denver gentlemen have leased
quarter section Of school land near that
city for forty years, which they intend i'm
proving for State fair purposes.
A Denver architect claims about
s1s,0oo from tho Commissioners Of Arapa-
hoe County for plans for court house and
TAIL which they decided not TO have built.
The State board OF dental examiners
has elected officers as follows: President,
DR.. J. NJ Mormon OF Denver: secretary,
DIR. J. NJ. Porter of Denver: treasurer, DR..
J. N. Chipley of Pueblo.
Tho Montrosc papers are signing for
. car load OF "corn-fcd girls from tho
Statcs.n There arc said to be four hun
dred bachelors In that vicinity who arc
willing and eager to marry, but there Ia
not single woman In the country.
A Manitou dispatch says Engineer
Richardson, who is in charge OF the Pixies
Peak Surveying Corps, was down from tho
mountain Saturday and reports having had
. rough time since he began work. Very
heavy snow has fallen and tho severity Of
tho weather has caused somc suffering
among tho men. They hnvc been obliged
70 abandon their camp above timber limo
and will conflnc operations for tho present
70 tho lower portion OF tho route.
Tho reports OF the conflict at Boston
arc very conflicting. Some arc to tho effect
that cowboys captSrcd tho town md run
things In their Uwr way for several days,
while other reports arc to the effect that
the town has long been the headquarters
Of q lnwlcss gang who have bccn operating <
in Kansas and tho Neutral Strip and that
some cowboys from n neigh boring ranch
having traced some stolen horscs to tho
town were fired upon by tho citizens, who
were tho aggrcssors.
Atn meeting Of the Lcadville Board
Of Trade Thursday evening tho deep shaft
committee recommended tho immediate or
ganization Of company with u capitalize.
tion Of 600, 900, divided into eoo,O0 shares
Of 81 each, allowing fifteen lots to tho acre
on basis OF 1000 acres. After dcducting
tho 75 per cont OF tho stock to be paid for
tho sinking of the shaft, which will enable
tho company to pay ton sharcs for tho min.
eral rights TO zach lot, and 100 shares for
tho mineral rights Of each aero.
Mysterious Disappearance Of Bag Of
Gold.
RRArNARD. Miup. April 1S.-A pack