The Delta independent., 1889-11-19
STATE NEWS.
Scarlet fever is raging in Egeria

Su AIhpouoc SOuutS.
Georgetown was threatened with n
coal famine last week.
r. l.. Hubbard has been appointed
postmaster at Burlington.
Denver's new opera house is foun-
dering around in sea of financial difficul
tics.
Snow is reported five feet in depth
at Ward and Caribou, with the storm still
raging.
The Colorado pioneers held their
annual banquet in Denver last Tuesday
night
The State Silver convention adopted
strong resolutions favoring free and un-
lip:ited coinage.
The Silver Convention is in session
in Denver with between 400 and 800 dele
gates in attendance,
An engine on the Fort Worth road
exploded n few days ago slightly iniuring
both engineer and fireman.
The County Sunday School Conven-
tion held at Boulder last week was well at
tended and very interesting.
Tho South Platte River between
Fort Morgan and Sterling is said to be
covered with ducks and geese.
Joseph Varney and +. o. Steele lost
their lives by a caving in Of rock in the ST
Joe mine n, Aspen last Saturday.
The trustees of the Denver Univcr-
sity are taking steps toward tho erection
Of permanent buildings at Evanston.
Sanford II. Record of New York
has been appointed superintendent of the
Indian training school nj Grand junction
Colo.
ID. B. kccler. general freight agent
OF the Union Pacific at Dcuver,s has re
signed and +. II. Wood OF Kansas City has
been appointed his successor.
Three men named William David.
son, Shaercr and Iafe Waltham wcr,
killed near Boulder the other day by tn,
accidental explosion OF some giant powder
The Salvation Army have won II
victory In their fight with the city fathers
OF Central City. Tho police judge has de
cidcd tina, they can parade To their hearts
content
The Durant- -Bonnybel mining case
Is again on trial In Denver. Over g., ,0c1 Oo(
are involved In the suit and the most emi
ncnt legal talca, iu the Wes, is employed
BY the litigan,s.
One OF the construction men In the
employ OF the Denver * Rio Grandc at work
changing the gauge Of the track in tho
Grand Canon was blown up by giant pow
der and killed Tuesday afternoon.
The Colorado Coal Il Iron Company
has advertised for bids TO build twenty .fiv,
new houses for their employees in Pueblo
The company will also cxpcnd goo, 900 in
improving their plant In ,ha, place.
In the county seat contest in Baca,
Springfield received 1872 votes, Villas l6d
Stonington lSo, and Minneapolis 30, max
ing total OF 5a4. Asa majority was neccs
sary TO decide, another election will bt
held.
Complaints are s,ill made OF hunt
ing parties OF Utcs which infcst the west
crn border of the State near Rangcly.
Since the fall they have been crossing tho
line in small squads which arc gradually
increasing in numbers
The settlers in tho valley of tn.
Platte complain that pot-huntcrs 4 on
Denver are killing on all the quail In tina,
section. These birds arc no, numerous n;
best and 1t seems pity that they canno,
Nbo allowed 10 increase for few years.
Governor Cooper has issued re.
quisition on the Governor OF Kansas foi
one Charles II. Linwood, au escaped con,
vict from Canon City. Linwood was sen
fenced to prison for seven years and had
served two years before he effected hi,
escape.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
have decided to build summer resort on
bald Mountain, near Golden A large
hotel will be built, nn electric railway will
be constructed from Denver, and 1t is cx.
pec,od that tho place will In few years
hnvca u population OF 10000.
The next scmi.annual meeting ol
the Boulder county teachers will be held In
I.ouemont, November % and % Prcmi.
nent educators Of tho State, among them
State Superintendent Dick OF Denver and
Professors Dc Long, bennett, Casey and
Webb Of Boulder will take part in the OK.
crciscs.
Amcmber Of y'hicl's detective agency
who went TO DotscHo 10 ferret ou. the per-
pctrAtors Of . crime wns lurcd OF on a
hunting "trip, by tho parties whom he sus
pec,ed Of being the guilty ones, and ha,
not since been heard from. II is feared h,
has met with foul play. Tho whole coun-
try Ia being secured for soino trace OF him.
Colorado has now about 1000. .OOO
ncrcs OF land under cultivation, and u total
Of LEO bitches, with n total length OF 6.0N
miles or thereabouts: counting latcrals, II
il estimated that there nro $4,000 miles.
On tho eastern side Of tho mountains IL Is
estimated that there arc ., 600 900 acres tha,
can bc reached by tho present irrigatine
facilities and on the western slope notl les,
than 100000 acres.
The annual meeting OF the stock.
holders Of tho Lnrimcr County Fair Asso.
citation was held on Saturday last, and 70.
suited In tho election Of the following
named trustees for tho ensuing year: /.
w. Bennett, Abncr Loomis, William Il
kincr II NJ H. Scott ~ Gnpo pct,y