The Delta independent., 1889-12-03
STATE NEWS.

There are 495 convicts in the State
prison.
A splendid system OF water-works
are being put in at Delta.
Antelope are unusually numerous
. few miles south Of Rocky Ford.
The library OF the college at Colo
rado Springs embraces 5000 volumes.
Rocky Ford will contest La Junta's
right to the county seat of Otero County.
Four feet OF snow fell in the Ward
mining district of Boulder County last
week.
A new sanitarium building to cost
600, 900 IL to be erected At Colorado
Springs.
The Salvation Army are about to
establish post at Erie for work among
coal miners.
The Colorado Kennel Club will hold
bench show in Denver on the 5th, 9Th and
7th Of December.
The postoffice at Fort Morgan was
entered Thursday night, the safe blown
open and 600 stolen.
The new hotel jerome has been
opened At Aspen. 1t represents an invest
ment Of over 100000.
A handsome Ladies Hall will be
erected iH connection with tho Colorado
Springs College next year.
The newsboys or Denver were given
. free Thanksgiving dinner and tickets TO
the matinee u, the Opera House.
About &c. 900 will be expended on
Aspcns sewers and 100 idle men will be
given six wecls' work. Tile pipe will be
used.
The Touring mill Mt Rocky Ford Is
progressing rapidly and win be ready for
occupancy by January |. II nothing pre-
vents.
Rabbits are getting very numerous
In tho foothills around Gunnison, and the
ranchmcn are complaining OF their depre-
dations.
A white elk has been seen several
times lately near New Castle. II has been
shot at number OF tines but seems to
possess charmed life.
Leadviile's gambling houses have
been again opened, with certain rcs,ric-
tions, and they Increase tho revenue OF the
city about &, 900 month.
Harvey Waterhousc and Joe Parker.
two men working:at . mine near Silver
CliY, got into u quarrel the 9th er day and
shot each other. Both will probable die.
In the great mining cnse which has
occupied the time of the Federal Court iu
Denver for tho pas. three weeks tho jury
have found for the defendant The Dur
ant interest will probably appeal TO the
United States Supreme Court
Tho Colorado Senators will urge the
passage Of bill In the next Congress Civ.
ing TO tho State ali the salt springs In Col
orado, not exceeding l2 in number, with
six sections OF land adjoining each, the sc-
lsctions 70 be made by the Governor.
The Silver Association OF George
town, on Friday last, held . special meet.
ing, with Hon. II. o. Oids In the chair, and
unanimously adopted rcsolu uon protest
Ing against tho abolition OF Tic Bureau OF
Immigration or tho abridgment OF the ap.
preparation for its ma!tcnance.
A Greeley correspondent writes that
over 900 600 bushels Of wheat have already
been brought TO that city and Eaton, which
10 included In tho Greeley district, and
considerable Is still held back by the farm
srA Tho whole crop will not be much less
than zoo, 600 bushels, and may reach that
nxurc, which IL nearly twice as much as
tho crop last year.
Hon. +. j. V. Skin Is in St. Louis
LOOKING after the interests OF tho cmigra.
ton bureau Of the State for the exposition
70 be held at that place next year. He will
aak for 10000 feet Of space In which to
display the varied products OF Colorado.
Tho expressions received at the ofiice OF
this bureau from over the State are that 1t
should be given cordial support.
The contract hns been let for build
ing tho Glcnwood Springs bridge to the
Bulleu Bridge Company Of Trinidad for
tho sum OF $3.50. There were nine bids
opcncd by the board, most Of them rang.
ing above 10000. Tho work will be
pushed TO completion at once. as y check
for q. zoo was required TO be deposited by
the above mentioned company - guaran.
tec that work would commenced within
two wccks.
- Major Hurlbut, president Of the
company which Is building = railroad to
tho top OF Pixies Peak, says that four and
half miics Of tho grading has been COM
plotted and tho balance is In rapid progreas.
More men arc now Mt work on the road
than at any time since its inception, over
300 men being employed. The company OK.
pects 70 have tho grading completed by
spring with the exception Of short piece
on top Of tho Peak. The cars and locomo
uvcs for the road are being built and will
b delivered on tho ground on or about
Jan. !, At which timo track laying will bc-
gin and be pushed forward without inter.
ruption. Tho road will DO ono Of the most
substantial Of its kind In the world. Tho
roadbed will he ID fcet wide on top and
there will be no trcstle work the cntire
route.
In an interesting letter from Colo
RADIO Springs 70 the New York Indepen.
dent, Joaquin Miller says: "only yester.
.a.,sr su,v a man and his rifc md Ava