The Delta independent., 1889-07-02
STATE NEWS.

brick block in Colorado City.
The annual rush OF tourists to the
Top Of Pixies Peak has set in.
Samuel A. Abbey has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Pueblo.
Colorado Springs has sent over
q. 100 TO the Johnstown sufferers.
The country around Steamboat
Springs is being rapidly taken up.
Tho Denver Brewery has been sold
TO an English syndicate for $4,000
Michael +. Smith has been ap-
pointed assaycr ofthe Denver mint.
Pucblo's total donation to the flood
sufferers in Pennsylvania was si 800.
A base ball umpire came near
being mobbed tho other day in Denver.
Tho smoke-stack OF one Of the Dem
vcr csblo-powcr houses is 100 feet high
A number OF Denver saloons have
taken alarm and closed their doors ON Sun
day.
Henry Tyson has bccn convicted Of
murder in tho first degree by . Denver
jury. sf
Tho fruit crop Of Larimer county
promises 70 be ~ per cent larger than ever
before.
Bands of wild horses arc still occa-
sionally encountered In the eastern part Of
tho State.
The Mesa NJ. +. Church was dcdi-
Gated by Bishop Warren At Pueblo last
Sunday.
Large gray buffalo wolves arc caus-
ing considerable loss Of stock in tho cast
crn part Of tho State.
Joseph Kcntz escaped from the
Boulder Jan . fcw day ago. A reward Of
te3 b offered for his arrcst
II is thought that the Denver, Utah
4 Pacific Road will soon bc extended 70 the
North Park and Steamboat Springs.
A man died In Trinidad the other
day from injuries received At the hands Of
Q policeman a. the timc OF his arrest
Tho courts have been appealed 70 ~
prcvent the municipal council Of Denver
from giving away valuable franchises.
Leslie Warren, aged IL years, w~s
run over by the cars near Falcon . few
days ago. He was trying 70 Jump upon
moving train.
Tho Telluride bank robbers secured
oei COO Two Of thcm arc said 70 b known
and strenuous efforts are being put forth
for thcir capture.
Mrs. NJ. N. Smith, Of Pueblo. has
been granted pension Of 90 month, and
will sooa receive back pension TO the
amount OF 5000.
Joseph G. Brown has bcen ap-
pointed assistant superintendent Of tho
bureau of Immigration and Statistics by
superintendent Skin.
:. A train having 260 mormon immi-
grants on board passed through Pueblo
Tuesday. Most Of them were from Swc
4. den and Switzerland.
General Hamill has presented the
Grand Army boys Of Denver with block
Of granite said to weigh 100 900 pounds TO be
used ~ monument for tho soldier dead.
A masked robbcr entered the rooms
OF tho Opera Club, In Lcadville, few days
ago, and compelled tho solitary attendant
70 hand over all tho funds on hand, some
tsOo.
Tho Denver Board of Public works
and IN Council ere already at Ioggcrheads
ovor thc proper division Of the e100, 900
which src 70 b spent on public improve
mCaO. II
General Sherman and party will rc-
main In Colorado two weeks Waiting Idaho
Springs, Manitou, Lcadvillc, Aspen and
GienwSod Springs after stay Of . wcck
In Denver.
Tho railroad reached Lnko City
Wednesday and was received with cvcry
dcmonstration. Of delight That town
promises 70 spring at once to tho front -
shipper oforc.
Census returns received at WASH
ington show that Colorado loads all other
States In tho amount OF money invested
pcr CAPITA In school buildings and teachers
salaries and aiso in tho average attendance
Of pupils In tho schools.
lnO CO1l<r0Ct lOT AuEuAshAu8 Suo
granite which IL 70 be used In the State
capitol building has been let TO Stuart &
Mitchell. Tho, granite will como from
Cuuuison. whorc on tho river bctwccn
Gunnison and Crested Butte IL situated
ono Of tho finest quArrias In tho world.
The contract was let for eibo,0oo. All thu
material 10 70 b. furnished within ono
year, and ne.haif Of Il. during this season.
At the Buckhorn quarrics thero 10
IN operstioa powerful stene-crushlns
mapAiae which 4 being run to " utmost
capacity, breaking stone for the cable iines
or denver, which will use the stone for
baliasting their tracks. The Union Pa
clio company has coatractsd with these
cable iines for l,0oo csss Of crushed stone,
and whole trails loads are being shipped
5 epM EbI9 oen1nss daily. Over 800 men
~ ~ Sno,S9td h 49, euaEsiss, and
~ ~ Ustea 3ael11 senyaay y not aele
tesuge1 evsa : snall ~ - ~ aaaaAd