The Delta independent., 1889-12-17
STATE NEWS

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The Weld County jail has only one
occupant
Grand Junction is having verit-
able boom.
Denyer's clearings last week amount
"a to over q. .ooo.o
Rocky Ford has very successful
Chnutauqua circle.
The Windsor Hotel in Denver has
been sold for ss75,oo
Frank Fifer was killed by . snow
slidc near Siiverton Last week.
There is more snow In the noun
tains than for several years past.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
railway to tho top Of Pixies Peax.
Work on the new Union Pacific
shops ut Denver has commenced.
Eastern parties are talking Of estab-
lishing large nursery At Brighton.
The territory that depends on Colo
rsdo for coal Is constantly increasing.
The Hotel Blanca at Monte Vista
camc near burning down tho other day.
A little boy was run over and killed
by cable car In Denver the other day.
The city clerk OF Aspen is missing
and an examination OF his books shows .
serious shortage.
II is estimated that It will take
100000 TO run tho city government Of
Denver next year.
Tho widow Of Jefferson Davis Il TO
spend several months with hsr daughter
st Colorado Springs.
Portland is rejoicing over the COM
pletion Of their new school house. Il is .
two story AFFAIR e2xA feet in ground area
and reHects credit upon the inhabitants Of
that place.
The town Of Holyoke was Visited
by band of iawicss White Cap maraudcrs
few days ago and two attorneys wero
seized, taken few miles into the country
npd given nost cruel beatine.
For tho first time in many years
haye the white.taIlcd deer In tho moun.
taips Of Boulder County come down to the
vatIey In largo numbers. Parties have
killed numbers lately in sight Of Boulder
City.
In the San Junn mountains In tho
southwest corner Of the State 1t has showed
some, more or less, every day for thirty
days last past. There will be an abun
dance Of tho beautiful In the stivery San
juan this time.
Tho building Of the Touring mill as
Rocky Ford has come to stand-still,
swaiiing TIE .jumbcr which has been de-
lAycd ON IL wAJ up from TcxAs- The cars
coutaiaing this lumber have been side
tracked In the south upwards Of forty days
A final test OF the water works was
mado at Holyokc Monday. giving entire
satis faction. Thu plant consists Of about
six nilcs OF mains and stand pipe hold
ing i25 900 gallons. The hydrAnts were
formally turned over 70 the city to-day.
Holyokc now has ~ good system Of water
works - there is in the eastern part Of the
State.
Articles OF incorporation have been
flcd by tho Arkansas River watcr Power
Company, with . capital stock Of go, 900.
The lncorporators arc Nimrod s. waipole,
John Norris, John c. Striblc ana Robert
GrInt, Of Pueblo. The object OF the COM
panv 10 TO build and construct ditches and
canals In Pueblo, Fremont, FL Paso. Chat.
fec and Las Animas Counties. The prin-
cipai ofsicc will be in Pueblo.
Tho work OF tearing down the brick
work Of No. blast furnace 81 Bessemer
has commenced and the oficcn Of tho
company say that not only will larger
furnace bc built. but much larger hoist
tower, and the work will be rushed TO COM
plction, ~ II 10 wanted in tho shortest pos
bio time 70 help turn out iron for tho rail
mill and other departments, where big
!. orders have been placed by the Denver d
Rio Grande.
There WINS quite = crowd at Me Dem
vcr freight depot Thursday afternoon to
witnsss III o arrival Of the animals for the
geological gardens at Berkeley Lake.
These animals were purchased ~ great
cxpsnsc by Mr.. John Elitch, Jr., OF Adam
Forcpaugh. and have beon two weeks in
coming from philadelphia There were
thrcc carloads in all, consisting Of camels,
lions, monkeys. cockatoos, sacred COW, ETC.,
altogether collection such ~ Dcnver may
Justly take pridein.
Tho Silverton correspondent Of the
Denver Ne,rs writes that Journal ~ fol-
lows: Tom Hackctt, foreman, Jim Kill
burne, mail carrier, and eleven other
heroes, miners on the North Star mine, on
King Solomon Mountain, arrived In town
this evening with two sick mon from the
mine. Jim Brown, who has bsen confined
70 his bed for weok with rheumatism, and
sx-Alderman M. J. Mcguire, blacksmith
II tho mine, suffering with an Abccss on
his ankle. Tho latc storm made the trip
one Of unusual peril, the mine being the
highest silver mine In tho world. Both
men werc brought down on toboggans
snow shoes werc out Of the question, and
the men were compelled 70 wade the snow
which, at bsst reached their waist, and at
times was up 70 tholr shoulder. The
risks Of the party from being burisd up by
slidsa 40 win not speak Of. The party
rsaoAsd here safely, but they are heroes
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