The Delta independent., 1889-12-10
STATE NEWS.

AuouiV - W nave y b1V1ugb Dank.
The Aspen postmaster has resigned.
Cheyenne Wells wants lumber and
brick yard.
The Golden paper mill has shut
DOWN for the winter.
Tho enrolment Of the State Univer.
sity has reached I40.
A great many Of the Boulder County
coal miners arc ON strike.
A herd Of forty five antelope were
seen near Florissant the other day.
There are 14O male and IS female
patients in the insane asylum At Pueblo.
Otto Mears proposes TO build cog.
rosd next year between Ouray and Iron
ton.
Miss Kate Slavin OF Leadville, was
seriously injured while coasting Saturday
night
Miss Della Rinehart was seriously
burned while lighting nre with coal oil
st Siebert last week.
1t will cost Is, 900. 900 TO widen the
gauge Of the Rio Grande road between
Canon City and Grand Junction.
At the teachers' examination held
at Golden last Friday there were twenty
four applicants, all but three Of whom
were females
A most interesting programme has
been prepared for the State Teachers' As
socistion which meets IN Denver the latter
part Of this month.
It 10 ofiicially announced that work
on the Union Pacific shops At Denver will
commence early in January. The cost
will be st least s5O0,0W
According 10 tho Colorado School
.Jolruni the coat Of text books for the
Arst eight yesrs OF school life in Denver
averages only ssis syear.
The State Insurance Department
cleared so, ,os9.si over and above expenses
during the last ncai year, making gain OF
about q, ,o0o over tho previous year.
Norris Harrison. Denvcr's sidewalk
inspector, has been found guilty Of at
tempting 70 Sribe . juror. and has been
sentenoed TO ninety days In the county Jail
Mr.. 4. o. McI.enn has just CON-
pletcd the work Of setting out 5000 apple.
pcar and plum troes Of the finest varieties,
on his ranch near CAtiiu. The past sea
son be gathered tho hrst crop Of Russian
spricots from 3yesr-old trees ever grown
IN this State.
Tho school population OF Boulder
has grown % that dcspite the fact that .
large new building with six rooms has
Just been completed, tho school board was
compelled TO rent another room, and
smother primary grade was started,
with Miss Jessie Wilson - teacher.
The proposition to issue more bonds
for the completion Of the Capitol was de-
fcatedsAt the late election by = majority Of
1870 votes. Boulder, ChAaec, Lake, Pu-
sblo and Weld Counties voted almost sol.
idly against the bonds.
Tho Denver 4 Rio Grande Company
IL now moving about 500 cars Of coal every
day, or about Que. third moro than At this
time last year. OF this amount st lcast
so cars come from the mines on tho south
branch, wsiscn, Rouse, Ell Moro, etc., 90
cazs from Coal Creek. and 80 cars from
Crested Butte.
A Greeley correspondent writes that
over 20o, 900 busheis Of wheat have already
been brought 70 that city and Eaton, which
10 included In tho Greeley district and
considerable 10 still hold back BY the farm
err. The whole crop win not bs much less
than ~, 900 buahels, and may reach that
ngurc, which IL nearly twice - much -
ths crop last year.
Following Is the monthly report Of
The Colorado Humane Society: Cruelty To
women, l5; cruelty 70 children, 10; cruelty
70 men, o; cruelty 70 horses, s.; cruelty to
mules, s; cruelty 70 cows, 1; total number,
%. Prosecutions, 8; convictions, .; cent
70 hospital, 5; provided homes for children
3. Very favorable reports have been re.
ceived from all portions Of tho State.
The County Court room at Colorado
speines presented an extraordinary accne
Tuesday when $50 gamblers, saioou-keep-
err and prostitutes from Colorado City
were arraisned. They had been served
with subpenas by tho Shcrlh aud his dep
utiss Just before dinner. Seven Of them
pissded guilty and werc fined ranging
from so 70 eiOo each, while tho remainder
wers granted until Friday TO plead.
About nine. o'clock Wednesday
morning = Ars. Matte Fuller, living four
nilss south OF Fountain, was coming home
from . uelghbor's, her horse became
frightsasd, throwing her TO the ground.
In falling her foot became entanGled In the
stirrup strap and she was dragged quite .
distance. She was picked up . few min
utss later In an unconscious condition
fron which she never recovered, dying At
II An.
Attorney General Jones has rem.
dsrsd an opinion 70 the eject that County
oencsrs d ected 81 the recent election for
ths regular term only cannot enter upon
their olHciai duties until the beginning Of
their regular tsrms, and the appointees OF
he Governor held their o6sces until such
tans. werc thsy elected 10 mi tho va
cency and the regular term they should
quality Immediately and take possession
Of tAsir once.
Lest week whilc out hunting on the
naA Miguel River, Frank Rood nistook