The Delta independent., 1889-04-09
STATE NEWS.

Fort Morgan is to have a cream
cry.
Walsenburg is to have electric
lights
Two hundred coke ovens are rum
ing at Cardin.
A Vanderbilt party are making q
tour Of the State.
Mr.. Moody preached at Colorado
Springs last Sunday.
Six new counties were created by
the recent Legislature.
The Legislature finally adjourned
without passing any railroad law tall.
Denver will have twenty-five miles
of cable lines in operation by August l.
Great preparations are being made
for the barbecue to be held at Lamar on
the 10Th.
Denver citizens propose TO raise
fund of SO, 600 with which to prosecute cor
ruptors Of the ballot.
Denver clcarings showed an increase
las. week Of e. per cent. over those Of the
same week last year
The newly elected mayor Of Lead
vile is pledged to the closing Of the gam
bling hells OF that city.
According to apparently truthful
accounts the closing hours of the Legisla-
ture were disgraceful to the extreme.
More mineral is being taken from
the mountains Of Colorado at the present
time ehan ever before in her history.
There are said to be 500 citizens OF
this State who have applications on file Mt
Washington for various federal positions.
The large Touring mill OF j. +.
S,crnberg, located near Boulder, was dcs
troyed by fire few days ago. Loss s4o,-
coo.
The issue In the recent city election
q, Longmont was prohibition or high IL
ccnsc. After close struggle the latter
won.
Immense fortunes are awaiting capi-
tailsts who have the nerve to take hold OF
and develop tho ircn resources OF this
State.
The union painters OF Denver are
on n strike. They want the same pay for
cigh, hours work they now receive for
nine hours.
An enormous Indignation meeting
was held In Denver las, Thursday night to
protects against methods used In the recent
city elections.
W. II. Bush, proprietor OF the Wind
sor Hotel In Denver, has announced his in
tcntion of erecting another magnificent
theatre in that city.
There WINS so much opposition to
MIR. Lothrop as q member Of the Denver
Board Of Public Works that Gov. Cooper
has withdrawn his name.
"A couple OF men were arrested at
Denver the other day for stealing string
OF six thor ,ughbrcd race horses which they
had brought all the way from Kentucky.
The appropriations made by the re-
cent General Assembly amount TO about
o,0oo, 900, about e4oo, 600 Of which Is paya-
bic from the internal improvement fund.
The total area of the public lands in
Colorado is G6, $50, 900 acres, OF which there
has been surveyed 5s,+2I,iab acres, and
leaving 10 be surveyed Of public and In.
dian land s,t55, ,soi acres
The three story building on Law
renee stree, in Denver occupied by the
Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company and the
Crokc Carpet Company burned Wednesday
night. Total loss nearly 100000.
There is movement afoot to organ
lac base ball league among tho colleges
of the State. Tho Universities, Jesuit and
High Schools Of Denver. md School OF
Mines ut Golden, have already signifed
their willingness to Join.
About April 10 there will be big
change In tho Denver & Rio Grnndc timc
table. Two through passenger trains will
be put on between Denver md Salt Lake.
and the ouray train will be run only be-
tween Montrosc and Ouray, making close
connection for the East and West
Wolfe Londoncr wns elected Mayor
Of Denver last Tuesday by majority much
less than Republican candidates usually re.
ccivc. There was u great deal of fraud
and intimidation practiccd at the polls, the
police rendering themselves particularly OBJ
noxious.
In consequence of the great increase
of business In It's stone department, says
the Ft Collins Express, Tho Union Pacific
Railway Company has been obliged TO put
on mn extra freight tram to ship out ,hc
stone quarricd at Arkins, on the Buckhorn.
Tho train goes to Denver via Ft. Collins
aud Greeley, leaving TT. Collins about
7o'clock y, IN. Besides this, train-load
Of stone from Stout leaves Fl. Collins
daily, for tho East, ut 2 o'clock p. m. The
company now employs 100 mon Mt Atkins
and arc increasing tholr forcc at Stout at
the ratio of twenty-five men per day, and
by April viii havo 200 mon employed.
Besides tho stone quarried Mt these two
points, the company purchases largo guam
titles Of tagging, paving blocks aud curb
stone from outside quarrics, ncar Ft.
Collins.
An Aspen dispatch says: Tho Mol
lic Gibson has exceeded horsolf. Tho
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