The Delta independent., 1889-01-15
STATE NEWS.
Monte Vista has q successful gun
club
Greeley Il organizi.gs = choral 90

The Salvation Army has tackled
Colorado Springs.
Bonlder's ambition Is TO be the liter
ary center Of the State
The probabilities are that Windsor
will soon have creamery.
The State Grange has been In ses-
sion In Denver the past week.
Tho jel Norte Touring mills are all
running to their fullest capacity.
new bank with a capital Of $780,
200 has been established at La Junta.
A Chinese divorce case is creating
considerable amusement in Denver.
Every town in eastern Colorado is
nghting for the location Of county seat
The Stockgrowers' Association has
made the FiHid and Farm their onacial or.
gun.
Tho Democratic caucus have nomi-
mated Charles S. Thomas for United States
Scna.tor.
The Greeley potatoe growers have
formed pool 70 advance the prioo Of their
prducts.
Mr.. Frank Baldwin OF Pueblo. has
been appointed private secretary to Gov
srnor Cooper.
Pueblo real estate sales are crowd
Ing hayd on those Of Denver both In mum.
Der ind amount
Henry Osgood, Of Pomona, Gala
acknowledges the authorship OF tho famou
Murchisoa letter.
The city council Of Las Animas has
ies the contract for . system of water
works to cost e., ,500
County divisions are among the
more important matters TO come before ths
Legislature this winter.
The Texas Legislature is thinking
of nppropriating 100000 for the purpose o,
advertising that State.
II Is reported that English capital
lists havc bought another large mining
property near Georgetown.
There are between 800 and 600 car
loads OF potatoes in the country tributary
TO Greeley still unmarkcted.
Governor Adams was presented las,
Monday with n handsome bronze pedestal
by his brother state ofiicials.
The employees in the ofYice Of State
Auditor Kingsley presented that oficia!
with handsome gold headed cane.
Six coaches full Of passengers went
from Ouray and ncighboring, towns TO at
tend the inaugural ceremonies Mt Denver.
Fert Collins is cndcavoring TO in
ducc the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth
Railroad TO build un extension to that point
A lnrgcr percentage Of patients are
sent from the Pueblo asylum cured than
from any similar institution In tho world.
Mrs. Susctte Schock Of Needlcton.
near Durango, committed suiciic by shoot
Ing few days ago. A quarrel with her
husband was the cause.
business is reported lively in all
parts Of Eastern Colorado. In Yuma last
Saturday cighty-six teams wcrc counted
In the streets Mt one time.
Tho Pueblo Press chartered special
train TO meet the Kansas City cxcursionists
and invited the prominent citizens TO &C
company them ON tho trip.
According TO all reports tho Reform
School at Golden needs reforming. Severe
and unnecessary punishmcnts sccm TO be
the ralc in that institution.
Judge Hallett has decided against
the Government in its suit TO set asidc the
patents 10 coal lands obtained by tho Trini-
dad Coal and Coking Company.
A party OF surveyors are at work
near Lamar. They arc Union Pacific men
and are supposed to DO working southwest
10 tho coal regions about Trinidad.
A big foundry and machine-shop il
70 be established in Pueblo by Dcs Moincs
Nowa) capitalists, who have faith In tho
future Of the Colorado Pittsburg.
The best estimates place the yield Of
precious metals In tho State last year At
. trifie owe: so 900, 900, gain OF about q
million and a half over the previous year.
Tho Denver exchanges show gain
57.a per cent last week over the amount Of
one year ago. This is nearly twice ~ great
. gain N any other city In tho list showed.
Robert Graham. foreman Of the Dun
kin mine OF Lcadvilic, was killed . few
days ago by largo slab Of porphyry fall.
Ing on him from tho top Of drift which
he was examining.
A Miss Green, n domestic In the en-
ploy Of Mr.. Goodhuc, near Louisville, shot
and killed Samuel Dudley, another omployc,
last Sunday morning. Tho shooting was
the culmination Of trivial quarrel.
A school house ncar Brush wss
burned to tho ground Now Years evening.
An entertainment WINS In progress ct the
time tho firc occurred but the lack Of water
rendered tho people present powcrlcss 70
extinguish the flames.
The horticultural exhibition at Dem
yor last wcck presented some novel and In.
tcrcsting fcaturcs. A tank Of water con.
taincd fish In every stage Of development,
end tho visitor might 500 the egss burst
open and tho little wrigglers bob out -
renely.
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