The Delta independent., 1889-11-26
STATE NEWS.

turai implement factory.
Asplendid system of water-works
are being put in at Delta.
G. Z. Hagar has been appointed re-
ceiver of public monies at Denver.
The churches of Rocky Ford make
money by giving buckwheat- socials.
A Fort Collins gardener shipped 32,-
800 pounds of onions to Cheyenne last
week.
The authorities OF La Junta have
decided to close tho saloons of that place
on Sunday.
1t is announced that work is about
10 commence on the million dollar shops OF
the Union Pacific at Denver.
The owners OF property along Six
teenth Street Denver, have decided to pave
that thoroughfare with asphalt.
The wholesale and retail grocery
house Of Peter Mulvany, at Salida, was de
stroyed by fire Wednesday. Loss, $4,000.
William Robinson, OF Robinson's
Lakes. sold six marble claims last week,
in which he is largely interested, for <l2,-
O00
A party will leave Denver Monday
TO compicte the survey for the proposed
railroad through the Canon Of the Colo.
rsdos
A ranchman living near Sheridan
Lake was burned to death few days ago.
st., ,,ti,, II tirn wit
coal oil.
A colony of sixty families OF Rus
sians arrived at Burlington direct from
their native land and have settled in a
body about ten miles north Of this place.
In accordance with the act OF April
1889. the county treasurers throughout
this State are instructed to pay $40 for
bear scalps, SO for mountain Hons, and 81
for coyote or wolf scalps
Pat Gallagher and Ed Connolly. two
miners a; Coal Ridge, eight miles from
Glcnwood Springs, lost their way Sntur.
day night whilo returning to the mines
tromNcw Castle and were frozen 20 death.
The architectural improvements in
Aspen during the last twelve months rep
resent IN investment OF over million dol
lars, while plans and Specifications are in
hand that contemplate quarter million
more.
The Union Pacific now runs fast
newspaper train from Denver 10 Cheyenne
70 oonucct with the overland express. II
nlso enables the towns between these two
cities TO get the Denver morning papers at
nm early hour
The Bullen Bridge Company OF
Lcsvenworth has bccn given the contract,
to build the State bridge over the Rio
Grande River near Del Nortc. This is the
company that built the six new stee!
bridges in Pueblo.
State Engineer Maxwell has gone
10 Dillon TO locate tho State bridge to be
built acro,s Ten Mile Creek near Dillon.
Some OF the people claim tina, the bridge
was intended 10 span Blue River, into
which the creek cmpdcs.
Prof. james Cassidy, of the chair OF
botany and horticulture at the State Agri.
cultural College, died Thursday morning at
so'clock. The professor had been sick but
one week. The cause Of his death was in
fiamma,ion OF the bowels.
The Commissio of Pitkin County
have decided to sell all the property owned
by the county and put the proceeds into
suitable county building 1t is under
stood that thc new site has been secured
but II has not been made public.
The Continental Divide Bank OF Sa-
Ida will shortly be merged into the First
National Bank Of Salida. 1t will star;
with capital Of s5o,ooo. The stockhold-
ers in the concern are among Salida's
most prominent business men and farmers
Important improvements are being
made n, the State Pcnitcntlary. The. new
cell house being constructed adjoining the
main building on the west will contain 200
cells, aud the way the prison is now crowded
there being upward of OF Iso convicts con
fined there, the room Is badly needed,
Tho November number OF the COM
mon,pedf1, Is out. II presents the usual
amount Of interesting reading matter.
Among the articles of especial merit arc
"Inttors from Abroad" by Rollin +.
Adams; "Clarence Doane,n by II. l..
Wnson, and "Thc Judicial oficc and the
Machinc,l BY Hon. l.. B. France
The appropriation Of $4,000 first
made for railroad improvements Mt Chcy
emo Wells has been enlarged in nearly
every instance from the original plan TO
roach about three times that amount The
grading contractors arc pushing their
work, but will bo kept busy for two months
yet II they arc favored with hno weather.
The new depot IL 70 bo ono Of the finest on
tho Union Pacific line
superintendent Skin, OF the Colo
RADIO Bureau of Immigration and Stats
tics, sent 10 the Colorado contributors to
the Chicago Exposition, thanking them for
their exhibits and desiring TO know their
will in tho disposition OF tho article. Most
Of the answory that Mr.. Skin has received
have bsen requests to hold each writer's
cxhlbits in trust for tho State, to use II
whenever there is occasion for it.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
many is spending grcat deal Of money in
p. al.