The Delta independent., 1889-10-08
STATE NEWS.
l'he Penitentiary has 439 inmates.
Rico is to be lighted by electricity

Trinidad seems likely TO secure .
window glass factory.
Pueblo's new barb wire works are
In operation.
/. The.lakes and streams OF the State
arc nlied with Wild fowl
A building and loan association has
been organized at Fruita.
A Sunday School convention is in
session at Elbert this week.
A large mountain lion wns killed
last week not far from Colorado Springs.
Citizens Of Colorado draw about 81, =
0oo,o 900 year in pensions from the Govern
mcnt
Stanley Wood has written a new
opera which is scoring great success IN
she East
Two train loads OF cattle were
shipped from Arlington to Kansas City
last week.
Machinery for the pew -four mill ut
Delta has arrived and the mil. will soon be
in operation.
There are sixty different springs at
Steamboat Springs, most of them having
medicinal properties.
The State Fair at Pueblo is In pro-
gross. The display is a happy surprise to
the most sanguine OF its friends.
Pueblo's city treasury was enriched
during the first three days of this week BY
so, 75o, paid In for saloon licenses
The glass works AZ Colorado City
are st present employing ii5 hands and
turning out 20 gross of bottles per day.
II is estimated that the farmers
around Rocky Ford will put in between
1900 and %. 600 ncres OF wheat this fall.
The Leadville Council have decided
TO permit the gambling halls TO open on
condition Of their contributing 600 month
70 tho city treasury.
A talented young Denver druggist
named Rives committed suicide Wednes-
day on account OF discouragcmcnt over his
inability to quit drinking.
~ Joseph II. Smith has been rc-nomi-
mated by the Republicans Of Arapshce
County for clerk md recorder This o!lice
IL said TO pay eco, 900 year.
Alnrgc cinnamon bear and two cubs.
evidently sccn,inR out the orch ards abous
Canon City, appeared In sight Of that town
Friday, near the Santa Fc stock yards.
There are from 4 900 TO 5000 farm
ers in Colorado who farm without irriga-
tiou. Thcsc farmers have been rs success
ful the present season rs have been the
average farmers In Iowa. Kansas and Nc
brAska.
The Pueblo Board Of Trade has
raised ~, 800 toward the proposed edS,ooo
board Of trade building and push Il to ccu:-
,pletion a rapidly as possible. II will be
four story modern structure Of ornate and
bsautifui design.
"Mile High division. is tho name
OF the Sons Of Temperance whose institu-
ton Was completed In Denver last week.
II also includes "Dauehtcrs." II has
asked the W. c. T. U. To cooperate with
It's mcmbers in the cleaning up Of the NAL
cdorous Central Park.
5The survey OF the State ditch TO be
mile south Of tho Royal Gorge, and TO be
built by the convicts, is now being finished
in the Grand Canon. To facilitate the sur
vcy two temporary foot bridges have been
placed across the river in the canon.
Jimmie, son OF T. B. Carnahnn, n
prominent citizen OF Holyokc, was shot
and instantly killed on tho lst. II IL the
old story. Tho shotgun has lain in tho
cellar for months past and Willie Hcckcn-
bothain did not know It was loaded. Tho
children arc respectfully and II years
old.
A Monte Vista dispatch says Ellis 4
Reynolds, Of Aspen, were the lowest bid
ders for, thes6oldiers' Homo and were
awarded ;thS non truct sfor tho main build
ing ind he cottage 10 t.,o sum OF s.i 600
onst &ss sss, 600. srno main building 10
"a BE- 8xso, thrcc stories and basement to
be fully completed In six months from
date.
Governor Cooper has appointed rs
members Of tho State Board OF Medical
Examiners Drs., G. f. Bristol, of For. Co.
iins; j. n. Hall, of Sterling, for the term
Of six years from tho first Wednesday in
April, 1859. Dr. Work, of Fort Morgan.
DR.. H. NJ. Sears, OF Jcadvillc, TO I'LL tho
vacancies caused by tho resignation of
Dr.. Cox and OConnor for the term cxpir-
ing on tho first Wednesday in April, 1900.
Tho Mnniou journal says that Presi-
dent John Hubert, Of tho Pixies Pcnk
Railway Company, returned from tho East
Tuesday morning. where hc Ind gone to
sign contracts and complete arrangements
for tho building Of tho road. Arrange
mcuts have also been made with tho trunk
iyliuca 70 place tho coupons Of tho Piko's
Pssk rod on snlo in all thcir principal Of
fccs. The fare to tho summit md return
will bo hxcd at q, and tho roads arc to
handlo those coupons until at least 10000
have boon sold. Contractor II. p, Lantry
arrived Monday and has boon kept very
busy looking aftor tho many details Incl
dent 10 beginning operations. Thus far
.Hrsdors to thcuurpber Of about 100 have ar.
1yed Ard lwork has already begun. :.
~ Tho efhorticultural display at Canon
City this week has far exceeded In quality
and quantity tho most sanguinc cxpccta
tion. DR.. Alexander Shaw, who has
grown gray In tho business OF fruit grow.
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