The Delta independent., 1889-09-10
STATE NEWS.
Denver had two suicides Sunday.
Aspen is to have n street railroad.
Durango had a 81 900 fire Monday

There are sixty-four prisoners in the
Pueblo County Jail.
Denver is experiencing an epidemic
Of murders and suicides.
A 81, $50 school house is being built
at Portland in the San Juan.
An illicit distillery has been discov-
cred and raided in Lake County.
The Agitator is the name of Pro-
hibition paper just started in Pueblo.
President Adams and other officials
OF the Union Pacific are making q tour Of
the State.
A Sunday School Convention is to
boteld in Greeley on the cath and 25th of
il.j.Bnth.
There is a twenty-five acre field ot
hops near Denver which will produce this
season 800 pounds 10 the acre.
a blue snake over ten feet long and
weighing for,y-five pounds was killed a
few days ago near Carbondalc.
William Reed, Rifle Creek ranch
man, was murdered while alone in his
cabin. The perpetrator is unknown.
The State University is severely
taxed TO provide for all the students who
have entered the institution this term.
Work on the new Normal School
building at Greeley is TO be commenced at
once and rushed through with all possible
speed.
Tho Colorado State Horticultural
md Forestry Association will meet in
annual session Mt Canon City October
and ..
The Womnn's Christian Temperance
Unions of Denver have expended nearly
$1,000 the pas, year in their various bencv-
olent enterprises.
Mr.. w. II. Clark, the secretary of
Gov. Cocper's special commission, has been
removed and the position given 10 Col.
Cass Carpenter.
At an election held in South Denver
Wednesday evening, sae 900 in bonds were
voted for building new school house. 1t
win be two stories and have eight rooms.
The construction Of the liking" res
ervoir on the Henry canal system north Of
Lamar Is completed, This covers over
1000 ncros Of land, and assures a plentiful
storage.
The State militia are in camp near
Denver. This probably accounts for the
much more pacific tone with which the
soal fisheries troubles arc discussed by the
Canadian papers.
The American National Bank OF
Pueblo, Colo, has been authorized to COM
mcnco business with n capital Of sico, 900.
This Is the bank 10 be opened by Mcssrs.
Baxter, Hcnkcl, Duke, Gibson and others.
Over one hundred dairy cows have
died In the ncighborhood Of Sterling within
the past thirty days OF Texas fever. The
Infected cattle have been quarantincd
thoroughly as possible AID it is thought
the worst is over.
j. w. Church, OF Elizabeth, was
killed a, that place on Monday by a freight
car. lie attempted 10 board II and was
thrown under tho wheels. ono leg being
crushed. MIR. Church died while amputa-
,ion was being performed.
Hon. l.. II. Rhodes Of Denver, who
owns fine farm just north of tho city of
Fort Collins, has completed the ;hrcshins
Of eighteen acres Of wheat grown on his
!. place. The average yield was 30 3-5 bush
els per acre Of six,yfour pound wheat
The aspen Tramway Company. with
T. II. Es,soIi, F. C. Buckley, II. r. Wood
ward. Il. Ferris and c. +. Palmer as al.
rector, has filod articles OF incorporation
i'm In
7 County. The capital is se3o,ooo with a5 1000
Sharcs
The State Superintendent OF Insur-
nnce has granted three new companies the
right to establish agencies In Colorado.
Thoy arc the Standard Fire Of Kansas
City, New International Life Association
OF Boston, and the Western Insurance
Company OF ofPi,tsburg.
Mr. j. d. Dillenback has resigned
his position as manager of tho Western
Newspapers Union TO engage with Mr.. A.
L. Pierce in the publication of the Dcnrcr
Epo and a. o. 4. ". Record, in which pa
pcrs.. released one half interest.
THIS will cfibio him TO give moro atton-
ton TO the Colorado Schoo, Journal, of
which he is publisher
In n communication TO Governor
Cooper, II. ]. Hinton, United States irrl.
cation engineer of San Francisco. states
that tho United State Senatorial Commit
tee, which Us now in California, will visit
Trinidad, Pueblo and Denver September
10 to 10 for the purpose Of familiarizing
themselves with tho irrigation methods OF
Colorado. They win be joined by the State
onginccr Mt Trinidad.
Tho Fort Morgan Times has issued
an anniversary edition of tho paper that
would do credit to a city of 10, 600 population.
Tho Issue is printed ON fine book paper and
In addition TO vast amount of reading
matter relating to tho town aud county II
represents, mud statistical informp tion, con.
tains twenty-five ongrayings Of buildings
and ranch viows in and about Fort Nor.
gan, aud portraits of NIL tho county officers
and sorpn OF the business mcp.
Ed Rarthel, who lives up Crystal
River, u short distance from Carbondalc
was out hunting tho other day with u party
. OF visitors, and about4 o'clock they were