The Delta independent., 1889-05-07
COLORADO NEWS.

open q banking house at Manitou.
The Denver & Rio Grande Western
is being changed into a broad gauge.
Trouble is brewing among the coal
miners of Boulder and Weld Counties.
A Denver man has been granted
patent for magnetic pocketbook."
The eastern part OF the State en-
toyed another soaking rain last Monday.
Some one broke into the Signal Of
hce at Sopris Sunday night and pied a
form.
The small towns in the neighbor-
hood Of Denver are being ovcrrun with
tramps.
The frost is reported 10 have killed
the prospects of a grape crop in Boulder
County.
The Aspen papers predict that that
town will have population of 1900 by
next fall.
The Salvation Army has been ar
rested in Trinidad for parading the streets
on Sunday.
II is uncertain whether Salida or
Buena Vista will secure the new State
Reformatory.
Alamosa has an artesian well which
spouts forth q, coo barrels of water every
twenty four hours.
Charges of incompetency have been
preferred against the Denver building in
spectcr by the mayor.
The Rio Grande River has been ris-
Ing lately, and now all the irrigatinc
bitches are running full.
After bitter newspaper fight the
Denver Council have refused TO permit two
cable lines on Broadway.
II is estimated that Is, 900 acres of
virgin sod will be turned over in the vicin-
,ty Of Rocky Ford this spring.
Morgan County has six school dis
tricts wholly within its bounds and three
which are partly in Weld County.
The irriga,ing bitches in the eastern
part Of the State will have To be used for
drains II this wet weather continues.
Colonel +. S. Ne,,leton has been ap-
pointed supervising engineer OF the sur
veys of the arid regions at 1900 year.
The Stone Committee OF the Capitol
Commission have been making An cnAmi.
nation Of the granite quarrics OF the State
and seem inclined To favor the Gunnison
atone.
The farmers around Bcloit desire TO
so into the cultivation of sorghum on a
large scale and are trying to induce capi-
tai TO erect mills for the manufacture of
sugar and molasscs by the diffusion pro
ccss.
4John Miles. miner while working
In the Grand Army mine at Central City
near the 1900 foot level, was killed
Wednesday by a scale OF about three tons
Of rock falling upon him. lie head was al
most severed from his body, and he was
otherwise frightiuliy mutila,ed.
Report has reached Ouray OF "a snow
slide near the Rcvcnuc tunnel In the Noun.
Sncsics District, the slide coming through
heavy timber and carrying away the
blacksmith shop In which were two mcn-
One OF tho men has been rescued and II is
feared the other is killed. No particulars
have been received.
The students and faculty OF the
Agricultural College have joined In organ
king a Natural Science Club. Its purpose
is to encourage the study OF science among
it's members, and by monthly meetings to
give opportunity for the presentation OF
papers and the discussion OF questions that
may arise. The society will begin tho
~ ri I'm to
which are solicited by the club through
Mr.. George Bunum tho curator
Governor Routt. one Of the Capitol
Commissioners says that, 10 complete the
walls of tho Capitol inside of two years It
will require eight car loads OF atone To be
delivered on the ground each day. To lay
this granite out so that II could be turned
over would tako at least 40 acres of ground
All told, there would be triac over
10000 cubic fect OF worked granite in the
structure, and there must be 1000 pieces Of
rock In IL that weigh over 10 tons each after
being dressed.
Mr.. l. Is. Porter. president Of the
State Fish and Game Commission md one
of the commissioners appointed by tho Gov
crnor to locate tho fish hatchcrics, was
asked the other day why IL was that the
commission were prosecuting persons nc
rused of violating the game and fish laws
40 vigorously. He said; I'VE claim that
the law prohibits fishing until June In any
form, and wo will prosecute all persons, ir-
respective OF condition, color or nationality,
whom VIC can prove It against. Tho com
munity at large may rs we'll understand
that we contemplate tho protection Of tho
spawning Hsh. We are going to iill ovcry
stream in the State with good fish. We
propose to mako Coorado's fshing its
Vreatcst attraction visitors. To do this
wc must protect tho fish for tho next three
years by tho most decisive action. II we
do not tho dynamiting and trapping and
spcaring will go on. Tho streams will bc
entirely barren Of fish In two years more
wcrc IL permitted"
Thu Public Oeht Sfatauent