The Delta independent., 1890-06-10
STATE NEWS.

last month.
Leadville will have Fourth of July
celebration.
The alfalfa harvest has commenced
st Rocky Ford.
Loveland will celebrate the Fourth
in grand style.
Congressman Townsend voted with
tho Democrats on the silver coinage bill.
Broad-gauging the railroad from
Grand Junction to Ogden cost 81, 100000.
The new ST. Clair hotel at Salida
was opened TO the public Friday evening.
The contract for the foundation OF
La Plata Couny's new court house has
been let
Otto Mears has / 800 men working
on his new railroad in the southern part Of
the State.
The Woman's Exchange in Denver
fed l20,4el persons at their lunch rooms
last year.
Robert Heniy, the yardmaster at
Durango, was killed while coupling cars a
few days ago.
The mill-men's strike iu Denver is
apparently no nearer settlement than it
was week ago
The D. e. r. G. expect 10 be running
broad-gsuge trains into Lcadville by the
Both Of this mouth.
Senator Bowen is reported to be
taking out some wonderfully rica ore from
the Golconda mine
The Rio Grande road bed was
washed out for quite distance near Car
bondale last Monday.
The London Gaity Company is
drawing crowded houses at the Opera
House In Denver this week.
The Welsh population OF the State
will have grea, musical festival in en-
yer on the 2nd and I'd of July.
The Monte Vista school board has
elected Prof. John Sognrd, of Antonito, as
principal Of the public schools.
An explosion OF ammonia in the ice
manufacturing department of the Trinidad
Arc. --a
A Are broke GU, on Cascade Creek,
southwest Of Idaho Springs, last Monday,
which has destroyed number Of shaft
houses and dwellings.
An Arapahoe County grand jury has
recommended that a suit be brought in the
interests of the State to annul the recent
sale Of school land near Argo.
The W. C. 7. U. has undertaken to
conduct the lunch and laundry business at
Glen Park this summer The manage
mcnt OF them will be in the hands Of Mrs.
Beach.
The closing exercises OF the Colo
RADIO school for deaf, dumb and blind were
held Wednesday. The new and elegant
building was occupied for the first time on
this occasion.
A passenger stepped of the Salt
Lake train ut Montrose the other day. took
. pistol from his pocket, shot himself
through the head and fell to the depot
platform dead.
Two Leadviilo girls named Annie
Berry and Lura Wall were drowned while
crossing the Arkansas River on an unsub.
stantial plank walk! They lost their foot
ing and were carried away by the rushing
stream.
Of MIR. Thomas Brown, of Loveland, was
sent out after cows the other day and the
horse he was riding becoming unmanage-
ablc threw him. The child's foot caught
in the stirrup and he was dragged some
distance, and killed.
Two fatal accidents occurred In
Lcadvillc mines last Tuesday. w. J.
Falk fell down shaft in which he was
working distance Of 200 feet by pre-
mature explosion in the Antioch mine
Thomas Flanagan was blown to pieces,
and ia mes O'Donnell was fatally injured.
The credit OF many Colorado towns
IL excellent. Highlands recently sold her
sewer bonds Mt l05sl and Colorado Springs
sold s6O,ooo worth OF ten year six per cent
bonds ut 10. $40. Boulder is paying IL
per cent premium for her unmaturcd rail.
road bonds, because she has money In the
trcasury TO spare.
3The ladies Of the Boulder creamery.
who have made II y successful and paying
ipstitut!on, are anxious to sell. Last year
tho creamery paid "a per cent, on tho in-
vestmcnt above all expenses, but the ladies'
have household and other duties which de.
maud their attention, and are hence hunt.
ing a purchaser who will takc tho cream.
cry of their hands.
A bold attempt was made on Satur-
dsy night to crack tho safe In tho Pueblo
land Office. d. The outer and inner doors Of
tho ssfo were blown open by gunpowdcr
and one OF tho drawers was pried open
with u chisel, but the burglars were una-
bio 70 do anything with tho burglar proof
compartment In which the cash ia kept.
Tho land ofice Is located on tho fourth
door Of tho Swift building. to which is
probably due tho fact that no ono heard
tho burglars 1t work. The burglars did
not secure any Thing atall.
A correspondent at Wagon Wheel
Gap writes that tho run OF trout in'the
rfycr neat there Ia phenomenal. At ono
time this spring when tho river was clear,
for distance Of 100 yards, In deep hole,