The Delta independent., 1890-03-04
STATE NEWS.

penver and Pueblo are trying to Sc
cotton mills
Neeker is to have a library and
ve reading room.
Jefferson County Grangers have been
session At Golden.
Denver's rival water companies are
vaging q war Of injunctions.
Three hundred men are employed
ipon the State Capitol at Denver.
The young ladies at Rocky Ford
have organized nm anti-slang society.
A company OF Gypsies are telling
'ortunes and trading horses At Longmont-
The Rio Grande Express Company
will supplant Wells. Fargo & Co., on the
Midland line next May.
A large meeting WAS held in Lead
vile last Monday to further the scheme for
procuring government building for that
city.
As the result OF OLD quarrel, G. I.
Hughes Of Julesburg, shot Alon1o johnson
last Monday, and the victim will probably
die.
A Denver city Official was held up
by three foot pads the other night, but ~
he had only thirty cents they let him down
again.
Montrose observed the Sunday clos
ing law, and the tin horns are said TO be
leaving the town 10 escapc possible indict-
ments BY .he next grand jury.
There was an immense gathering
under tho auspices OF the women's Chris
: tiAn Temperance Union, at the opera house
Al Denver las, Sunday, to rejoice over the
prospective closing Of saloons on Sunday.
Eighteen saloonkcepers arrested
for keeping their saloons open In Denver
last Sunday were discharged because no
evidence was produced to show ths, they
sold liquor.
A young man and women near Delta
e,opcd the other day. but before they could
get married tho girls parents caught them
and the would-bc groom went to Jail for
kidnapping.
The last Assembly passed a law
ievyins Hne of twenty-five dollars upon
all who have not paid their legal poll tax
OF one dollar by the first OF March, and
making the district attorneys and county
treasurcrs liable TO y ane II they do NO,
take stops 70 recover the same.
Tho Monte Vista Milling Company
arc operating their mill 10 its fullest capac.
iv. About ono hundred barrels are
turned out daily. Their building is one OF
shrce stories and basement, and has in
connection fne new wheat elevator with
. capacity Of $1,000.
A company has been organized in
Denver to bore for oil. Acdve
operations will shortly be begun near
Morrison. Colorado, on Bear and Tur-
hoy Creeks. Tho company holds
leases on over 5000 acres Of land in tina,
vicinity which will run for twenty FIVE
ycars. Three thousand acres moro are
also controlled by IL, sccurins possession OF
the key TO the oil fields In this section OF
tho Stats.
Trinidad has novel booming scheme.
A committee has bccn At work during the
past two months securing options on Trim.
dsd real estate, aud they now report TINT
they havo secured q, ,00O,0 600 worth Of
choice vacant lots, business property, sore.
agc, etc, on IN option which will hold good
for tho balance of this year. A company
win now bc organized with = capital OF
$4,000 To advertise Trinidad and enhance
the value Of these options. Shrcwd spccu.
istors sce largo pront in this schcmc. and
taken by Denver, Kansas City and Trini
dad capitalists.
When Colorado was admitted into
the Union, Congress- granted her certain
salt lands 10 be selected BY the State with.
in two ycars. The list was not filed until
1857 and tho Land Commissioner on April
l, 1883, rejected tho list on the ground tha,
tho selections were not made within two
years aftsr the admission Of the state into
tho Union, aud tho State appealed. In
this case the secretary finds that the selcc.
ti,n could not have been made within the
spscinCd two years, for tho reason thnt
the survey Of tho land was not completed
until lssa--six years aftsr the admission
Of tho State. Tho dccisisn appealed from
10 reversed and tho State Is accordingly
authorised 70 make IL selection.
Jaines Basshan, n young man about
n Year, Of age VINO has boon for over two
ycsss ! cmployc Of tho ranch Of Thomas J,
EinhArt scar Centervtile, eighteen miles
south Of Buena Vista, committed suicide q
few days ago. He had recently asked o
young lady TO marry him but she refused,
and Il 10 probable that this circumstance
20 dspressod him - TO slfsct his mind, for
,s Eiuhsrt's ranch the next day after
swallowing . quantity Of strychnine he
went 70 Q log stable. There he placed u
sable In the ocnbsr Of the apartment,
mounscd Il, fastened one end Of baling
wire 70 ths Top beam, With The other end
po,ssd asound his neck, he jumped into
eternity. He was known to everyone in
The centsrville country - . model young
man. And his FAsh cot ~ attributed 70 a
temporarily insane mind.
Tho Governor has appointed the
following named citiscns and cattlen,en Of
Colorado - delegates TO the Interstate
coaventiou Of cattle owners TO bo held ut
0resley; II. 8. Holly, Ia JuntA; d. b.
WyStk' Oraeley; NJ. w. Jones, Horse
Grs.k. VIM L Campbell. WrAy: s, H.