The Delta independent., 1890-03-18
STATE NEWS.

bAi. ooilu blllOn lilc eminent lFlSu-
man was in the State last week.
There are one hundred pupils in
the deaf-mute asylum at Colorado Springs.
Over two million dollars worth of
real estate was transferred in Denver last
week
Inc farmers or the san Luis Valley
have organized milling company to han
die their grain.
The trial of Cole and Wellington at
Leadville for the murder of Dunlev result
ed In verdict OF not guilty.
a colony of l25 German families
from Kansas are to settle in the valley OF
the Roaring Fork near Emma.
The Glenarm Club. of Denver. n
hourishirg literary organization, cleared
Sl,ooJ this season by course of lectures
anS popular entertainments.
Pueblo's new opera house is to be
completed October lst. 1t will cost nearly
100000 and will seat 800 people. Its roof
is TO be utilized summer gardeu.I
Eight car loads OF coke per day are
now being shipped from Trinidad ,o Ari-
zona smclters. Heretofore these institu-
tiohs have been supplied with coke from
Virginia.
Adair Wilson, who is in Washing
on, to urge the removal of the Utes, says
that Commissioner Morgan's recent ietter
opposing the removal is fall OF mis-state
ments OF fact
Boulder has nm Improvement Society
which is going 10 make that town orna-
mental as well as prosperous, by giving
attention TO the condition OF the streets and
Sn4eys and the ornamcntatlon of public and
4vste grounds.
ys1mes Reilly was found in snow.
SGnk near Loadville the other morning in o
b,vuy frozen condition. His face, armF
any, feet are badly frozen. He will proba
bl}rsoover without losing any OF his limbs
tric rIan was under the influence OF liquor
whra he laid down in the snow.
A curious discovery was made by
the Ang.o-American Investment Company
In boring for oil at Watkins, near Denver.
AT depth OF s15 feet bed of iron pyritcs,
three feet thick, was struck. Samples are
in their Office bu; not having been assaycd
il is not known II they carry much gold or
silver. such a vein is seldom found SO far
from the mountains. II proves that the
whole country east of here Is underlaid
with more or less mineral An assay will
be made this week. The drTll is now down
about 400 feet.
Every farmer In Colorado should
have few II not many swarms Of bees
that ho may utilize and make profitable
every element OF industry about his prem
iscs. Ono farmer we knew last season
grew alfalfa and clover and by much work
made living and no more Another man
near by had bees that worked upon his
neighbor's alfalfa and clover, and ho
cleared si 900 above his living. It's these
little things In business TINT turn the
scales of prosperity. Carson ddro-
cute.
A terrific snow slide occurred in
Empire Gulch, Leadvillc, the other day,
which resulted In the killing OF Thomas
Gowdy and tho most remarkable escape of
his partner, Robert Ccdargreenc. They
were proceeding along the trail when they
heard u terrible noise, and glaucing up
they saw tho entire bill on the slide. II
was too late for tho men TO escape. An
instant more and both were carried with
the slide down the mountain. Luckily
Ceiargrecnc remained on top of the snow,
and after n ride of one hundred feet he
landed in ditch with only slight injury.
Gowdy was buried by the snow aud suiro-
Gated.
The New York Tribune in n recent
article assails the proposition to remove
tho Utcs, on tho ground tha, their chiefs
were bribcd TO consent 10 the removal. and
because II violates all national agreements
OF the past IL says, further, Outweigh
ing all of these objections, however, is the
fact that this Ute agreement perpetuates a
bad system. The reasons why Colorado
people do not wish Indians among them
apply as well to any other State. They
arc because the Indians are worthless vag-
abonds, lazy, dirty, thievish and ignorant.
But what permanent good comes of shit
ing n lot of worthless vagabonds hithcr and
yoni They arc equally undesirable where.
over they go. SO, as soon as the white
settlers come, and the whites have now
settled everywhere. there is no longer any
frontier beyond which TO Danish the saw
ages