The Delta independent., 1890-07-15
STATE NEWS.


have agreed to close their stores at six
o'clock in the evening
Denverites have been suffering from
great heat lately, and many Of them arc
IaH'pg to the mountains
5eds of asphalt, almost pure, have
teen discovered on the boundary line be-
tween Routt County and Utah.
1t is claimed that the coal fields in
Routt County have a greater area than
the famous coal fields OF Pennsylvania.
New money order offices have been
ordered established at the following Colo
rado towns: Elizabeth, Antonita, F'ruita,
Holyoke, Steamboat Springs and Virgin
ius.
Some philanthropic Denver people
have constructed bath house for poor
children in connection with the free kin
dcrgar;en. A large bath tub will hold
thirty children at once.
The business men of Denver were
so firmly convinced that all OF the people
OF that city were not counted by the CEN
sus enumerators, that they sent out men
10 canvass the city, and get the names Of
all who were omitted. 1t is believed that
this will increase the Official list from
u',ooo TO 10000.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany arc about 10 place 5000 acres Of land
under the Bessemer ditch upon tho mar
ket in eighty acre tracts, the sale to be
made with water right in the ditch. The
tracts will be excellent for small farms
and gardens, AS the soil is fine and only
needed water TO make the land valuable.
Five men escaped from the Trini-
dad iail by digging away the mortar and
removing several large stones from the
rear wall, making u hole large enough To
admit OF the passage OF a mans body.
Two OF them were in for Attempting to
pass a check supposed to have been forged.
They were in for vagrancy and were
tough.
L. H. Bartlett, has been arrested a,
Seattle, Washington, charged with tha
embcxzlemcnt OF large sum OF money
from the Morgan National Bank OF Fort
Morgan, while he was cashier, i n Sep
tembcr, 1889. IL is said that Bartlett was
short 81, 900. When arrested Bartlett
was employed as freight clerk on a sound
steamer.
A young man was killed near
Plattevillc, Saturday, in a runaway acci-
dent Tho man was driving team neat
that place. when u cracker was
thrown under the wagon and exploded.
Tho horse jumped and the man was thrown
from the seat, striking the ground on his
known was about ~ years old and unmar-
ried.
The Senate committee on public
lands has made u favorable report on Sen
stor Tcllcrs bill TO provide for the dis
posal OF tho Pagosa Springs military res
ervatiou, In the State OF Colorado, TO act.
uai settlers under tho provisions of the
homestead laws. The reservation is no
longer needed or used for military pur.
poser and has been abandoned as n mill
tary reservation BY executive authority.
II contains more than - 400 acres.
Tom Stimson, n colorcd convict at
tho State pcnitcntiary, escaped last Thurs.
day and added another terrible crime to
his list OF dark deeds His tcfm would
have expired next December and he was
allowed tho liberties OF "trus,y.' while
working unguarded In garden two miles
cast OF Canon City he left and, going To u
house not far away, outraged married
woman who was alone with her two small
children. He then escaped from the town
going west, and stealing clothes aud horse
rs he went An cnragcd posse OF citizens
and officers started in pursuit and doubt
less justice will oyer,akc him speedily.
A serious stabbing afIray occurred
on Sunday night at n Mexican settlement
on the HucrfRno. Antonio Alvino was
tho man who did the stabbing. He had
becn married u few minutes before to Q
girl who had for some time been wood by
a man named Frank B.scom. nnd ths lat
ter had congratulated the bride warmly on
her marriage. Alvino was Jealous and
took oifcnse at Rnscom for some reason.
He called Rascom outside and stabbed him
In the side Antonio Valdez, q friend of
Rascom's, came to his aid and received
scvcrc stab in tho left breast Alvino
was arrested and is now out under 500
bonds.
Superintendent John L. Ray of the
mute and blind asylum at Colorado
Springs, recently sent tho following card
20 the Denver Republican. "Thc next
session OF the Colorado Institution for the
Education Of tho Mutc and Blind will be-
gin September 10th, 1890. The. school is
FREQ to nil deaf and blind children OF
school age In tho State Of sound mind and
body. 1t is purely an educational institu-
tion, and is part Of tho public school sys-
tom Of Colorado. 1t Ia In so sense of tho
word an asylum nor n homo for tho de-
formed, tho inhrm, tho fecblc-mindcd or
tho homeless; but . school, whose object
IL 10 furnish mn education TO those chill
drcn whose hearing or sight IL so defcc-
two as to deprive thom OF tho benefit Of
fcrcd by tho schools in their respective
neighborhoods. Any person knowing any
such children will be comforting a grcat
favor upon thcm by giving mo tho names
and addresses Of their parents or guard
ians."
s. w. Raymond. editor Of the Du-
range Herald, shot and killed man
named Yoho on tho Fourth. Tho direct
cause Of tho trouble was an article In tho
Durango Herald some five or six weclss
ago, which scored Yoho severciy for re-