The Delta independent., 1890-06-17
STATE NEWS.

There was a bad fire at St. Elmo
last Wednesday.
There are 1912 school children in
Colorado Springs.
The Pueblo grand jury has indicted
large number Of gamblers.
J Railroad rates from Denver to east
arn points have been restored.
REV. W. F. Mcdowell was installed
- Chancellor Of the Denver University on
the 1lth.
George Travis, an Aspen bartender,
committed suicide Tuesday, ss the result
ofs spree.
A man named Kerns was murdered
st Ironton last Sunday by Michael Cairo
Ion, without provocation.
Governor Cooper has pardoned c.
C. Rogers and James Parker from further
,service in the penitentiary.
During the first five months Of 1890,
building permits to the amount Of sell
rs were issued in Denver.
The National Typographical Union
hss decided TO build its home for infirw
printers at Colorado Springs.
Judge Decker OF Denver decides
that tho sa5 penalty for non-payment o,
poll tax cannot be collected.
At the recent militia encampmeni
at Kansas City, Company X, from Colo
raAo. captured prize Of 600 and y flag.
i Al = roundup Of cattle near Grand
Junction last week. 10000 head Of cattle
1srs brought together by the cowboys
A sad and fatal accident occurred
oo the Burlington road in Eastern Colo
raAo last Saturday. A passenger named
Metz fell from the platform and broke bis
neck.
The union carpenters OF Denver To
Ne number Of seven hundred are out on
strike. This IL the outgrowth Of pre-
vious strike BY mill hands tor nine mourn
Per day.
ves last Tuesday. A man who was hall
cFassd with jealousy sho, his mistres.
thros timcs, but his aim wss 20 bad tina,
Shere 10 . chance for her TO live.
John Carmichael. says the De Beque
Dsu, the Piteau mall carrier who was &C
eadsatally shot through the body about
shrss weeks aso, 10 getting well - fast -
~ serious nature Of his wound viii per
mia
Sheriff jackson OF Colorado Springs
rsosatly arrested man who had . large
asDber Of postAgs stamps and railroad
ucksts In his pockets- He had robbed the
psss ofnos u Twin Lakes and the Midland
dspes ~ Higgins.
The foundation Of the new A. NJ. z.
church at Colorado Springs will be laid In
The Dsar future. The corner stone will be
laiA on the arst Sunday In July, by Bishop
A Grant Of Texas, assisted by the other
easrxymen Of this city.
Tho great war drama, "Shenan-
doah," u beng played 70 crowded houses
- The Tabor Opera House In Denver this
wsak. Al the Metropolitan, W. G. Coup's
NVo00tlui b0AuOu ~ euo ooRo okU uG-
lighting large audiences.
There WAS shipped from Garland
Station, from January /, 1890, to Juno 1,
Ieoo, seventy nine cars Of stock and III
ors Of hay, making total export Of eoi
nr ioads. The pound freight Forwarded
b also quite m Item.
On he l1th the standing In per-
csatA9ss Of the Western Base Ball Asso-
slasion wa - follows; Minneapolis, GIL;
Dssvsr, SO; Sioux City, sss; Dcs Moincs
uos; Milwaukee, b27; Kansas City, <s4
Omaha, Soi; ST. Paul, ssS.
A gentleman in La Junta contem
plates starting duck and goose farm. He
Gays that twenty scros Of land bordering
90 The Arksnsss River, with . portion of
the river fenced In by wirc screens At
tached 70 noats, will keep the birds from
drifting down tho river.
Mayor Wheeler Of Aspen has offered
nine prizes for the school children 70 work
for during vacation. The prizes aggregate
oeoo, the highest being $50. They arc 70
b paid for tho best ninc essays on the
vubisct "whst will tho Free and Unlim.
ltsd Coinage Of Silver Do for the United
6tatss.
Tax sales for Bent County occurred
June 6. Only about $500 in taxes on rc.,
sstats were delinquent and property
offered for salc-and all this was bought
By outside partics--so that tho county did
not have 70 bid In anything. The amount
pf taxcs 70 be collected for 1889 was sta.-
poo. %, OF which amount there was bu,
osso.eo delinquent and ali on personal
property.
There was sensational shooting
scrape at Starkville tho other night A
man named Truiillo went homo and found
another man In possession Of his wife snd
house. He tried 70 force the door In, but
lust - his efforts werc about TO prove suc-
osssfui Il was opened from the inside by
Garcia, the fellow ins,ds, who turned
loose on him with . six-shootcr and then
Eads his escape. Tru,illo reosiycd
one Of the bullets In tho loft arm.
He came 70 the city this morning and had
u removed, and also swore out . warrant
for 0arcia's arrest. Tho latter was can.
sursd and Il now In Jail.
Heroic Sisters Of Mercy.