The Delta independent., 1890-01-14
STATE NEWS.


diedseEs andecalv u few days ago. s7s-gs
New Mexican quail are being intro
duced into various parts of the state.
A new school building has just been
completed in Aspen at cost of SIS, 900.
Nearly one-half OF the population
of Denver are suffering from the Influenza.
Tho Commissioners Of Otero County
have let the contract for new jail to cost
5,720
The smelters of Colorado give di-
rect employment TO between 5000 and
1900 men.
1t Is estimated that during the past
fall saorly 100 deer were killed in the
co.asEsy surrounding Dallas.
One hundred and twenty men work
ing at the Tennessee Pass tunnel Of the
Rio Grande struck Saturday.
Six sudden and violent deaths have
thus far occurred among the force con
structing the Pixies Peak railroad.
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce
held their first annual banquet on the
Eigut OF the sth. TWAS a great success.
The big blast in Grand Canon,
which SO delayed trains Thursday, Is said
brought down coo tons OF rock a, tum-
Ola aatal1a aa. .s. a..#
The Attorney General has brought
suit aeains, five former ,reasurcrs of the
StIte and their bondsmcu to compel an ac
counting of interest on public funds loaned
To banks ra
Carson Parker. writer on the
Pueblo Press died IN q saloon IN that city
sfcw days ago. He was 1t one time
promiuent Methodist minister but whisky
has been his ruin. .
George II. Crosby, for several years
general agent of the u. * NJ. Railroad at
Denver, has been promoted 10 the position
OF general freight agent OF the same road
with headquarters at onahA- r
A Ouray family was poisoned the
Other day by eating Rough on Rats,
which accidentally got mixed with their
cp;iea Only the energetic and prompt ef-
forts OF physicians saved their lives.
There is movement on foot 10
have the streets OF Florenc. lighted with
natural gas. Since the Florence Oil and
Refining Company struck a prolific gas
: vol. thcro Is an ample supply for this
purpose.
II is being agitated by leading cii-
,ens OF Greeley to bore for gas. The city,
when boring an ar;csiau well a few days
ago, found gas In small quantities at 9, 100
feet. A gas well Will be the next enter
prise for Greeley.
= Tho farmers mill at Longmont has
been shnt down for few weeks 10 re-
model their boiling system and 10 increase
the capacity OF the mill. When the I'm
provcmcnts are completed tho daily capac-
q lily OF tho mill will be COO sacks
= A iiftcen-ycar-old boy set fire TO the
Colorado Springs Jail the other day, In
which he was confined. Tho fire was put
out without diffcul,y. but the boy was
nearly suffoca,cd by the smoke and II took
the physicians long time to resuscitate
him
, About 800 coal miners, employed
: in tho Caaaeid and No. . mines at Coal
q Crcek. have struck for increase of wages
The Colorado Coal and Iron Company re
fuses to acccdc 10 the demands OF the
,strikers and threaten to shut down the
mnes cniirely r....... ..
Orders have been given for starting
tie Stccl and rail departments OF the grea,
Bssssmcr works atpucblo the first week in
: March. General Superintendent Nau has
arrived from the East aud will push tic
improvements now in progress Mt the
!. works with visor,
The Indictments found against Sec
rotary Of State Rice, Collier & Cleveland,
Graham 4 wcscr aud w. II. Lawrence
for conspiracy 70 defraud the State have
been auashcd by Judge Allen OF the Dis.
a trict Court Of Arapahoc County on account
Of technical errors.
Tho output OF crude oil for the past
yea, has beeu about 1000 barrels per day
for tho entire Florence field, which has
bccn refined and shipped to Colorado, wy.
on,ins, Montana, Utah and New Mexico,
which Statcs and Territories are all that
Colorado oil can at present roach with
profit, 80 ,g....r. ......
AZ At5 o'clock Thursday morning
iiro broke out In the United Oil Company's
: works ct Florence and before the fire dc.
partmcnt could he mustered tho roof OF
one Of tho still houses was completely dc.
stroycd. It was only by the hardest kind
Of work on tho part Of the fire company
that more disastrous hrc was avsrtcd.
- co,orado's production OF coal during
1850 ia estimated at e,sO0000 tons. There
arc a, 600 square miles known to be coal
bearing, possessing workable seams Of
toof, uunlity. But a very small part of It
Inns vet boon touched. The coal resources
of the State arc far In excess Of those OF
yipy State IN the Union, and with ktho sot
tlerncnt Of tho west Colorado will iind its
rcoal intcecsts Of great Importance.
e.3At the regular meeting Of the board
Of trustees Of tho State School Of Mines,
held Thursday, Professor G. Humphrey OF
Cornell University, was clccted to the
!. shulr, scoontly created, Of civil and elec.
s1ftca: engineering, his services to com
= snonos with tho fall term OF this year. Mr.
sscharlss W. comstock was chosen genera,