The Delta independent., 1890-10-28
STATE NEWS.


drunken row at Atkins Tuesday.
Captain Cutler, late editor of the
Field and Farm, died on the 18th.
A scheme is on foot to build new
union depot in Denver for the use of sew
eral roads. .'
A committee OF 100 is to watch the
polls In lLeadvilic on election day to see
that there is no stui1ing.
A Leadville switchman named Peter
X. Ryan caught his foot in frog and was
run over by the cars and killed.
Denver has eleven National banks
with an aggregate capital Of s5,3l0,l65.
They hold deposits to the amount of go
a9I,G3s
A colored man representing himself
as a minister who was trying TO raise
funds for church work has been arrested
ut Lcadyile as fraud.
A prisoner in the Trinidad Jail tried
to commit suicide Wednesday by cutting
his wrists and neck. He was discovered
before he bled TO death.
Pueblo for the murder OF tcamster
whose body they Afterwards placed on the
railroad track, TO remove suspicion.
The well-known trotting stallion
Superior, was badly hurt at Pueblo last
Thursday while being taken into car.
The train was started up without warning.
Patents were issued Tuesday to Col
orado inventors as follows: Elizabeth
Kiopp. Colorado Springs, tracing wheel;
Abraham NJ. Southard, Denver, air pump.
A jury at Glenwood Springs has
convicted Herman c. Babcock OF the muir
der OF James NJ. Ryland. and he vii! prob
ably 20 TO the peniten,iary for voluntary
manslaughter.
The Prcsby yteriaE synod OF Colorado
me, IN Pueblo on the 2ist. Routine busi-
ness and the annual reports OF the officers
Of the synod constituted most Of the work
In connection with the synod the Woman s
Synodicai Society of Foreign Missions heid
their annual meeting:
The Rio Grande officials have Issued
n circular as follows: "By an arrange
mcnt made With the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, all tickets from points Yves, OF Grand
junction and reading via Missouri PACING
railway from Pueblo. TO Great Bend, Kan
sas, and points beyond, will be good Tor
side trip from Pueblo to Denver and re
turn.
X. j. Spaulding. OF Rosita, has In
vented flyiuE machine that he thinks
Darius Green. He does no; claim TO re
sIst the attraction OF gravity with has
winged machine. THIS win be overcome
by the attachment Of q balloon, which WAL
bc Joined to the waist OF the man wearing
the invention. by tho use of the wings,
however. the Inventor claims that he can
guido tho balloon in ANY direction, or
Jumping from height descend Mt any
point
Two wild freight trains on the Den
yer Pacific railroad collided at Nantes, T.
station SIX miles south OF La Sale on the
Denver Pacific, ut 10 o'clock "Wednesday
night A brakeman named Anderson was
caught In the wreck aud very seriously, II
no, fatally. crushed. The trains were
passing each other, having had orders 10
run on the side track aud main line, re-
spcctivcly. at Nantes, switch was left
open and from the main track the south
bound train rushed in upon the side
tracked train. The engineers and arcmen
OF both trains jumped In time, but the head
brakeman on the moving train was caught
between the cars as they crashed together
Both engines were damaged somewhat,
md six cars were broken up.
The White River Ute Indians have
ngaln s,rayed from their government res
cryation In Utah and arc causing grave
uncasincss among the white inhabitants
Of Rouu County The Indians are divided
up into several bands. They are commit
ting dcprcdations OF various characters
md are very insolent These redskins
arc from Uintah and Ouray reservations,
md nrc reported to be conducting them
selves with n high hand. No violence. as
vet. bas been inflicted upon the whites
further than soaring women and children,
but tho great fear is that they may become
40 cmboldcncd ~ to commit some serious
ofYcnsc. Governor Cooper has requested
tho Secretary OF tho Interior to corral his
wards. and return them TO their rcserva-
tion.
Mr.. W. j. Foster. OF Colorado
Springs, assisted by Il. B. Taylor, has
collected quantity Of Colorado products
which are t, be transported to Texas in n
car specially fitted up by the Santa Fe
railroad for that purpose. The collection
Ia modcstly described as from tho mines.
gardens and ranches OF Colorado, and Is
artistically arranged and set OF by excel
lent views Of Colorado Springs. Glcnwood
Suriugs, Woodland Park, Aspen and
Bucun Vista, besides q handsome painting
Of "Pike's Peak from Bear Creek Canon"
and newly gorton up panorama OF Piko's
Peak. Overhead arc arranged some hnlf
dozen frames of grasses. Tho sides of
the car IRE relieved by pictures. This ex-
hibit will he taken from place to place in
Texas, and will doubtless attract consid-
erablo attention. ~ gat
Bert Morrow, n miner employed in
the Monte Cristo mine, was killed Thurs,
day. He, with two othor men, went into
tho tunnel 10 loosen somc dirt that had
TANNED In chute with large body OF
,vntrr back Of IT, Prico took the pick and