The Delta independent., 1890-04-01
STATE NEWS.
A boulder manis in jail for forgery.
Del Norte is to have a Masonic tenn

ODD ueieBfHpu OmCe6.
Rates from Denver to the Missouri
River are down to $50.
The town of Ell Moro was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire last Monday.
Two Italian coal miners quarreled
killed.
A fire at Jimtown last Wednesday
caused loss Of q, 900. A young man mar
rowly ESCAPED death.
The Indian Rights Association is
making determined fight against the re-
moval Of the Utes TO Utah.
Denver's clearings last week were
t5,53s .oOl, an increase of seventy-thr per
cent. over the same week last year.
Georgetown is to have public park.
1t would be great advantage II all tho
mountain towns would follow her ex-
ample.
Miss Phena Murphy, fifteen years
old, whose home was at Kit Carson, was
dragged TO death recently by horse. She
her foot caught in the stirrup.
The people in Burlington are dis
putting with their county commissioners
the propriety Of hiring additional counsel
TO assist in-the prosecution of Hatch who
Is charged with murder. They do not like
the expense.
Last Wednesday morning young
man named Crowcll was shot and killed At
Trinidad by policeman Jake Moseman.
They had trouble in o saloon during the
night and Moscman seems to have been
chiefly to blame.
1t is estimated tina; the acreage OF
wheat sown and 10 be sown under the
Henry canal in Bent County this spring is
from 1000 To 10, coo acres, while the acreage
of barley will reach the very fair proper
ton OF 5000 acres.
Two miners were fatally injured al
Aspen last Sunday. Charles Swanson
was killed by falling from runaway
tram.car which he had failed TO couple to
tho cable. Charles Hart was injured by o
mass Of stone falling upon his back. Both
left families.
The Bsptists' of Colorado are TO
have college for tho education. OF women
u will be located u, Denver, and II Is in
tended that II shall take high rank among
western institutions Of learning. The cor
ncr-stonc was laid on the a5th with great
ceremony In the presence OF n largo num-
Der of tho prominent people Of the State.
The farmers of Weld County pro-
pesc 70 plant this season . largo acreage
Of CELERY, which plant grows In this si;i-
e tudc TO the greatest perfection and OF more
delicious favor than Il does In any other
country. 1t will bear express shipment TO
the Eastern cities, where the Colorado
article sells at good figures.
MIR. Frank Michaud, OF Larimer
County, has tried the experiment Of max
ing sugar from the sap Of tho box elder
trcc and has been quito succcssfui this
spring. He has made about ten pounds Of
sugar and several gallons OF syrup, all Of
nnc flavor and decidedly tempting sp-
pcarancc, quito equal to any Vermont
, maple product.
= For the week commencing March
] c4th, Tho Bostouians will. hold tho boards
Ut tho Tabor Grand In Denver. On Mon
day and Thursday nights the opera will be
"Don Quixotc,m Tuesday "l Trovatorc,-
Wednesday and Friday nights "SuIctte-
and Saturday night FRA Diavolo." Next
wcck Marie wainwright will appear in q
magnificent production of Twelfth
Night" >
There will be no scarcity OF water
for irriga,ing purposes in tho State during
tho scaaon> now approaching. There has
been m unusually deep fall Of snow on tho
mountains, filling the gulchcs as they have
not been filled before for three years. In
some Of these gulchcs tho snow IL packed
from ton 70 fhtcon and even twenty fcct
in depth. Such bodies of snow will melt
very slowly and last all summer TO feed
the streams which supply our irrigating
ditchcs. 60.
A ranchmnniin the Grand Valley is
bothered with deer, Tbcy have dcstroyed
SO worth of frui, .,rccs on his place this
spring, also feeding In swarms on bis al
falfa s,acks, which he has incloscd with a
fence OF iivo barbed wircs and q pole. For
FURTHER protection no placed dummy"
on the top Of ono Of tho stacks. Noxt
morning sdvcral deer were standing be.
'vido nis straw ulan, eating alfalfa from
tho place loft cxposed by the lack Of u
vest. F4
Tho project for the Black Canon
canal, which has boon talked Of by many
fsrners Of tho Gunnison Valley for SOW
er.l ycsrs u now among the ccrtaintics,
and tho farmers and business mon are
most ,ubllant over tho prospects, Of It's i'm.
mediate completion, a. II 10 estimated that
between 5000 and 1900 scres of very dc.
.,rat,e land located in tho Ounnison Val
low Will DO mhde productive. Tho supply
cf water secured by tapping tho Gunnison
at tho point where the head Of this great
canal Il located will be almost unlimited.
and will no tho means Of bringing many
scttisrs In this spring.
A dispatch from Belolt, dated Feb.
eand SAYS that devastating tirc has been
raging over tho prairies Of Kit Carson
(. County, and adjoining territory for the
!. past twcnty -four hours, consuming every
.tbine- In its path. Only those planters and
utocx mon who had their Improvement.
aud crops we'll secursd By amply cultivated