The Delta independent., 1890-08-26
STATE NEWS.

nc Stcrllnp iduu ONCE openeu IOT
business on the 18th.
. The Salvation Army is erecting
large barracks at Salida.
The assessed valuation, of Clear
Creek County is Ss,0i3, 429.40.
There are over eighty artesian wells
in the corporate limits Of Monte Vista
The farmers OF the San Luis Valley
are much eiated over their crop prospect
The Grand Junction street railway
company has filed its incorporation papers.
The. contract for handsome new
school house has been let at Grand juno
tiou.
II Is estimated that $4,000 people
loft Denver on the various excursions last
Sunday.
One OF the Denver water companies
has iso miles Of pipe laid in the streets Of
that city.
The Prohibitionists will hold their
State convention at Pueblo on the 4th and
sih Of September.
Carlyle Lamb, noted Longs Peak
guide, was struck by lightning the other
day, but not killed.
Ridgeway, the junction OF the ID. d
Il. q. and tho Rio Grande Southern, is
having rapid growth.
A train OF eleven wagon loads OF
wool arrived in Colorado Springs the
other dAy from South Park.
Mr.. +. NJ. Cooke, of the Colorado
Springs Gdzstte. has been appointed pri-
vate secretary To Governor Cooper.
Gunnisou granite will be used in
tho large building the Equitable Insurance
Company are putting up in Denver.
A committee has been appointed by
the mayor Of Pueblo to enquire into the
feasibility Of anncxins Bessemer TO tina,
city:
An engineer aud fireman were
killed In collision on the d. & r. @. road
between Monument and Palmer Lake last
Wednesday
Rio Grnndc surveyors are trying TO
locate route from Morrison TO George
town and thence To Dillon, making a short
lins from Denver TO Lcadvilic.
A construction train OF the Fort
Worth road fell through 4 bridge near
Trinchcra Station. Monday. Ono man
was killed outright and . great number
injured.
w. 4. Cutler. OF Aspen, has discov-
ercd somc very fnc asphalt beds on the
east fork OF Parachute Creek, and intends
putting large force OF men to work OPEN
Ing the beds, building roads, etc. Mr..
Cutler has bccn prospecting all summer
and says he has struck BONANZA, and in
tends pushing matters rapidly. A Cincin-
natl party has located lot Of claims near
him.
A stock train was thrown from the
trsck near Marshall Pass, Thursday, and
seventy hoad OF cattle killed. A brake
man, named Harry Lynch, also lost his
life Tho accident was caused by broken
axle on one Of the cars, being the fourth
from tho engine. l, broke the coupling
and carried eight cars with II, leaving four
rear oars, tho caboose and Ave front cars
ON the track.
At noon Wednesday the headings
from the cast and west ends Of the Tennes.
.sss pass tunnel mot. In last December
the workmen began Mt tho two portals,
a,H60 foot apart, and have bccn working
day aud night continuously since then TO
connect tho line through the continental
divide. The work has never been delayed
except for few hours at n time on accoun,
Of accidents, which always attend enter.
priscs of this kind. II wus great relief
and . source Of no littlc satisfaction To the
engineers who havo charge OF the work to
know that their calculations have been so
accurate that thcrc was no pcrceptiblc
variation In the line and levels when tho
two headings met. They worked on snow
shoes in bitterly cold weather to establish
the lines and the levels which have guided
the workings of several Thousand laborcrs
during many long and weary hours OF
labor to final successful termination.
The lndepende mt party held State
convention ut Denver on the Goth and 9lst
About 100 delegates were In attendance
representing tho Knights of Labor, tho
Farmers' Alliance and tho Grange. Tho
following ticket was nominated: Member
Of Congress, J. ID. Burr; Governor, John
@. Coy; Lieutenant Governor, J. IL. Bra
mier; State Treasurer, b. M. Buell.; Sec
rotary OF State, E. s. Moore; State
Auditor, w. s, Starr; Attorney
General. W. T. Hughes; Superintendent
Of Public Instruction, p. NJ. Condit; Re
gcnts Of tho State University, William f.
Carver, S. .G.Dulcy State Central Commit
tsc, Chairman, jackson Orr; Secretary,
Herbert George. Tho platform denounccs
the ieo system, demands the Australian
ballot, the free coinage Of silver, tho gov
ernment control of railroads and Telegraph
lines, the State ownership Of ditches, an
optional county herd law and law pro
hibiting the alien ownership Of land.
The bridge on the Rio Grande
Southern At the head Of Pleasant valley IL
thc highest In the State and one Of the
highest in the world. Two hundred and
forty i've foot Ia the height Of the middle
epan, over one hundred feet higher than
ths high bridge on the Lake City branch.
4 h aiso the longest II Colorado. being
~ fsss In length.
Broadway Theatre, Denver's new