The Delta independent., 1890-09-16
STATE NEWS.
The.State Camp P. o. S. Of A. met
In Aspen this week.

A car load of honey was shipped
from Fort Collins last week.
The first shipment of Greeley pota-
toes sold at sl.'o per hundred.
Denver's bank clearings amounted
to five million dollars last week.
The total attendance AT Grand juno
tion schools on opening day was 233
The Grand Junction star urges the
erection of o canning factory at that
point
Inc Aspen Times asserts that great
many fish In tho streams about that city
are being slaughtered with giant powder,
The Rio Grande Company are re-
porced TO be agitating anew the plan to
build shorter line from Denver 70 Lead
Vile.
Water froze ON the depot platform
at Grand Junction early Saturday morn
ing and snow fell at Cimarron Sunday
morning.
There WIS collision on the Rio
Grandc last Saturday near Florence by
which eight men were killed and u larg"
number injured.
Two men have been arrested for
passing n one dollar bill on Hrn IN Glen
wood, which they had raised TO i've, Dy
eras,nR AID stamping ii anew.
The Rio Graudu railways equip
ment of new rolling stock will be received
before October 81 The total cost will be
q H,ss4, l59, and Will include nifty engines
twenty nine passenger cars, 20 coal cars
100 stock cars, ~ fiat cars, besides mai
and baggage cars and cabooses-
A Denver merchant who feared
burglars set u ,g4psuu In lbs store at
nigui in such Il way tbat II the back door
was tampercd with the charsg would so
through the door aud hnrI some one. II
did the other night aud an unknown our
glar left some blood on tho PROMISES
1t is reported that the Utcs are get
ting very restless and want TO go to Utah.
Agent bartholomew has hard work to
keep them quiet They are tired with be
ing tried with and they are going 10 their
now home this fall. even through they 10
not obtain the conSeni Of the government
or the candidates Examined Mt Den
yer for admission 10 West Point the fol-
lowing received appointments ID IL
Dickcuson, OF Wide, Prowcrs County ana
Dclos Holden, of Pueblo. as alternate
The committee of examination consisted
Of Judge Rising, Dr. Bancroft and Super
intendcnt Dick.
~ Er.rnu Vista
run down and injured by stallion last
Sunday. He was attempting TO bride the
animal when 1t became infuriated and
Jumped upon him and stamped him into
inscnsibility. On examination he was
founa TO be badly bruised about the head
and shoulders. Iic is 10 q terrible oondi-
ton, but IL Is thought be will recover.
Las, Thursday morning n man en-
tered tho laundry of Wan Lee, Buena
Vista, knocked down the sole occupant,
Chinaman, and threw him into Closet
locking him Ia. Tho man then broke open
. trunk, from which he obtained $500, and
made his escape Tho yclls Of the dis
tractcd Chiuaman were heard several
minutes later, and attracted q crowd, who
released him.
Laborcr, on the street car tracks in
Pueblo struck the other day because forty
Italians were employed. meeting OF
the directors was held and they offered rs
compromise to kccp tho Italians on tina,
Job and employ the strikers In another part
of town To this tho strikers consented,
but after working an hour or SO they
struck ueain to have the Italians bounced
from all work. and as resul, they them
selves were let out.
Peter Wheeler. of Pilkin, was near.
ly killed BY falling rock in n mine las,
Thursday. Tho man preceding him had,
before he left the mine, put of heavy
shot and Doosened tho hanging wall. a
moment before the rock fell he noticed
small particles falling, but thought they
wero thin pieces of slate, and was in tn,
act Of tapping on tho wall when he saw
the mass falling. He had no time to get
out OF the wuy aud made an attempt h
Jump, but tho rock caught him, brealsins
two or three ribs and badly bruising hi,
right hip aud foot, ue was entirely GOV.
cred up by the rock. He will probably re-
cover.
The State iustituto FOR the deaf and
blind In Colorado Springs opened its six
tconth school year last Wednesday. There
was large number Of scholars present foi
tho first day, and II is expected tho ut
tendance this year will greatly oxcccd thu,
of amy former year. During the past va
cation the old building has been largely
remodelcd and the former recitation rooms
have been changed into dormitorics aud
living rooms The new building Is prac-
tically finished and will be used this
term. A conservatory IL now being built
on the grounds which will keep the win.
dows OF all the school rooms supplied with
plants. Another addition is two large
plunge baths which have bedn put into the
basement Of tue old building, one for each
sex. Thoy are about four feet doop and
supplied with both hot and cold water.
A man named Gallimore was shot
and killed. by Jim Beckwith lnst wock
!, near Rye. A quarrel about somo cattle
prccipitated the catastrophe, but an old
j, foud 10 thought TO have boen tho found,l.
tion for tho trouble.
6sss a revolution has broken out In the
sranton Of Tibo, Swi,xorland owing to