The Delta independent., 1891-07-08
fkfE NEWS.

Loveland is 10 have grand ceio-
bration On tho Fourth.
A woman was burned TO death in
o mouse at Manitou las, week.
Judge EIwell of Pueblo has SEN
fenced w. H Davis to be hanged
A Trinidad butcher was run over
and killed 6y a train the other day.
The Pixies Peak cog road is at last
finished and made its first trip on the 30th.
Crops in many places in the eastern
part OF the State were damaged by hail
ias. week.
A denver man Is about TO start
m ice cream and fresh air resort on tho
top Of an eIShtstory building.
Professor Walter J. Quick has been
elected as professor of agriculture at tho
State Agricultural College. He will have
chsrgc Of tue farIa.
The Aontrvso Fair Association
offers &, COO In premiums for agricultural
horticultural and livestock exhibits Tor
The October meeting.
Popular subscriptions for the build.
tEE and furnishing o! the Citizens hos
pital OF Aspen have reached the haud-
some sum Of els, ,I2!.2J
! A Denver jury has granted ver-
diet for sIOo,oJo damages against s. W.
F.enca for alternating the affections Of the
wife Of Z. A. De4uc.
Some one in the employ q! the
United States ExpressCompauy at Pueblo
has stolen or allowed some oae else 70
steal package Of q, .,1J.
Mesa county is 10 have the large:
orchard In tho state. a. u. Johnson vii.
put in Loo acres TO fruit and nurser:
oetwoea now and next May.
Three bold bicy clists from DenvoI.
rode their wheels down Pixies Peak thu
otber dar, via the Cascade toll road. l.
~.as a rough and dangerous ride.
The body OF II dead chiid was found
recently lying GU the ground in the Lead
vide cemetery. II was neatly dressed and
probably died u natural death when nv.
days old.
The Federal Land Court OF Pc,rate
Chains met and or.aEised at Denver on
July lat. }. II. ll,edyr Of Hays City,
Ransss, was made c.crE; Eusabio Cha
cone Of 1rinidsd. interpreter, and Luman
+. Parker r,euos rapher. Denver wss
chosen AS tho pisc, for the nrst s.Itiue,
which viii be called about November IS
next The court will at that time hold q
session OF Two weeks and tLcn n9!ouru 10
Santa tc, New aeaicO, where the second
scssion Of the tribunal wIl opcG Dvveu-
SlrI.
Mr.. W. b. Slocomb brought 10 this
city on Monday stool OF bearded whc.
measuring six feet ten inches Ia heis ht.
The stocks were yer. large and the leaf
or blade about twice the usual size of the
ordinary wlcat stock MIR. slocomb SAYS
he has about twenty ncrrs Of this whea;
and that II will average moru than six aud
a half feet sll over Inc nsld. Tni, is the
frst yosr this soil has ever bccu under
cultivation, and he attributes this r.nx
growth TO that fact -. Grand junction.
Neirs.
A bulletin on the limestone indus.
Try OF tho United States Just issued by the
census ofice shows that Colorado has
fifteen limestone quarries. the pro.
duct from which in Iss2 was sIs>,-
'osi. One hundred and forty. six thousand
scren hundred and thiriy.scven barrels
Of limo were made, which were valued at
vi, ,lol, or % cents per barrel; 1900 tons
Of stone for burning into lime were also
produced at q value OF Is, go, or - cents
per ton, and in addition 5i,sai tons OF Gux
were sold for So. 30. or 20 cents per ton.
The total number OF employees In the bus
mess was ia, and t.3,auo was paid for
wages, sls,Vai fsr supplies and material
consumed, and sos for other expenses.
The capital avestod is stated to be sl0i,-
$50 In land. s3S, $50 in buildings and 6x-
lures, tll go In tools and implements and
80, 40 Ia cash, making u total of sls3.3;o.
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