The Delta independent., 1891-03-03
COLORADO NOTES.

An immense amount of snow has
faHen on the Coneios range.
Prof. Webb, superintendent OF the
Boulder schools, has resigned.
A large number OF the people OF
Loveland are sick with the measles.
+. II. Biggers, postmaster at Lake
City, has been removed for shortage in his
accounts.
An old man, u sheep herder, was
mangled by the cars near Trinidad the
other day.
Mail carriers in the western part of
the State are having very hard time to
get through with mail.
President Samuel Gompers. OF the
American Federation OF Labor, delivered
addresses in Denver last week.
A move Is being made by the people
about Falcon to obtain daily milk train
over the Fort Worth road to Denver.
A petition is being circulated at
Steamboat Springs. asking the postmaster
general 10 establish daily mail route be-
tween Steamboat Springs and Woicot.
The team of William Montgomery,
Of Longnont, made a general smashup on
their return from Lyons, occasioninP q
most painful accident TO Mr.. and Mrs
Montgomery.
Since the recent snow slide near
Climax, South PARK, passengers and mail
fz,. Z l,-sfl ls,
to Buena Vista, via Como, and there trans
fcrrei to the Rio Grande.
Owen Perry, young Welsh miner.
was instantly killed while at his work In
the Mendoza mine at Silver Plume. Young
Perry was engaged in filling into car
mineral which was already sacked, and
was being lowered down TO him through a
raise" from n point a long distance above,
when stone, by some means or other es-
Gaping, fell, striking him right on the top
of the mead, killing him instantly.
A strange funeral procession enter
Tom Kendall, Billie Notion and Arthur
Dabble, the three men killed in tho Old
Lout snowslide were broughts down on
hand-sleds improvised for the purpose,
eight men to the sled and, as they marched
through town on their way to the under
takers, it was indeed sad process sion
The bodies wero wrapped with the blank
cts and comforters that had made their
forms in life comfortable, but tho frost
had made rigid their features.
A murder was committed at Brook
side, coal mining town four miles east of
Canon City Sunday morning by an Aus
trian or Bohemian named Seaman. 1t oc-
Cured at the Shunder's boarding house,
One of the boarders had been out hunting,
and, coming in. sat his gun, an old muskct
made into shot gun, down by the fence.
Presently Seaman came from the rea r
yard and picking up the gun. cooked it and
pointing it Mt John Felch, who was sitting
on the door step, hollered for him to .slook
out" and pulled the trigger. The entire
charge Of shot entered Fclch's right eve
and blew the top of his head OF. Felch
foil dead without uttering word. Sea-
man claims that it was an accident
News was brought into Crested
Butte Thursday morning at O'Clock that
great snow slide had swept away the
boarding house at the Bullion King mine
near Irwin. A large party of men ut once
started to the rescue, but only one victim
was saved alive, Fred. ST. Germain. The
victims were Mrs Ropell, the superinteud-
ents wife; Mrs. Clark, the wife of Ed. A.
Clark, who kept tho boarding house, with
her two.y year old boy, and Captain b. f.
Smiley, an engineer. Tho slide started
from Ruby peaks, n mile and half away.
and gathered snow as It Travelled, and
when It reached Mrs. Ropelrs house it
struck with such force that the structure
was crushed like an egSshell and scattered
hundreds of teet down the mountain. The
same happened with the big boarding
house. Tho shalt house was little out OF
the track and was but little DAMAGED.
The miners were all In tho shaft house,
having Just finished dinner. Mr.. Ropen
had also Just gone from his house to the
shaft house. Had the aide been ten min
utes sooner there would not have been ono
left TO tell tho tale.
Sara Bernhardt is TO appear in Den
yer April 80 and q. n the Broadway
Thcatar