The Delta independent., 1895-06-05
COLORADO CONDENSED.

WORK on tne OIL well Ut bfduu JUNG
ton is being continued. 1t Is already
1000 feet deep with good indications.
Charles Sheldon, aged about thirty
three years, committed suicide at James
town, Saturday night, as result OF
drunken debauch.
Il. p. McFadden and his twelve-year-
old son were drowned at Lyons on the
2Sth. The father was trying to rescue
his boy from drowning.
DR.. Aston Ellis. president of the
State Agricultural College has been
appointed to the governors staff as
aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel.
1t is now estimated that the Gulf will
haul 5000 car loads Of stock this season
out Of Texas. Up to the present 2,4O0
car loads had been hauled. AS the sea-
son only lasts ninety days this means
good many trains on the road.
The Denver Detectives recently dis
covered large quantity Of stolen pow
der and nitro glycerine secreted in
barn in the city. There was enough to
have blown up large part of the
town.
Papers have been filed at Colorado
Springs in a suit against w. S. STRAIT
ton, the millionaire mine owner Of
Cripple Creek. He is sued by q Mrs.
Root for 100000 for seduction. STRAIT
ton boarded with Mrs. Root previous
to making his big strike.
A report has reached Ophir from the
Suffolk mine, to the effect that A. p.
Murphy, mine superintendent for the
Suffolk-Globe Mining and Milling Co,
had been badly crushed by a carload OF
ore falling on him while he was help
ing one Of the men in the ore bins.
On the 9th at the Silver Queen mine,
at Ouray, Jack Daniels, miner who
was working in the tunnel, was caught
in a flood of water from cave over
head. The water broke loose and car
ried the unfortunate man out of the tun-
mel over the dump and down about 300
feet, where his dead body was found
amid snow and ice.
After celebrating two hours the jury
in the McDonough murder trial at As
pen brought in verdict of not guilty.
On the morning of May 10 gang Of
men attacked and badly beat James
McDonough in the Dog House saloon.
He went out and armed himself and
shortly afterwards killed William Leon
ard, one of the assailants, in the Buck
horn saloon. Public sympathy was
with McDonough.
Souuty JuuSe ~ w llSoh luCt lhCN.
Brown on the streets of Ouray and de-
manded an apology for assertions made
about himself in public. Meeting with
a refusal from Rev. Brown, Wilson
struck him in the face three times. VIII
son was fined s. and costs. The trouble
Is the result of the reform movement
headed by Rev. Brown. who wants the
dance halls closed.
There are number of women en-
ployed on the Gulf and the South Park
as station agents, and it Is claimed that
they are a perfect success. On the South
Park line Mrs. NJ. NJ. Ditmore is agent
at Buena Vista, Mrs. H. Ransom at
Fort Logan, Miss f. Ii. Jardine at
Platte Canon and Mrs. J. NJ. COnnell at
South Platte. On the Gulf line Miss
NJ. Leeman is agent at Hill Top. and
Mrs. T. II. McNaughton at Little Butte.
Mrs. Francis S. Long has filed suit in
the. district court for $4,000 damages
against the Victor Coal Co. The plain
tiff lost hand at Hastings while cross
Ing a siding under some cars, and
claims that the accident was due to the
negligence of the company in moving
the cars before she had gotten across
She further claims that the crossing
was blocked and that there was no 9TH
crawl under the cars.
The Larimer county commissioners,
accompanied by the state engineer and
two or three business men from Fort
Collins have gone to Steamboat Springs
with the object of selecting the land
over which a new road is to be built
from that city via North Park. They
will be absent about two weeks and as
soon as they return, engineers will be
sent out to survey the land and con-
tracts given for the work. which Is to be
completed as soon as possible.
The sixteenth annual catalogue Of
the State Agricultural College has just
been issued. From it we learn that
the attendance the past year has been
$50. There are thirteen in the gradu-
ating class. Among the permanent i'm
provements recently made Is hand
some and commodiOus Horticultural
building. Those having children to ed
ucate would do well to send to the pres
ident of the college, DR.. Aston Ellis,
Fort Collins, for copy of this interest
ing pamphlet.
The Ho". l. w. Chatfield, one of the
wealthiest and best known ranchers in
the Roaring Fork Valley has been
placed under arrest on complaint of
George II. Thompson, secretary of the
Colorado Humane society, for cruelty to
animals. During the severe weather of
last winter Mr.. Chatfield lost about 200
head of cattle, and the charge is made
that he failed to properly care for his
stock. The accused gave bond in the
sum of $500 to appear for trial Mr..
Chatfield was member Of the Seventh
assembly.
Another strike in the Argentum-
Juniata, at Aspen, has just been made.
The strike consists Of n sevenfoot body
of mineral running from 200 to 400
ounces silver per ton. 1t was made be-
tween the seventh and ninth levels in an
old stope that had been considered work
ed out. In blasting into the supposed
footwall the discovery was made that
instead of the regular footwall the sup
posed wall consisted of a thin strata of
shale. Other bodies of pay dirt are e1-
pected to be Joined Mt the other points
in the stope in driving to the true foot
wall The mine Is making regular ship
ments, and the water is giving no
trouble.
AS construction gang on the Den,e,,
Leadville & Gunnison railroad were re-
turning home from work Friday night,
an accident occurred in which Charles
Michaelson met instant death, and