The Delta independent., 1895-09-18
STATE AND GENERAL.

Tuesday, Oct. 18th, has been set apart
as Greeley's Potato day.
The Atlanta Exposition opens today
under most fattering circumstances.
The Rico News Sun estimates the ore
output from Dolores county this year at
s3.5oo.o0O. Last year Rico produced
si.eoo,coo.
Loveland had corn roast recently.
The bill of fare was made up entirely of
that towns own production. except the
coffee used.
On the 10Th ard sOth of Sept, the sec
ond Annual Council of the Protestant
Episcopal church, diocese Of Western
Colorado. meets in Grand Junction.
The colored people of Denver have
Just celebrated Watermelon day. With
the colored folks OF the South every day
in the season is watermelon day.-New
York Mercury.
Denver citizens are anxiously await
ing the report Of Director Of the Mint
Preston, who has returned to Washing
ton. He has selected the site for the
mint in Denver, but keeps mum.
At Louisville. ky., last Wednesday
morning, while firing salute in honor
OF the G. A. R., the cassion which con-
tanned &C pounds Of powder exploded.
killing seven OF the artillerymen and
wounding several others.
The survey Of the Plateau valley rail-
road has been finished. and the ineur-
porators are now arranging for the con-
about two miles in length, connecting
with the Rio Grand Junction line TWEEN
ty-six miles east OF Grand Junction.
When you talk about there being a
better state than Colorado, every pota
to winks its eye. every cabbage shakes
its head. every beet gets red in the face,
every onion feels stronger. every oatfield
is shocked. the rye strokes its beard.
the corn picks up its ears and every foot
OF ground kicks.-Meeker Herald.
Hon. John F. Shaf-oth and Lutte vii
cox, of Denver, Frank Curtiss, of Delta,
and c. \. Cox. of this city, will repre-
sent Colorado at the Forthcoming Ma
tional Farmers congress at Atlanta, Ga.
in October. These delegates will go in
structed to use every honorable means
towards securing the next meeting Of
the congress in Denver.-Grand juno
tion Sentinel.
Portions of Kansas and Missouri had
the most Obstructive rains last week
ever known. At some places in Kansas
water fell to the depth six inches inside
of an hour. Gridley. kans., a town of
400 persons, was destroyed by wind
and rain storm. No one was injured in
the town. but Mrs. Clara Massie, who
lived on a farm half mile distant, vas
fatally injured,
The d. & Il. G. railroad has ordered
that fifty special coaches be assembled
at Pueblo for use between that city and
Canon City during the Fruit days
Sept. -, 26, ~. The company has alsG
decided to run an excursion train from
Leadville to this city. The Rio Grande
is good index of the public pulse on
the point OF public attendancs.-Ganou
City Clipper.
The INDEPENDENT is authority for the
statement that from 1900 to 5000
pounds of peaches are shipped from
Delta every day. This no doubt sounds
little tishy to an eastern reader, and
may be exaggerated tritie, but We will
say the Delta and adjacent North Fork
peach country is the greatest in the
known world. we believe, acreage con.
sidered.-Telluride Journal.
4 special to the New York Herald
from Washington, says; Senator Roger
.. Mills. OF Texas is one OF the latest
converts to the auti.free silver cause.
In communication to the chairman OF
the Democratic state central con.mittee
OF Texas, he comes out squarely and
vigorously against the free coinage OF
silver at ratio of l6 to l by the United
States independently OF the other com.
mercial nations OF the world. He con.
tends, that in taking this stand, he is
following the example and teachings Of
the fathers OF the Democratic party, ard
of its greatest leaders in recent years.