The Delta independent., 1902-11-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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yer.
The Guggenh2im Brothers are plan
ming extensive improvements in their
Pueblo smelling plants.
The crown prince of Siam is spending
few days in the state while crossing,
the continent to San Francisco.
Ground for the new sugar factory
has been broken. Work will begin on
the buildings this winter.
The switchmen employed in the
yards of the Union Pacific railroad at
Denver have asked for an increase in
wages.
The Rocky Mountain News claims
that Alva Adams is elected congress-
man-at-large by plurality of sixty
three votes.
Not a straight Populist vote was
cast in Mesa county at the last cleo
tion. This was formerly banner
Populist county.
Mrs. Kate Parker wife of Kid
Parker. the Denver pugilist, swallowed
an overdose of morphine the other day,
but will recover.
The University of Colorado has been
presented with a valuable collection of
native minerals, fossils and skulls, by
James P. Maxwell.
Thomas R. Mann, a formerly well
known capitalist of Boulder, commit
| ted suicide at Lock Haven, Pennsylva-
mia, last Thursday.
Hugo Todenwarth, a Denver taxi
dermist. has procured the arrest OF
James S. Bush, game warden, for dis
turbance of the peace.
Indications are favorable for the dis
posal of the Denver, Northwestern &
Pacific roads $40 1000. 900 of bonds, by
! the 18th of this month.
James Williams. former sporting
man of Pueblo, strayed from his party
while hunting near Ell Paso, Texas,
and died from exposure.
Miss Ethel Moses. daughter of H.
Moses. leading merchant of Trinidad,
was married to Joseph BRAKEMAN of
New York City Wednesday.
Considerable damage has been done
to property in Eagle River canon by
the bursting of the Denver Rio
Grande dam at Pando. near Red Clih.
The Revenue mine at Ouray has fin
ished its tunnel to the Telluride side
of the range, a distance of 1000 feet.
A rich vein of ore was struck near
the apex.
Postmaster Davie of Florence has
received official notice from the de-
partment at Washington that free de-
livery will be installed in that city
March 1st.
| A. D. Scarf, Leadville pioneer who
died recently. left funeral address
with the request that it be read at his
funeral without other services of any
religious nature.
Colorado's valuation, as shown by
State Auditor Crouter's certification TO
the various county treasurers, is $3S4,-
/ OO2 SOL Based on the four-mill levy,
the state tax is $l,4l6.010.
| The State Land Board has acted IA
vorably on the application for sale OF
I forty acres of land near Littleton. Col
/ orado, to be used as a site for the Geo.
I Leyner Air Compressor and Drill Com
pany.
| 1t is stated that John W. Gates has
scheduled George Refs to be head OF
I the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
\ should the control of the company pass
| into the hands of Mr.. Gates and his
I friends.
The next session of the Colorado
\ Chautauqua Association at Boulder
will probably open on Saturday. July
4, 1898, and close on Friday, August
| 7th. though a longer session is not I'M
| probable.
Information has been filed charging
DIR. George Elliott with murder ELI
OFT is proprietor of the sanitarium at
Denver in which the operation which
cost the life of Sarah Vance was per-
| formed.
Rev. George Doane O'NeiH. chancel-
lor and secretary of the Roman Catho-
/ lie diocese of Newark. New Jersey.
died at St Anthony's Sanitarium at
| Denver. Tuesday. He was reckoned
one of the ablest priests of his dio-
| ceSe.
]. H. Springer has been appointed
commercial agent of the Colorado &
Southern road at Colorado Springs.
He succeeds H. D. Milton. who has
been appointed general manager of
the road from Boulder to Ward.
| known as the Switzerland Trail.
Frightened by an approaching auto
mobile at Canon City, a horse backed .
carriage containing three people into q
swift-running mill stream. Mrs. Kate
G. Furnald. aged fifty-nine years. was
drowned and w. G. Mcclure. aged six
ty-five years. and Mrs. Emily Sournier
were slightly injured in the accident
Judge B. b. Lindsey OF Denver has
issued a citation to State Treasurer
Chipley and County Treasurer Elder.
ordering them to appear in court on
November 25th and answer the petit
ton of the administrators of the Nc
Clelland estate that the state inheri-
tance law be declared unconstitutional.
The railroads have arranged one
and one-fifth fare for the Arkansas
Valley Teachers Association meeting
which will be held in La Junta Satur-
day. November goth. Every county in
southeastern Colorado from Canon
City to the Kansas state line, will be
represented and 1t is believed the asso-
cations meeting will be one of the
most largely attended In its history.
City Auditor Latshaw has received
the total assessed valuation of the city
OF Pueblo for 1902 from the county as